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This branch seems to count as evidence in favor of my hypothesis.

And to think my mod points expired yesterday. This is my number one issue with web pages. Lack of information. If you're going to advertise a product or service, how about explaining what it does. Don't wave your hand and market speak everything. Flat out state, "This will allow you to create graphics beyond your imagination." (possibly a bit hyperbolic, but at least you know it's a graphics program)

The same goes for local businesses and what hours they're open. Don't make people scroll to the bottom of a page or have to go through several drop-down menus to find out when you're open. Put it near the top, next to your phone number.

Someone should invent a repost function for stories that remain relevant for longer than one day?

Why did you propagate it? Actually that's a rhetorical question and I think you can say "for the joke" in this case, but I think you should have added a second reply with a more thoughtful contribution and different Subject...

But my Subject isn't funny because most cancers are not directly infectious (though some cancers are linked to infectious conditions). Moral hazard time?

I think it's funny because the AIs (including AC, of course) are training the humans to be stupid so they will buy profitable garbage that hurts the customers who bought it and vote for corrupt politicians who will harm the voters who voted for them. In reinforcement terms, shallow, trivial, and I dare say stupid questions get "meaningful" answers while deep questions result in negative reinforcement with increasingly ridiculous hallucinations, falsehoods, and I dare say directed lies. (The directors include Zuck and Musk and Bezos and Xi and f[r]iends, but I doubt any humans will be in the loop for much longer.)

Examples available upon polite request. But there are too many and I bet you can think of plenty of your own without my pitiful human help.

They do make the news, but often only the regional news. Did you read about the fire in Bermondsey or Avonmouth? Both were on the BBC somewhere.

Eventually, everything turns to Rust.

The UK is never going to deploy vast amounts of solar, we donâ(TM)t have the insolation for it.

Indeed, but even so, we do get enough that relatively expensive rooftop solar is generally worth it.

But we sure as shit have the wind (and tidal) and thereâ(TM)s all the rest to do as well: EAFs, induction cookers, heat pumps, EVs, blah. We need to race or be left in the dust, like Americans with their shitty payments systems with cheques etc (and obviously with fossil fuels too).

Yep, we have a lot of wind, especially now with modern offshore building techniques.

I think with the right investment and incentives, we can also focus on batch industrial processes, things like arc furnaces and electric cement kilns which can be spun up and down fast enough to deal with weather variations where necessary. Sure depreciation is a bit of a pain, but having free energy in order to dump excess capacity is quite compelling.

Multiple reasons.

One is they have a very high power density, both specific and volumetric. You need quite a lot of power to vapourise water and lithium is the winner here. Largely speaking, small, especially disposable vapes appear to be limited by the power density of battery chemistries not the energy density.

Pouch cells are also really good for small batteries because they don't have a prismatic metal shell, and they can easily be made to custom shapes.

It is an incredible waste of resources.

I don't want to spend $150 on a quality headset that will become trash in just 2 or 3 years when the battery dies. But what choice do I have?

Buy a pair of fairbuds?

Brilliant! Why don't we find those "waste managers" and give them a good talking to, maybe even a vigorous finger wagging. I will find my waste manager forthwith and maybe fire him. Then maybe ask my butler to find a new one.

For the rest of the plebs who don't have a waste manger, they chuck stuff in the recycling bin. Unfortunately a small but significant number of arseholes chuck bad shit in there too.

That's 830K GBP average per fire which seems... rather high.

It's... not.

Most of the fires pass without notice and the facility will be back up and running in an hour or two. Occasionally one gets out of hand and a £40mn facility burn to the ground.

An two hour outage isn't free either, but the majority of the cost come from the occasional incredibly destructive one.

Don't these places have some form of on site fire detection and suppression? like some fire hoses or something.

I mean sure you can assume everyone who works in a field you know nothing about is a massive bunch of numpties who can't think of basic things like installing fire suppression. Or...

Well tell you what, if you're in the UK, why not come to the RWM expo in Birmingham (might even be free to non exhibitors) and have a look at the somewhat impressive range of industrial fire suppression equipment available for waste facilities. E.g.

https://www.ess-expo.co.uk/202...

These facilities have fire suppression. Lots of it, with massive water reserves and often diesel pumps in case the electricity supply goes down. And fire detection in a very dusty environment is also hard because too many false positives will overwhelm your operating margins.

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Plenty of nitpicking.

It's not nitpicking to point out you're a filthy liar lying about what I said. But then you are a right wing nutjob,so I suppose that's tautology.

2. A failure to frame this as âoeelectrotech = growth,

Quite. This is kind of insane really. Building infrastructure at home is always going to be better than spending money abroad when the end result is the same (energy).