I’m unhappy that you corrected your comment. You’ve just destroyed a small bit of the mystery left in this world lol!

That is literally the opposite definition to scalable. Scalable things don’t require twice the resources for twice the capacity.

Buy two instead of one is exactly the worst case scalability you can have.

95% of the world grid storage capacity is pumped storage hydro and batteries will literally never be able to compete because water is the cheapest energy storage medium we could possibly have at grid scale. North America was the world leader on PSH in the 1970-2000 but now China is eating our lunch and our governments no longer have the ability to start real infrastructure projects because of crony capitalism.

I can’t believe we’re watching China become the world leader in renewables while we pretend like batteries are a smart way of storing GWhs of power because that’s the most profitable solution to the private sector.

Grid scale batteries are only a solution for transients, if that. Actual energy storage needs to be scalable like pumped storage hydro which accounts for 95% of all storage capacity worldwide.

The AI 15 years ago was photorealistic, but it couldn’t do colour… That’s the main difference between old AI in 2011 in Obama’s first term and new AI… It’s the colour and it cost us extra fingers and sometimes gymnasts turn into Eldritch horrors… But at least we have colour

You’d have to be an idiot to think Helen Keller was a fraud.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ch_H8pt9M8

Here is a video where she’s clearly speaking. She speaks like a deaf person, obviously. She reads Braille like a blind person.

If you can speak this well, and read books, you can think and write anything.

Every argument I’ve heard against HK acts as if seeing and hearing can help you understand complex concepts like love. As if people love with their eyes and ears.

God aborts the whole world

Christians: this is fine

Woman aborts one foetus

Christians: burn her, she’s a witch

“Wow you expressed basic human vulnerability about one of your problems and asked for help? I can’t empathise with someone as crazy as that! I think only a professional can help you, maybe even only God. You’re really messed up. Legitimately I’m not trying to be mean or condescending”

Yes, I also have a girlfriend, but you don’t know her, she lives in Canada.

Good

Cyclists should do whatever they need to do to feel safe and all the car brained morons can STFU. Many bike lanes are poorly planned and are more dangerous than the road. You legally have to share the road with all legal road traffic and if that slows you down a few minutes then you need to suck it up and cope.

Dude… masking is important… A lot of neurodivergent, or even NT self soothing behaviour are really aggravating to be around, especially repetitive noisemaking… Most ND kids can not tolerate being around repetitive noisemaking, but also use it to self sooth. That combination is a recipe for disaster.

If it weren’t for SOME masking, many kids would just have to be isolated 99% of the time.

Masking is part of what we all do to get along, it’s just that for NDs it can be excessively demanding, or particularly risky…

That being said, I hope you find more people you can at least RELAX the masking a bit around…

This is the real bullshit take. “Keep them all away from me”? Who the fuck are you, the fucking Queen?

You were a kid once and everyone else put up with your shit, and you’ll put up with the other kids around you like a big boy and shut up about it. Kids are how our civilization got here. It’s how you got here.

Not wanting kids, not seeking out kids, all that stuff… 100% legit. Pressuring people into having kids they don’t want sucks ass, growing up as an unwanted kid is probably a big part of anti-natalism anyways… No one should feel like they need to have kids unless they really want to.

But being offended by seeing kids in public is pants on head stupid… Like yeah, you don’t like kids so I guess either we end as a species or all the kids grow up in the mines or something so you don’t have to see any …

Just the worst take…

That’s dumb. No one who opposes cars and trucks in cities oppose vehicular deliveries in appropriate sized vehicles

There was a comic on here a while back that had a hungry guy walk up to the grocer and ask for a job. The grocer said no. Then he asked for food and the grocer said no. So he took the food.

If you can’t get what you need to survive using the social system (unfortunately it’s currently poorly regulated crony capitalism), and you can’t get what you need through charity, then you TAKE what you need to survive.

Any system that lets you die when you were willing to work is a failed system.

“you are more valuable when going to the toilet” is the most mysterious thing I’ve read all week.

Why? To whom? What specifically about the toilet? Does my value also increase at urinals? What about if I shit in the woods?

So many questions.

I’ve got you tagged as “solid dude” for some reason and you’ve never let me down. Every comment is solid!

These fucking conservatives crawl out of the woodwork like cockroaches anytime the government does something heinous and use their piss poor understanding of EVERYTHING to try to justify the heinous actions. It happens every time, and I wish just once to see one of them use real and relevant facts, just so I can pretend that these people live in reality for just one second.

Hasn’t happened yet though.

This guy has no fucking idea how the law works. Destruction of evidence requires a primary crime, the one you’re destroying the evidence for. There is no crime, therefore no destruction of evidence. Only an incompetent or corrupt judge would let this even go to trial.

That’s stupid. We have foster systems, adoption, orphanages, children have even survived living in the wild or with wolves. There are many non parent ways for born children to survive.

God what a stupid, el obviously false statement. If you spent half the time thinking about it as you did typing it you would have deleted it in shame.

All fetuses are non-viable without being allowed parasitic access to the mother’s bodily resources.