I thought hobbits were supposed to be resistant to the taint of evil? Proudfoot is a wonderful name besmirched by this loser’s existance.

And yet if everyone always voted for the superior party by any clear metric, eventually that metric would become policy for both parties.

Like, the only reason both sides suck so badly is that the American public is so bad at voting for the better party. If the dems won a few times in a row the republicans would realign to suit the new reality, and then maybe they’d have to compete with each other on questions like corporate control and militarism, instead of the shitshow we have now.

Not saying the 2 party system is good (it’s not, it slows down realignment when the parties are out of whack with the public and encourages partisanship), but it’s not the only reason American politics is a mess. Maybe not even the biggest at this point.

It’s still better in the long run, I guess the reduction in the deposit percentage means anyone who can afford a monthly mortgage isn’t far off affording the deposit too? Obviously combined with the total mortgage amount getting rediculous

That’s sad, they would have helped the local community so much!

I don’t think cat meat is particularly pleasant. Nope, you’ve convinced me, the super nazis are a problem that needs to be dealt with after all.

Artists often use personal pain as inspiration for their artwork, but rarely appreciate theft of the final art nonetheless.

Either would work, my example has the advantage of being true ( Einstein’s greatest mistake, according to him).

To be clear, I’m not arguing that social science is as legitimate as astonomy. Only that all the bad social science doesn’t invalidate the entire field, it is possible to do good social sciense (just sadly quite rare, for various reasons)

I heard a scientist once added a random constant to their equation to keep the universe a constant size, preventing them from discovering the expansion of the universe early, astronomy is total garbage too.

Tigers probably don’t want to be shot during a rescue attempt.

Also, not saying there’s an afterlife, especially 1 shared afterlife, but just in case, I don’t want to go to any afterlife that contains a tiger holding a grudge waiting to ask me why I got it shot. I’m not suicidal, but if I were I think an eternity of beef with an angelic tiger might be reason to rethink.

Wow, they really didn’t seem the type did they?

You never can tell.

Parking is an enormous opportunity cost in any sort of built up area. The cost of providing charging is going to be a lot smaller than the cost of not building something remotely useful (ie the cost everyone already has to pay every time they decide to build a parking space instead of a coffee shop).

Unless you’re somewhere that requires parking via zoning laws, I imagine that would create a lot of unwanted parking that nobody is remotely interested in investing any more in than necessary

Yes, hydrogen might turns out to be capable of that use case too.

This is all true, and if it continues maybe batteries will become cheap enough for 2 days of storage. But seasonal variation will always be beyond their grasp.

You’re not exactly wrong, nuclear is a terrible pairing with renewables for the reasons you listed, but it’s still probably cheaper than batteries under extreme conditions, which is something we do have to deal with.

90% renewables is cheap, 99% is more expensive, 100% is really really expensive. Batteries are great for 24 hour storage, but storing energy for longer starts to become uneconomical and to hit 100% you have to buy enough capacity for the absolute worst case scenario. Anything that baseline nuclear cuts off from renewable demand is potentially cheaper than the theoretical worst case 1% of renewables (eg if there’s no wind and it’s cloudy mid-winter, how much solar/wind do you need to power the country, or how much battery do you need to maintain power for weeks under these conditions?).

My voids are Orion and Nebula, a fine name for a cat!

You’re not wrong, but that was a little harsh.

I can hear that photo

I mean, the definition of “poor people” has shifted somewhat over time. I don’t think there will ever not be poor people, but is nice that poor people often have access to healthcare etc these days… at least in any country that has sane politics

Typical “driver begs for all things to be sacrificed to the alter of parking” story. Wide pavements? why not parking? Tree? parking! Restaurants? houses? office buildings? But the purpose of a city is to maximise local parking!

Remember reading the web series “the salvation war”, (where god announces armageddon but turns out modern weaponry altered the scales somewhat). Turns out heaven was only heaven for Middle Ages peasants, a lack of hunger or illness, but you still have to farm and go to church etc. the army gets there and just thinks “wow what a shithole”.