Modern day book burning. Done by the writers this time.

I love Lemmy. I often come in here thinking about the downsides of an article and it’s usually the top voted comment. Contrast with the… other… site… where the top comment is probably racist posted by a bot.

Good comeback though.

There was an old man from Nantucket…

Also, it’s clearly not working, because you can’t buy insurance 100 years out. All the insurance companies do is jack up the prices every year until a property becomes uninsurable. As for house prices, the lower cost and therefore most at-risk ones are the only options for the poor. They have no options but to take the risk.

bread and circuses…

Yeah I can’t remember where I read that but it’s definitely a possibility IIRC.

Pumped hydro is not exactly a dam. There’s a hole and 2 water reservoirs. Yes there’s a cost but so does anything.

You also can’t just turn nuclear on or off. You’d need to also get rid of existing solar. Ie: get people to disconnect rooftop solar to make nuclear work.

My guess is that the intent here is to destabilise any investment in green tech. Whatever loans were being given out probably have a higher interest with the probability that the LNP get in.

Eat is a big one. Then wear, because it’s part of your identity. Drive is somehow easier even though many might notice that it’s not at all easy.

sad facts :(

Honest fact: It’s dear, but firstly, AUKUS is more expensive, and secondly, when it’s storing energy we’re going to forget the amount we spent and really enjoy the amount we’re saving.

I wonder how they deal with flash storage degradation.

EDIT: Apparently the Switch uses something called XtraROM. See This for more info.

Wow there isn’t even a punch line, Andrew Marlton just skewers those involved. I think this was a criticism of the NACC when it was founded. Albo basically neutered it till it was useless.

EDIT: For some excellent coverage of Robodebt, see https://www.youtube.com/@KnightsInShiningLlama/videos

So I have been asking myself why I held some of my beliefs, and the answer is that I “learnt” them at a really young age, maybe 4-10 years old. It was an age where I basically knew “nothing” and I guess I filed it away for clarification later and that “later” never came. All of a sudden I’m much, much older and asking myself why I even believe this strange thing and the answer is “they got me when I was young”. If I wasn’t exposed to other thinkers who asked me to re-evaluate my ideas, I might never have questioned them.

Not a recommendation exactly, but I use the Ryobi 18V range. The good part is that the mower, whipper snipper, etc are cheap, but the real win is that the batteries can be shared. This means I feel like the investment in the batteries is worth it, even as they age out. Ryobi batteries are also pretty good. Really wish a larger company like, say, Makita, had a shared battery system as large as Ryobi.

EDIT: Yep Makita do now. Nice.

I love how they’re like… frenemies during the fight, so three’s a bit where he grabs a metal pole and breaks a window of a car, realises what he’s done, says sorry, throws the pole away, and they go back to fisticuffs.

Watched this recently. “I’m here to kick ass and chew bubble gum, and I’m all out of bubble gum”.

No one has made mention of the 83.7%. I think it should be 17% odd smaller.

Sorry I know it’s like that glass eyed guy from last action hero.