"I used to believe X, but my eyes have been opened and now I believe Y. And I need to make sure that everyone believes what I believe."

[quote]So is the code of conduct and you're pig-biting mad about it.[/quote]
I fail to see what exactly is 'pig-biting mad' about suggesting to keep a technical discussion about technical arguments. I also fail to see why your comment was rated 'Insightful' instead of 'Gaslighting'. Especially your follow-up comment down below. It is nothing but a personal stab under the table and adds nothing to the discussion. It is exactly the sort of posts a technical discussion can do without. In that regard, the OP should be thankful for your ad-hoc example proving his point.

This is not about entitlement. If it is considered ethical for employers to fire staff and hire them back for half the amount, I don't see any problems with doing only half the work. The cookie crumbles both ways.

Apologies, although the article itself is not really clear about the mechanism, luckily someone in the comments jumped to our aid:

"If a star is moving inside a collisionless dark matter background, the star would exert a gravitational force to pull the dark matter particles toward it. Then a concentration of the dark matter particles would locate behind the star and exert a collective gravitational force on the star. This collective gravitational force would slow down the star, and the resulting effect is called dynamical friction. The idea of dynamical friction was proposed by Chandrasekhar more than 70 yr ago (Chandrasekhar 1943)."

The article is a bit confusing in this regard, as it remains a bit vague on how this interaction works:

Gravitational drag is something I can get my head around. But I have no clue how the mechanism behind this 'gravitational friction' would work, and the article does not clearly explain it.

"Please tell me your top 3 situations where you could save a bunch of lives by using racial slurs "

Not that I am advocatinf for racial slurs, but you have it the wrong way around. Freedom of speech doesn't work like that. You should be the one giving 3 reasons where you could save a bunch of lives by censoring racial slurs.

...but a BRAIN-frame?

Gas is made from fermions. Photons are bosons.

...putin less data?

"The protection what we are getting from the third [doses], it is good enough -- actually, quite good for hospitalizations and deaths,"

Source?

"But, "it's not that good against infections" with omicron, and "it doesn't last very long."

Source?

"[..] He reported that Pfizer is "working very diligently" to come up with a new dose that will protect against all variants and provide longer-lasting protection."

So the new booster doesn't actually exist, but he knows that it will be necessary? Without any scientific evidence or, in this case, even any data? What a rascal!

...or is it one of those papers from the 50% that is unreviewed and irreproducible?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis

" If it were that safe and secure, they wouldn't lose billions a year in fraud globally, and we sure as shit wouldn't be having this conversation."

I didn't claim it was perfect. But can you name a payment method that is cheaper, safer, faster and more reliable for international payments?

You must have been living under a rock. Credit cards have had pincodes for decades and MFA for years. And often credit card purchases are insured, so it's actually one of the safest, fastest and efficient payment-methods available.

Official crimerates in North Korea are astoundingly low as well. That does not mean we can 'learn' anything from them.

El Salvador is run by gangsters, and their embrace of bitcoin fits the profile. While this may fill the pockets of some corrupt government officials, it will not help the El Salvadorian people. In fact, they will probably be exploited even further. Being at the bottom row of a pyramid scheme is not the ideal place to find yourself in.

Your 5KW estimate appears to be a bit excessive. OP can't math. The numbers come down to 1KW per person, not 10KW.