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Because it’s on track to become expensive than other sources of energy. There are plenty energy sources we don’t use because they are comparatively expensive.

To my ears “Molten” would imply that the sand is currently in liquid form. The sense ”melted” is used here, as having been melted, seems right. You melt sand to get molten sand, ri…

Apes are a subset of monkeys.

Trump’s talking about a “joint venture” with Iran for charging tolls, weird that he feels that might have to make this concession, right? https://x.com/jonkarl/status/2041839012097…

> Iran does not “control” the strait any more than neighbor controls my front door because he threatened to stop me from using it. If the US or other naval power tried to pass it w…

Real world events are conditional. Would you prefer I talk in absolutes? Defacto Iran still controls the strait, as they have since the start of the war. If they start letting the …

As a cyclist in London, I’ve hit one pedestrian: they stepped backward(!) into a cycle lane. I had nowhere to go, as there was a curb on the other side. Pedestrian behaviour is jus…

None of those things matter if they survive and control the straight, which seems to be the situation. The toll revenue will be enough to rebuild several times over. They have prov…

> I can't see Trump or anyone else willingly misusing that trust Is this sarcasm? It’s hard to tell these days.

If we look at the stated goals (as inconsistent as they have been): Unconditional surrender -> nope Regime change via popular uprising -> nope Destruction or removal of enriched ur…

That’s not what people are worried about, it’s the rigging of real world events (including wars!) that has people worried.

I don’t see how it relates very well to what I said. I think you’re trying to say the that the Chagos island lease disagreement is as big a deal as threatening to invade a NATO all…

I don't understand your comment.

Maybe Americans don't really get this, but the Greenland stuff was a very, very big deal. The rest of NATO was staring down the barrel of the unthinkable: war with the United State…

I'm using it Infomaniak, including their KDrive as a Dropbox replacement (with 2TB of data). I've even used their video conferencing app. No complaints so far. All seems to work ju…

Honestly, the instability of the political environment in US feels so extreme, that it seems like something could bite you that you didn't even see coming. Just on the Gmail front:…

Lol, I’ve had cutting edge models suggest I make an inflexible hole bigger by putting shim in it, and argue their case stubbornly. I don’t know what you’re using to suggest they ar…

Indeed, “defence” so obviously an Orwellian term for these departments, I’m very much in favour of the change.

Yes, but it doesn’t have to be error-free. The friendly fire rates in symmetrical hot wars is pretty high, it’s considered a cost of going to war. If autonomous weapons lead to a n…

If you think literally everything I'm saying is wrong, you haven't done much of a job of explaining why. I realise that the watch was probably under development for years before Jo…

> At what point did the old Apple cross the threshold to "modern" Apple? This hardly an original sentiment, but when Steve Jobs died. Jobs was not perfect, but he believed they wer…

No the original was 16:9, you can see they have been digitally removed in the shots from the Blu-ray.

Property isn’t real either.

Mastodon is a fairly finicky beast, has a few dependencies that you also have to manage (redis, sidekiq, Postgres), and is surprisingly resource intensive. So you can do it, but it…

Species is a concept that isn't particularly well defined, and certainly not in palaeontology. One can see, however, diverging body plans (disparity), distinct lineages (diversity)…