Arguably it is. No one expects to be choked literally to death. Just like any other consent/consent play: you consent to being forced, within boundaries - and you really really need a safe word and/or other safeguards. As the dominant, you are morally responsible for adhering to those boundaries, ensuring the safety of your partner, and fulfilling whatever they expect to get from the play

I know the feeling. I always hated being called “sir” when I “don’t look my age. Have barely changed. Am in good health”.

Then I looked in the mirror.

Then I started making a list for my new doctor.

Lucky you. I tried to get solar installed but around here it’s still ridiculously expensive. Unfortunately it’s also one of the scammiest industries. I went through a good dozen installers without finding one that didn’t make me feel ripped off, and that’s even before spending money.

Anyway, government incentives expired and the prices to consumers are still so high that there really isn’t a payback period. While I understand that the market should be able to stand on its own, we should have had a few more years to get off to a good start and build economies of scale or something.

Anyhow I was looking at $30k+ to cover half my electricity usage. Even worse, none of them wanted to actually sell me anything. Even when I made it an initial condition, they all wanted to dazzle me with word salad and sell me a lease or PPA agreement (totally not a lease, bro.)

Well the solar farm uses tons of water and power, causing shortages and high prices, creates a giant eyesore of a building that will be worse than a dead mall when the bubble pops, and generates a crapload of noise and pollution. …… oh wait, that’s not solar

Time is the missing value here.

• that disregards the massive time commitment needed to build out nuclear. When each plant takes over a decade to build and there is no ready supply chain, they can’t be mass produced, scaling out would take many many years
• while also ignoring that even the fast solar buildout takes time. Even with ready supply chain, mass production, mature technology, we need to expect scaling out to take 20+ years. We may not have all the answers for storage yet but it’s all known technology and we have 20+ years to figure it out. It’s ok to lag behind solar a bit

And yet even in this ideal case where France built out a full country of standardized nuclear power half a century ago …… a quick online search shows me they still have double the cost/KWH compared to solar

I seriously doubt there’s any useful overlap between nuclear for space and for terrestrial power generation. Even if there were, we’ve spent close to a century proving that nuclear is expensive and time consuming to run and thorium’s theoretical advantages re mostly only in comparison to existing nuclear technology. Research is always good, but that really looks like a dead end, especially in comparison to something that is cheap and ubiquitous, and entirely ready, just needs scale out. Even that is already happening

Searching for Germany, I see many articles on grid storage - basically at its infancy but exploding in popularity. I also see huge expectations on pumped hydro storage

Seems like you’re arguing that we should stop building out these proven, low cost solutions in favor of dumping tons more money into a problematic technology that will take decades and billions of dollarseach

Unclear waste disposal is “solved” by saying “just leave it”. Thats not an answer

Because nuclear is just an expensive and time consuming distraction at this point. Itis usually brought up mostly to delay the energy transition

That is remains a cool potential technology, but why spend billions of dollars trying to develop a worse technology when solar already exists and for much cheaper? It’s just being sidetracked while letting investors enrich themselves on government research money

Plus it harkens back to the old adage about base power. No, we don’t need base power when we have large scale grid storage. Thats just coal propaganda

There are legit uses, such as bomb disposal and military scouting. At one point their ads focussed on carrying supplies

But this is not one of those

I drive past this every day and it has been going for a while. They’re sticking to it pretty well

You’re going to have to give some hints - my browser can’t translate that and Google thinks I’m looking for exercises, doesn’t even recognize it as Finnish……. Otherwise I’ll have to remember it as “cow shit flats” because I know what that is

Maybe they just didn’t give an “f”

China and Russia are both large diverse countries where different people speak different languages …… and the central government strongly encourages a common one. I wager you’re wrong about them

Yes. Passengers are clearly untrustworthy. I almost never see the bins packed like that and usually people close when there is still room

The thing is that many “carryon” bags will not fit like that but it shouldnt matter. Even laying down there is usually room for three bags to match the number of seats.

Ive frequently see passengers close the bin when there are bags laying down the long way, wasting excess space whne there is clearly more room

I’m happy you fit the niche.

I don’t. I agree with them that for the price of the folding iPhone, I already have an iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch, and can take calls on all three of them. I dont care if my iPad is heavy because I have two more portable devices

All too often it’s an announcement like “boarding groups 7 and 8 must check their carryons”

I don’t understand the people who close the bins after putting their bag up. It’s frustrating as heck for the rest of us, but I don’t see how they think it benefits them in any way. Is it just annoying other passengers for the LoLs, or do they think there’s some logic?