Yes, you can get increased efficiency and performance from solar panels that are in orbit. Yes, you can collect that power and beam it down to Earth.
However, it turns out that with launch costs, it’s far cheaper just to buy more panels and keep them on the ground than it is to try and run a solar farm in space.
Hey, Bev is a beautiful woman with her own complex inner thoughts, desires, hopes, and dreams!
This comic is designed under a sane ethical framework, which places responsibility for the success or failure of a party on the people who actually hold power within the party. It’s told from the framework of party leaders, holding them accountable for their failures. It’s punching up rather than punching down. What options were available at the ballot box, as we’re not talking about voters, we’re talking about leaders here. Don’t try and cover up for corrupt leaders by blaming the voters.
Why doesn’t Europe do psyops on Americans like Russia?
What makes you think they don’t?
Well…umm…we’ll retaliate by making it so champagne not produced in the Champagne region of France can still be labeled as “champagne!” T_T
Because humans are humans and nations act the way they do because of the environment they exist in. When you become a single massive federated nation, you have very different incentives acting on you than when you’re a smaller country.
Or are you acting out of some sense of European exceptionalism? If so, you’re already well on the way to acting like the United States!
The EU’s choice is more like “bow to a monster” or “become a monster.” Big powers act like big powers. If Europe as a whole becomes like the US, then it will start acting internationally in many of the same ways as the US.
Don’t deport ICE agents. Extradite them to the home countries of their victims. Trump will inevitably pardon all of them on the way out the door. However, most of ICE’s victims are citizens of foreign countries. And those nations aren’t bound by Trump’s pardons.
Quit trying to divide the left. At this point, I’m going to have to assume you’re a Republican if you’re still doing this shit a year after the election.
I can’t build a guitar. I can build a guitar-shaped object. But I cannot build a guitar.
The word “police” is not synonymous with “law enforcement.” Police have only existed for the most recent 2% of civilization. All the grand historical empires you’ve heard of through history? They didn’t have police. There weren’t any cops in ancient Rome. There are ways of enforcing laws that do not involve having a clique of people that make it their entire career and develop an in-group culture hostile to everyone else.
For example, a common method of enforcing laws was through universal service. In many Medieval towns and cities, every male of a certain age and wealth had to spend a certain number of nights per year on town guard duty. It wasn’t your profession; it was a duty you took on like jury duty.
Maybe you’ll always need some career professionals for certain specialized tasks. I don’t think we can assign crime scene investigation duties to a random person. But in terms of the people that actually show up when a crime is being committed? I would trust a randomly selected person from the population rather than your typical police officer. If drafted individuals can handle fighting literal wars, they can handle the duties of a beat cop.
The problem is that policing, as an institution, attracts really bad people. It’s a relatively accessible path for people to gain a great deal of power over others; thus it attracts the worst our society has to offer. The police profession attracts people who want to hurt and violate others. Grade school bullies grow up to be cops. If instead of policing being a full time job, it’s a gig that anyone can be assigned at random for a period of time, then you don’t end up with law enforcement that selects for sociopathy.
Remember, police beat their spouses at twice the rate of the population as a whole. The police profession attracts society’s worst people.
Have you not seen the literature showing the effects regular LLM use has on people? You can’t see the obvious demonic connotations of a machine that coaches people into committing suicide? That’s like literal Satan, Prince of Darkness, Father of All Lies shit
Is it actually the spawn of a literal personal devil? Of course not. But the damn things act a hell of a lot like the devils of myth and legend. They tempt you in with the promise of easy effortless success and riches. And in the end they take everything from you.
We are selling. That is a process that takes a few months.
Tactical urbanism ftw!
I mean, it will literally steal your soul. Using LLMs changes you. It degrades your skills. Its sycophancy harms your ability to interact with actual human beings with opinions of their own. It makes you feel like you are never wrong. And use it enough, and it can literally drive you mad.
LLMs are the closest real thing to a malevolent demon that will steal your soul.
The real issue is that the writers and editors who have spent decades creating Wikipedia didn’t do so with the thought that their work would be used to create machines that would hurt human beings.
Could we maybe wait a couple of months? We’re in that awkward and awful period where you buy a new house, fix up, and sell the old one. If you move this way, for a few months you own two houses. Can we just hold off on the whole economy collapsing for a bit longer?
Because she didn’t want to win.
This is simply false. There’s no shortage of space to set up panels. You can power entire nations with just the space available on top of buildings, parking lots, roads, etc. Or really there’s plenty of space in desert environments. Hell, even farmland can host solar panels through agriphotovoltaics. There has never been a solar power project in history that’s been canceled due to lack of available space to build it.
It does, but it’s a drop in the ocean. You are severely underestimating how expensive it is to get things into orbit.