For the last time, there’s a big difference between a proven concept and a viable, practical implementation on a large scale.

That storage technology is in its infancy. There’s a huge leap from a lab demonstration to building it on the scale needed for utility systems. It’s at least 20 years away from that scale of implementation.

All fueled power plants having cooling towers. If they hear water to vapor in order to turn a turbine, they have a cooling tower.

What the average person always forgets about renewable energy is that most sources (wind, solar, tidal) aren’t reliable 24/7, 365. They must have another backup to maintain continuous power.

In 1896 they were choking on unregulated emissions from coal burning factories. Hundreds of them in every city.

Bored?

As a kid, I was always aware that money was tight. The only time I really asked my parents for anything was Christmas, because it came out of Santa’s budget. When I got old enough to know the truth, I would still ask for only one big item.

I have no issue with women being in the military or serving in combat roles. Including regular infantry. Fighter pilot, tank gunner, artillery, helicopter door gunner.... Go for it.

The standards were out in place because those are the requirements to successfully do the job and complete the missions. Lowering the standard lowers the effectiveness of these special forces teams.

There are many roles in the military. And women can be the equal of a man in a majority of them, like military police, motor pool mechanic, and even basic infantry.

As long as they don’t lower the standards to make sure they get some successful candidates. Like the way fire departments changed the physical exam from carrying a 200lb person down a staircase to dragging them down. Or worse, setting up a tiered system where women have to reach a lower bar than the men.

One of her go-to stories when doing appearances is about how she prepared for the role by talking to women in the military to try to understand what being a female in command means. What none of the women she talked to could provide was the insight into a female captain in a world that is truly gender neutral. She had…

Joke

You have to ask yourself, how would a vegetarian know what Turkey tastes like in order to quality check their tofurky. Answer: they can’t, therefore tofurkey sucks.

Pie > Cake

Ridiculously awesome, you mean! Dude.

The Soviet defeat in Afghanistan and their crumbling economy played a huge role in that.

Even Sesame Place in Pennsylvania rethemes most of their rides to include Elmo.

Others have nailed it. It’s a post-scarcity society. Post-scarcity terms like capitalism and socialism no longer apply.

I thought it was sad that the reason she writes is that she loses long term memory taking shock therapy for her bipolar disorder. But then, maybe it’s also why she’s happy?