those are really good points

drivetrain losses, that's a damn good point.

I support them because nuclear, even though it'll never happen

I support them for this reason, even though we'll never go to nuclear.

but I can see Mars from my house!

if by "much higher efficiency" you mean 40% vs 25%

then yes.

factor in transmission line losses (6%) and charging losses (10-20%)

and it's not so much more efficient.

whatever dude they work great on my Red Alert simulations. I say go for it

I am ashamed this question would be asked

right. but they don't seem interested in giving experience, they seem more interested in shoveling children around to fit their cart-before-the-horse assumption that development teams would be 50/50 guys/girls if there were no stereotypes.

that sort of shoveling is what confused me for so long-- lots of people I knew better than telling me they were an expert on what _I_ was feeling and experiencing, and discrediting _my_ subjective experience in order to fit _their_ agenda. They weren't bringing me any freedom.

yes, I'm just saying the marketers and pedants claiming that TECHNICALLY it CAN save power, are overrated

because it brings in viewers which brings in advertisers which brings in revenue ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^^H NO CARRIER

the cues aren't for the people who will take the bate, they're for the people who wouldn't respond either way.

my job title is software engineer and I've written several drivers that have 100% up-time in multi-million dollar production deployments so...?

if we can get women coding, the pool of applicants is much larger and we don't have to permit more H1-B visas to get that effect. Which is great for our financials.

which reminds me, I thought their motto was "do no evil"?

it's more likely this will confuse girls into thinking it's cool and then them following it for a while, as opposed to actually organically developing an interest in it.
My mother was telling me I liked things that weren't true until I was 27 and figured out "mom, I don't like that. why do you keep saying that I do? I'm the expert on me, not you." If a grownup had told me I actually wanted to play with Barbies, so I should play with Barbies, I would have gotten really confused because I trusted them to not lie to me, ever, because my parents didn't, and my parents didn't because they wanted a deeper relationship with me and lying gets in the way of that.

I'll also throw in that no amount of conditioning or marketing could have gotten me to play with Barbies. The DARTA race track set did stuff and went fast, I could build things with K'Nex that looked intrinsically 'neat' to me, and I had opportunities to play with Barbie and the immediate question the girls couldn't answer was "but what do you DO with them?" "dress up" "no that's TO them. what do I do WITH them after they're dressed?" (None of us knew about "taking clothes off" so that was out of the question...)

I know for a fact this was my personal interest not developed from stereotypes in commercials (the only shows I was allowed to watch were Winnie the Pooh and Mr. Roger's neighborhood and you know what kind of commercials played on PBS back then? yeah. those kind.) but agendites categorize me as "an outlier" and "most boys just like guns because movies and stuff" ignoring "but I can shoot something and knock it off the table from way over there and no one will know it's me". I never learned that in a movie, I saw it happen, and I was enthralled, not because a dude-friend did it, but because IT was cool.

I view the agendites as people who have compromised their pursuit of truth and replaced it with a pursuit of forcing boys and girls into situations that simply might not interest them. They do this to "average out" the chemical polarities of gender; what they should do is simply try to redefine the stereotype and remove the pressures to conform. Making girls do what these people consider to be 'boy things' removes pressures 15 years down the road. For example, removing the pressures would have allowed me to let the hot highschool girl decorate me with makeup every time I came over instead of once; but even that was simply that I needed a girlfriend to kiss and not some confused identity thing.

rats, good point