P2P results in more traffic, not less. The traffic is merely offloaded from google's server.

Thiel is, like Musk, someone who wants to change the world for the worse because he thinks he knows better. Altman simply wants wealth.

I personally think that Musk is worse. Altman is a pretty much run-off-the-mill CEO, no different from thousands of others. Musk, however, has delusions of grandeur, an urge to change the world, and a worldview that is severely skewed due to slippage of sanity. The worst kind of nutcases are those who think that it is the world that is crazy and needs fixing, not them, and actually have the means to follow up on it.

I'll second this â" I did mushrooms once many years ago, and it ranks as one of the most intense euphoric experiences I have ever had. It was truly life-changing.

It would be like employees of a gun manufacturer unionizing to force their employer to produce children's toys instead.

If they were employees of a toy company which got bought out by a manufacturing company which then started manufacturing guns using tubes which were previously destined to be part of a toy.

Right back at you. They were only extremely wealthy in comparison to the piss poor normal people. But living as kings - nope. Seriously, take a look at the photos of their homes and dachas. Take a look at the photos of their parties. Middle management, doctors and top engineers in the west used to live better back then and even more so nowadays. This is nothing like the excesses of russian oligarchs.

The soviet and GDR ultra rich would have been called upper middle class in the west.

I am not 100% sure. IIRC (from reading it somewhere) I think it makes it worse because the fire spreads and acts like a liquid.

It is the other way round. The whole base load concept only exists because coal and nuclear suck at load following. If all power generation is capable of load following, base load is moot.

YouTube does already do something to the audio. I notice it when streaming guitar and vocals: the sound which comes out of YouTube emphasises the guitar, so if I balance listening to the mixer feed I have to balance the guitar low.

Californian's are only at the beginning of their experience with eucalyptus trees, which are native to Australia. You're quite right, it's possible to build bushfire ( I think the US calls them wildfires) resistant homes. In Australia there are specific assessment and building requirements for a home likely to be affected by fire called BAL and I think you also have to get a planning permit

I had the experience of my neighborhood having a bushfire go through it. I realized how few people know just how terrifying the situation is when they asked "can't you just put it out with a garden hose?".
Not quite, the flames were 4-6 stories high, when it hit my neighborhood 18 houses burned down in about as many minutes. Generally a bush fire will have embers fly a few kilometres ahead of it, which is where you can try to stop it. The really bad ones create their own weather which looks like a firestorm and the worst ones creates a fire tornado, which is basically a small tornado throwing the stuff burning in it around.

This fire was stopped from getting my house by an empty block of land and a chopper hitting it with 10 tons of water. High BAL houses survived next to houses that were burning and have things like sprinkler systems on the roof that extinguish embers. However even if your house doesn't burn, the heat melts curtains to the glass, paint peels off interior walls.

You have no idea it's coming sometimes, we got about 5 minutes notice to evacuate, people literally escaped their homes with what they were wearing. I prepare my house for bushfires by cutting back the garden and we have go bags with clothes and important documents. I still have more to do though.

Fortunately there wasn't a loss of human life, lots of people pets panicked, ran before their owners could grab them and died - few people saw that coming. My poor neighbor, came home from breakfast with his wife to see his house on fire, they lost everything. My neighborhood is a ghost town now, people I've know for a long time just gone and it's a special kind of fucked to watch their houses being taken away in a skip bin.

If this thing helps even a little, I'd use it.

Using it to fight fires in space might become a good application of this. I remember experimenting with 100 watts of 100Hz at about meter made it difficult to breath, however that was easy to hear.

The treaties between Switzerland and the EU are all interlinked, so if Switzerland decides to exit one treaty, this will make all the other ones void as well. But I think this is exactly what SVP wants - they wish Switzerland was an island far away from any other coast.

"United breaks guitars"

The first one had nothing to do with the orange shitgibbon.