...to get a short explanation of why this is interesting. We already have nuclear fission.

Is the emphasis on startup here? Or are they doing something revolutionary?

Work is salvation. Work gives meaning. Work builds and maintains.

Unless there is an integral understanding of this oresent throughout a society, a statement like "work is a necessary evil" is just... I don't know... Detrimental?

I so want twenty years ago back.

The only one who found that line noteworthy was you.

The rest of us only find it noteworthy in the context it was in.

The more pressing question: If the shops were profit centers, they wouldn't try to get rid of them..

And if they're not profit centers... Who's gonna want to get into that franchise?

And since an employee makes what, like 50 bucks a month, that company lost a whole 200 dollars because of their obviously silly decision.

I completely lose all respect for anyone who looks at a section of a curve and extrapolates that trend onto the next twenty years as if nothing could possibly ever happen in that timeframe to change that.

I mean just look at that statement: Taking your 25% estimate we will install as much Solar in 2045 year as the total fossil energy output today.

Which assumes that in 2045 we have the production capacity, installation manpower and space to do so.

But you start out in a pretty shortsighted way alread: Sure, buy raw numbers the city roofs provide a LOT of area but assuming you could just snap your fingers and convert it all to solar is... I don't know man, it's like a child that thinks it can end war by telling all the "bad people" to "just stop".

Well, it all depends on how you define "thrive", eh? China has mastered creative accounting like few others.

Ah, ah ah! Careful there or one of us snowflakes might need to charge a phone and unplug your respirator!

Erm, going with the meme's intent, shouldn't it be In Soviet Russia, HR protects you from company?

Because what you said is exactly what HR is for in all of the western world.

Seems about on par with my experience with HR.

Having to deal with those people can turn a body misogynistic right quick.

Or you just say excuse me and squeeze past the people at check-out. Why would I explain myself to a cashier?

If they think I did something wrong it's up to them to talk to me and prove it. In the US it may be different... You lot realky adopted guilty until you prove yoir innocence but I don't live like that.

Please do not work in OpSec.

The super rich tech bros are bored and want to see just how far they can push the envelope.

I mean look at people like Bezos, Zuckerberg and Musk. You'd think having made billions in net worth (which isn't the same as actually having billions), at some point they'd be content with their image but noooo...

These people never outgrew their own underdeveloped self-esteem. I mean these poor sonsabitches... They have practically if not literally unlimited money, Everybody knows their names and tens of thousands of people have jobs because of them. Their names will go down in the history books, they are influential in society and politics and yet they seem incapable of being happy with what they have.

It may sound weird but in the last ten years I went from hoping for a lottery win to actually being scared of it (the latter is weird because I stopped playing ;)).

I think having too much money does only bad things to you. And the threshold of too much has been lowered frighteningly close to realistically achievable in my assessment.

That would be true if you could just scale the gas to this 5% load demand and let it produce 24/7 like that.

The problem is that we have times where 50 or even 70% of renewable generation cuts out for twenty minutes. You cannot pay for 70% load in gas and you cannot turn it on fast enough to stop a cascade failure from happening.

Numbers in the hands of quick draws are a dangerous thing. This is a complex problem. Simple solutions to complex problems are always false.