The meanings of words changes over time due to their usage. This is true for all living languages. If you want words with static definitions you want a dead language, like latin.

One of these things ended the other is still ongoing.
Perhaps we just need to wait a bit.

Here in reality Nuclear plants are closing because they can't compete with wind and solar on cost.

So all the math in the world is rather pointless when reality shows us that it is wrong.

The issue is simple to solve.

Tax CO2 output by power plants. Heck, just tax heavy metal and radioactive releases. That alone would shutdown coal plants.

This place is now mostly home to right wing kooks and racists, but I repeat myself.

Sad to see what happened to it.

as a kid, i built one of dave mao's presses. it's deceptively simple for what it does.

it's basically a stack of belleville washers leveraging a pair of tongs.

you can create different pressures depending on the way you stack the washers, which are essentially springs.

i didn't have the cash for the diamonds, but it worked. if i kept it, i could probably buy diamonds for it.

Yes, people get older and wiser over time.
Spread of information is not always a good thing. See the anti-vaxxers and the damage they are doing to our nation and it's economy.

Or maybe you are just stupid.
The fascists aren't defending free speech, go to their safe spaces like gab and say something they don't like. You get the same outcome.

Reddit is a private service, it is not tax payer funded.
Reddit cannot impact your right to free speech. Start your own forum.

Mediatek is a GPL violator. That's even worse.

Sunk costs are gone.
The money is spent. Stop worrrying about it.

The question is what will maintenance cost over the next 20 years.

He said profits not revenue.

No utility should ever generate a profit. The money should be spent on improvements or returned to rate payers.

Tell that to Humon of SATW.

https://satwcomic.com/the-rake

I read the summary of this article and read the previous summary and...

The US and the rest of the "free world" (such as it is) is bitching and moaning about APT10, a so-called hacking collective. Whilst the "free world" goes on hacking sprees against their own citizens (five-eyes, etc).

It's not about catching criminals (the ACLU is falling into the semantics trap). It's about "instant dossiers" on people who might upset "the system" - i.e., the incumbent powers that be. Everyone has skeletons, and without "second chances" (the US since its founding had been the land of second chances - ability to re-invent oneself, until recently, with this data collecting bullshit tied to Real ID), there is not a politician in the US that can effect change.

The future is a mishmash of Big Brother, Little Brothers (private companies collecting data to sell you things, for example) Brave New World, and GATTACA, in the worst possible way. Because every time I think something has gotten as worse as it can get, it gets worser by orders of magnitude, so my ruminations here and in my head can't possibly imagine the tyrannical dystopia coming down the road.

NUMBER: 1593
AUTHOR: Benjamin Franklin (1706â"90)
QUOTATION: âoeWell, Doctor, what have we gotâ"a Republic or a Monarchy?â

    âoeA Republic, if you can keep it.â
ATTRIBUTION: The response is attributed to BENJAMIN FRANKLINâ"at the close of the Constitutional Convention of 1787, when queried as he left Independence Hall on the final day of deliberationâ"in the notes of Dr. James McHenry, one of Marylandâ(TM)s delegates to the Convention.

https://www.bartleby.com/73/15...

"This tribble is dead, Jim" -- Dr. McCoy

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BMO

I saw a meme go by in my feed and it had a picture of a star, a tree ornament, a candy-cane, and Benito Mussolini.

"Which of these don't belong?"
"Right, you don't hang a star"

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BMO