Such a short memory. Recall when worldwide oil prices were negative? Those guys see an opportunity to make it all back and, guess what, they have zero motive to produce more. The oil producers have killed oil production just the same way that De Beers keeps the diamond supply low. However, even now oil prices are…

We need better voters. Ones that would not step in line for the poisoned fruit punch if Der Cheeto asked it of them. Drink this in reverence of me!

At this point I am fine with it. Reagan burned the government to the ground to get re-elected and T#### did the same. Most didn’t notice that the “good times” were from cutting taxes and ramping up spending to crank the deficit and the national debt.

At the time Netscape was the standard. Other developers didn’t like that. I am unsure about the behind the scenes W3C workings, however well intentioned the founders were, but I saw MS tactics* played out with the self-certification as an international standard by buying votes to get the MS “open standards” approved,…

On an individual basis it works fine. As an organized labor strike it works even better. As long as the strike is on no one is in an unsafe job site. These aren’t poor people with no education and large debt with the company store. No one will send in the police to shoot them for not driving.

Except an example national effort to provide hydrogen refuelling had one of the three stations detonate with such ferocity that it set off airbags in surrounding cars.

If the job site is unsafe - don’t go. There is no more say needed than that.

Being illegal is the draw.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/hoard-vs-horde-difference-usage

Little Bobby Drop Tables strikes again.

Off topic - New York is cracking down on mufflers. No more loud ones; backed by fines and prison time, particularly if it’s a repair shop that does it.

Got it? I think you don’t. Not at all. Whatever choice is made is a potentially losing one because no matter what choice YOU make, someone else can make a different one that will conflict with yours. If you don’t stop then you cannot be hit. If everyone maintains speed there is no conflict. If everyone sees the…

As far a Putin is concerned a window of opportunity might be opening near him rather soon.

A lot of that industry was in Ukraine.

No war has been declared. It’s a peace mission to protect the Russian province in the Ukraine region from the Nazis. /s

Missouri did the same thing. Proponents/lobbyists started by claiming “riverboat gambling” with actual riverboat tours during which gambling could take place. Owners then said “it’s a danger to operate tours with all that barge traffic.” So they had simulated tours - limiting boarding and gambling as if they were…

See Thagomizer. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/65/Thagomizer.png

It’s a self-driving (ha) problem. If you slow you’ll be hit by someone who doesn’t slow, so you don’t slow, and therefore hit someone who did slow. It’s a chicken breaking the egg sort of problem.

Yeah - I was just interested to refresh my memory of it. The main obstacle I see, aside from the operating cost disadvantage, is that they are so enormously expensive in comparison and don’t respond well to surge. They are a good fit for baseline production - I can see wind, tide, and solar into battery storage for…

Three Mile Island was an economic disaster. TMI-2, the one that cooked, operated for about 4 months. I don’t see a separate build cost, but the most recent 2020 dollar estimate is $2B for them both, with TMI-2 the much larger one.