While geothermal power generation is in use -- notably in Iceland -- high temperature steam containing minerals and salts is highly corrosive to plumbing, valves and turbines. This has always been an issue in harnessing geothermal energy and is among the reasons that it has remained a niche source of electrical power. Work on suitable materials is incremental; there is no off-the-shelf solution. The specific alloys needed push up the cost of an installation. Maintenance costs are also high, and must be factored into cost/benefit analyses.

Only by people that ignore that the premise of the stock market was to allow people to invest in companies that they believe have the potential to positively impact society. When you discard the premise of the stock market, it becomes a game of who can outsmart the majority of traders and end up taking their money. When looked at from this perspective, it's obvious that a lot of time and energy is being expended for the sole purpose of "winning" while other people lose money they invested. This type of system is harmful to society as it promotes a disproportionate distribution of wealth within society since those with money will be able to dedicate significant resources toward taking money from other traders under the guise that the amount that they take will exceed the amount they expend.

The stock market has potential to help societies advance but the current incarnation has only benefited the wealthy while harming society at large.

That is a result of survivor bias. If someone doesn't believe that the stock market trading is a positive influence on society then why would they become an expert/professional specifically dealing with something that harms society?

It's your preconceived notions that are preventing you seeing what is in front of your face.

Did some automated trading occur as a result of algorithmic correlation? Yes. Is it responsible for the sell-off? No, the people who programmed them are responsible for that. Is automated trading a waste of energy and a threat to everyone? Yes.

The only way to unfuck the stock market is to put a cooldown penalty on buying and selling. You can buy or sell as fast as you want but if you buy and sell the same stock too soon then you should pay a penalty. Also, make all the fucking dark pools illegal already.

Oh dang, you're right! That's explains everything! ;)

Not at all. If climate change was not occurring the same outcome would have been reached.
With the level of mismanagement they did, the outcome was invariable. Therefore climate change could be removed as being a factor in the outcome and thus 0 percent a result of climate change.

"When it concerns English-speaking people, we call it" idiocy under the sub-category "Tragedy of the Commons".

"rational individuals optimizing their personal well-being" is a euphemism that greedy fools like you use to avoid acknowledging your own greed and foolishness.

You got it wrong. What they did is pump the aquifers dry and that caused the land to collapse. As a result, the natural storage of water in the land can no longer happen. They destroyed naturally occurring water infrastructure by pumping out all the water they could. This was an easily avoidable issue and they were warned this was happening and yet they did nothing.

Climate change did zero percent of the damage. Instead, what has occurred is 100% the result of idiocy. So yes, it has something in common with climate change but it's not the same thing at all.

Just because the coroner finds that the victim was days away from having a fatal brain aneurysm doesn't make you less guilty of murdering them.

Wrong. Neither Linux nor UNIX are mentioned in the specification. However, it should be noted that the specification is hosted on Freedesktop.org which clearly states on their site that...

Freedesktop.org is a project to work on interoperability and shared base technology for free-software desktop environments for the X Window System (X11) and Wayland on Linux and other Unix-like operating systems.

They do mention Linux and Unix-like operating systems being target operating system. However, there is no mention of UNIX systems specifically. Additionally, nobody claimed it was exclusively Linux, only that it would impact Linux users.

Honestly, if I were you, I would be dreadfully embarrassed for making such a boisterous pronouncement only to be shown to be a obnoxious fool.

Probably the most searing critic of western military training today is Andrei Martyanov, He is also among the most prolific, posting videos almost daily on shi YT channel (Smoothiex12) and having written four books on the subject. The lack of STEM educated officers conducting operations is one of the most common themes. Another is lack of coherent strategy, due to political leaders' backgrounds: lawyers, humanities, rather than nuts-and-bolts STEM degrees. An awesome curmudgeon who strips the facade of competency from western media commentators, analysts and military spokespersons.

Searched internet, found info:

China, long-haul + shot-haul: ~70%
USA, long-haul + shot-haul: ~72%

China, rail transport: 20-22%
USA, rail transport: ~28%

Even with the long-haul and short-haul numbers combined, it's fairly clear that China is as reliant on long-haul trucking as the USA is. However, given the authoritarian nature of the Chinese government, those numbers could shift.

For a second there, I was sure that they had discovered that some of us are lizard people.

Dye them bright colors and tell idiots theyâ(TM)ll look cool if they carry their phone around in one.