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@PatrickMcAsey Because they want to have sex, but lack access to birth control.
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The problem is that the prices of things have been going up, so the same money spent will inevitably get less results.
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@PatrickMcAsey You asked why people have children. That is why people have children. Now as for why people who have the option to produce children might not produce children, there are a wider variety of options there. In Japan, the primary reason was a workplace culture that encouraged people to spend an unhealthy amount of time in the office, leaving very little time for even finding a partner, much less for being with them afterward. Each country's issues are specific to their own situations.
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@ This is different because it hit LA proper. California is prepared for wildfires, if this same incident had happened in, say, North Carolina, then it would have gone much worse for them, but this particular fire was an exceptional event, and no reasonable amount of preparation could have prevented it.
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@larsedik Also, the lack of willing partners. . .
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@janthran Sure, just not most, which was the topic of the question. Most children born were not specifically sought out, even in a given family only 1-2 children are likely to be sought out, and the rest would be spares. I would guess that of all the children born in a given year, less than 1:5 are intended. That doesn't mean that the remainder are not loved by their parents anyway.
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I would think that professional companies would just buy whole racks of spare batteries, and then just swap them out as needed to get the job done. Companies that tend to work in the middle of nowhere could either just bring dozens of batteries with them, or bring a large, purpose built "electricity truck" to be recharging batteries on rotation. Likewise, areas where this sort of thing is a common problem could have big battery banks at the sorts of places where you could currently buy bulk ice or propane tanks, and you could just grab a battery and go, replacing it when you're done.
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@Reepicheep-1 Yeah I mean you could build one of these things as a battlefield weapon tower, but it wouldn't be worth it because it would be expensive, short ranged, only work in the daytime (ideally mid-day), and easy to destroy using conventional weapons.
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@ It would probably be a good idea to make it so that when power is off they auto-rotate upward due to gravity, more likely they just freeze wherever they are pointed, which might be bad.
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Spot the bot.
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This whole discussion is so stupid. It's a 20th Century problem being projected out into the 21st. Stop. Yes, there will be fewer people, but no, this is not a bad thing. AI is rising up to take the place of billions of human workers. Robots will rise up to take the place of billions more. By 2100, there will not be a need for ANY human labor, and the only people with "jobs" are wealthy people who control the machines and keep themselves "employed." Now of course the systems currently in place are designed so that people are required to provide value in order to get paid, but THAT is what needs to be changed, NOT some push to make more babies. Fewer people is great, because fewer people are needed. All we need to do is ensure that all the people we DO have get taken care of REGARDLESS of their economic value.
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@DavidHalko Not really though.
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@DavidHalko Not really though. And the important part to remember is that even if those stories you heard were true, they would STILL be better overall than burning natural gas to produce the same amount of energy, right?
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He's using conservative math, which doesn't make sense in the real world.
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@jypsridic If you think this sort of fire happens every other week, then why has it never happened in any of our lifetimes? Many of the houses burned were over 100 years old. California is plenty prepared for ordinary fires, just like Texas is prepared for 40 degree days, but this is an exceptional event, just as the winter storm in Texas was exceptional. Of course neither will be exceptional anymore.
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@jypsridic This is my point, California is prepared for wild fires, and without that level of preparation, this all would have gone much worse than it did, but there is no reasonable level of preparation that would have made a significant impact here. The main problem was the high wind speeds early on, which prevented pretty much all efforts to combat the blaze. Sometimes nature just does its thing.
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@jypsridic So Florida is not prepared for hurricanes? Japan is not prepared for earthquakes? No city on Earth is impervious to extreme natural disasters, the best you can hope for is that they can reduce the damage, which California has done in a way that no other state could manage.
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@jypsridic That's what's you've been told to believe, but is wrong. Stop being so easy.
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I feel like there should be a law that any time a company guarantees anything, they would need to backstop it with insurance through a licensed insurer, with the terms basically being that if the company does go out of business, every customer that they promised a guarantee will instead be covered by that insurance company (who in a case like this would then outsource to some local alternative solar company). It would cost these companies more, but is worth having for anyone that claims to provide a long term warranty.
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Natural gas lobbying bots: "Release the hounds."
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I think after they sell through the initial batch, they should put out a "non-weeb version" of the vehicle, that has all the came core engineering, but in a frame that is more standard in shape and content. Something that looks more like an F-150.
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The simple fact is that places that have trouble getting water often lack the level of humidity needed to make water condensers effective. Places where you can collect water "out of thin air," it's typically massively abundant. The only way that I could think of an aerial condenser system being a good idea would be at sea, where you could build a massive scale condensor project to collect moist sea breezes, ones that would be unlikely to turn into useful land rain on their own, and then dumps that water into storage tanks to be transported inland where they need it. You could perhaps do this in the various seas around the Middle East, for example.
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If that were the case, then most of human history would have no children, because young people today have brighter futures than could possibly be dreamed of by 99.99% of humans ever born.
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@PatrickMcAsey Most children aren't wanted in advance, but once the ball gets rolling, it's often too much hassle to stop it.
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Any problem can be solved if you throw infinity money at it, but if you throw infinite money at every problem, then people complain that you're wasting taxpayer money. There is no win/win solution here. Yes, it turns out that the path they took led to more fire damage than the alternatives, but if these fired had happened six months later, nobody would be talking about how that reservoir had saved the day, they'd just be should that they spent twice as much as they should on the repairs.
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I feel like Hydrogen is mostly pushed by Natural Gas shills who want a foot in the green energy market. I don't think it's worth even starting to invest in Hydrogen infrastructure until there is a reliable method of producing hydrogen at the scales needed at a price per unit way lower than could be achieved using natural gas as a base product. Otherwise, it will just end up being a greenwash for natural gas.
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Having natural gas as a backup for cooking can be achieved with a small propane tank. You wouldn't need a permanent hook-up for that.
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But the natural gas industry wants to launder their gas into hydrogen! Won't someone think of the fossil fuel companies!!!
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Wouldn't it be possible to use some sort of special mirror or prism to split green light off from sunlight, but also deflect it away toward some other device, like a solar panel or solar heat collector? Or even just toward some plants that would not need the green light anyway. Maybe you could even build solar PV cells that are transparent to only green light, and the green light would pass through to the water.
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It's a bummer that they can't figure out some combination that provides a "middle man" on this one. Like you wouldn't need a battery that could continuously power a car, you would only need one that could charge a capacitor at least once every 24 hour, so that it would have enough charge to drive say 30-60 miles, then be at work for 8 hours, building charge, then drive 30-60mi home, and charge overnight for the next day, all without needing grid energy.
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The idea of mag-leving up a hanging vehicle is insane. I would never want to ride such a thing. IF they wanted to mag-lev up a whupperthal, the better way would be to just have a traditional repelling maglev over top of the rails, lifting the entire vehicle up. That way, if the mechanisms fail, it just grinds back down onto the rail.
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And when you don't have significant permitting processes, then people die, because corners get cut.
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Spot the bot.
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If it would be possible to make a vest that could wick away body heat, process it, and eject it in any way, resulting in a body core that is 70 degrees on a 90 degree day, then someone should manufacture it and make a few billion dollars.
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