https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_black_exclusion_laws

Certainly can excuse once, maybe twice

Sorry, what is it you can excuse?

It’s an international strait, because there is a sliver of international waters/EEZ in the Persian gulf. One might question the impartiality of the threshold, but it is legally distinct from the strait of Juan de Fuca because the Salish Sea (strait of Georgia) is wholly territorial waters.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_strait

Canada should be watching closely what happens in Hormuz because of its implications for the North West Passage.

Echidnas?

Pacifism vs passive-ism?

Isn’t the answer supposed to be to just change the law?

But that’s not the plan

I Absolutely agree. It’s Totally absurd, we Really need a new word.

I propose “dictionarily”.

Even if he killed himself he shouldn’t have been able to and there was likely a conspiracy to enable it.

I didn’t make the claim but would Jainism meet your criteria?

So I used to work in industrial automation, and I did see a factory owner buy a robot to automate a task because it was a brain meltingly simple task that was unpopular with his workers. The robot was slower, and more expensive than a human.

It was taking a small piece of metal from a stack and putting it in a machine and pushing a button (not sure if he had a two-hand-no-tie-down set up) then taking the now bent piece of metal out of the machine and putting it on a stack. I think they had about 8 hours production per week of demand for the part.

He didn’t do it out of the kindness of his heart but because he got tired of paying recruiters to find people willing to do it.

I like the actuators. Industry already uses zipper drives for some applications but the ability for actuator to have a preset curve could be pretty useful.

Third highest among Europe’s richest countries. Is that relatively bad?

I suspect it’s sensitive to only a narrow band of frequencies, akin to the molecule’s resonance frequency, but idk

It’s pretty neat though. It stays liquid the whole time. So you could circulate it to charge it up, somewhere other than where you want to extract the energy. But it looks like it charges from 300nm light (UV) so depending on its absorption bandwidth usefulness is questionable.

Abstract from Science:

Storing sunlight in a compact and rechargeable form remains a central challenge for solar energy utilization. Molecular solar thermal (MOST) energy storage systems, which harness photon energy and release it as heat on demand, provide a direct approach, but have long failed to meet practical benchmarks. Inspired by the architecture of DNA, we report a pyrimidone-based MOST system that stores energy in the strained Dewar photoisomer upon excitation at 300 nm. Designed with sustainability in mind, the system operates solvent-free and remains compatible with aqueous environments while overcoming one of the field’s greatest hurdles: the controlled extraction and transfer of stored heat. When catalyzed by acid, the Dewar isomer releases enough heat to boil water (~0.5 mL). These advances help point the way toward decentralized solar heat storage and off-grid energy solutions.

I have neighbours homeschooling their kids, that ate similarly aged to mine. Sometimes we see them at the school playground on the weekend. The kids seem fine, the parents seem normal. They mentioned they take the kids to a weekly home school kids play date, and there is some sort of education resource worker that makes sure the kids are learning what they need to.

Yeah it seems that Pluto got bigger since I learned this fact, and AI summary is also out dated

Edit to add: I hope it’s obvious I meant our estimate of the surface area of Pluto increased, not that I think Pluto is growing.

I see 17 million sq km for Russia, and 16 million sq km for Pluto.

Pluto is smaller than Russia

Edit: this fact seems to rely on a contested measurement for pluto. I guess it would still be true if we look at volume but that’s kinda weird.