Hey, I had a great PC when I was a kid! Top of the line, no expense spared. Heck, my parents even bought a fancy solid-wood roll-top desk for it.
…and boy were they pissed when I asked for a new one a couple years later, and they found out that obsolescence was a thing! From then on it was bargain-basement PCs until I was old enough to build my own, LOL.
(Only one of those subsequent computers ever fit properly in that roll-top desk, by the way. That thing was designed to hold a desktop-desktop (i.e., flat, not tower), fairly small CRT monitor, and a dot-matrix printer.)
That’s really a modern thing. It used to be that you’d buy a nice PC and 3-4 years later it can’t play new games at an acceptable frame rate and resolution.
That’s a good point. I was born in the 90s but I don’t remember upgrading my computer that often in the 2000-2010 era when I would have started playing. Maybe I didn’t play intense games or something.
It would be interesting to see them update that with current data since global PV installations are estimated at 392 GW for 2023.
It is unrealistic to imagine that we could jump into a full-scale infrastructure replacement in one year. To set the scale, the U.S. uses about 3 TW of continuous power. A 1% drop corresponds to 30 GW of power. Our modest 2% replacement therefore would require the construction of about 60 new 1 GW power plants in a single year, or a rate of one per week! Worldwide, we quadruple this number.
What capability have we demonstrated in the past? In 2010, global production of solar photovoltaics was 15 GW, which is only about 6% of what we would need to fill a world-wide energy gap of 2% per year. Even on a tear of 50% increase per year, it would take 7 years to get to the required rate. Wind installations in 2010 totaled 37 GW, or 14% of the 2% global requirement. It would take 5 years at a breakneck 50% per year rate of increase to get there. When France decided to go big on nuclear, they built 56 reactors in 15 years. In doing so, they replaced 80% of their electricity consumption, which translates to about 30% of their total energy use. So this puts them at about 2% per year in energy replacement.
Why worry about Israel attacking a US ship while pretending they are Egyptian in order to draw the US in a wider war? It’s not like they’ve been shown to be spying on the US, or have any recent evidence that Netanyahu’s government funds enemies of Israel in order to bolster political support.
This is all a big nothing-burger of millions of lives at stake. 😬
Thanks for that! I watched his pinned video and I don’t think that " but hey, it’s Hollywood! It’s a dog eat ass world and I gave it a shot!" is gonna leave my brain for a long time 🤣
Come on, nothing burger is one of the better ones the kids these days have come up with. I give Nothing Burger the Gen X seal of who gives a fuck what you think. Let people like things.
A quote from Dean Rusk, former US Secretary of State:
I was never satisfied with the Israeli explanation. Their sustained attack to disable and sink Liberty precluded an assault by accident or some trigger-happy local commander. Through diplomatic channels we refused to accept their explanations. I didn’t believe them then, and I don’t believe them to this day. The attack was outrageous.
They also tried to say that they asked the US to keep their ships away or at least tell them where the ships were. However, they didn’t ask this until after the boat was sunk.
But Hamas committed acts of terror and war crimes of their own volition. Blaming Israel is stupid and is literally the main reason this cycle of hatred and mass civilian violence continues to perpetuate. Israel needs to cease their genocide but Hamas does not care about Palestine at all and will continue to bait more suffering their way from Israel.
It's all in history. Terror can't be justified. Israel has suffered that is true. But so have the Palestinian civilians. Israel has their blood on its hands too, after all Israel is responsible for the Nakba. But the main problems is both sides don't want diplomacy and peace, Israel's right wing morons are advocating their violence against Palestinian civilians, Hamas is playing its terror games. Caught up in the middle of all these morons are civilians on either side, who don't have any quarrel with the other. They all want peace. But offcourse games of politicians don't have any consequences for the politicians but the common man and woman pay the price.
Though it's true that the attack would have never happened if Palestinians weren't crushed and their voices not silenced. If there were peace, the chances of such attacks are zero. There needs to a be a cause for such a big attack that is what is important: the cause, why did it happen.
It’s easy to say from the sidelines that through diplomacy peace will prevail, but who’s definition of peace? Are the Palestinians going to get any of their land back? What about the natives of the Americas or Australia? You can’t negotiate with colonionalism. You will never even have a seat that the table. The unfortunate truth is that one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter. And one party is completely to blame for stacking the deck that way. These two things are not the same.
Those are all very complicated questions. The Israelis being closer to the afore mentioned American and Australian natives than their European settlers, having historical roots in the Levant since well into the BC’s being one of them. Further complicated by the fact that Palestine lost that land after going to war to reject the two state system, multiple times. The only acceptable option according to Palestinian governments (leaving intentions of the civilians out of it for the obvious reasons that their individual preferences can’t be known) up until recently was the complete destruction of Israel, and no country is going to just roll over and cease to exist because their neighbors want them to.
This is not to justify a might makes right viewpoint, or to give a pass for war crimes on either side. The years of heavy handed treatment definitely exacerbates this. I honestly don’t know of any country that would handle the situation better in the same circumstances, so it’s hard to find a good path forward. The closest situation I can think of is Britain and Ireland, and I don’t think there would be a Repulic of Ireland if their only stated objective had the complete annihilation of the British from the isles instead of just independence of the island.
You would rarely buy random cd’s or whatnot. You would hear one or 2 songs on the radio, or from a friend, or you already loved the artist. You’d loan it from the library, or spend 30 min listening to it in the store.
Then you would come home and set it on repeat for weeks. Even the tracks on the CD that were less good, you would appreciate.
I definitely preferred how much I cared for the music back then a lot more. Even pre-Napster.
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