The joke is already too old for Leo.

I’m still surprised they didn’t find any. Not that I think Saddam actually had them, but I thought they’d find them anyway.

There are ways of dealing with this, but they’re far less ideal than simply having big spinning turbines with large mass and inertia - even if the voltage or frequency of the system changes, the turbine still spins.

Spending more than 40 billion pounds over one and a half decades to build two energy storage flywheels that also produces radioactive waste is probably the most absurd undertaking conceivable to man.

When one type of generation is suffering for whatever reason, the other types can pick up the slack.

But nuclear can’t pick up the slack quickly enough, that’s the problem.

It’s much more expensive when considering lifetime costs, uranium will run out eventually, and because it can’t react quickly to changing demand it meshes horribly with renewables. If we can build an excess of renewables and pair them with storage solutions, what do we need nuclear for?

While tech bros will not shut up about how theoretical nuclear energy™ is the future, actual nuclear energy is so much worse than renewables it’s almost comical.

Even in glorious Europe with socialized healthcare*, it’s very easy to rack up 100k or more in liabilities. Possibly decades of lost wages, improving their homes accessibility, caretakers, damages for pain and suffering and so on. E.g., German law mandates a minimum of 7.5 million Euros of coverage.

The US healthcare system sucks, but, completely independently, these coverages just aren’t enough.

*Details vary.

Imagine how cheap it could’ve been if we started 50 years ago.

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If someone hires a former Facebook employee to work on their social network, is that patent infringement?

No. If that employee then implements features that FB has patented? Probably yes.

Because the PRC has set this as a red line. The Taiwanese would do it in a heartbeat.

Fuxk cars is about car dependence and culture, not about never personally using a car.

I know it’s a pain, but what’s to stop us from using download-clis?

The answer is right there.

You still have a contract. But I get that it may not be worth the trouble.

This of course depends on your jurisdiction and how much time you’re willing to put into this, but I’d refuse to pay for shipping either way.

You have a contract with the company, and they didn’t fulfil it, that’s on them. They can’t just send you a defective product and make you pay for (part of) it.

I use bxactions to control play/pause (single tap), flashlight (hold when screen is locked) and auto rotation (hold when screen is on). No custom ROMs or root needed, just a quick abd command that comes with the app and disables bixby.

And horseshoes too.

Also, I live in the US,

The first paragraph made that clear.

But unlike in Russia, whether the western governments supports Ukraine is at least kind of dependent on wether the people support Ukraine. Pulling supports it might be a bad election tactic now (although it wasn’t in Slovakia), but will it be one next year or in 2025?

This could’ve been one panel.

where the speed gain exceeds drag

That’s the question.