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> The videos "has an agenda" but it seems a bit easy to accept the idea that constantly launching satelites into space is pretty expensive.

The idea is to use starship which should be really cheap.

I like the drawings instead of generic icons or pictures on the website. Did you draw them yourself?

I tried the samples on the bionic reading website, I don’t feel like this makes me read faster. Am I the only one?

Your ideology =/= reality. Goodbye.

The exception that proves the rule.

I reject the concept of 'punching down' in comedy. Either a joke is funny or it isn't. Nothing else matters.

Prime Video did this in the early days. They made a bunch of pilots and let people vote to know which ones needed to be a full show.

I don’t know why they stopped doing it.

If anything this validates those complaints. They are course correcting. Wouldn’t need a memo like that if their content wasn’t leaning to one side.

The only reason Chapelle is on Netflix is because one of the CEOs is a huge fan. There was a lot of internal pushback.

True, some sectors are profiting but overal the economy will suffer greatly. Electricity prices are already insane in Europe (the bill this month was higher than my parent’s pension) and it will only get worse by winter. Factories will have to shut down and people won’t be able to heat their homes. Already happened last winter but this year it will be on a much larger scale. And let’s not forget about the skyrocketing food prices. This war is pushing millions of middle class Europeans into poverty. The best thing for the economy would be to just give Russia what they want.

So I don’t think the West is in it to make money. Not at all. If it was up to the Eastern EU countries they would send their armies to fight in Ukraine. They are scared of Russia. That’s their primary motivation, not profit. Other EU countries are alarmed but they lack the traumatic experience of Soviet occupation so they are less eager to fight. Still they are smart enough to realize if Russia succeeds the Baltics or Poland could be next. So the EU helps out of self preservation.

The US just sees this as an opportunity to damage Russia, they prefer to stretch this war out. The EU wants it to end as fast as possible.

I don’t see a profit motive.

How does the West make money? We’re giving away billions worth of military equipment and ammunition. While also implementing oil and gas bans that will hurt Western (the EU mostly) economies really bad.

14. Don’t have health problems which sap all your energy.

It's even worse when you realize biofuel is bad for the environment.

> Third-generation biofuels do not represent a feasible option at present state of development as their GHG emissions are higher than those from fossil fuels. As also discussed in the paper, several studies show that reductions in GHG emissions from biofuels are achieved at the expense of other impacts, such as acidification, eutrophication, water footprint and biodiversity loss. The paper also investigates the key methodological aspects and sources of uncertainty in the LCA of biofuels and provides recommendations to address these issues. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7735313/

> Our study examined data from 2005-2013 during this sharp increase in renewable fuel use. Rather than assuming that producing and using biofuels was carbon-neutral, we explicitly compared the amount of CO2 absorbed on cropland to the quantity emitted during biofuel production and consumption. Existing crop growth already takes large amounts of CO2 out of the atmosphere. The empirical question is whether biofuel production increases the rate of CO2 uptake enough to fully offset CO2 emissions produced when corn is fermented into ethanol and when biofuels are burned. Most of the crops that went into biofuels during this period were already being cultivated; the main change was that farmers sold more of their harvest to biofuel makers and less for food and animal feed. Some farmers expanded corn and soybean production or switched to these commodities from less profitable crops. But as long as growing conditions remain constant, corn plants take CO2 out of the atmosphere at the same rate regardless of how the corn is used. Therefore, to properly evaluate biofuels, one must evaluate CO2 uptake on all cropland. After all, crop growth is the CO2 “sponge” that takes carbon out of the atmosphere. When we performed such an evaluation, we found that from 2005 through 2013, cumulative carbon uptake on U.S. farmland increased by 49 teragrams (a teragram is one million metric tons). Planted areas of most other field crops declined during this period, so this increased CO2 uptake can be largely attributed to crops grown for biofuels. Over the same period, however, CO2 emissions from fermenting and burning biofuels increased by 132 teragrams. Therefore, the greater carbon uptake associated with crop growth offset only 37 percent of biofuel-related CO2 emissions from 2005 through 2013. In other words, biofuels are far from inherently carbon-neutral. https://theconversation.com/biofuels-turn-out-to-be-a-climat...

Not literal faith. Otherwise he would have said God, not Gods. He means shared ideals and ideas relating to the nation itself.

For example, the founders were shared Gods. Now a part of Americans thinks they were horrible racist people. It’s not something that bonds anymore. It’s the opposite now.

“Mansplaining” is a sexist term. You should meet my sister, she always knows better.

Most iMessage apps, stickers and Apple Watch apps will be gone because of this purge.

Edit: Why downvotes? There have barely been new apps in these categories. What’s in the store is years old.

iMovie is perfect for your needs, it’s free. (If you have a Mac or iPhone.)

You can remap it in the keyboard settings. I use alt-tab to switch between windows of the same app.

But owning 100 % was Musk's offer all along.

> Prufrock is a next generation Tunnel Boring Machine designed to construct mega-infrastructure projects in a matter of weeks instead of years, and at a fraction of the cost. The current iteration of Prufrock, called Prufrock-2, is designed to mine at up to 1 mile/week, meaning a tunnel the length of the Las Vegas strip (approximately 4 miles) can be completed in a month. Prufrock-3 is designed to be even faster, with the medium term goal of 1/10 human walking speed, or 7 miles/day. https://www.boringcompany.com/seriescround

Isn't that faster than existing machines?

Not terrorism but not a good look for Germany.

> The Böhmermann affair (also known as Erdogate[1]) was a political affair following an experimental poem on German satirist Jan Böhmermann's satire show Neo Magazin Royale in late March 2016 that deliberately insulted Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan using profane language. ... After the show was aired on German public television channel ZDFneo, the Turkish government released a verbal note demanding that the German government begin criminal prosecution of Böhmermann. German Chancellor Angela Merkel further escalated the situation by apologizing for Böhmermann's "intentionally hurtful" poem – later she called this "a mistake".[2] On 15 April Merkel announced in a press conference that the German government had approved Böhmermann's criminal prosecution, but would abolish the respective paragraph 103 of the German penal code before 2018. Intense criticism followed the Chancellor's decision, with speculation that she decided to allow the prosecution in order to protect Germany's refugee deal with Turkey.[3] The case was dropped in October 2016 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Böhmermann_affair

> boring company would make tunnels faster then anyone else..

That part is true. Their custom tunnel machines dig twice as fast as other machines.

> In 1999, after watching the rocketry biopic film October Sky, Bezos discussed forming a space company with science-fiction author Neal Stephenson.[23][24] Blue Origin was founded in 2000 in Kent, Washington, and began developing both rocket propulsion systems and launch vehicles.[25] Since the founding, the company was quite secretive about its plans[26][27] and emerged from its "self-imposed silence" only after 2015.[25] .... As early as 2005, Bezos had discussed plans to create a vertical-takeoff and landing spaceship called New Shepard. Plans for New Shepard were initially kept quiet, but Blue Origin's website indicated Bezos' desire to, "lower the cost of spaceflight so that we humans can better continue exploring the solar system. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Origin

I had no idea. I always assumed he was inspired by SpaceX. October Sky is a great movie btw.

It's the future now but not when Tesla was founded.

Libs of TikTok was temporarily suspended twice for targeted harassment. On April 13, 2022, Libs of TikTok was suspended for 12 hours from Twitter for "hateful conduct." Hours after being reinstated, the account was suspended a second time for another 12 hours.

The only thing Libs of TikTok posts is videos made by liberals on TikTok. Yet it was deemed hateful? Reposting liberal content is hateful now.

The odds of succeeding with Tesla or SpaceX were extremely low. That’s not the kind of company you build if you want to become rich. There are much safer options.

Safari uses Web Extensions now. You can import a Chrome/Firefox extension’s source code into xcode and you have a Safari extension. Doesn’t work for everything yet, I expect they’ll add more APIs this year at WWDC.

This happened to my sticker app. Simple iMessage stickers. The stickers are done and I have no desire to add more. What is there to update? …

I can’t wait until Apple is forced to add third party stores.

That wasn’t my argument at all. They just aren’t distracted like the West is. They are laser focused on becoming the best in everything.

It’s about a lot more than just forbidden words. The ‘social justice’ fanatics are a black hole for productivity.

This is why I’m pessimistic about the West winning the second cold war. While Chinese engineers are working hard on world dominating AI models and other hard tech, Western engineers are wasting man hours on crap like this.