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But were those renewables able to meet demand 100% of the time with sufficient battery backups?

Whatever the car in Distance is called

Or @X

Or a whole bunch of usernames, for that matter: Elon Musk’s X Has Started Selling Off Old Twitter Handles For Upwards Of $50,000

And where are those Arab countries now?

Not everyone knows of/has access to VPN's.

I don't disagree with your sentiment, but I also get why they'd rather try to resolve it legally. If they succeed it will allow for much easier access for the majority of visitors.

We were blocked in Turkey for 3 years or so, and fought all the way to the Supreme Court and won. Nothing has changed about our principles. The difference in this case is that the short term legal requirements in order to not wreck the long term chance of victory made this a necessary step.

Hopefully not block the entire website in India.

However, I can tell you that I went into the call initially very skeptical of the idea of even temporarily taking down this page and I was persuaded very quickly by a single fact that changed my mind: if we did not comply with this order, we would lose the possibility to appeal and the consequences would be dire in terms of achieving our ultimate goals here. For those who are concerned that this is somehow the WMF giving in on the principles that we all hold so dear, don't worry.

Seems reasonable

The way Mozilla can advocate for web standards will be sorely missed.

Part of the reason Fairphone is so (relatively) expensive is because it also has a big focus on ethically sourced/produced parts.

When a Season Pass DLC is in pre-purchase mode, you are not required to release at least one DLC in the Season Pass at the time it goes on sale (as you are usually required to do when you launch a Season Pass). However, when the game launches, you will need to release the Season Pass out of pre-purchase--this will entail releasing at least one of the DLCs included in the Season Pass.

I'm not sure I like this part specifically.

This will essentially enforce day-1 DLC. Will it be enough for that DLC to be a simple cosmetic bundle with larger expansions to follow later?
But if a simple cosmetic bundle is enough to count as the included DLC, it kinda defeats the whole point. And, in turn, it might encourage developers to include very basic DLC where they might have wanted to release a series of proper expansions.

The rest sounds great though, with partial and complete refunds for unmet promises.

If that was a setting I don't recall having come across it, and I generally like to dig through the settings menu. Maybe it was manufacturer specific?

With CrunchyRoll's acquisition Sony basically monopolized anime streaming in the west. This would only add to that

so much that it may jeopardize the Artemis program.

Which means he's successfully cornered the market and he hasn't even launched his product yet! What a great billionaire, I'm sure he's a great fit for a government position.

Disappointing sales, I guess, but a single player/co-op game doesn't need the same playerbase as a hero shooter

Also it leads to those with a lot of land to capture and store the rain, which means there's even less water in the river to go around.

On desktop there's an SMTP mail bridge you can install to use Proton Mail with another application. No such thing on mobile, though.

The costs of climate change are costs the people and our governments have to bear; just look at the billions in damage done by the recent hurricanes.

Those costs are a subsidy to the "cheap" fossil fuels we've been using. In fact, fossil fuels receive a ton of subsidies upfront too. Nuclear can be subsidised too.

I don't have faith our governments will switch to 100% renewable, and any fossil fuel is too much fossil fuel given how far we have already gone. We need to actively start scrubbing CO2 out of the atmosphere, and we're going to need as much power as we can generate for that.

Nuclear is expensive because it's relatively rare. Economies of scale don't apply to it as is. If we start building, it will become cheaper. Not cheap, perhaps, but cheaper. And it's a cost worth paying. We are already paying the price for the "cheap" fossil fuels.

And I think, you have absolutely no idea how incredibly expensive nuclear power is.

Less expensive than whatever the fuck we've been doing with our climate these last 100 years. But those aren't direct costs, so who the hell cares.

Big names attract followers, whether you like it or not. A certain name being on a certain platform may be the deciding factor for a hundred others. So it becoming easier to post everywhere, giving others more choice, is a good thing.

It's dead now

But what if it turns out we do need it in 10 years?

All renewable everything is cool, but that's also going to require a lot of storage for the days where it isn't so windy or sunny. I think having nuclear to cover (some of) the base load on the grid will be very helpful.