You dive with a sidemount don't you ;-). I don't think it's optimal for most, especially when going through doors but I certainly find non-upright wreaks the most interesting.

Clearly you have no idea about diving or what interests divers. As a wreak diver myself I actually find tilted / capsized ships more interesting.

I actually completely disagree. I've done a bit of wreak diving and I actively love the view you get going through something not upright. It creates a whole different feel to exploring a shipwreak.

The only downside is when it's on your side you have to take extra care going through doors not to bump your tank. I usually just swim sideways through, but some people with buoyancy issues find that difficult. Capsized shipwreaks are easier to explore with a side mount air tank.

That is absolutely wrong. Government solely dictates energy policy. While private investors may pony up the cash it is ultimately the government that exclusively decides how it is spent. The choice of what to build and where is exclusively government policy.

That's like saying it's not the CEO's job to decide how your product looks. It's stupidly dishonest. The chancellor is the head of the party and while it's not his sole job, he very much is accountable for the energy minister working under him. Sorry, but if you want the top job, you get the top accountabilities as well.

Yes and that I agree with. Incidentally Merkel only rose to power when she backed off her pro nuclear stance as well. I addressed that directly in my original post. So before you call me wrong, it's worth checking to see if you actually disagree with me instead of just rage posting.

Everyone feels betrayed when they don't have a clue how the world around them works. Hint: She didn't extend the life of all current reactors by 30 years. She extended the life of some of them with a view of having nuclear power for the next 30 years. This was a technical decision, and a dumb populace always feels betrayed when their fantasy never plays out in reality.

Anyway Merkel eventually caved to political pressure post Fukushima and where did that get you? You went from a self sustained net energy exporter to an importer dependent heavily on both electricity and gas from foreign nations. The result is that industry is exiting Germany in droves, even your shining light BASF says there's no future for German industry anymore. It's a shame Merkel didn't betray you more, you will have almost certainly been better off for it. ... To some degree. Really what she should have done is had a program in place to build more nuclear power.

There's a fine line between fantasy and delusion. There was no technical path to 100% green energy decades ago.

There's a reason these decisions are best not left to the people. Anyway it'll be sad on Monday when I drive to Lingen. From the hotel I can normally see the cooling towers of a nuclear plant that was one of the few which was not end of life, and one of those which could have bee providing you both green energy as well as energy security. But the people knew better.

You can frame this how you want by selectively looking at history. Yes you can say most directly it was Merkel's decision. But that completely ignores history around it. It ignores what politicians are singularly *elected* to do (again, her approach was almost universally popular in Germany). It ignores that equipment is not designed to last forever.

Anyone who thinks that this decision happened overnight over a glass of wine is lying or an idiot. This is the kind of thing that gets agonised over (a complete political reversal of a position due to political opinion in a nation fuelled by a major catastrophic event). And again look to the age of the nuclear industry.

Yep again you can blame 3 chancellors over a period of 30 years for this. Because that's what it takes to completely underinvest in your energy infrastructure. Sure Merkel could have not made the decision, then it would have been made by the immediate next chancellor after the following election. It would have been made by safety boards (the number of nuclear incidents in Germany has been steadily increasing since the late 90s, something known as "weak signals" in process safety and usually a precursor to disaster.

You're either living in a fantasy that everything can run fine, or just a jaded and angry man looking at a single person to point the finger to. Either way...

Moron

While it's not carbon neutral, it's a fuckton better. At least it was when it came via pipework. Ironically switching from Russian network gas to American LNG massively increases the overall carbon footprint of gas power.

But gas does enable something else. Gas powerplants (even large ones) are semi-dispatchable meaning the fit far better into grid stabilisation in a world where we are increasingly using solar and wind. You can get a gas plant up and running within a couple of hours and kill it within 30min. For coal this is a day in advance activity meaning gas can ramp up and down for evening / morning peaks. (I'm not talking about peaker plants here).

I'd argue the move to gas has largely enabled our investment in green energy, especially since when you look back over the past 2 decades, battery storage only really has been viable more recently.

The Apple forums were really useful once, too. I haven't looked at them in 20 years tho.

Good analysis.

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But they have put up another term and condition to protect themselves from errant customers. If the AI makes a mistake but the customer is adamant that they're in the right, the airline now has a specific clause to refuse them.

For me, I felt like old Ob-Wan: https://www.youtube.com/shorts...

...after lots of in depth testing and analysis, followed by some sort of formal certification
Today's immature tech cannot be trusted

How stupid do you have to be to give financial permissions to devices known to hallucinate.

Congratulations you have bought $30,000 worth of shares in the Brooklyn Bridge.

He's not sending just his men, he also found some Asian meat to add to the grinder: https://www.bbc.com/news/artic...

There's a big difference between having an affair, and having an undisclosed internal affair with a subordinate while you are at a C-level company boss. Who cares? The board, the share market, and potentially regulators. You play dismissive as if major companies like Intel, McDonalds, Nestle, and bp haven't had their boards fire their CEOs in the past decade for precisely this

Who cares? Huang cares. Unlike the Chinese spy thing which was an external affair, this one could actually cost him his job.