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Mind showing me some data on that? France has been a net exporter of electricity June, July and so far in August. Their nuclear power has been fine with only minor reduction in capacity in individual power plants, but the vast majority are fine. See here: https://energy-charts.info/charts/power/chart.htm?l=en&c=FR&interval=year&legendItems=4x0ffvg

You have been misled.

Also there exists no countries next to France that are pure renewable. There doesn’t exist a nation with pure renewables anywhere in the world. Maybe Norway.

But I assume you are referring to Spain, which is heavily dependent on nuclear power and fossil gas for the hours where solar and wind fails. They have used them plentifully during the summer.

See Spain power production here: https://energy-charts.info/charts/power/chart.htm?l=en&c=ES&interval=year&legendItems=3wew5

Looking at cross border trade, Spain has imported energy more often during the summer compared to France.

But maybe you don’t live in Spain. Maybe you live on Atlantis or another fantasy land?

I suppose you could be from Switzerland, but they have nuclear power too, so it cannot be that. They also have consistently been importing electricity from France this summer. You must be from Atlantis or Narnia or some other fairy tale land with pure renewables.

I also have my eyes on energy storage, but it isn’t viable for many decades, if ever. There is no production in large scales enough to supply enough storage for even a fraction of what is needed. Many of these amazing designs are still in lab or demonstration stage and at best at low scale production. They will not be in large scale production for years or a decade.

It would take several years of current battery production rate to have enough storage for Europe and they aren’t made in Europe but largely in China who will use it for themselves.

There won’t be enough production capacity of any type of energy storage for many decades, even if we took a design now and started scaling up like crazy. It isn’t a matter of technology, but of scale and production capacity.

Then you have the added problem of the fact that northern and central Europe has next to no sun during half the year. You can store some from wind, but you’d need an unimaginable amount of energy storage to cover for the long periods of dunkelflaute.

Nuclear can do this just fine. Nuclear that can be scaled up during winter and then turned down during summer will be an essential part of a stable grid for many decades to come. Energy storage will mean less nuclear is required, but we don’t have energy storage tech to charge up entire countries worth of energy during summer to be used in winter. There isn’t enough by far.

I look forward to what is coming regarding energy storage, but it is still just ideas and testing and what is in production is too expensive and in far to low production. We have to be realistic and use what we have now, not in 20 years. We cannot keep burning fossil fuels to wait for new energy storage solutions that MIGHT become available at some point and whose production volumes will take a decade or two to scale up once and if they get out of the lab.

Nuclear power: provides stable power year round, then has one unplanned interruption to power production in 44 years.

“Look! Nuclear so bad, it doesn’t work!”

Renewables: has interruptions to power production literally every day.

“This is great! I can’t turn my lights on half the time and got no heating at winter, but its great!”

How are you people thinking? I get nuclear power is more expensive, but it is the only reliable carbon dioxide-free power source during winter and nights and it always will be. We clearly need both.

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I would answer debian, but I want her to say arch.

I want my girlfriend to be smarter than me ok!?

Our identities and labels are something for ourselves to decide. There are no rules that forces any labels on you. You can be homosexual if you feel that fits you. Other might be bisexual or pansexual. Or you can still consider yourself heterosexual.

Your sexuality is not determined by the identity of others. Your partner changing their identity or sexuality does not change your sexuality. Remember, it is just a label. A label is meant to be descriptive of you and allow easier communication of how you see yourself.

Pick a label that you think makes sense for you. Don’t let others decide it for you based on their identity.

I should mention that likewise your sexuality does not determine your partner’s identity. You can be heterosexual and be attracted to him. The label does not change reality. It is just a general descriptor.

Its just a fucking label, it doesn’t strictly have to ‘make sense’ in every context. Just describe you in general.

I just hope it does not end up like video games, where they can sell an unfinished product and patch it later.

Too late. This is already the case, I don’t know of a single EV that wasn’t buggy on release and still buggy a year or two afterwards as the manufacturer hunts bugs in a leisurely pace. It already is like in the gaming industry. Don’t buy an EV that isn’t at least one year old on the market or you will become their free of charge beta tester…

I have used crowd collected data for research. You have to curate each picture carefully and cannot trust labels, there are many erroneous identifications.

Maybe if you have access to pre-curated you can trust it a bit, but if you are a researcher and use images from these websites without curation you are already doing it wrong…

AI altered images doesn’t change things too much, it probably just increases the numbers of errors that already existed…

Pseudoscience is claiming something as fact when you have no evidence. Portraying an hypothesis as fact is an example of pseudoscience.

It isn’t the hypothesis that makes things scientific, it is the testing and falsification of the hypothesis that makes it scientific. No such has been done.

Until you have the evidence and results, all you have is a sophisticated guess.

I absolutely can dismiss every unproven hypothesis as pseudoscience if it is used as if it was a proven hypothesis. You should too.

According to the article there exists no evidence that it actually synthesis energy from the radiation. The title is a flat out lie. It is a hypothesis with zero evidence.

Also, it claims melanin that makes it dark, like our skin, is part of the synthesis, but an easier explanation is that it is there to protect against radiation, just like how melanin in our skin protects us from solar radiation.

The whole idea of “radio-synthesis” is pseudoscientific bullshit with nothing to back it up.

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Probably the ‘uncanny valley’ effect. It is too real and jarring. I also think making a story out of the concept will be very difficult to make entertaining. People want things they can relate to. Men won’t be able to relate to it and just find it jarring and women will just read having period = being a monster and won’t appreciate the implication…

If you think something good can be made of it you have to write something yourself :/

So not drones which have been the game changer and plague of all recent wars (Armenia-Azerbaijan, Russia-Ukraine, USA-Iran)? Hmm cruise missile abd ballistic missiles are for sure a threat, but not mentioning drones is worrisome. Are these people actually paying attention? Bet it is the same folks who think it is a good idea to buy jets from its neighbours that wants to annex it…

RT is a well known Russian propaganda site, why even bother posting it? Why don’t you russian troll go queuing for gasoline? Better get some while you can, soon there won’t be any left.

What if it was the other way around? They had multiple partners so you had to spend less time keeping them happy? Seems like a win win, you have to spend less at the chores of the relationship and they gets to be more happy, content and taken care of!

A financial collapse almost certainly and business would struggle until they find alternatives, especially the service sector. But manufacturing, construction and agriculture is not as dependent on internet for day to day operations.

Social I think it would probably be a boom and when internet get back online a lot of people might look back at the blackout as a refreshing experience.

At least that’s my take.

In our reverse world, the more hyperbolic the title is the less worthwhile content the article contains. Use this to filter out content that can be safely (ironically) ignored.

Looks AI generated though. Can we exclude that?

I have glasses and the same problem, I think the glasses chafe against the plastic leather without one noticing until it breaks.

That really is the craziest part. Doesn’t matter much if we change everything if the underlying stores and OS still is not sovereign…

The fact that I cannot do banking or log into government sites without a phone with a foreign controlled OS and app store still baffles me…