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ephemeral_gibbon 44 points 3 years ago

The way musk marketed it was as a "self driving" feature, not a driving assist. Yes with all current smart assists you need to be carefully watching what it's doing, but that's not what it was made out to be. Because of that I'd still say tesla is responsible.

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ephemeral_gibbon 27 points 2 years ago

They're little sea puppies that are perfectly happy to cruise around while you swim with them. At least that's the grey nurse sharks we get in aus. The ones you're describing sound more like wobbegongs or similar. The grey nurses need to be in highly oxygenated water.

Grey nurses also used to have a rep as "man eaters" but that was just because of how they looked,not any actual attacks

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ephemeral_gibbon 23 points 2 years ago

Ah yes, let's take the low life area and make it 0 life

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ephemeral_gibbon 21 points 3 years ago

Except worse because they mix inventory so it's easier for sellers to get away with scams

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ephemeral_gibbon 16 points a year ago

I'm from Australia and wouldn't have been able to confidently say there wasn't a tunnel between Ireland and England. There are long tunnels in a few places and one there wouldn't be too surprising to me

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ephemeral_gibbon 16 points 3 years ago

That and incentivise smart devices like water heaters that run when power is cheap, which is effectively a rudimentary battery

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ephemeral_gibbon 15 points 3 years ago

Container ships provide an important service for many many people, and are actually one of our most efficient forms of goods transport. These personal yachts on the other hand are pure vanity projects

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ephemeral_gibbon 15 points 3 years ago

Sort of, but honestly the vapes have created a new generation of smokers and they should have banned them much sooner (unless you have a prescription and actual plan to use them to quit smoking). They were much easier for new people to get into and we went from smoking dying out to a sizeable number of young smokers.

The tobacco companies have done very well out of vaping

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ephemeral_gibbon 13 points 3 years ago

Yes, however with that it'd be more expensive to administer taxation on bicycles etc. Than what they'd bring in... So not really worth doing at all.

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ephemeral_gibbon 11 points 2 years ago

Yeah I'm kinda with you. If you're becoming filthy rich off selling access to content others made then you're fair game. If you're just doing it for yourself / not profiting it's a very different ball game though

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ephemeral_gibbon 10 points 3 years ago

Coal isn't the cheapest though. For new build power renewables + storage are. That is to say, the incremental cost of running a coal plant isn't that massive, but cost to build + fuel one amortised over the lifetime is more than renewables + storage.

So yes, you can enforce "adequate regulation" and nuclear will still be the most expensive.

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ephemeral_gibbon 8 points 3 years ago

Huh, when I initially read "petty bourgeois" I thought you'd got the term wrong, but when I looked it up to check its a common anglicisation of "petite bourgeois".

I find the latter more intuitive, as it's "little bourgeois", but both are right.

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ephemeral_gibbon 8 points 3 years ago

Probably because there have been a lot more make chess players in general historically. It's still a long way from an even split today and was probably even more imbalanced.

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ephemeral_gibbon 7 points 2 years ago

Make it so that interest on money borrowed against residential real estate can't be declared as a business loss then. That'll also make speculating housing investment funds a bad idea

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ephemeral_gibbon 7 points 3 years ago

The cost of the power it generates in 50 years aren't lower than the day it opens. If you amortise the cost of the plant over its life nuclear is stupid expensive per watt produced. It's expensive enough that renewables + storage is cheaper. Renewables + storage is also a lot quicker to build than nuclear.

Even after the uptick in cost of renewables in the last year (which was dramatic) they're still the cheapest new build power (even accounting for the integration costs). As an example here's the most recent annual csiro report on energy costs by type. It doesn't include full scale nuclear today because it's known to be unviable, but even 2030 projections on "if smrs are commonly deployed at scale" they're predicted to be a lot more expensive than renewables with integration costs.

https://www.csiro.au/...

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ephemeral_gibbon 7 points 2 years ago

Over the past 5 years the monthly road deaths here in aus have been going up, because of the prevalence of those massive cars

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ephemeral_gibbon 7 points 3 years ago

It's both. The way the first commenter used it was unambiguously "they're a fucking shit person". There has to be a qualifier for it to be positive.

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ephemeral_gibbon 7 points 3 years ago

It's just too expensive and too slow. Renewables with the additional Transmission and storage needed to make it reliable is much much cheaper, and quicker to build. The new csiro gencost report thats coming out basically says they nuclear is just not economically viable.

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ephemeral_gibbon 6 points 2 years ago

In this case it's because if you raised them no-one would want to buy them. The egg laying breeds are a lot tougher and have a lot less meet than the ones bred for meat. They also cost more per amount of meat in the end.

The simple fact is that people don't want to buy that, so it'd just be wasteful to grow them out.

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ephemeral_gibbon 6 points 3 years ago

Eh, if you enjoyed it you enjoyed it. If you wanted to you could always play through again now after these new additions

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