Phrased another way, virus’ evolve to be come optimally lethal.   Mild enough to allow spread before host death.

Why nuke the town? I’m just establishing your acceptable ranges. *You* clearly implied the grandma was an acceptable loss.

So clearly we needed to nuke the town. I mean it would stop the armed and dangerous person with relatively minimal collateral damage.

“Remove gas tax and instead institute a per-mile tax adjusted for weight *and efficiency* of the vehicle.”

Welcome children! Come closer and listen. Today’s word is “Liability”.

I mean, look at the size of this mine!  that’s just one canary, really unimportant in the grand scheme

Said everyone in Texas...after [insert multitude of problems Texas has] happened

The problem was clearly illustrated where a dealer sold a used Tesla with ‘extra’ features that Tesla then *turned* off.

It is not a structural composite issue!

The alien voicemail box is out for repairs so...

In the US, likely with free ammo

Hawaii winter weather kit, means long pants right?

if you have roof mounted solar panels, you generally can’t adjust the angle.

no it isn’t. it requires active maintenance for centuries. Something that requires such efforts for *longer than modern civilization has existed* is not safely stored.

Interesting. They’re saying that there won’t be *any* future deaths due to needing centuries of waste storage?

I wonder about drilling deep into a subduction zone and putting it there.

but! but! I’ve been shown meme’s that say it’s totally safe in many ways!

It makes sense at scale at least somewhat.   I sorta compare it to DirecTV and cable co’s.   DirecTV covers the entire country with it’s infrastructure, vs needing lines and towers in every country across the country to do something similar in a terrestrial footprint.

Australia just provided 100% of grid usage from renewables for 29 of 31 days in October.

LEDs are significantly less likely to burn your house down than hot incandescents on a dry tree. So you may save a bit more than a few bucks on average.