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On X, Mr Engel has popularised the idea of “heritage Americans”

Heritage Americans. So like the 6 Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy? Or possibly others in the region such as the Wendat or Lenape? No? Then the Algonquin tribes certainly, like the Ojibwe, Shawnee or the Miami. Not them either? My mistake, you must mean the Cherokee. Huh? The Navajo, Hopi, or Apache then? The Inuit?

Them: “No. You know…”

In that version, when the last boat was leaving at Grey Havens, a different scene played out. As Elrond is about to step on the boat Galadriel holds up her hand saying “Not so fast, Elrond. You had the chance to end the threat of the darkness at Mount Doom when the will of men failed. One ‘this is Sparta!’ kick would have save 3000 years of Sauron’s dark influence, saved the corruption of Sauromon the White, saved the fall of Osgilath. You stay here and reap what you sowed.”

Turning her attention she spoke again “Samwise Gamgee, you did what we, the mighty Elves, could not. Come with us and Master Bilbo, depart Middle Earth with us for a better place.”

everyone is putting in overtime to make this happen and you are being negative

“… now its 5pm and I’m leaving for the day, but when I come in tomorrow at 8am, I expect to see some real progress completed.”

Thank you for sharing your thoughts with me. I appreciate it.

Have a happy new year!

You too!

While the discovered source is bad, its not as bad as where my mind went initially for the source of the Cs137:

I had wondered if it was Fukishima contaminated water discharge:

"TEPCO anticipates that the ongoing release of wastewater, currently exceeding 1.3 million metric tonnes, will span approximately 30 years. "

I think we’ll have to agree to disagree. Often times if I see an interesting question in the comments, I am glad for it, because that was the insight I needed to want to read the article and answer it.

Just reading comments without the article? I have no issue with that at all, and do that myself.

For me that isn’t annoying unless the commenter is getting something wrong that is talked about in the article, and doubles down on it.

How do you, as the commenter yourself, know you aren’t getting something wrong without reading the article?

I feel like each post is an invitation to discuss the general topic

How do you know what the general topic is without reading the article?

If you feel like that is disrespectful, I get where you’re coming from, but I don’t think it is that disrespectful.

Maybe disrespectful is too strong a term. Let me amend that; I lose respect for the poster when they’re asking a question that is answered in the article. I sometimes write off engaging with them further in that thread because they’re clearly not even doing the most basic of tasks to be a part of the conversation.

But plenty of interesting conversations can happen in the comments (like this one) that have almost nothing whatever to do with the article!

I’ll do this too on occasionally, if I can clearly tell we’re not discussion the article topic, but its a gamble on my part and if someone smacks me down because it is article topical, I fully own that and apologize knowing its my fault.

I get where you’re going here and I do the same as far as reading, but before I post I make it a point to actually read the article. Otherwise I may be forming and asking questions clearly already addressed or are completely divorced from the actual topic because I lack the articles context.

I feel it is part of the mutual respect with other posters to not waste their time asking questions already answered (in the article) or derailing the conversation because I don’t know what conversation I’m in.

Nowadays, iOS sees just as many vulnerabilities as every other popular OS.

I’m no Apple fanboy but Apple security is more than the OS. Since they also produce all of the hardware, it means they can do things at the hardware level and either make available or restrict things to the OS that Windows cannot do because Microsoft doesn’t control all the hardware makers.

I’m posting this in Asahi Linux on an M2 powered Macbook. Its been an interesting experience learning not only the benefits of this as a hardware platform, but also its limitations from the FOSS point of view.

You make a very good point. I’ve stopped using CDC for any realistic data or health guidance and instead defer to Health Canada or the NHS.

I should have also assumed economic data from the trump administration was equally suspect now.

… we do not count towards the offical unemployment numbers.

Wait…

unemployed for over 2 years now.

If you’re still actively seeking jobs you’d still be counted in the official unemployment category of U-3 unemployment. Even if you weren’t applying to jobs but still wanted to work you’d be counted in the (potentially more accurate) U-6 unemployment, right?

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There won’t be a vaccine for the next strain

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and there won’t be a vaccine for that either, unless you’re very rich.

A trip to Mexico or Canada to get a vaccine shot isn’t that expensive.

I’ll go one further:

• Assumes the bulb is in reach. When I read the problem I assumed the bulb was in a ceiling fixture out of reach. Nowhere in the text description did it specify the physical location, except “in the other room”.

Crewed or non-crewed even! They can’t even launch crewless Progress resupply vehicles to the ISS right now.

Preliminarily, police said the agents approached a white van, but the vehicle attempted to run them over.

I don’t believe a single thing ICE says. They’ve already shown they exaggerate or straight up fabricate claims to act violently or shoot people.

This article doesn’t explain how closing the power plants saves consumers money.

If this is like most aging coal plants, they cost more to produce electricity than they can sell the electricity for. There’s a whole bunch of reasons for this but the short answer is that cheaper sources of electricity are available.

It doesn’t explain how existing energy demands can be met in spite of the closures.

Its attached to one of the largest power grids in North America, the PJM. Power generators bid for generation contracts once a year. There are dozens of other power plants stretching from New York into southern Ontario on this same grid. If the operator had scheduled this one for closure, that decision was likely made 2 to 4 years ago and all this time has been in planning for that transition.

It doesn’t explain why Trump wants them operational and his perceived benefits (even those unfounded and blatantly wrong).

It doesn’t sounds like the DoE provided any reasons, but we can likely guess this is trump and his cronies trying to destroy green energy and prop up more expensive and polluting fossil fuel sources to enrich themseleves.

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The other two parks and resorts they want to connect to are landlocked by other urban development. My guess is Universal built as close as they could with regard to what land was available for the initial new park and future expansion plans.

Letting Bulgaria into the EU and NATO: C-C-C-Combo breaker!

They’ve been pretty solid since.

On the downside, Energy Dome’s facility takes up about twice as much land as a comparable capacity lithium-ion battery would. And the domes themselves, which are about the height of a sports stadium at their apex, and longer, might stand out on a landscape and draw some NIMBY pushback.

This is surprisingly good! I would have figured it would have taken far more than twice the land than a Lithium battery solution.

yeah, sure thing buddy. the CO2 will be in a closed loop until it won’t. just like Fukushima and Chernobyl were supposed to be closed loop systems, until they weren’t. disasters happen, no matter how much the techbro mindset insists that they’re impossible.

So you concern is the ecological impact should this bubble fail and the entirety of the CO2 is released to the atmosphere as pollution? Did you even read the article? They discuss that.

First, a full on failure would be rare. Then, a full on failure of 100% loss of the closed loop CO2 is equivalent to 15 round trip flights of a jet flying from New York to London. To put it in perspective there about 250+ flights of this length per day from London, with many being much much farther.

So you’re comparing the impacts of a once in a lifetime nuclear power plant failure to the impacts of another source 1/16th of something that already happens every in one airport. Your logic is why out of whack on this if this is your concern with the bubble.