That is some seriously dumb trolling.

fantastical technology

Ah, the “fantastical technology” of the 1950s.

It’s only prohibitively expensive the way that we’re currently doing it in the US, there are better ways.

especially in comparison to something that is cheap and ubiquitous

In some countries nuclear is cheap and ubiquitous. The key is simple standardization.

In France for instance, nuclear accounts for about 70% of their power. They operate 57 nuclear reactors, all of which are one of 4 reactor designs. By having standardized designs these reactors are cheaper to maintain, parts and equipment are more available. The engineers that run the facilities are more familiar with every aspect of the plant, operating procedures are better understood. It’s easier to find qualified engineers and technicians. Accidents are uncommon (I believe they’ve never had any kind of major accident).

The price French households pay for power is comparable to what we pay in the US and they generate significantly less CO2 per capita. They also have less reliance on oil states.

We could have that too if we were motivated to make it happen.

Nuclear power is a very important technology for space vehicles, probes and bases. There’s proven potential for greatly improved propulsion systems as well.

You can’t just hear the word space and declare it “nuttery”, that’s just ignoring whole industries and areas of active research and engineering.

Perhaps.

And to be clear, I have no doubt that it could heat the copper, I just wonder if it can prevent the hot liquid copper being extruded from instantly melting the copper below it that was previously laid down.

I did some soldering with gold recently and was shocked at how well it conducted heat from one side of the part to the other. I’d get one wire attached to a contact and then when I brought a wire to the second contact, the first would melt and that wire detached.

It was frustrating.

3D printing EMP parts

It turns out, you can’t make copper coils out of TPU…

As I think about it now, given the thermal conductivity of copper, I’d bet it would be damn near impossible to 3d print with it.

So, this all sounds completely plausible, but at the same time it also sounds totally crazy right! I mean that anyone could do that without actually knowing a lot about the specific system being compromised… Nuts.

I guess I’m just curious, how much experience do you have with writing software, reverse engineering or hacking? Because I just can’t wrap my head around how a layman could accomplish this. The possibility of being able to un-enshitify the devices we purchase is really very exciting.

Spooky like the X-files. Creepy, but still primetime tv.

Honestly, I thought that was a damn good trailer. Had this been the pre-EA Bioware, i’d be really excited to play that game.

Sigh… humans are predictable in the worst ways.

I mean, on some level, they’re not wrong. We get what we vote for. The best government money can buy…

This just in, many liberals are attempting to vote three times in coming election!

If you’re so hung up on this being difficult, just limit your scope. Don’t have a nationwide forum, have a Seattle forum, have a separate Chicago forum, etc. It doesn’t change the fact that this is the obvious drop in solution. The idea that Facebook has some special sauce that is otherwise unachievable… Just ridiculous…

Yeah 100%. So hey, if the cable bothers you more, then the audio port doesn’t really matter. But I just hate the battery management, so that’s where I stand.

I have no idea how old you are, if you’ve ever really used web forums, but they can be quite robust. This is obviously, clearly the technology to use. I don’t understand why you think there’s some limit, some ceiling on the number of users it can handle. The only limits are bandwidth and storage space… And with 70 million activists (as if everyone would be active on the forums, but whatever) with that many people, there will be donation funds for supplying the necessary bandwidth.

There’s just no problem here.

I think the fallout and cyberpunk both had some of those great moments of exploring morality. But in my opinion, the Witcher 2 & 3 do it better than any other games I’ve played.

Rather than spoiling the story with specific examples, I’ll just say this: these games thrive in the grey zone, it’s where they live. And you’ll often find yourself making decisions you really didn’t expect to make or seriously regretting the choice you just committed to.

Edit: now that I’ve said that, I think the banner saga also deserves a mention. That game has some hard decisions and often, some seriously dark outcomes.

I gave you one, you ignored it. And it’s not even complicated, it’s a web site with a forum…

Well if your hell bent on handing meta control, then great, do it that way.

Nice, glad that worked! I hope everything turns out high quality!

Ok…

1. Are you suggesting that a Facebook group could handle that?

2. Web forums exist (the kind that were completely ubiquitous 25 years ago). They’re a great way to handle a large number of concurrent conversations.

You can still use robust hosting solutions that can handle a lot of traffic, but the advantage of controlling the site yourself is that if wordpress decides to take it down, you can just host it somewhere else and have it back up the same day.