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Since the kW part can cancel out, the resulting kWh/kWp value is basically measured in hours. There are 8,766 hours in a year and half of those are at night, so these numbers would make sense if you think of them as "this is how many hours of peak production equivalent you will actually get each year". You're in the Sahara, you get the equivalent of 2,400 hours of peak production. You're in Finland, you get the equivalent of 1,000 hours. If it actually magically ran at the peak production value all year 24/7, you get 8,766.

Whatever you want to call the set of traits that makes humans so good at manipulating the world, surely that set is still an interesting and worthwhile thing to study? It does frame every experience any of us ever has, after all. It seems notable to me that the birds that are amongst our closest peers in that specific set of traits seem to have gotten there by a completely separate path. I'd like to understand how we wound up thinking the way we do, anyway.

Including the space is fairly common here in the UK. I assume it must be in Australia too

That looks brilliant! Really nicely-composed photo too. Does the trail lead up to that peak? I don't see a way up from this side. Not without climbing gear and a lot more bravery than I have, at least

That video was painful to watch. I am a little dsappointed in the presenter for not pointing out that the islands in question are part of Australia and therefore already covered, she seemed like she was ready to pin him down

Traditionally it means jobs which could be done by most people with only a minimum of training, rather than anything about formal education. Trades generally do not fall under this because they require significant training, whereas a general labourer who assists a tradesperson with moving materials and cleaning and such would be "unskilled" in this sense. Working the checkouts at a supermarket, doing data entry, or most positions in a fast food place would be unskilled. Any position in which the employer wouldn't be requiring qualifications or experience if they were hiring your replacement.

Of course they're all still 100% real jobs and should be respected as such, so I wouldn't be against figuring out a term that feels a bit less dismissive of them

Oh I know, it's just not an ingredient that I keep in the kitchen habitually, and it's too distinctive a flavour to substitute. My stepmother is quite a fan of truffle so I might see if she has some and make bruschetta next time I see her

That looks excellent. I don't think I've ever had bruschetta with truffle oil, but if I happen to have some at any point I'll have to try it out

Also international rules football, which is technically international but only between Ireland and Australia

They showed up because of a witness report and did not attempt to convict her. A "remember not to do this for this reason" is an appropriate response to the (circumstantial) evidence

This feels wildly overblown. "Police visit person to tell them not to do the thing they seemed like they were doing, person agrees not to"

The Glasgow ice cream wars feel like a fitting setting

This can't explain the exclusion of Russia, since the entirely uninhabited Heard and McDonald Islands got their own entry on the list. There cannot be a trade balance with a place where nobody lives. The islands got the "base rate" of 10%, so for Russia to have been excluded there has to have been another reason

*Trading partner tariff rate is calculated by the White House to include "currency manipulation and trade barriers."

This needs to be way fucking bigger than a tiny light grey caption under the image, AP. "Trading partner tariff rate is pulled directly out of the administration's collective rear end"

That kind of car is amongst the fastest road cars it is possible to buy. There are a few rare things that go even faster, but they costs millions of euros and are often only barely road-legal

Technically legal on the Isle of Man too, but see the TT and how several people die on it every year for how bad an idea that is

It really upset him when we built a wind farm within sight of his other one here, we should just blanket them in turbines

I'm not sure it would. The Nazi economy was supported by plunder, they had to keep attacking to fund it. They couldn't get to Britain or America, and they had otherwise more or less run out of Europe.

I don't want to imagine the kind of atrocities they could have committed in the time that it would take for them to collapse, but I do think the collapse would have come

Monaco has had an open border with France since 1865, so I don't think that specific thing is a concern

Ahh, fair enough. I knew about the pebbling from that one time I went curling while I was in school, but I had assumed that they used something at least zamboni-adjacent to level the ice before doing that. Turns out the method is to just flood it