Worth noting lot of industry experts in renewables and outside of it criticize LCOE for not properly taking inflation and total life cycle costs into account. It’s still a useful number but never let it be more than a single data point in determining which form of energy is cost effective balanced against environmental impact.

Edit: also worth noting, LCOE assumes 1:1 supply and demand, no power storage or other other factors if renewables produce more than demand needs, but credits them as if that supply was used. Additionally it doesn’t differentiate low demand and high demand costs that many areas use, which can skew the numbers significantly if not accounted for and just assumed energy prices are constant throughout the day.

I don’t think Russia built the party. I think something like Mossad did the majority of the work and Russia stumbled into it cause turns out pedos leave a fucking trail. Russia just used the leverage to get what they want and if what ever group did assemble the pedo rings had a problem with it Russia would just expose them.

Counterpoint, wouldn’t it be better to have 3 weeks for Christmas, 2 weeks for spring break/easter, 2 weeks in the summer and then an extra week or two break in the fall? Depending how you organize it kids could have up to 2 weeks off after every quarter/major exams.

Or, going the other direction, you could condense it down to every other or even every Friday off, meaning 3 days weekends and 4 day work weeks for youth.

I get the sentiment, that having 2 months or more off as a kid was great and I certainly enjoyed it at the time, but looking back it was such a bad system and I certainly would have adapted better to school if I had more breaks from it throughout the year rather than one long absence in the summer. It’s not that summer vacation needs go away entirely, it just needs to be revamped to a more manageable break and that excess time off spread out throughout the year, particularly around times where students experience the most stress so they can decompress.

Summer vacations as they exist in the US are counter productive, pointless and a hold over from pre-industrial schooling when rich families would pull their kids out of school during the hot summers to go somewhere cooler leaving the school with less funding and without their stat pupils so the trend rapidly developed of just going to extended recess till the weather cooled and rich kids returned.

The argument that it was for farmers is patently false. Farmers plant in the spring and harvest in the fall, both times schools are in session. And livestock farmers have year round commitments so the idea of pulling students only for the summer is equally silly. It all comes down to rich kids.

A sensible school calendar would be year round, with those 6-8 weeks of summer break broken up and spliced elsewhere into the calendar, reducing the amount of material students would forget, basically the entire first quarter coming back for most schools is just going over everything learned the previous spring to catch up. It’s not one for one but by the time kids get through 8th grade almost 2 years of their schooling has been spent relearning something they already learned.

We could do so much better for kids if we abandoned the ridiculous calender most schools use and alter the actual hours kids are in school to better reflect on what they learned and absorb it rather than just memorizing enough for the next test and moving on.

I definitely hated Hilton in the 00s but she’s been a standup and model citizen compared to Lohan. Lohan has a family history of drug abuse and turned into a train wreck on her own. Hilton by all accounts is a decent person with nearly every controversy she’s in coming down to she’s from rich white money so cameras followed her everywhere. Supposedly she’s a huge amateur radio enthusiast.

Ever wonder if any of those files Trump stole in 2021 were Epstein related?

Completely biased but it’s the best of 90s trek because it dares to break the episodic formula and have season spanning stories. Ensemble cast of characters so we get plenty of varied stories interlaced.

It’s not perfect, there’s a few moments where clearly they were building to a thing and either didn’t know how to pull it off or executive meddling forced them to do something else (Julian and Garak’s relationship one of the most noticable)

It’s a bit dated on visuals but still holds up rather well. A lot of them social commentary disturbingly relevant today. First season is a bit weird (basically a cardinal rule in star trek at this point) but really finds its feet and goes strong around season 2.

The cloaking bit was a late entry only provided to the Federation after the discovery of the wormhole. Sisko probably was asking for a ship since the first incursion with the Cardassians but Starfleet was spread thin. After the entire shenanigans with Odessy being destroyed by the Jem’hadar and the very real threat the Dominion was proving to be, Sisko probably threw a fit at being told there were no ships available to be stationed at DS9 that could carry out the mission. To which he probably pointed at the Defiant he knew to be in prototype phase and probably mothballed in a drydock.

At some point in the conversation the Romulan deal to supply a cloaking ship for use in the Gamma Quadrant in exchange for all the information gathered using it was probably made known to Sisko and he would have pointed out the Defiant was the only ship powerful enough to utilize it given the oversized reactor. So in universe it’s all just a happy accident they sent the one guy to look over the wormhole who had first hand knowledge about an unused prototype ship and vague theories on how to get it working on top of figuring out how to get a favor out of the Romulans in a way that pleased both sides.

This comment was a violation of the Prime Directive.

There’s no windows in prison for her to fall out of.

He calculated the odds, but boy he was bad at math.

Ma’am please, this is a Wendy’s.

Some girl when I was in middle school, 14ish, used to get picked up by some tatted up 20 something, pretty sure he was at least 25 but no idea. We thought he was like an uncle or something. Nope, turns out he was her boyfriend. Pretty sure that guy went to prison for meth related activities.

I thought it was strange on steam that it was so hard to get across when I was sure when I played it on Xbox that I basically did it first try no sweat.

Find a person who makes it worth getting out of bed every morning and they feel the same about you. Everything else is crap.

If you still want advice from a stranger on the Internet about dating advice, in your situation I’d probably be looking for people closer to my age than not. But if some 20-22 year old says and does everything that puts a smile on your face, then go for it.

Ah shit, more daddy issues. I mean… Look, a new rom com with multigenerational casting!

If the projection gets much stronger we’re gonna need sunglasses to look at the screen.

There’s always been criticism but until now it’s been low level insiders and nobodies like pirate software. And the reasons the publishers and big names that would be affected did SKGs didn’t say or do anything until now because they didn’t want to give it any oxygen. They were smart enough to ignore it because they knew if they said anything it’d rile up a shift storm. Which is exactly what Pirate Software did so he’s probably got a lot of people on both sides pissed at him for being too narcissistic to shut up and let the movement die.

Now that it has enough signatures to be taken seriously you’re going to see the fire hoses open up and a lot of misinformation spread about how the movement would make the gaming industry unviable for the current model. Now is the point where if you are an EU citizen that you write and call your representatives who would consider this issue and help write the law if it did pass on how important it would be to you personally to not allow game companies to revoke your ability to utilize a game you paid for.

No, no it’s not. I work with children. I’ve never once had the urge to molest any child. I’m not even comfortable flirting with someone 10 years younger than me, who would be in their late 20s.

So no, normal, healthy and responsible human beings do not ever have anything remotely close to sexual desires towards children.