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The fact that Fever is your favorite tells me you are a person with good taste. That was the one that really had the best balance of difficulty and novelty. Plus, Remix 9 in that game is probably the best song across the series

The factory must grow

It's also pretty hard to get malware without network capabilities

In my experience, with most people, his typically goes away as they get older. You eventually hit a point where people's impressions of you dont matter anymore and it becomes much easier to freely admit you're wrong.

Of course, there are people that never grow out of it, and that is often read as confidence. There is a reason that "fake it until you make it" works.

Husband material

The problem is that while personal renewables exist, they're still pretty expensive and are largely untested at scale. We're in that stage that computers went through in the late 90s, where it's an expensive investment that is likely to be obsolete before the year is over.

Not many people would be excited to spend ~$30K outfitting a building with solar panels, turbines and batteries only to learn that they need to be replaced in 2-3 years.

The technology is promising, but it's not ready for mass adoption yet. We need a stopgap

special waste management is doing a lot of heavy lifting

Yeah, I suppose it is. Although I would argue leaving the waste to future generations is definitely not what we're doing. Basically, we're just putting it in a deep hole. Once that underground storage is full it never needs to be opened again. There isn't any shortage of radioactive elements underground that exist naturally, creating a man-made radioactive pocket deep underground isn't all that different.

Not having enough power and more power failures isn’t such a bad trade-off

The power that gets sent out over the grid does a lot more that charging your iPhone or powering your computer. For example: Electric vehicles(including public transit) relies on it, food preservation relies on maintaining constant refrigeration which would lead to even more food waste, and if a hospital loses power for even a couple minutes there are real lives at stake.

Hi, pro-nuclear here,

That's the eventual ideal, but energy storage technology isn't there yet. The biggest issue facing renewables currently is the ability to maintain a base load demand that is increasing faster and faster each year.

Currently, the cheapest way we have to store energy is to store it chemically, in the form of coal, petroleum, or fissle fuel. Of these, the fissle option is by far the best. It's by far the most energy-dense, doesn't release any carbon into the atmosphere when used, and the amount of waste it produces is dangerous, but miniscule in comparison. All the high level waste ever produced since the late 50s could fit in a single building.

It's not realistic to fully replace everything with renewables until some very difficult engineering problems are solved. So our choices right now are:

• build more renewables

Pros: getting cheaper and more efficient but worse than current tech, no carbon pollution

Cons: experience more power failures as it cannot meet current energy demands

• build a coal/petroleum plant

Pros: very cheap and very efficient

Cons: accelerate climate change, increase pollution

• build a nuclear plant

Pros: can easily meet base load demands, very efficient, no carbon pollution

Cons: expensive, special waste management is required.

As things stand now, I would like to replace aging petroleum power plants with nuclear while continuing to build more and more renewables. Then, once we've either found a way to reduce energy demand or improve storage, start to phase out the nuclear plants

This is easily my pick.

Hell, if I could just re-live the moment just after the tutorial section when you look up and see what is happening during the storm, that would be enough.

Mouser or Digikey are your friends here.

You pay a little more than the cheap stuff on Amazon but you can be sure you're getting the exact specs you ordered.

Having some spare AC adapters with barrel connectors is a pretty handy thing to have around if you do any electronics work

The GOP is in a rough spot right now. Their whole thing for the past 40 years was about fighting boogymen to court the evangelical and fundamentalist sects, while relying on votes from the moderates who like the economic or foreign policy.

Then Obama proved the impossible by being a largely successful presidentwhile scandalously having a darker skin tone. From there, the party's culture shifted right and they started actually trying to change things that should've stayed as punching bags.

"Look, we're fighting for the rights of unborn children here but the evil leftists have too much support. You better keep voting for us or it's going to get worse"

A phrase like that will hook the far right into voting for you, and the moderates will basically ignore it and continue to vote for you because they want to keep immigration to a minimum or keep taxes where they are.

Now that the GOP started actually pushing for sweeping social change, the far right got a taste of blood and are screaming for more while the moderates are starting to look to the dems as they're now far more likely to keep things normal.

Link speaks in both the CDi games and the cartoon that was attached to the Mario Bros super show.

The general consensus on the Mario movie probably doesn't matter much as it made over a billion dollars worldwide. Personally I thought it was fine but lacks a lot of the heart that made the deeply flawed 1993 movie so charming.

Simple, it's both.

"Chinese Spyware" is probably a little hyperbolic, but it's not a claim without merit either.

Basically, the issue is that companies that operate in China are beholden to an authoritarian government that has the power to get whatever data they want from the company. Add to that, for the average person, their smartphone contains a ton of data about them and is often brought into trusted networks when you turn Wifi on, collecting even more info.

In the US they were banned largely because the company has very close ties to a foreign government and regulating that communication is far harder once the devices are widely available.

Right now, that data is mostly used to build a profile about you for the purposes of advertising because that's what's profitable, but that data exists and can be used for other things if someone with access wants to.

Just stuff the bag back in and then gently shake the box and it will go back to normal

I've never heard of that format before. These things are neat.

Shredder and Usagi seem to be holding Zip discs rather than floppy discs. I have no idea what Ripster is holding.

In fact, Lexington seems to be the only one with a floppy disc here

Approximately $1139.32 per poodle

Watching that all was a bit like watching a sped up version of the crypto boom.

It started off with a bunch of well-meaning weirdos that were sticking it to the man. Then a few people made a whole bunch of money and from there it got super popular and turned into a weird libertarian cult.