Nuclear plants can idle. They can do it pretty fast too, and they certainly don't "blow up" when they do. The problem can be how long it takes them to ramp up again afterward. That's not really THIS problem either though. Nuclear reactors produce heat, not electricity. You can take some of that heat and make electricity from it, but you can also not do that.

Negative electricity prices are the result of things like fixed price contracts, the need to pay workers, leases, etc., and accounting that treats operating at a loss for a short period as "negative."

Ah, you've decided to go the straw man route. Congratulations!

President Von Shitzenpants

That's one I haven't heard. Bravo.

I don't think we need just one. Variety is wonderful. Mango Mussolini, Cheeto Benito, Agent Orange, Adolf Twitler, TACO. Even better, you can use a bunch of them to avoid repeating.

Ah, so free speech should be limited?

I'm not saying I disagree. I'm saying the propaganda needs some tuning. Sounds like you and the GP think maybe a great firewall might not be such a bad idea yeah?

Not using a 2400 bps modem to complain about how tiresome new technology is.

Nah. It's because Ford got off a sick burn talking about how much real estate there is on his ass so Trump has lots to kiss.

There's something the kids say about only a handful of unique sentences being left unwritten.

Ketchup.

I was thinking about this. I fully expect the journalist said "weight" because they don't know or didn't think about the difference, but you can't actually measure mass. We always infer it from measurements of force and, sitting stationary in a gravitational field, we virtually always do so by measuring the force required to counter gravity, i.e. by measuring weight.

Nobody has to hold this thing up over a significant gravitational source

The rocket that launches it does.

You either misunderstand which way the Earth rotates or what effect that has on rocket launches. California is limited to retrograde orbits, which nobody uses except the Israelis because they have no choice, and polar orbits.

It's not their fault. They've been immersed in propaganda since at least WWII, and somehow failed to develop the cynicism of your average eastern European.

No way man. Datacentre FLOPs are shit compared to artisanal home made FLOPs.

Datacenters are misguided. Soon enough models and hardware will be good enough that everyone will be able to run their own local AI at home.

My father had an Apple II. It was one of a wave of "personal computers" that would let you run things like word processors and spreadsheets at home.

Guess where most people run those things now.

Interesting how quickly Americans go from God given, inalienable rights to "should they be allowed to foreigners?"