Pretty sure Jason Momoa solidy coverd the 'buff dude' required part, to go with the attrative woman. Could just be that we just thought it was a weak script with bad effects. Much like even Halle Berry couldn't save that mess that was Catwomen. Same thing here. Now you might have had a point on the new Snow White, where yep, the lead actress's very public and outspoken 'woke' agenda sank a timeless classic, driving home 'Go woke, go broke', as adopting a stance that alienates half your perspective audience is a horrible business decision. Doesn't matter really what the stance is, any stance that runs off half your potential customers is good for nothing but loosing you money.

And at the same time a much larger than either, France, hit 70% green power via nuclear in the 80's, and has reached 95% today with a combination of nuclear and renewable energy. So yes, so you can in fact do the majority of your power with nuclear if you decide to spend the money and do it. Adding solar/wind is a good add, as nuclear is great for base power, not so good for the variable part, which is where wind/solar/batteries fit in very well.

Aye my favorite is when they want proof I'm over 16. And somehow the fact that I've had an active account with them for over 20 years doesn't automatically cover that.

It's actually the exact opposite of greed. When someone builds a company and new product, they are creating wealth. The companies he owns are the net worth. Those companies employee a lot of people (22K just for SpaceX alone), putting a lot of money into the economy and tax base, which benefits everyone. It's not like he has most of that money, it's tied up in the theorectical value of his companies, most of which is potential for future value not actual value if you tried to liquidate them all today.

France is a better example. They hit 75% green energy back in the 80's, and are over 95% today. A large portion of the world has had the technology to go 100% green electrical power generation since 1954, just lacked the will to do it. China already got their wake up call, with all the pollution problems they have pushed onto the world stage when they hosted the olympics. The air in many of their cities was rated as toxic, pushing nuclear winter levels of smog. Embarraed their leadership on the world stage, so they took action. They are making great progress, but still have a ways to go. Much like the US did back in the 60's when they started passing all the clean air rules, for the same reason, the smog in cities. And sure, they are cheap goods. Easier to do that when you use forced labor - Uyghurs, ie slaves.

You missed an obvious option. They do not in fact have to create water, it already gets delivered in the form of rain/snow. They only have to stop more of it from flowing off into the ocean, for example by building a cooling pond. Same thing we have been doing for hundreds of years, building lakes to make more fresh water available in an area. The white paper makes it clear that they are making more usable water availabe in the watershed area that their datacenter pulls from. Something we have been doing for hundreds of years by building lakes, and adding generators to power things starting with simple paddle wheels to run a grain mill all the way up to something like the Hover Dam producing electricity. So if you do it right, you can get not only more available water, but renewable power generation as a bonus.

Considering how much the people 'learned' from the OPEC oil embargo in the 70's, when they had to sit in lines for hours to maybe get a ration of gas, that's not a safe bet. As soon as the prices come back down where it is not in the front of their minds every time the fill up the car, they will quickly forget again, just like they did before. As evidence of that forgettfulness, fuel is still cheaper than it was in 2022 under Biden for 6 months topping $5 a gallon on average at it's highest, that's only 4 years ago, yet you seem to have already forgetten that.

That and annoying people is why I stopped going. Seeing/hearing people's phones is during the movie is annoying. I have a nice home theater setup at home, my recliner is way more comfortable, and I can pause the movie anytime I want to if I need to use the bathroom, grab a snack, dinner, or a beer, that I don't have pay 10 times more than it's worth.

And if they go that route add surge pricing if they want to start their day at 0800 and end it at 1700, with incentives or discounts if they stagger the opening and closing times as that would do wonders for scalling back rush hour. They have known for decades you just can't afford to build enough roads to handle every single person having to be to work at exactly the same time.

That's mostly because CA and TX both want green energy, but they mean different things. CA wants 'green' energy that has no impact on the environment, which is questionable with wind, solar, and battery due to the sunk carbon cost of building them and mining the requirement materials. TX want's 'green' energy, as in it generates piles of 'green' money. And they figured out how to make money on wind, solar, and batteries (cause they are great for load balancing your electrical grid and making it more profitable), so they built them, and are making money, plus getting some good press for going 'green' as a bonus. But they all know under the covers that after you pay for all the concrete, installation, do all the mining (with highly questionalble labor contracts involving outright slavery in places), that while it makes cash, it is no more the silver bullet to going green than ethonol turned out to be (though that also generated a lot of 'green' cash for corn farmers).

I moved to ebooks simply because I can increase the text size where I don't get a headache after an hour of reading. Signed up for Kindle Unlimited ages ago, reading a 180+ books a year. Haven't run into AI books yet, but my entire reading list is recommendations left in the back of the book by the author, leading me to even more books I enjoy. It's to the point the only subscriptions I have left are Kindle Unlimited and YouTube Premium - mostly for gaming videos and music, don't remember the last time I watched TV or movie, got tired of shows I like getting cancelled on a cliffhanger. Can't really go back to paper unless I want to buy the books with oversized text.

"The optical fiber elements are typically individually coated with plastic layers and contained in a protective tube suitable for the environment where the cable is used" So considering most of the Internet is optical fiber in a protective tube, that would be yes. Even the copper parts of copper wires are contained in a protective plastic tube. Is that the best way to put it, not really most of us would probably call it a sleeve or casing, but it is a hollow cylinder, in which wires or fibers carrying data are placed, which makes it a type of tube. And before say they have to carry a liquid, think vaccum tubes or cathode ray tubes, all electonics (from when he was growing up) ran on tubes, so not too surprising he stil thinks that way.

Is a number equal to 4% of the US population just a 'handful', because that's roughly the number in the US that were not screened through a port of entry? That's a pretty significant amount that came in with zero screening to make sure their immunizations were up to date and they didn't actively have a 'nonendemic disease' when they entered the country. 2 doses of MMR is 97% effective, meaning 3% of the people that were vaccinated are not immune and can get measles if exposed. That 'insular Christian community' is a fraction of of a percent of the population (around 400K), which is a lot less than the 3% of immunized folks (10+ million) that think they are immune but actually are not. Which illustrates why we want herd immunity to protect that 3%.

Surely you aren't talking about the 'world' you need a passport to travel to that drug the rest of us into multiple world wars that lead to the worst 'gun violence' to ever occur? Isn't there still a war going on in that part of the 'world'? Hasn't NATO had to step in to stop genocide recently (Kosovo comes to mind) in that 'world'. The one that left behind messes in places like Isreal / Palestine, India / Pakistan, etc that the rest of us are still trying to clean up. Not to mention their mass geonocide against natives if they were living on land they wanted or had resources they wanted. Plus the whole slave trade thing going back thousands of years, not to mention causing the dark ages with their theocracy. But sure, if you totally ignore history it looks like a great place now, as long as you ignore the pile of bodies it's built on.

Congress would be the most powerful branch, if they didn't delegate all their authority to executive branch agencies or to the President and empower them to make 'rules' which are effectively laws. Because Congress never wants to take a vote that might cost them votes in the next election, and would rather be able to just blame some unelected agency for doing it, or leave it to the courts to decide. They can't even put together a working budget most years, even though that's supposed to be one of their primary jobs (one they took for themselves when they decided instead of just approving the budget they also wanted to write it in the 70's).