Isn’t the whole thing with renewables that we can’t ramp production with demand and don’t have storage figured out? Use renewables as much as you can, and use nuclear to fill in those gaps.

The storage will probably have a similar lead time anyways and isn’t as proven as nuclear.

I hope this is at least banking that time; you don’t get overtime, but you can use that time later for paid time off.

If it’s the old style radioactive kind they get more sensitive with age.

The watermarks amusingly make it seem like Deanna is Riker’s beard, as well as his actual beard.

The actual 10 commandments:

11 Obey what I command you today. I will drive out before you the Amorites, Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites. 12 Be careful not to make a treaty with those who live in the land where you are going, or they will be a snare among you. 13 Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones and cut down their Asherah poles.[a] 14 Do not worship any other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.

15 “Be careful not to make a treaty with those who live in the land; for when they prostitute themselves to their gods and sacrifice to them, they will invite you and you will eat their sacrifices. 16 And when you choose some of their daughters as wives for your sons and those daughters prostitute themselves to their gods, they will lead your sons to do the same.

17 “Do not make any idols.

18 “Celebrate the Festival of Unleavened Bread. For seven days eat bread made without yeast, as I commanded you. Do this at the appointed time in the month of Aviv, for in that month you came out of Egypt.

19 “The first offspring of every womb belongs to me, including all the firstborn males of your livestock, whether from herd or flock. 20 Redeem the firstborn donkey with a lamb, but if you do not redeem it, break its neck. Redeem all your firstborn sons.

“No one is to appear before me empty-handed.

21 “Six days you shall labor, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even during the plowing season and harvest you must rest.

22 “Celebrate the Festival of Weeks with the firstfruits of the wheat harvest, and the Festival of Ingathering at the turn of the year.[b] 23 Three times a year all your men are to appear before the Sovereign Lord, the God of Israel. 24 I will drive out nations before you and enlarge your territory, and no one will covet your land when you go up three times each year to appear before the Lord your God.

25 “Do not offer the blood of a sacrifice to me along with anything containing yeast, and do not let any of the sacrifice from the Passover Festival remain until morning.

26 “Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of the Lord your God.

“Do not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.”

No, it’s his friend’s magical teacup that goes wherever you command it. This poor victim just wasn’t careful with his incredulous utterance when his friend told him about it.

In movies and TV it always looked like they cracked something in half. I’m wondering if they’ve been coming in a little pouch now for a long time but that cracking-in-half type is now movie shorthand for smelling salts so they keep doing it.

It’s nice to be able to, done get me wrong, but if I could stock up for 6 months I would. Who wants to waste time getting groceries every day?

Appletini

Here’s my translation attempt:

Imagine this as a stereotypical lame stand-up comedy routine.

“Counting Crows? Isn’t that just murder by numbers? Thanks, you’ve been a great crowd! My name’s Frances, I’ll be here all week.”

That’s getting into ship of Theseus territory which is similar, but slightly different than the transporter paradox. It gets closer when you do the whole build another ship out of the replaced parts thing, but with the transporter there’s something that gets destroyed and that something is where your consciousness is.

Even a “perfect” copy is still a copy, and the fact that the second consciousness doesn’t rely on the first to exist (they could simultaneously exist ala William Riker) it’s a separate instance so a separate person.

Because it’s still a copy, so you still die. Imagine if there was a delay between the copy being produced and the original being destroyed, long enough for them to see each other if transported within the same room.

To Be

Lemon Demon is still around? Crazy

I thought they were holding their hands(arms?) over their mouth in the last panel

I often thought that with all the trouble the Borg go through fighting all the resistance and wars and stuff they could instead just go around asking for volunteers.

Throughout the galaxy they could probably build a decent population this way, and it’s much lower risk.

Theme song slaps either way though

Why’d you assume it was gay?

What will happen if all benches and horizontal places will get some anti homeless details? Homeless will magically disappear from the world?

If I’m being charitable, it’s less about magically making homelessness disappear but forcing them out if unacceptable places/behaviors. Of course, very typically the same people most in favour of hostile architecture are also against giving people the help they need so maybe there’s some magical thinking there after all lol.

I’m the weird one who wants tons of support and isn’t against certain hostile architecture, but I get why I’m often lumped in with the magical thinking ones you alluded to.

I want nobody to have to sleep on a bench, but also nobody to be able to choose to do it either as that’s not what the bench is for! Go sleep somewhere that’s meant for sleeping and leave the bench for those who need to sit down.

I’d argue there’s nothing wrong with it being be hostile to “misuse” whatever that would be. Like how traffic calming works; “hostile” to traffic in order to make it better for pedestrians etc.

For the bench, you could make the case that laying on a bench means one person occupies it for a long period of time instead of it being open for several people to use when needed for shorter periods. It’s not necessarily anti homeless, just anti bench hogging (even if it’s typically homeless “misusing” the bench).

I’ve never seen a cast iron pan that the handle stayed cool. With aluminum the handle can be a thin hollow piece riveted on so very little heat is conducted to the handle and it stays cool (assuming you’re not cooking with gas). Cast iron is a big thick handle built right into the pan (because they’re heavy) an and tends to be shorter (because cast iron is brittle) so it’ll get hot as the heat conducts no problem. That’s why many cast iron pans come with a potholder for the handle (even the expensive ones) and other types of pans don’t.