It's often useful for me so that I can know how to address you/refer to you, especially if it's a foreign (to me) name I'm unfamiliar with.

What's your research background in this area?

How is that relevant. A decent scientist can critique general design aspects of a paper in any field. They're hardly splitting hairs on some niche topic.

Apologies, I didn't realise they were a decent scientist.

I'd say low, given his surprise about "wiring looms" which have been the norm for 50 years? Nice write up though!

It's an incursion. He got confused and keeps saying excursion, which is a different thing.

No he's describing himself. His term so far has been a power excursion that's just getting more extreme as it goes on.

It’s an excursion: a lovely hike onto the mountains of Iran. It’s just that the locals aren’t too friendly.

Because LLM users are NIH factories?

It's beyond simple supply and demand. This was in response to a social media post that had a tenuous relationship with reality (or 'fluid' as the Whitehouse now calls it).

Right, but Ford Europe is, and always had been, a different beast to Ford America.

>Green energy isn't very useful for heating in winter.

Citation very much needed, or "yes it is"

Is there evidence for this?

I'm writing this from CT. There are absolutely door to door solar salespeople (they don't work for the manufacturer, they work for a local distributor/installation service), and they absolutely tell you how many people in your neighborhood have bought from them.

They ride around on segways here.

Thank you. I'm not from the US and I had no idea door-to-door sales were still a thing, let alone for significant investments such as solar.

Pretty much every time a contractor does something to any of my neighbors homes, they knock on my door and say "2 or 3 other neighbors are doing X (pesticides, windows, landscaping, new water heater, power washer, etc. etc). Your home was built around the same time as theirs. Because all of my crew is already in the area on (date) I'm offering half off if you agree to service".

The fact is that these contractors really do have significant efficiency gains if they can get multiple neighbors to agree to similar work. So it behooves them to do at least a bit of door knocking.

I worked at a company that made a product just for this purpose: making estimates for solar panels for door-to-door sales. It was pretty popular.

There are a number of companies that specialize in using an in-person, in-home encounter to put pressure on people to make poor purchases decisions, enough so that many states have implemented buyer’s remorse laws.

We don't have any pro-free-speech political parties, nor a written constitution unfortunately.

I mean there are parties that say they like free speech, but it never extends to the sort of speech they disagree with, or by people of the wrong colour/religion/gender etc.