Manuel_D

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by Manuel_D 5mo ago
They have been boarding ships that fly false flags. That is, they claim to be flying under the flag of some country. But when the US contacts that country to confirm that the ship is really registered there, the government of that country r
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by Manuel_D 5mo ago
This ship was flying a false flag [1], which makes it legal for governments to seize regardless of the situation with Cuba. 1. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/what-we-know-oil-tanker-the-ski...
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by Manuel_D 5mo ago
A boycott is a crime? The US has decided not the trade with Cuba, that's it. Cuba is still free to trade with any other country that's willing to trade with them.
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by Manuel_D 5mo ago
This is the exact opposite of what the US is doing to Cuba: The US isn't making Cuba by US resources, it's prohibiting Cuba from buying US resources and products.
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by Manuel_D 5mo ago
No. The fact that the Cuban authorities s decided that further impoverishing Cuba is worth preserving their single-party communist regime demonstrates that it is indeed a bad government.
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by Manuel_D 5mo ago
The US is not enforcing a blockade, it's an embargo. The US and other countries are refusing to trade with Cuba, but plenty of other countries can and do trade with Cuba. Cuba is not entitled to trade with the US. A blockade is when a
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by Manuel_D 5mo ago
Where does Meta have a monopoly? TikTok, YouTube, Twitter, Reddit, etc. all compete with it
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by Manuel_D 5mo ago
What's changed is that people are so focused on harming Meta that they're willing to set a precedence for a link tax.
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by Manuel_D 5mo ago
> Putting other countries laws aside, I believe that digitally manipulating the image of the real child in that way results in the production of the actual CSAM and as such is a federal crime. No, it's not. People have been charged,
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by Manuel_D 5mo ago
"CSAM generation" is an oxymoron. The justification behind criminalizing mere possession of CSAM is that it requires the abuse of a child to produce. This is not the case with fictional content. If the media does not depict an act
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by Manuel_D 5mo ago
They were kicked off credit card processor because of conservative anti-porn advocates, not high rates of CSAM. It irony is that PornHub was one of the more tightly policed and more restrictive platforms, but they still got kicked off credi
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by Manuel_D 5mo ago
The thing about intermittent sources is that it's easy to use them for 30-50% of generation, but once they saturate electricity demand during peak production their ability to further curtail emissions drops significantly. For instance
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What are those companies, and how large are those battery deployments?
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60 GWh over how many years? You're link doesn't say, but it does include this: > It builds on a broader framework agreement signed in November 2025, when HyperStrong committed to procuring 200 GWh of battery cells from CATL ov
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by Manuel_D 6mo ago
If we're including promotions or membership discounts, then coupons fit this definition of price discrimination. And those have existed since the 90s at least.
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by Manuel_D 6mo ago
How would that work? The barcode on the item doesn't get rewritten, the checkout counter can't distinguish who picked up which exact item. Even if they did assign unique barcodes to each item, what happens if you take the item off
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by Manuel_D 6mo ago
37% of kids will be investigated by CPS at some point before age 18.
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by Manuel_D 6mo ago
Global battery deliveries in 2025 was 1,600 GWh, not 3,000 GWh. Of that, only 300 GWh was used for grid storage. Even projections a decade out to 2035 only predict that yearly battery storage deployment will be 800 GWh per year, the vast ma
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by Manuel_D 6mo ago
Used automotive batteries will be at the end of their life, with only a few hundred more discharge cycles until they've totally degraded. Again, batteries scaling rapidly still doesn't hold match up with the scale of electricity d
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by Manuel_D 6mo ago
Seawater is the most common form of cooling used by nuclear plants.
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by Manuel_D 6mo ago
That link is a graph of battery electric storage, specifically. Mckinsey's projections have battery production continuing to accelerate, but the lion's share of the output dedicated to electric vehicles rather than grid storage:
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by Manuel_D 6mo ago
Again, you have to put the scale of battery production in the context of electricity demand. 300 GWh of battery storage being provisioned sounds like a lot until you put it in the context of 60,000 GWh of electricity consumed daily. There&#
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by Manuel_D 6mo ago
The same applies to nuclear power, though: when France built multiple copies of the same plant design, the first few builds were expensive but costs declined for subsequent models. It's fine to include projected costs reductions into y
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by Manuel_D 6mo ago
Wind doesn't cut out at night, but it also experiences long periods of low production: https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=46617 It is unquestionably an intermittent source that would require overprovi
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by Manuel_D 6mo ago
Yes, and pouring concrete also emits carbon dioxide. And building wind turbines requires fossil fuel emissions. And the truck driving solar panels out to the solar farm emits CO2, etc. But at the end of the day, the carbon intensity of dams
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by Manuel_D 6mo ago
> First it was "batteries will never scale to grid usage" You're inventing a straw man that's easier for you to attack. No goalposts are being moved. My point was, and still is, that batteries do not presently scale
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by Manuel_D 6mo ago
Your link reports that the USA added 15 GW of battery storage in 2025. I'm not sure how this is supposed to demonstrate the feasibility of battery storage at grid scale. Let's actually express the scale in terms of numbers relati
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by Manuel_D 6mo ago
Your reply to me quite explicitly suggested that countries in far northern latitudes just build a proportionally larger array: > That only really matters if there is some constraint preventing you from building a proportionally larger ar
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by Manuel_D 6mo ago
We've also performed fusion in a lab. That doesn't mean it'll be viable in production at scale. What's the annual production figures for iron air batteries, flow batteries, etc.? Sodium batteries are at 9 GWh delivered i
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by Manuel_D 6mo ago
No, you cannot just build a larger array. That map doesn't effectively capture the intermittency of solar energy in different climates. In Britain the country gets less than 8 hours of energy during peak winter. It also often goes with

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