It's not the reading part that sucks the life of out of a book. It's over-analyzing every word, every paragraph looking for hidden meaning.

HAHAHAHAHA The only spine Fritzchen owns is the spine of his check book.

I've seen that reasoning used way too often to justify that Ukraine should just fall over. I'm also not American, DJT is not the first US president that should take a life-long vacation in The Hague. I'm also disgusted by my own country's spineless leadership, but that's nothing new either.

That's an oxymoron: You can't be well rested and drive for long. That's the point and it has been studied extensively.

"In the USA, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s latest figures suggest that there are around 90,000 drowsy-driving road crashes annually in the USA, resulting in 50,000 injuries and 800 deaths." A solid night of sleep doesn't help if you insist on driving for 8h straight. There is a reason why Europe enforces mandatory breaks for truck drivers after at most 4.5 hours.

You mean as opposed to the children that are removed from their parents for reeducation purposes? The declared purpose of Putler is the eradication of the Ukrain culture. War crimes are just the beginning.

The better question: would you want everyone else on the road to take regular breaks? But I guess vehicles are covered by the second amendment in the USA as well.

Tying any significant amount of general funding to grades is exactly that, under-funding schools. The rest is the old adage, if you tie money to a test, what was test is no longer relevant and only the test matters.

The outcome of education is to a very large part depend on the financial means of the parents. All too often that "moron" is the child of overworked parents without money to pay for tutors. Have you even considered that as usual many factors affect the school systems and you just picked the one factor you disagree with even if it has no measurable impact? Chronic under-financing of schools after all would disagree with the narrative that it is the kids fault.

The problem is not the goal. No Child Left Behind is perfectly reasonable. The issue is that there two different approaches to achieve this goal: you can lower the standards (cheap) or you can give stragglers the means to success (expensive). Guess what the typical politician will do.

Their whitepaper is complete BS. If you can't tell from a single glance, maybe look at it in detail. Let's start with the obvious -- their 4 SMRs is supposed to server 2000 jobs? Doesn't sound like an efficient design to me, unless the S stands for GW size.

At best it is low emission. Preparing all the fissionable material is not exactly emission neutral.

A reactor doesn't have to explode to become a major public safety issue.

My total mail archive over the last 12 years is 30GB. When you store images in the original quality from the camera, you can easily assume 5-15MB per image. That's not even RAW images. So 15GB is just 1000-3000 photographs and over 5 years, that's just 3-6 photographs a day. Even with aggressive pruning that's quite easy to do.

Do you have any actual proof or is this typical American Libertarian "Gov bad" think?