you depend on the wind blowing.

For achieving maximum speed, sure. To simply guarantee you get there? Not at all - the Iberians knew how to navigate solely on maritime currents 500 years ago.

If sails were that great we would still be using them for freight, we didn’t switch to petroleum for the fun of it.

We started using pretroleum because capitalism requires infinite growth as fast as you can muster it. Particularly with modern refrigeration techniques and automation, time insensitive navigation for transport could easily be done with sails.

I’d say with Lithium, that’s only bad news.

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You took the worst possible path to calculate all of this. Just compare energy to energy, that’s the whole point of Watts.

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Could you imagine a world in which both products catch on? I shudder just to think about it

The fact it uses clear plastic for the mouth has to be a crime, surely.

The average person is notoriously shit at doing objective analysis, so yeah, you shouldn’t trust people you know.

From the tone of the first message, I’m guessing that’s not the first off-by-one error in their relationship.

Nah, anyone that’s childish enough to ask something like that isn’t worth the effort.

At this point, I honestly expected it to have been moved to some European country… I mean, what site? Never heard of it.

Also, Lady Marian

The medieval monks literally made up an entire subspecies of humans with dog heads which they actually believed to be real!

Bad example, brother.

Which is the problem with completely open ended language, which is always used in such bills so as to only apply to whoever they want to persecute.

That’s actually me removing semicolons from Python.

Source: the fact they did and you can see loads of German immigrants arriving suspiciously close to the end of WW2. Same deal with the Brazilian South, loads of Germans from that time (some of which won’t even pretend they’re not Nazis. There was a recent arrest for a man flying Nazi flags).

Future libraries still makes me laugh.

Impressive and unsurprising. As soon as you start getting complex libraries with multiple dependencies it becomes nearly impossible to review everything. At one time I had an interest in contributing to some AI libraries, but they’re a mess as soon as you go looking for points of improvement.

The most fucked up part is that, if I could, I’d happily take in some of that trash to repair and recirculate it, but corporations make that as difficult as possible so as to not hurt their profits.