AgentOrange

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Never before have a I hoped that a Wikipedia article is part of an elaborate joke.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What do you delete yourself with in the desert? A water bottle?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To add to that, Harry Potter is the worst example to use here. There is no extra billion that JK Rowling needs to allow her to spend time writing more books.

Copyright was meant to encourage authors to invest in their work in the same way that patents do. If you were going to argue about the issue of lifting content from books, you should be using books that need the protection of copyright, not ones that don't.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I would like to think that the opening time was delayed due to the Eiffel Tower guy showing up for work at 9, calling the police and then having to wait for the cops who had also just started at 9.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Tbf that would be two dams and they did use the plural of dams, technically 'dams' could be a pumped storage facility.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (12 children)

By my very very very rough calculations, you could build a large scale solar farm with 3x power output and have enough money left over to build a 33GWh battery. That would more than cover a continuous supply of 1GW.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Hello, you called?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The consumer hardware store in Australia sells a full range of both. Takes up a lot of space. The metric nuts & bolts are definitely cheaper than the imperial ones though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's interesting to see that Australia and New Zealand did just fine with metrification around the same time. Yet somehow, the UK and US absolutely bungled it and Canada has had to wait for generational change.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I think you mean that all of your roads are laid out in a 1.609km grid.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The article says they're going to build 30,000 new chargers with two different charging standards. That's not settling, that's hedging.

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