So you don't drive an ICE either to not tempt fate that you would run out of fuel?

"I've personally met very few people with well-drained balls who were horrible." Your proposal that we accept simulated relationships for training for real relationships started off as somewhat plausible. But then you took two turns that are either illogical or frightening: 1) That it really comes down to drained balls. How is masturbation using all the existing technology not enough for this? Is there a class of people that need real sex or the world might see severe consequences? I struggle to identify a causal chain here. 2) Assume it's not just drained balls -- but the ultimate goal is to drain them all unto some human receptacle -- the idea that if we could just find a woman (or other human) for every man to be satisfied solves all (non-economic) social ills is a very dark concept with assumptions about a major role for women and other sexual partners of people with undrained balls. Does this involve breeding too? It seems like you're just one step from obligating some sort of universal right to human sexual companionship since you see missing sexual companionship as this super important thing to socially correct. Back to your AI plan: We're supposed to make men (or those with balls) more charming to entice more sexual companions for them as a matter of public policy? Here's the thing: The underlying person is still there below the trained behavior. And regarding breeding -- their genes haven't changed and thus genetic fitness wouldn't change (unless society co-evolves to the point of handling genetic unfitness with forever-adopted post-birth training programs). Those with ovaries don't seem to gain in their hope to find genetic fitness (if this is really about breeding) under your plan. If this isn't about breeding and reproducing a family, but companionship purely, then you seem to think machine training adequately replaces human experience for a significant portion of the courtship process. If so, why not just go all the way and give these disaster people with balls a more complete simulation that includes fully simulated companionship instead of sending them out into the world as if they are now perfectly charming husband material and conversation partners? And I actually question this whole premise since AI is a generalization reducer. Humans are unique individuals and an AI will be training people to the typical conversation of its training set. It will not be geared toward the varieties of human behavior. Wouldn't potential sexual partners just want a man (or person) that will simply be considerate of them and society? Remember you assume that these people with undrained balls that need help and training start out as antisocial. How is masking that antisocial behavior helping people seeking out social companions? Will these trained people with undrained balls need countermeasures applied to them such as an AI for people with fertile ovaries to detect masked anti-social people? And these problematic people (as you claimed they are a source of societal ills) with undrained balls can probably be solved less invasively in society with medical castration so only they have the prescription applied to them rather than releasing AI-trained sociopaths onto the dating world. Let's consider another viewpoint: that spectrumy people that skip social norms aren't actually societal ills. And we can just socially re-evaluate social norms that make neurodivergence awkward. Like we could just remove chivalry/honor-society obligations from society by a social movement of its own, and more humans may find it's acceptable to be companions to more people (who fit what they really want) because society itself has evolved. Maybe there are much better ways to fix non-economic social problems than your proposal. Have you considered such alternatives?

I have solar panels on my house and RV, plus a KiteX windmill for the RV. Conversion losses are about 10% max. Induction plate conversion loss is another 10%. A gas stove has direct typical losses of around 40-60% depending on how high you turn it up, and you're ignoring indirect drilling/fracking/distribution losses of gas too. Backpacking stoves now have special fins for their cookware that improve efficiency, but still don't reach the efficiency of induction. My induction plates can e.g. boil water much faster than gas because directly energizing the cookware is faster than holding a flame next to metal. Grid losses are getting smaller as utilities add more decentralized generators and upgrade their grids.

NATO isn't an alliance against Russia. It's a self-defense pact. If any nation is attacked militarily, the others treat it as an attack on themselves and act accordingly (and should invest 2% GDP in military, for example.). It doesn't obligate any nation to participate in an offensive attack against any other nation. And in fact, it doesn't override sovereignty. How they respond to being attacked, in defense, could be nothing. No nation is obligated to participate in any war, defensive or not.

In fact, Russia may even be able to join NATO, since it's in the correct geography. It's also on step one of potential membership, Partnership for Peace. There was a time when some were thinking both in Russia and outside Russia that it too could join NATO. And then there was Putin.

Perhaps you'd have a better case if you said it was an alliance against China, but that too isn't quite accurate either, for different reasons.

They scanned both before and after, so it's supposed to be ruling out any prior damage.

Looks like the Ukrainian hardwired Internet is still working too.

I'm wary of recommending buying a used Apple. Apple computers have fixed support periods before they drop OS updates for them. So a used purchase removes usable system longevity unless one applies one of the workarounds (that may or may not working going forward) to convince it that it's not too old to get an OS update. Also, I find used Macs don't drop that much in value. Plus, in the past decade, most laptops (Apple especially) have gotten smaller and longer lasting on battery rather than more powerful, so most people wouldn't find much of a need to get a new laptop, which is why it's especially unfortunate that Apple has chosen to drop support for perfectly adequate hardware. The new M1 chips have changed the performance equation, but those are all new and you probably couldn't find a cheap used one.

This is a reprint from a 2018 post, and in 2019 follow up research in a validated gut model showed that it didn't appear to increase virulence: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p... The earlier research this points to is largely correlative, but does not show causation. The follow up research was looking at seeing if it was actually causative. It's not like one study alone can conclude anything absolutely, but it's a fairly damaging study to the hypothesis. I found this info from the Wikipedia article on Trehalose: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...