Untreated illness is a big thing in the United States period.

I got an almost brand new one in 2015 for 10K. Been paid off for a while, cheapest miles ever so far.

And the used market is already a thing. I saw a used Volt in my home town for under 9K.

Seriously I just assumed that was going to be a combination of giant bug zapper and napalm strike.

/r/blackmirrorirl

But still, sex, right?

People can do that? Just get on the internet and lie about products for money?

My thought was "I'm glad I never went to twitter to get my news".

Everyone here always thinks they are being argued with, you're not.

So I'm thinking about a possibility to the great filter that involves Von Neuman probes which you can see about here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHMIv_zAbrM&t=363s

The possibility I'm considering is that this network got made a long long time ago and it's basically everywhere. So what happens is that well before an emerging civilization can send out an interstellar colony it gets advanced enough to capture, dismantle and capture the data that's on the network. The probe network might even cooperate with this in some way. Once you get access to the probe network it's already full of all the things you might have discovered by exploring. Want an up close of the Pillars of Creation? The probe network has been studying that for millions of years. Network is also full of information from other civilizations, many of which no longer exist. You can also see that most habitable planets are already taken so you just end up improving your own system with all the new tech you just got and putting all your own knowledge on the system. So very few civilizations bother to go out very far into space, you already learned what's out there and how to optimize what's easily available nearby. Anyway just a thought.

Same arguments can be deployed against this idea too. Expensive, long build time, massive outlay of cash and resources before any power is received and a long time to get ROI on money and carbon sunk into it.

All these super expensive fantasy mega projects, even IF they did work, are less effective that just mass producing cheap effective PV and wind as fast as we can right now. All kinds of realistic affordable storage solutions are coming online right now too.

Especially since this is the third or forth crowd being rammed with a car story I have seen in the last couple of weeks, so copy cat effect might be becoming a thing.

I saw headline and was all "Haiti has a government?"

It's a secret ballot, vote how you please, then lie.

I'm guessing yes. Also surprise 30 foot fall.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXQDw0XWvoo

Usual warnings apply.

It would be more efficient if there was just a bot that posted in every comment thread of every sub to remined people "Hey America is bad". Lot less effort.

Reading the article it seems people were arrested because of shady business practices of one kind or another, not terrorist sabotage. Still in the early stages though.

There was some comedian who's sketch was about how little the sentence for attempted murder was. It's like "What couldn't close the deal? Well you can go now, we'll catch up with you when you get it right".

The FSB has joined the chat

Seems like it might be good for buildings along coastlines.

Also can't burn. It's even less of an issue if you are bolting them to the ground at a wind farm where land is dirt cheap.

That's what they are aiming for, lets us steer lithium ion into cars etc.

Probably larger battery for same amount of storage. But if you're just bolting it to a concrete slab at a PV/windfarm that's not a big deal.