This depends on what you're optimizing for. If you are optimizing for total energy captured per square metre, then you're right about the benches.
But suppose you have a sufficient flux even with some areas being covered so you aren't bothered by the shadows. Wouldn't it be aesthetically superior to have uniform tile types? Or would you prefer they micromanage the tile placement such that the tiles below the bench shadows are different?
Anyway, I think it is a good idea. Better than the silly solar roadways crap.
Lemmy won't be too ten probably for a decade or more.
Social media platforms suffer from chicken and egg problems -- need an audience to draw the content creators, and need content creators to draw an audience. If we get enough content, the network effects may allow it to grow.
But that isn't just bots posting shit with no user interaction either. How many Lemmy communities start and die on the vine due to no interaction?
Anyway, I keep coming back to both Reddit and Lemmy, but I try to only post new content on Lemmy, and make an effort to engage :)
When you believe in an all powerful space fairy, it's quite easy to believe in other arbitrary nonsense too. QAnon was an interesting phenomenon, as it was uniting the crystal woo hippy left antivax crowd into the magical space fairy religious right. And the radicalization pipeline took it from there.
It's not necessarily religion that is the problem here. It's that people who don't have critical reasoning skills are drawn to religion. But they're also drawn to whatever other bullshit anyone is peddling.
Excuse me a moment, I need to adjust my magnetic bracelet and turn on my Himalayan salt lamp.
This is basically failing someone for being pregnant. That's dumb.
Let's make sure this is equitable. Fail any man that conceives a child during law school too.
And actually, let's go full Japan and watch the birth rate plummet when people choose between career or family and end up choosing career for fear of repercussions.
Tangent: where do you folks buy cat grass seed? We've always got these stupid little kits where a package of 100 seeds is like $10 with the kit. But it seems silly to pay that much and the pet stores seem to be a racket.
Meet one of my former D&D characters: Kronos, master of space and time (chronurgy wizard), accidentally turned himself into a grung while experimenting on frog familiars. Jokes that he is his own familiar now. Also has a frog familiar. Claims it is himself from another timeline. Campaign goal: to recover his lost powers. Secret: is delusional, or is he?
Did you take physics in high school (or elsewhere) and learn about half lives? Many of the main ingredients in nuclear weapons all have half lives: tritium, plutonium, etc -- and most have fairly short half lives. They need to be continuously produced, enriched, refined, etc. to keep the purity high enough to be detonated. Some of them require breeder reactors and other fun thing.
Well, okay, U235 has a half-life of 700 million years, but you still need to enrich uranium to increase to proportions of U235, since U238 cannot sustain a chain reaction.
The original nuclear weapons were U235 weapons. Later bombs added all the harder to make stuff to make them bigger -- fusion bombs still usually have a U235 starter to get the reaction going, but rely on things like tritium and plutonium to do the fusion bits. Even the Lithium-6 (which is stable) slowly decays to helium and tritium inside the weapon as neutrons from the other components hit it.
The good news about nukes: they have a shelf life -- most soviet-era nukes needed to be replaced every 12 years, as the loss of fissile material to natural radioactive decay would render them dirty bombs after a certain point. Now don't get me wrong, a dirty bomb still sucks, but it's no nuke.
So when a collapsing Russia is hypothetically selling nukes, they're probably selling old depleted nukes or nearly expired nukes. To a terrorist it is almost the same thing, but to nation stations looking at MAD, it really isn't.
Not in favour of the individual suffering here, but illegal mining is about the worst thing that can happen anywhere.
Furthermore, in most jurisdictions where illegal mining happens, you get these gang run pyramid scheme shenanigans going on where the miners are very nearly enslaved to their handlers. Shutting them down can only be a good thing!
On the larger scale: Environment and safety regulations exist for a reason.
That said, the suckers in the mine starving themselves to avoid arrest might not see it that way.
This depends on what you're optimizing for. If you are optimizing for total energy captured per square metre, then you're right about the benches.
But suppose you have a sufficient flux even with some areas being covered so you aren't bothered by the shadows. Wouldn't it be aesthetically superior to have uniform tile types? Or would you prefer they micromanage the tile placement such that the tiles below the bench shadows are different?
Anyway, I think it is a good idea. Better than the silly solar roadways crap.