Seems more like political problems. They have been trying to build large wind farms and export cables for years. If they can't even manage that, they have no hope of building nuclear.

It's a tragedy really. They have massive amounts of space for this stuff. A lot of sun, and good on and off shore wind resources. The domestic solar market is actually doing okay, because it gets less political interference and there isn't all that much that can be done to stop people putting panels on their homes.

I would be surprised if software updating an aircraft is that simple. It probably needs to be controlled and tested after the update, with records kept by maintenance staff, and notifications sent to pilots.

I don't honestly think it would have changed anything at all.
We have what our social policy as a people have dictated that we wanted.

The fact is, bizarrely, Americans don't want high-speed rail enough to vote for it. Let us not pretend that cost is what was holding it back.
I don't think anyone has found the right way to hype it for enough Americans for it to actually happen.

You are right to call them out for that overbroad claim.
It is, however, still broadly true.

There have been catastrophic events more catastrophic than the anthropocene- particularly, the meltwater pulses- the collapse of the ice sheets.
The anthropocene is still pretty fucking bad, though.

Worst of all time anywhere?
That's probably the dumbest shit I have ever read.
Dumbest of all time anywhere? Ya- I'd agree with that. But confidently proclaiming that dumbest is worst is particularly impressive level of historical ignorance.

Your brain is a physical object.
However the subjective things we call "mind" work, the physical part is simple, and it can be described algorithmically just like an LLM.
That was the folly in trying to reduce the description that far.

An LLM can be expressed as a math equation, as much as any physical object in this universe.

Trump is a fucking dotard. However- what he has done, amazingly, is make it impossible to evaluate anything in this fucking universe objectively, either amongst his allies or his opponents.

And socially needs an asterisk. I agree on the ends, but I don't agree with their Machiavellian horseshit.

Guilty.

It wasn't, and I'm not. Though socially, many of my goals align with theirs. Economically, not so much.

They already exist.
Doubt in a factory setting though- that does indeed sound terrifying.

No, it didn't, and you know it.

You're trying to use the existence of an ever-changing climate (climate change) to cast doubt on the existence of anthropogenic climate change. (Climate Change)

This isn't clever, you're just disgusting.

Civics education is bad in the US. But as far as I can tell, it's worse literally just about everywhere else.

Cognitive assessments are actually common at his age, to figure out if certain degenerative diseases are cropping up. The usual recommended age to start that is 65.
The MRI could be the same. A good way to tell if you've got some kind of dementia coming up is to see if the brain shrinking is more than expected.

i.e., it's entirely plausible these were routine screening. Whether they were or not, is unknown.

It's really hard to fully account. A lot of money went in a lot of places for purposes other then paying for the war, but to keep its belligerents from collapsing under its cost (Britain, Soviet Union in particular)
Do we count every favorable trade deal? Just the materiel? The deployments to save British armies from destruction in remote deserts?
Either way, the contribution in general to the survival and independence of Western Europe was immense.