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It feels off-brand for a deity’s existence to be suggested by how much they behave like Santa Claus.
It depends on how much Terry Pratchett you have read.
Is Tesla gonna become a Defense company?
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> US going to war over the lithium. there's nothing strange about a country going to war over a resource. Has been happening for a long time in history, and there's no reason that anything in the modern world changed human nature. Except that lithium isn't valuable enough to go to war over at the moment. Now, the threat of being able to develop and fire nukes, on the other hand, is something that might be war-worthy.
What does your last paragraph mean? Many countries already have nukes but this one should not?
A strong argument for the existence of a diety is hilarious-if-true outcomes like the Ayatollah getting to have both oil & lithium to remain fully hedged through the EV transition. Too improbable for a fictional movie, but here we are. Life, as always, is stranger than fiction.
The degree to which we’ve been blessed with resources and opportunity to do the right thing (and have consistently chosen to do the dumb thing) never fails to amaze me. Infinite power from the sky that’s cheaper than fossil fuels; vast reserves of lithium to help oil-producing nations smoothly transition us away from oil; huge and unusually-enriched Uranium deposits we could use to build power (but instead used to bu…
It would be easy to see that garden as a gift from god after you’ve seen everyone else freeze to death. Then you just need a reason to leave e.g overhunting or overpopulation or some dispute.
Then the myth would be that someone living there did something and our group had to leave paradise and go into the thawing wasteland. Pass that on for generation after generation and it becomes metaphorical.
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> there's nothing strange about a country going to war That doesn't make it any less sickening. War is always a travesty.
We've grown up in our latte sipping bubbles, far removed from geopolitical competition for resources. America's postwar boom years resulted in a hegemon that largely avoided conflict. Now that power is more widely distributed amongst peer competitors, we're going to see the resource hungry animals we evolved as come to the forefront. There will be a great deal of contention, and some of it will be heated. If I had to…
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> Infinite power from the sky that’s cheaper than fossil fuels but it isnt though, if it was, it would be happening all over, without massive subsidies and strongarming from government.
Correct--while the sun sends an enormous amount of free energy our way, it's maddeningly diffuse and requires enormous investments of energy and materials to capture it in a usable and reliable form. The Wynn in Vegas has a 160 acre solar farm in some of the sunniest land in the country and it provides...almost enough energy to power a single large hotel. None of this is to say that solar power is bad, just that we s…
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It's a little bit sickening that so many of these initial comments are joking about the US going to war over the lithium.
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We've grown up in our latte sipping bubbles, far removed from geopolitical competition for resources. America's postwar boom years resulted in a hegemon that largely avoided conflict. Now that power is more widely distributed amongst peer competitors, we're going to see the resource hungry animals we evolved as come to the forefront. There will be a great deal of contention, and some of it will be heated. If I had to…
To put your comment in perspective: we had two world wars, such as the world had never seen before, last century.
We've already had news cycles normalizing the debate over tactical nukes on the battlefield.