Potatoes are quite nutritious and could be called a super food, given their high content of Vitamin C for instance, which rivals that of many alleged super foods.

This is more a testament to the snake oil that super foods actually are than on the nutritional value of the humble Solanum tuberosum.

The result will be that no one will voluntarily hold up law and order, because even the slightest mistake will cause him to lose everything. The best you can hope for is that they do nothing for fear to screw up.

And then someone will agree to step in only if everyone else will warrant him that he will not be punished for his honest mistakes, and you just reinvented Qualified Immunity.

It might not form immediately. There is at least 400 millions of years we don't have any signs of Life on Earth - enough time for Earth to cool and reheat several times.

I am with the previous poster on this one. Besides the fact that nucleobases have been known to be in asteroids and comets since at least the 1980ies (together with ribose and other sugars, and amino acids), their presence in Ryugu does not hint that meteorites brought them to Earth. Instead, it hints at them forming easily under the conditions of the Solar system and being abundant everywhere it is not too hot for them to be destroyed.

Which is quite irrelevant, as you could bet on the outcome of U.S. or Canadian sports events somewhere else, in the U.K., Singapore or Austria. The financial motive to threaten someone for a specific outcome was there already, and there also were cases in court about blackmailing coaches and players and fixing games.

Which would be... right back in Classical Greece about 800 BCE? Professional athletes are as old as sports, and at the first Olympic Games back in 776 BC, professional athletes were competing. And there were bets on the outcome of the competitions. We even have contemporary reports of death threats against athletes more than 2500 years ago.

Renewables, especially Solar and Wind, are so cheap, you can simply switch them off when not needed. That's quite different to a nuclear power plant.

Nuclear needs really large ways to store electricity. As a nuclear plant can not be shut down easily when less power is required, it needs a way to get rid of the additional energy. Usually, it's stored into large pumped-storage hydroelectricity plants, and you need to include their cost too.

On a side note, people are always waving the baseload flag, without every asking themselves what baseload actually means: It's a source of energy which (except when shut down for maintenance or an unforeseen event) always provides the same amount of electricity - completely independent of the actual needs. That means that baseload energy can not react on short term price signals, and that means, that for a large part of its running time, it's not running economically, and more so, it has to be kept running even when cheaper sources of energy are available, causing them to be shut down instead and hence increasing the average price of electricity. Basically, it's the "bad money drives out good money" or Gresham's law all over again.

I have just installed two panels two weeks ago, and as this is early in March, it's not running even nearly at peak power. But nevertheless, I got up to 490 Watts from the panels, or about 2.5 kWh for the whole day.

If you get rid of the police, you need another means to keep up law and order. You can try neighborhood watch schemes, but they prove to be even more flawed in regularly catching the wrong person. And they don't have the tools and the education to actually investigate crimes, because during the day, they have another job and doing the neighborhood watch on their free time.

And then you find out that the wrong guy was tortured to death, and what do you then? Torture the one to death who made the mistake in identifying the one misidentifying Mrs. Lipps?

The problem with all those "setting an example" punishments is that they themselves can also be flawed, and instead of sending a warning, they send the message that the system can not be trusted. And then, nobody cares about justice at all, because it is arbitrary anyway.

When I delete Copilot from the startup in MSCONFIG, it reappers after installing Windows patches, and I have to delete it again.

But as this happened in the UK, it's their court rules. And he was not a juror, but a witness.

I don't know where you got that idea from. The guy had a cell phone in the courtroom, and that was perfectly legal. What was not legal was to use it to get a connection outside the courtroom while being questioned as a witness, and hiding the fact by using his smart glasses.

In Europe, Renewables supply between 40% and 60% of the electricity. And with the successive installation of large batteries (and all the small batteries in households and EVs with Vehicle-to-Grid capacity), Renewables will continue to grow. Battery capacity connected to the grid is about 25 GWh in Germany alone, and only 3.7 GWh of that are large battery parks.

Interesting tidbit: Right now, about 15% of all electricity in Europe is not even supplied to the grid. Instead, households with Solar just use their own electricity, and there are towns and villages, which can operate year round off-grid with just locally generated renewable electricity.