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I like this. Like a digital equivalent to how a car's VIN is stamped on a bunch of different parts all over the car so a different buyer can tell if it's been wrecked and repaired.

School budgets are paid out of city property taxes, which are mostly paid and voted on by old people who own homes with no mortgage and little chance of increasing their income. They also don't have young kids and are probably Republican.

They'd gouge their own eyes out before they'd vote to raise their own property taxes to pay for something that doesn't benefit them.

Ergo, schools are always underfunded.

Anything that necessitates cleaning the knife, cutting board, and skillet is not lazy. Especially because in order to wash those things the sink has to be empty which means the dishes have to be done. That's a lot of pre and post reqs for "lazy".

Not that any of that is particularly hard. A meal with a chopped onion can certainly be fast and easy, but I couldn't argue that it's lazy.

White meat is "fast twitch" muscle and is used for short powerful bursts of activity, like the breast muscles, which are used for flapping the wings

Dark meat is "slow twitch" muscle and is used for longer duration activities like walking, hence the legs and thighs are dark meat.

Dark meat contains more fat and can be cooked longer without becoming dry. White meat becomes dry and tough very quickly if overcooked.

This only really applies to birds, mammals are made of red meat, which is like a combination of both fast and slow twitch and can do both sort and long duration activities

Some games still do AoE 4 has the HD assets as an optional DLC so you can decide whether it's worth the drive space/download time.

It depends a lot on what day you want to go. Allegiant runs non stop flights that are pretty cheap, maybe $200 round trip? But they claim as low as $50 one way if you pick the right day. Only a couple days a week though and prices vary a lot week to week.

Also the one time I did fly with Allegiant to Florida, I ended up stuck in the airport for almost 12 hours while they fixed a maintenance issue on the plane. 12 hours of "Just another 30 minutes. Stay near the gate" was miserable.

And of course all this depends on where you live and where you're going. If you don't have a big airport close by, the flights are going to be longer and more expensive. Or you have to drive for hours to get to a big airport, what's the point?

Flying is cheaper when you're solo, sure. For a family of 4? Flying is expensive. But the really expensive part is having to rent a car where you're going.

For me, a ~12 hr drive to Florida for 1 week of vacation is about $400 in gas. That's a lot more than plane tickets, until you add a $600+ car rental when you get there. Plus the flight dates have to line up with the resorts dates, which they usually don't for cheap flights.

I hate it but driving is often the more economical option.

TBF that's how many master artists worked in the past. The big art producers had one master painter guiding a bunch of apprentices who did the actual legwork.

Blame the great vowel shift.

But also, English spelling can't standardize because English pronunciation isn't standard. West Coast vs Midwest vs South vs East Coast have vastly different accents. Any spelling reform that makes English phonetic for one would be wrong for the others.

And it keeps changing! People keep moving and interacting with other languages, adding and dropping words and accents over time.

The worst is when the banner is unobtrusive, almost unnoticeable, but nothing on the site is clickable until you interact with it

There are a lot of good arguments for wind, and I'm not arguing against it, but density and consistency are well known issues. You absolutely cannot replace a nuclear plant with a wind farm of the same size and get the same output. That's not necessarily a bad thing, wind farms can often coexist with other land uses, but that's still a disruptive environment.

It's good to put pressure on nuclear, the reason it's so incredibly safe is because it's highly regulated, but to completely ignore it is throwing the baby out with the bath water.

The question isn't "are nuclear plants perfectly safe", the question is "will adding nuclear plants to our energy portfolio reduce the risks from climate change enough to offset the risks they introduce."

I think, in that framework, replacing existing coal power plants with modern nuclear reactors is a huge overall benefit.

Wind and solar are great but there's still a lot of work needed on storage and transmission before they can be viable grid scale. Realistically, saying no to nuclear doesn't mean more wind, it means more natural gas. And those LNG tankers really are floating bombs.

Almost anything has the potential to negatively affect tens of thousands of people when it's managed as recklessly and negligently as Chernobyl.

Chernobyl was less a reactor and more a bomb with a very long fuse. Saying we shouldn't build nuclear reactors today is like saying you shouldn't take a modern cruise because 14th century sailing ships sank all the time.

Obviously building one wind turbine is less disruptive, but you need hundreds to get the same output, and they only work when it's windy.

Those wind turbines and solar panels also get constructed, and affect a much larger area. It's not an obvious comparison

And a dam failure isn't that much better than a nuclear accident, and far more common and less regulated

That list records 8 fatalities related to nuclear power in the US. All time.

Coal is responsible for more than 40. Per year. Just in my city.