I’m not sure that fitting Earthlike habitats in giant spaceships would make sense without limitless exponential growth. Wouldn’t it be more feasible to put something on the surface of a planet?

No matter how advanced our technology gets, we are not going to get around the basic constraints on energy.

it’s for people with black belts in jujitsu, taekwondo, and Six Sigma

Here’s a better idea, an American pub with tequila-based mixed drinks.

Marg Bar America, if you will.

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D-tier ice cream, I only ever asked for it because I had coupons for it. I would sooner use any other soft-serve.

No, they should fire all their missile defense systems. Especially the expensive ones. Deplete them all! Raise the price of war!

The commercial “public forums” are all moribund, and the only worthwhile future of the internet is in self-funded sites.

Don’t look back, comrades. We are not afraid of ruins.

you really can’t make this sort of assumption

That was the original point about gendered language but you seem to have flipped it on its head.

As soon as I realized that it was similar to the Costa Rican flag but with 1 inversion, and switching the vowels of the latter out yielded “Cis”, I had to make the pun.

If it’s an ambiguous name you might have to check. Fortunately, Edie is an unambiguously female name, and the clear majority of binary trans people pick clearly gender-coded names.

What did you think it was… the flag of Cista Roca?

I am tickled by this and fully support your TIL process.

Calvinist rapture eschatology for the new atheist crowd.

The nucleus is the library of the cell.

Probably a way to make wind and solar more viable.

Regardless, the bulk of what will allow us to have a civilization powered by renewables is going to be cutting down consumption (and staggering it with a smart grid): not driving cars, arranging and insulating buildings so that they don’t lose as much of their temperature differential to the outside (and also don’t need cars to get around), making things that are designed to be repaired instead of replaced, using direct combustion for heat, and human-power wherever feasible.

In short, concentrating most energy consumption at point-of-use for better efficiency and less materials, and keeping the remainder direct and human-scaled.

And imho it is still going to make more sense to fill in the gaps for the base load with biomass from coppiced trees.

All you need is an overpaid finance professional in the scene, and you’d have a microcosm of the economy at large.

americans are a depraved nation of people who cannot exist without consooming and generating inordinate amounts of trash

the need for trash disposal is even more fundamental to an american than drinking water, they will each generate more than 2 kg of trash every day

an american would have a panic attack if they didn’t have a place to throw their trash

the iroquois are People of the Pines, the lakota/oceti sakowin are People of the Buffalo, the nahuatl are People of the Corn, the descendents of tiwanaku on the andean high plain are People of the Water, and a truly accurate moniker for Americans would be

People of the Trash

Never had that problem, maybe because I have the thigh-gap body type.

If you like doing your job and going home

You enjoy your employment and you even enjoy your commute. Then what’s the problem? Are your coworkers having an even better time at work than you are? I don’t understand.

I love the idea of ditching Reddit, a site owned by a for-profit corporation and run by unaccountable admins, for a decentralized alternative where people have more choice and power over their own content…

…but why do people have to make it so political?