Dude has ruined multiple generations

“Hey Israel called and they asked about when we’re going to delete all the posts celebrating dead Israelis? Sorry Linda are you still there? You’ve gone silent. Linda???”

Wait, there’s a University for Rice?

Why does Mr. Vader not just simply login to the droids to find the rebels?

The problem is we’re not treating it like an emergency.

During COVID world governments provided basically infinite resources to promising vaccine candidates. We developed brand new types of vaccines for a novel virus in a third of the time it takes us to make existing vaccines for well known viruses. We are not doing the same for promising battery technologies.

We could also be regulating the market for smarter use of the lithium we have. Lithium batteries for stationary mass storage (“big batteries”) are completely pointless, except maybe as part of virtual power networks. Subsidising and incentivising recycling and recovery of lithium from waste is another low hanging fruit we seem to not be bothering with.

Absolutely it’s true for a global emergency threatening to destroy the global ecosystem, a local ecosystem and cultural site is a sensible sacrifice (not withstanding that we shouldn’t be in this scenario in the first place.)

But we have barely scratched the surface in terms of alternative options and it’s fair to be frustrated when you’re the one expected to sacrifice when other options have not really been tried.

The problem is, and this happens a lot in science, often it takes so long for scientists to be vindicated they die poor and in disrepute. If the pandemic had never happened she may have gone the same way.

We can’t make long enough pieces of anything strong enough to handle that level of strain.

And India hasn’t killed all their journalists yet

Let me put it in a way you might understand:

• Ethical problem - Potentially no correct solution, tradeoffs likely.

• Engineering problem - Smart people do maths until problem is solved.

Desalination won’t touch a percentage of a percentage of a percentage of the brine produced by the sun simply by evaporation.

Our problem isn’t the byproduct, it’s how to return it to the sea in a distributed way rather than out a single pipe. That’s an engineering problem, not an ethical or environmental one.

How do they reconcile making woke unamerican cars with being nazis

Please don’t leave

If someone patents the wheel, it’s very hard to make a car.

$20k isn’t going to make you rich anyway

If Tesla offered me $200k over maybe I’d think about it

“Apologizes”

Signal doesn’t have a marketing department worth billions or synergy with any popular platforms

General Campbell should have a chat to Peter Dutton and Warren Mundine about that.

“Please let us build the only way we could get troops onto Taiwan”

Yeah getting aircraft onto renewable energy is probably the lowest priority, if everything else was renewable it wouldn’t even matter if they were never renewable.

When railguns become economical we might see the return of battleships. They could fire AI-guided projectiles from so far away, and at such speed, the only real counter would be having your own railguns, either on shore… or on your own battleship.

Missiles would, ironically, then become somewhat obsolete to next-generation CIWS that would be extremely precise and (relatively) unrestrained by ammunition capacity.

All we need to do is invent room temperature superconductors…