Turns out if you’re careful about the specific kids and you have enough money then yes it is de facto legal.

Take some time and seriously reflect on the difference between how you think legality works and what you’re witnessing.

Sure, but you can do better for $3. Smaller, more powerful, similar power consumption

Microsoft when Bing first came out was literally like “it is highly recommended that everyone here use Bing Search”.

Also the issue of you need to be a deranged psychopath to get wealthy in the first place.

I don’t know why homeless people don’t break into every unused house and squat in it, especially in the winter.

Because cops kill people who do. There will be no “Robin Hood economy” without extreme violence.

The point wasn’t to denigrate solar, but to demonstrate the fallacious beliefs you’re operating under.

Yes, the plant owner will want to maximize the profit of their investments and get as quick a return as possible.

If gas/coal was held to the same exact safety, environmental and waste disposal standards as nuclear, and they should, then those would also need to be run at max throttle to justify the initial expense and have significantly shorter lifespans. It’s a “plant trees under whose shade you do not expect to sit” type issue.

Nothing you have said is an argument against a solar in the day + nuclear at night type of setup. It would certainly be a huge improvement over building out more CO2 based generators.

In the power grid of today (and even more so in the future), that’s fairly slow.

Not really. Reciprocating gas engines are specifically designed for balancing loads with renewables and have maneuvering capabilities in the 25-100% range with the state of the art at ~25%/minute slope.

Startup time is 15min-1hr for gas, 30min-2hr for nuclear.

You’re correct that gas is better on all these metrics, but it’s far more comparable than you’re making it out to be.

Also needs to be mentioned that these are very oversimplified metrics and things look better for nuclear the deeper in the weeds you go imo.

it needs to be able to drop to 0%.

That’s not how any kind of turbine works.

shutting it down means it’s just a hunk of a building costing money.

The same could be said of solar. ‘It’s a very expensive capitol investment and as soon as the sun goes down it’s just a stupidly expensive roof costing money’.

Nuclear can’t quickly scale up and down

It can though. Modern nuclear plants with light water reactors are designed to have maneuvering capabilities in the 30-100% range with 5%/minute slope.

Historically, they were built as baseload plants without load following capability in order to keep the design simple which led to many anti-nuclear activists claiming this. It’s just not true though.

even if it could it’d make nuclear even less economically viable

Why?

It’s why currently gas plants are used as backup: they’re cheap

No. They’re not. The costs are just externalized and safety is, comparitively, neglected.

Yes. However the frequency it blocks is ~2.45GHz which is the same frequency as WiFi, Bluetooth, etc. and used to be the only other antenna other than the cellular antenna, where the frequency ranges from 600MHz-2.5GHz.

This used to be good practice because you would first remove the sim card disabling the LTE communication, unless the hardware was compromised, and then place it in the microwave to disable all other signals.

With the introduction and proliferation of eSIM on both devices and carrier sides, removing the SIM card no longer provides much protection and the additional of many other communication methods, most notably 5GHz 802.11x, the microwave trick doesn’t really do anything either.

But it used to work.

Also that U-3 is a very specific metric that is notorious for undercounting.

No, the problem is greedy corporations.

There is an active need for many developers, think of every time you’ve used terrible software, every time a program crashed or you found yourself manually doing something and thought “there should be a tool for this”, every bad search and broken social media site.

Hell, we’re supposed to be in the middle of an “AI boom” and someone has to actually implement all those pie in the sky “automate away everyone’s jobs”. While AI can, debatably, write the code for that, it still takes a person to design, architect, implement, test and validate those systems.

No. The entire technical foundation on which “computer science” is built is crumbling due to lack of maintenance and funding and desperately needs people to fix it, however corporations are doing their what they do best; devaluing, destroying, and parasitizing their surroundings.

There are other options and substitutes, known as chemically defined media(CDM), because ultimately FBS is just a chemical slurry that can be replicated via any other ingredients like Gatorade.

The reason FBS is used extensively is because of the long history of it’s use and when trying to do something new limiting variables is critical. It’s an issue of there needing to be a new standard, but that one XKCD mentality is preventing it.

The two major drawback of FBS is that, ironically, it’s a biological product and the composition can vary wildly between batches, and that it’s stupidily expensive at ~$1500 USD per liter. You will not be purchasing a lab grown burger made with FBS unless you have thousands of dollars to spend per burger.

However, without oversight, certification programs and forced transparency it can be expected that these companies are going to cut corners, but it’s going to be via other low cost animal product additives like gelatin, eggs, chitin etc.

The contacts i’m suspicious of are the gold finger board contacts on the module itself, not the PCIe slots on the motherboard.

Re-reading my original post I did call them something weird, sorry about that.

You might check the PCIe pins for any signs of corrosion and/or hit them with the good old isopropyl+toothbrush treatment.

See COVID

An often overlooked aspect is that much of the rural US is experiencing pretty aggressive gentrification. “California” is the nebulous word used to describe that process by conservatives because actual understanding and contextualizing is “woke”.

California being the stand in word due to the socio-economic reasons already stated.

So your advice to people who can’t afford rent, work a fulltime job and have just had their tent and all their possessions thrown in a dumpster for the second time this month is what exactly?

Do you advise someone who is incarcerated that if they simply ignore the bars they will no longer be there?

Society has gotten far, far more unequal and oppressive

By what metrics?

Historically there simply wasn’t physical things with which to have the modern level of inequality. Historically the average lower end was was lower, but the modern high end is incomprehensible orders of magnitude higher.

Historical acts of oppression were often far more brutal and cruel but that’s because it wasn’t physically possible to maintain the constant, but relatively minor oppression that is characteristic of modernity.

I have nothing “for men” specifically but there’s a million and a half tutorials on how to use primer, concealer and foundation. So long as you don’t start doing any contouring it should all be pretty gender agnostic.

It’s not so much about looking “goth” but learning how to augment whatever natural attractiveness you’ve got and demonstrating a level of self-assuredness and self-awareness. Knowing what works for you is part of that.

“Goth” just happens to be a very bold and somewhat easier style to look decent. A more “nude” look is, counterintuitively, pretty difficult but there’s almost no masculine individuals who wouldn’t benefit from it.