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And it's larger than Iraq and Afghanistan combined. Both in population and surface area

About 10-20% of the population.

And Australia has a law forcing its citizens, around the world, to code in backdoors.

Because it'd be gross negligence for a security agency not to collect this information?

I mean, nothing Snowden revealed was shocking to anyone in IT at the time. He just brought receipts.

The Ukrainians had a unit that would call soldiers families and harass them.

This was back at the start of the war. Now this bullshit mind trick employs too much cannon meat best allocated on the front.

No, it's because people don't care.

I have three kids. Sure it's not easy, buying used local things is basically impossible, but it's not terribly hard. You just work around it

Sure would be nice if folks in your field had ever had a moment of self reflection of the greater societal impact of their work.

Maybe Stallman has had.

3 bits per pixel is in the order of megabyte amounts of information.

640x480 a 3 bits -> 900kB.

Thats a lot. Too much. This is why we cant have nice things. Because people keep inventing things to destroy privacy.

To be clear, science is a shit show. Especially biology.

That being said, it's not true that we don't replicate results. We don't intend to, and we don't do it for the sake of replication, but as a matter of conducting experiments we do a lot of replicating.

And negative results are just thrown out.

Scientists do repeat experiments, they just don't publish the results because no one cares.

Specifically, results are replicated wherever you want to build on something someone has done. For example I'm making specific glass off of a Nature paper for a totally unrelated use.

If the glass doesn't work out will I publish my results? No, too much work to get rejected.

In both those scenarios the sun and the consumer are relatively close, with the majority of the line being overland.

Solar Sahara powering Europe makes sense.

Solar Sahara powering the North East does not.

I don't buy it

1. The technical solution relies heavily on fantasy.

2. It is not needed. We have no significant power transmission across the low lying fruit of continental America or Eurasia, and those lines are built! Why bother crossing an ocean?

3. Why not cross Greenland and the North Sea and its islands? Under sea cables are expensive.

4. Why not cross the Bearing Strait?

You can't have the curl operator in 4D.

I can put EV tires on an ICE and get 100k miles out of the tires, but why would I? They suck.

The brake dust is a valid point but negated by hybrid drivetrains.

But it's all a wash. No one cares about externalities; neither the rich prog virtue signaling in an EV nor (obviously) the hick rolling coal. If they did there would be popular support for lowered speed limits and there isnt.

You're not covering for the loss of the gas tax with $100/year registration.

Nowhere close.

In my corner of America the gas tax comes out to be $0.96/gal, or $480/year if you only drive 15k miles and average 30 mpg.

Obviously the higher mass and torque of the EV causes more microplastics. This is basic materials science and the reason why EVs need tougher tires.

I dont get why we're comparing F150s to the Model Y. When Im looking to buy a truck, Im not considering the Model Y (although In peeved the Ranger isnt hybrid). I have never considered a Tesla (Im not in the market for another sedan) but if I were my comparison would be something like the Accord.

But sure let's compare the F150 to the model Y: back in 2021 - a base F150 weighed about 4000lb, less than a base Model Y and an F150 supercab V6 F150 was <4500 lb. [1] A long range model Y weighs about a little bit less, but the difference is less than 100 lb.

Sure, I can configure the F150 to weigh 5500, but few need to and few do. So the point stands:

The Model Y weighs as much as a half ton truck.

Meanwhile a Ford Maverick, a truck Ford can't make enough to meet demand, weighs 3700 lb

[1] https://media.ford.com/content/dam/fordmedia/North%20America...

ICEs aren't taxed to punish their externalities, but to finance roads.

Suffice it to say that if all cars magically became EVs something in the tax code would have to change to pay for road maintence.

If we're tracing seeds, the Ancient Greeks openly acknowledged their debt to Egypt. Therefore the Egyptians invented the West.

But my point is that the West is Rome enlightened by Greeks and humanized by Jews.

What is Athens + Jerusalem? Eastern Europe. Orthodoxy. (No beef, btw. Ive been to Meteora and just missed a chance to stay in Mt. Athos)

What is Rome + Athens + Jerusalem? The Catholic Church.

Yes, Athens is a part of the West. I never denied that. But how about Jerusalem? How about Rome? How about uncivilized (ie without a city) barbarians?

How about the over 1600 years of history since the split of the Roman empire?

The 1000 years since the Schism?

The 500 years since the Fall of Constantinople?

The Eastern Roman Empire was of a completely different character than the Western one, follows a vastly different path, and one that started diverging (due to all the heresies [0]) as early as Constantine. Since the fall of Constantinople the Greeks had very limited contact with the West until independence in the late 19th century.

According to you the West didn't do anything, didn't evolve, in the last 1600 years since we've been de facto incommunicado?

For example, to say that the West of the Scholastics is "Greek" when the Greeks have always rejected them (with very poignant criticism might I add) is a laugh in the face of the Scholastic's transformational contribution to the West (above all our modern university system).

St Augustine [1] , Boetius [2], and the Papacy [3] create the West anew from of these ingredients.

[0] which (Russian Orthodox) Solovyev lays at the feet of a jealous Greek hierarchy [1] accepted but looked down on by the Greeks [2] the last of the ancients and the first of the Scholastics [3] the most foundational institution for the West and rejected by the Greeks

If you're gathering the resources and you still have bad roads, then that's a problem of Virginians inability to govern well.

Which, as an American largely being governed by Virginians, I cant say Im surprised.

You tax to finance government services. EV use roads but don't pay fuel taxes.

We can debate how much EVs should be taxed, but they're using the bloody roads, aren't they?

Ah, I thought he was referring to the clowns they have in Athens.

But, no. The Greeks didn't create Western Civilization because the only non-awkward definition of Western Civilization is that scion of the Roman Church.

Surely the cultural exchange with Greeks contributed to this.

Greece was always eastern facing as far back as before Alexander. It is only with the Cold War that they glanced West.

Aside for Magna Grecia, Greeks have very scant presence in Western Europe.

The probability of getting a positive test for lead given that I already know the city messed up and there's lead in the water is 100%.

So why test?

Argentina.

Western civilization.

Oh, and before Berlusconi there was Menem. He's the original clown turned president.

Now strip it with an RO filter.

How do they sterilize it?

Eat a serving of rice, preferably American, without rinsing it.

Enjoy your 10000% recommended daily intake of Arsenic.

A surprising amount of Americans live in cities that cheaped out on the water infrastructure and found out their water had lead.

Like me.

Luckily, I am very unreasonably distrusting of government and never drank the stuff.

I don't trust the manufacturer, but I can test the manufacturers water.

I don't trust my municipality because they cheaped out on the corrosion inhibitors chemistry, leached lead into the water and my house is now filled with developing pinhole leaks. I've had five in four years.

Hint, I don't live anywhere near Flint MI.