Depends. Did you talk them into suicidal ideation beforehand?

That’s great and all, but how does any of that justify an invasion?

What you’re doing here is whataboutism. You don’t address the actual problem, instead you’re derailing the discussion.

Are you two really naive enough to assume that Russia will respect a peace agreement?

Russia attacked several countries against international law, and Ukraine already had security guarantees from the US and UK following its voluntary surrender of their nuclear weapons.

International law and security guarantees meant fuck all when Russia invaded in 2014, and about as much in 2022.

Why do you think, Russia would respect agreements this time? They made their intentions very very clear.

…and because the older plants are simply written off already. If you already recouped the building costs, you can charge based on just the running cost.

That’s a shitty argument. The alternative is a windmill, not a coal powerplant.

Batteries can be made from literal saltwater nowadays.

Otherwise, lithium mining is certainly not exactly good for the environment, but can be managed. Uranium (even the non-fissile) is pretty toxic and can contaminate the whole area.

Ten years? More like twenty. Hinkley point C was started in 2013, supposed to be finished 2023. This year the estimation was corrected to 2029-2031.

No.

Debian takes a few clicks and you have a working desktop.

And how difficult is it to keep it debloated? MS seems to be hellbent on pushing their crap into everyone’s face.

I’m still convinced Electron only exists because there’s a huge surplus of mediocre web devs.

Electron solves hardly any problem that QT, GTK or all those other UI frameworks didn’t already solve 20 years ago. But for QT you need at least a few developers with passing knowledge of something other than js and css. And those guys are expensive.

OR, it is a huge conspiracy by Micron et al to increase demand for memory modules.

Tests first is only good in theory.

Unit tests typically test rather fine grained, but coming up with the structure of the grain is 80% of the work. Often enough you end up with code that’s structured differently than initially thought, because it turns out that this one class needs to be wrapped, and this annotation doesn’t play nice with the other one when used on the same class, etc etc.

Especially then I’d test the shit out of everything? I’m getting paid for writing correct software.

Especially if you’d add up all the inefficiencies already introduced in the name of efficiency. All those grant proposals, superfluous fluff articles to bump impact factors, etc. are all required overhead to game a system designed to seem efficient.

I heard the explanation “conservatives stop thinking if they like the current result”.

If immigrants committed any crime, the obvious solution is to deport all of them. Less immigrants, less crime, sounds great, no further research needed.

But if it’s about something like social security, they go to the ninth layer of indirection to “prove” that it’s bad, because now they found a study that slightly agrees with one of their talking points (p ≈ room temperature).

Problem is, you almost never know if that’s actually true or complete bullshit.

It seems plausible, but killing virgins for rain also seemed plausible back then in the 70s.

No, but it causes alpha particles to be emitted.

Germany is currently considering a third way: they ask you.

Everyone in Germany has health insurance, so the idea is that the health insurance simply asks you directly to decide. Most people are in favor of organ donation, but never actually get an organ donor card or talk to their relatives. Asking them to decide won’t get anywhere near the donor rates of an opt-out scheme, but it could drastically increase them.

“Umstritten”

Aber wenn Muhammad Deutsch lernt, hat er ja vielleicht Erfolg in der Schule und wird gar kein krimineller Terrorist! Das kann doch niemand wollen.

Warum sollte das nicht gutgehen? Einfach keine 40 auf die Karte setzen und gut ist.