It’s election season, and that means the left will be resurrecting COVID. Talk of COVID is increasing lately, with stories like “backyard wildlife is spreading COVID” being reported on.
I can tell you that COVID cases in my ED are not increasing and are still outnumbered by the flu.
Let’s say that you are making and selling a product. You sell that product for $4 each, but no one really wants it. You won’t sell any. What to do? You change the product you are making to one that people actually want, and now you can sell them at $4 each all day long.
Until someone sees how much you are making on it and offers a similar product, but for $3 each. Your sales drop as customers buy your competitor’s product. So you make changes to make it even better, and now everyone wants it. The problem is that you can no longer keep up with demand, so people who NEED that product offer you $5 each. A bidding war ensues, and eventually you are offered $100 each. Do you turn it down? After all, that would be price gouging…
Of course you take the money. All transactions are a combination of a willing seller and a willing buyer. All sales of all products are negotiable.
That happens every day with your labor. The labor that you perform is the product you are selling. Michael Jordan played basketball like no one else, so he made millions. When people saw the shoes he wore, they wanted to be like Jordan, so millions bought his shoes. He added hundreds of millions of dollars of value to the Air Jordan brand, so they paid him.
Robert Downey Jr made the Avengers movies what they are. Few people would pay $20 to see a movie starring Steve Smith. However, tens (hundreds) of millions of people did so to see RDJ in the Avengers movies. That’s why he makes $40 million per movie. Without him, that movie is a losing proposition. Without RDJ, this movie isn’t going to be made at all. This makes RDJ’s value in the movie industry sky high. No one goes to see a movie because some rando that no one has even heard of was 1 of 40 other nobodies in the costume department. That’s why jealousy fueled rants like this are stupid.
If you aren’t happy with the money you are making, you need to find a way to make your labor more valuable. No one is going to pay you $50 an hour for labor that literally anyone can do, because there will be a line of people behind you who are willing to do that job for $40, $20, or even $15 an hour. In order to make more, the value that you add to the deal dictates how much you will make. Simply saying that the employer owes you “a living wage” as you whine and complain on Social Media isn’t helping.
That goes for literally any job. That’s why Gordon Ramsey makes what he does- he adds enough skill to the deal that people are willing to pay $40 for a hamburger (not me, but people). Find a skill that is valuable and become good at it. It may take some time, but the money will follow.
We can’t all be Robert Downey Jr, Michael Jordan, or even Steve Jobs, but all of us don’t have to be making minimum wage, either.
THROATUS claims that she will sign an executive order in her first 100 days that will require Americans to turn in their guns, because Congress won’t act.
This prepping topic is on security. Being able to keep an eye on your surroundings is a great way to assist in the security of your area. Not only can you quickly determine if a threat to your physical security is approaching, you need to be able to scout in advance of any movement that you are making, look at areas that may be hazardous (like flooded areas) and other things you may want to see at a distance.
One of the keys to security is not letting opponents surprise you. A person who is prepared needs to be familiar with the area where they live, and be able to monitor that area for the appearance of those who would endanger their safety. You never want an opponent to surprise you. Watching events, it is becoming obvious that a drone is a huge multiplier by allowing you to keep an eye on large areas of the territory surrounding your shelter, so I decided to get one.
Apparently, a 20 year old was able to thwart the Secret Service by using a drone, while the SS drone was not able to fly because of “connectivity issues.”
The drone I selected is a DJI Mini 4k. There are more capable drones out there, but the large advantage with this drone is that , at less than 249g, the drone is light enough that it doesn’t need to be registered with the government in order to be legal, and we all know that I am not registering shit. I got it as a Prime day deal for less than $400. That deal included the drone, three batteries, and the charger.
It was easy to fly, and I took it up for its first flight after watching the below video. I am posting it here, cued up to some elevated footage, so you can see how clear the video is.
The only thing different with mine is that I have it set for Imperial instead of metric units, and the lower left corner is a Google maps kind of display that shows you where the drone is on a map. I have found the drone to be intuitive and easy to fly. I have been taking it easy because I don’t want to lose it, but on the two days I have flown it, it has gone as high as 250 feet and flown as far away as 1,000 yards. The drone reaches a top speed of 20 mph, and the battery gives about 30 minutes of flight time. Following the rule of thirds (one third to go out, one third to return, and a third for contingency) that means the drone has the endurance to go out about 3 miles. I’m not yet comfortable flying it that far.
It’s capable of operating in winds of up to 15 miles per hour, but I won’t fly it in winds that high.
I recommend that you find your own drone to keep an eye on the area.
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The US expects a diplomatic response to a Hezbollah rocket attack in a children’s playground that killed 12 children.
If some muzzie asshole killed my kid in a rocket attack, my response would be remembered for generations. There is no fucking way I would try to respond by talking them to death. As far as I am concerned, Israel is being restrained by not nuking the country that is behind all of these attacks. Iran is going to find out, if they keep it up.
I previously recommended the use of a controller for your water heater as a way of controlling power consumption. Now that I have the solar up and running, the Tesla app is a great way to monitor and check up on your electrical loads.
Now that I have the ability to do this, I am convinced that the Aquanta water heater controller doesn’t actually DO anything. Whether I am home or not, using hot water or not, the amount of electrical power that the Aquanta is claiming I am using to heat water doesn’t change, at about 15kwh per day. The only time the amount of power the Aquanta was claiming went down is when we put the system in “Away” mode- telling it to turn off the hot water while we were out of town. At that point, the Aquanta reported that we were using about 1 kwh per day. The only problem? The amount of power we were using for the entire household didn’t change, according to the Tesla app.
At this point, I began suspecting that the Aquanta is a random number generator. It reports to you how much money it is saving you, but isn’t actually doing anything. I decided to test it and see what was going on. I am going to make a serious accusation here, so let me state that I did all voltage readings using a FLUKE 115 True RMS multimeter.
I measured the voltage across the output of the Aquanta while it was in “efficient” mode with a green LED showing and got a reading of 249 VAC. The water heater uses power consumed of 4500 watts (4.5kw), so a little application of Ohm’s law results in 18 amps and 14 Ohms of resistance. We can directly use Ohm’s law because the water heater has no capacitance or inductance, it is a purely resistive load.
Then I put it into “Away” mode. The LED on the unit turned red, so I measured the output voltage and got 70 VAC. Another application of Ohm’s law using the same 14 Ohms we calculated before tells us that the water heater is now using 5 amps and 50 watts of power. Take that 50 watts of power and multiply it by 24 hours in a day, and you get about 1 kWH per day.
So it doesn’t shut off the water heater, it merely lowers the voltage from line voltage down to about 70 VAC. I am not sure when or how it does this, other than in vacation mode, but I don’t think I am saving any power.
I just don’t think that this is a good unit to use if you want to save power, so I am withdrawing my recommendation of the Aquanta unit. My recommendation is to either use an electro-mechanical water heater timer, or a smart pool pump relay.
Biden has announced that he wants an 18 year term limit for the Supreme Court. In an amazing coincidence, this would mean three of the conservative members of the court would immediately be removed: Thomas, Roberts, and Alito.
So the producers of the Olympics have admitted to mocking Christianity during the opening ceremony by using trannies to reenact the Last Supper.
Why don’t lefties ever mock other religions, like the Muslims, for example?
or it will be my fault when Trump loses, even though I’ve been saying that Trump won’t be President again for nearly four years.
Joe Biden grew 2 feet taller in two weeks. pic.twitter.com/IGFZNOeeWY
— Kambree (@KamVTV) July 28, 2024
Hunter is the same apparent height as Joe, even though he is farther away.
His wife is at nose level here. She is wearing flats.
