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Comment Re: "Have you said thank you once?" (Score 1) 263

Didn't President Obama and his special peace envoy to North Korea, former President Jimmy Carter, have a negotiated agreement such that they had a pledge from North Korea not to develop nuclear weapons?

No.

However, Kim Jong Un did meet with President Trump in June 2018 (but did not make any promises to abandon their nuclear program.)

Comment Re:Playing with things we dont understand (Score 2) 47

Well that simply is not true. Leaded gasoline was in use for decades before anyone realized there were problems with it,

They already knew lead was bad, they just thought that the exposure would be too dilute to worry about. What they didn't anticipate was just how many automobiles would eventually be on the road.

Comment Re:Charging Batteries (Score 3, Informative) 42

"Redwood will turn those into a stationary storage installation that can help reduce Rivian's energy costs during times of peak demand, the companies said in a press release."
from https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Finsideevs.com%2Fnews%2F792...

If power is expensive at peak demand, and cheap (or free) at times with no demand, it makes sense to use batteries to store the cheap energy and use it when energy is expensive

Comment Re:Disinfo (Score 1) 114

I think it has less to do with that, and more to do with using UFOs as a disinformation campaign. Want a cheap way to flush out spies? Leak that we have alien technology, say it's in a warehouse in the desert, and wait to see who starts poking around.

And: want to get people to not take seriously reports of secret experimental aircraft being tested in Nevada? Make people think they're UFOs.

Comment Red red Mississippi [Re:GOP hates capitalism] (Score 1) 118

While the red states love to engage in Communism (government control of businesses - like one warehouse for all the states liquor) for the benefit of the wealthy at the expense of the poor.

Mississippi was a blue state until early 2026.

??

The last time Mississippi was solidly blue in presidential elections was 1956.

They did slightly go for Carter over Ford in 1976 ("slightly" meaning by about 1% margin) but in the wake of Nixon, and of Ford's pardon of Nixon, the entirety of the confederate south from Texas through Virginia did.

Other than that, Mississippi has been solidly Republican in presidential voting, usually by double digits.
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F...

Comment Nitrogen or helium? (Score 1) 69

Helium and Neon are available in the lunar regolith. So substituting them for Nitrogen is a practical solution if necessary.

Why would you do that? If you're harvesting the trivial fraction of a percentage of volatiles from lunar regolith, nitrogen is also available in lunar regolith, so just use that.
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fntrs.nasa.gov%2Fcitation...

Comment Re:Breathable oxygen != breathable air (Score 2) 69

Nobody is proposing to add helium to the atmosphere in a lunar base. This is done in deep-sea exploration because they need a high pressure atmosphere, and they can't use nitrogen because it is narcotic at high pressure (not to mention the need for decompression to avoid risk of the bends when ascending).

Lower pressure does not change your vocal timber.

Comment stopping legal immigrants, not just illegal (Score 0) 277

Nobody, nobody, minds legal immigrants.

Turns out not to be true; the current administration has also slashed legal immigration:
  https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cbsnews.com%2Fnews%2Ft...
  https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theatlantic.com%2Fid...

Except for white South Africans:
  https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Fworld%2F...

Comment Re:Liability laws (Score 2) 47

The question "who is responsible for accidents" here is no different from a thousand other "who is responsible" judgements. Unless you have some reason to think that a repaired John Deere tractor is more likely to cause accidents than a non-repaired one, this is just a distraction.

We have a legal system that addresses questions of who is responsible. If you don't like the way these decisions are made, you need to fix the legal system, because changing right-to-repair laws won't do beans to solve that problem.

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