TheSpiceIsLife

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by TheSpiceIsLife 8mo ago
And political will. The Antipodes have such a problem with successful people we even invented a term for it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tall_poppy_syndrome On the subject of free markets, Australia excels. We even l
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by TheSpiceIsLife 8mo ago
Take The Great Barrier Reef for example. There’s more of it now than in the reefs recorded history. Well, 2022 data: https://www.aims.gov.au/information-centre/news-and-stories/...
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by TheSpiceIsLife 8mo ago
Thanks Walter!
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by TheSpiceIsLife 8mo ago
And, the two major byproducts of burning hydrocarbons are water and carbon dioxide. Literally essential plant nutrients, essential for life. Tangentially related, the 2022 Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai volcanic eruption ejected so much water va
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by TheSpiceIsLife 8mo ago
Diesel, kerosene, rocket propelled RP1, and fuel oil / bunker fuel in the case of cargo ships. It’s not a coincidence that where easy of handling, storage safety, and high energy density are needed everything seems to converge on compr
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by TheSpiceIsLife 8mo ago
More accurately, the calculation needs to factor in the fact that battery weight doesn’t decrease as charge is used. Commercial aviation’s profitability hinges on being able to carry only as much fuel as strictly[1] required. How can batter
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by TheSpiceIsLife 8mo ago
I have never played with / used any of this new-fangled AI-whatever, and have no intention to ever do so of my own free will and volition. I’d rathert inject dirty heroin from a rusty spoon with a used needle. And having looked at the
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by TheSpiceIsLife 8mo ago
Now ask it to solve anthropogenic climate forcing.
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by TheSpiceIsLife 8mo ago
> One day, that kid will decide that living in a crap shared apartment is getting a bit old and he'll grow some ambition, get a real job, and eventually start earning enough to help sponsor the next round of deadbeats. Wow! You’re o
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by TheSpiceIsLife 8mo ago
Australia isn’t a tax haven, it’s a tax supermassive black hole. And we have wildly out of control inequality, inflated asset prices, and unaffordable housing, out the wazoo.
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by TheSpiceIsLife 8mo ago
This program has nothing going for it. That 33 million could have built, let’s say, 66 houses and housed, let’s say, 264 people (66 families of four) for a generation before needing much in the way of maintenance. But no, fuck the working
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by TheSpiceIsLife 8mo ago
What I would suggest you do is, find a loving partner to start a family with, then do everything you can for 20 years to focus primarily on earning, or otherwise acquiring, money. Then get divorced and discover your children don’t know who
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by TheSpiceIsLife 8mo ago
It has a tendency to lead societies to do things like round up all the artists and intellectuals and against-the-wall when-the-revolution-comes them.
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by TheSpiceIsLife 8mo ago
Do you accept that wholesale electricity prices in Australia can be wildly disconnected from residential retail prices? Do you accept I am an Australian resident retail customer telling you I am not seeing any change in my $/kWh price,
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by TheSpiceIsLife 8mo ago
> that renewable energy is cheap Where is this the case? There is what? Approximately nowhere with high renewables penetration and cheap retail energy prices. Australia has so much coal and gas we could have electricity plans similar t
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by TheSpiceIsLife 8mo ago
Empathy isn’t universal. I care less about poor people in poor countries in far away lands, and far away times, than I do my fellow citizens in my relatively wealthy country. And my fellow citizens, especially the low income folk, are affec
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by TheSpiceIsLife 8mo ago
No residential retail customer in my country qualifies for any high-usage discount, as far as I’m aware. Only big industrial users do, and even the largest industrial users I’ve worked for, or adjacent to, in my state don’t come close to am
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by TheSpiceIsLife 9mo ago
And are those programs where capable of delivery anything on time and on budget?
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by TheSpiceIsLife 9mo ago
That’s the one I trying to think of, I could remember the ‘butt’ part.
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by TheSpiceIsLife 9mo ago
Data was also famous for getting things embarrassingly wrong, particularly when interacting with his human colleagues.
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by TheSpiceIsLife 9mo ago
There’s a non-zero number of people who would get a chuckle out of a browser extension at replaces every occurrence of LLM or AI with a random drunk guy on the subway .
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by TheSpiceIsLife 9mo ago
> I'd be happy to pay more in taxes Giving money to politicians is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
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by TheSpiceIsLife 9mo ago
What could western nations possibly do to propagandise voters in Russia and Saudi Arabia?
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by TheSpiceIsLife 9mo ago
> (which means less price pressure linked to LNG prices, if you're not into the co2 aspect) No it doesn’t. The arbitration is only possible because the battery storage providers can ever so slightly undercut the gas peakers. The p
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by TheSpiceIsLife 9mo ago
Your answer to renewables being intermittent is: France! . Good, we agree the solution is: Nuclear! .
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by TheSpiceIsLife 9mo ago
Effectively all renewables . When was the last time a new dam and hydro electric power plant was built in your country? Either all of the favourable geography has already been dammed, or good luck getting environmental approval.
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by TheSpiceIsLife 9mo ago
> offers guaranteed revenues Government picking winners? When did that ever work out well?
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by TheSpiceIsLife 9mo ago
Forget tidal, it’s dead in the water. Everyone who’s tried it suddenly realises that anything you put in the ocean is almost immediately covered in marine growth, or destroyed by the ocean itself. And that wave / tidal energy is very d
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by TheSpiceIsLife 9mo ago
God has changed since Genesis. Why haven’t we all?
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by TheSpiceIsLife 9mo ago
At least nowadays we have the upper moral hand because the debtors prison has become so large and comprehensive you think you’re not in it.

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