Humanity could dramatically change the current green house gas emissions, both for better and worse. The lock downs 2020 resulted in a 5% global reduction alone. I'm not saying that climate change would stop immediately, it certainly won't. But chances are still that it won't drift off completely. A few more years of inaction? Bets are off. But I guess there is the reason why the ultra-rich want to terraform Mars...

If you seriously think what you wrote, it's kind of a sad reflection of reality. It's sad because at least two of the crises of the 20th century did get resolved by coordinated global action. I'm talking about the ban of CFCs (Ozone layer destruction) and massive reduction in Sulfur emissions (Acid Rain). For green house gas emissions, nothing really changed at all until a few years ago. The problem in fact got worse and worse. It's also not a problem any individual can fix.

Thankfully he has little to no control over what ESA and others are doing. It is still going to be painful for anyone but fossil fuel companies.

Dude, maybe read the full articles from Wikipedia?

1) Load-following is a problem for old reactors. Many reactors we have still fall into that category. Even if they can be operated like that, it dramatically increases wear&tear. There is a reason why France prefers to sell electricity at huge discounts to Italy.
2) The cost of enriched Uranium for a nuclear power plant is much less than 1ct/kWh. That's dirt cheap. Compared to that, coal is around 3-6ct/kWh.
3) A cold start of a coal power plant typically takes around 2 days. The flexibility of a coal plant is a direct result of the heat capacity of the boiler. It's fast to turn off the turbine, but it takes ages for the boiler to stop consuming fuel. Notice the difference?
4+5) It's almost painful to see how wrong you are. The first level is the basic frequency stabilization. This can be done by batteries (as they are fast enough), but mostly depends on inertia of turbines. The second level is the primary regulation. This can take up to 30s and can be done both by active control of turbines but also breaking of wind turbines, software-controlled phasing out of photovoltaic etc.The third level is the secondary regulation and involves typically gas power plants or pumped hydro. This can take up to 5min to prepare. I'll leave out the rest.
5) No, starting a turbine and generator doesn't happen in 10s. Try more like 30s to a minute. Which is ages for electricity.
6) Most bigger gas power plants are combined gas and steam engines. A quick start from cold takes over 30min for those. They are preferred for the higher efficiency if they are not planned for secondary reserve. Pure gas turbines as used in standby generators still require a minute or more when not idle. Those are much less efficient.

Yes, much of power regulation is not surprising and planned. Which is why power plants can start up in advance. But that is also not free. Funny, I'm dealing with the people that maintain the grid as hobby...

Nuclear power stations are both inflexible and extremely expensive to operate. The only saving grace they ever had is that the fuel is moderately cheap. That's why everyone always tries to run them as often as possible. Coal plants aren't the most flexible either, but a massive boiler has enough inertia to compensate.

The second reserve is traditionally provided by inertia of turbines. Turning on a hydroelectric plant takes a minute or two. Gas turbines as well.

That's more because Mrs Rich I mean "Reiche" is doing what she can to delay or stop grid-scale battery systems. There are many reasons why those are necessary and economically more sensible over all, but if you have a right wing nut job that is primarily looking out for the interest of the gas industry...

The whole term "base load" was invented to justify inflexible nuclear power plants. It is not special and the trifecta of wind, sun and batteries can provide it just fine.

The current decade has been shattering summer heat records *for the same areas* over and over again. Northern Germany used to consider 30C a rare and very hot summer. Just Hamburg for example as a total record of 40.1C in 2022 and 39.4C as record for June this year. Yes, once is weather and an outlier. Having multiple heat waves in a row is not. The very list you linked in fact tells exactly that story: the summer weather has been progressively getting worse (as in hotter) over the last half century.

So Germany has been shattering heat records over the last ~200 years in many cities more than once after the last two month. Sorry, I might not be as enlightened as you, but how is that not unprecedented? You know, the same heat records that have been set and reset this decade. Combine that with record low water in major river systems like the Rhine.

If your site is not run by complete morons, you get a list of settings to put in and it is secure. If you can't follow simple instructions, too bad.

You are aware that WPA-Enterprise authentication is thing? Eduroam for example is using federated RADIUS authentication for researcher on 5 continents.

Let me guess, you are voting for Republicans?

I think the IRS certainly qualifies as BDSM...

Not TOTP, WebAuthN with FIDO2. Unlike all the other systems it is phishing resistant. Can't have that...

There is at least one good reason: load on the customs system. Handling a 19' container vs handling a thousand parcels makes a huge difference.