Not "someone".
Everyone.
PFAS (poly-fluoroalkyl substances) are in thousands of everyday products: food packaging, water/stain resistant clothing, carpets, firefighting foam, cleaning products, non-stick cookware (Teflon is a PFAS), gaskets, lubricants, shampoo, cosmetics, etc.
The Chinese beg to differ with Ms. Thatcher. I would contrast their performance to Great Britain's.
Are you implying that China is more "socialist" than Britain?
we make money with dumb users
Dumb people are more likely to click on ads, so they are more profitable than smart people.
As more of the Internet is monetized with advertising, tech companies have more incentive to cater to the stupid.
Quora OTOH is the creeping fungus
Quora is somewhat of a "writing" site like Medium rather than a question-and-answer site.
You're way more likely to see an answer written by a popular writer than someone giving a correct answer.
Also, writers can delete comments on their answers that they don't like. So they can post something completely wrong and then delete all the comments trying to correct them.
You can no longer exclude Quora results like you used to be able to when Pinterest was the big problem.
Why can't you append "-quora" to your query?
Spammers are all over Reddit
Some forums have lots of spam. Others have very little.
Spammers target stupid people, so if you avoid stupid topics, you avoid most of the spam.
you'll see aff spam littered throughout any subs related to dating
Yup. But no spam in the FPGA sub.
Piloted aircraft are designed to be 99.9999% reliable.
Adding a nine doubles the cost.
99.9% is good enough for an unpiloted aircraft, making them much cheaper.
Leaving out the cockpit and all the life support stuff lowers the cost even more.
Unpiloted planes don't need training, just programming. So they don't need to be designed for thousands of flight hours. They can sit in a warehouse until needed.
So even if the kill ratio is 1 to 1 or even 3 to 1, drones are still a big win.
Eventually, we won't have to put pilot's lives at risk. Just send a machine.
Before WW1, some predicted that machine guns would minimize casualties.
If one soldier could shoot as many bullets as a hundred soldiers, then armies would be much smaller.
Government wins when it says government can't do anything.
This isn't saying the government can't do anything.
It just says that law enforcement has to explain to a judge why they need the data. That's all. It's not a high bar.
Thousands of warrants are issued every day.
Israel is the only true democracy in the Middle East.
Tunisia is also a democracy.
This is what happens when you support terrorists like Hamas and Hezbollah.
The UAE supports neither. The leadership of Hamas resides in Qatar, not the UAE.
The UAE has diplomatic relations with Israel and has pledged to maintain relations despite the current conflict.
The UAE sees Iran-backed Hezbollah as an enemy.
Where did the water come from?
I'll go way out on a limb and guess it evaporated from the ocean.
UAE doesn't burn oil to generate electricity.
They do burn gas, but much of it would otherwise be flared.
UAE's liquefication plants and export terminals are already running at capacity.
UAE plans to double their gas export capacity in the next few years, but peace in Ukraine is a risk.
Basically if most of the earths water is locked up in the poles, this would cause arid regions to form.
Your theory is the opposite of reality.
As temperatures rise, the ice caps melt, and deserts are expanding, not shrinking.
at the start of the Carboniferous period, the earth was fairly warm
There were warm regions and inland seas, but there were also large ice caps and big deserts.
Why do you assume financing?
Money is fungible. If you don't spend the money on panels and batteries, you can pay off your credit cards, pay down your mortgage, or invest the money in T-bonds. Any of those will be a better use of your money.
There may be non-financial reasons to build a battery-backed solar system, but otherwise, spending $15k to save $90/month doesn't make much sense.
Disclaimer: I have solar panels (good investment). I do not have batteries (bad investment).
It only cost ~$15k to save $90/mo in power. I'll break even around 15 years.
Only at an interest rate of 0%.
The current prime rate is 8.5%. 30-year mortgages are 7%. At those rates, you'll never break even.
If you want to put yourself on the map, publish your own map.
