TheSpiceIsLife
We aren’t in the aviation industry, and neither are we the NTSB.
Prosecutions and convictions do occur as a result of aviation incidents, pilots loose their jobs, pilots loose their licenses, ATC staff can be prohibited from ever working in the industry again.
We free to talk about all of those aspects here.
The NTSB only makes recommendations.
I was at school for 12 years.
There were two good teachers.
The rest of them, and all the staff at those four schools, are hopefully spending the rest of eternity burning in hell.
But as you put it: had
We’re not still doing those things, are we? And if they do happen we’re going we’re not turning a blind eye to them, are we?
Or is it only white Christian people who are not allowed to say anything positive about the countries they live in.
Hard to believe they even took themselves seriously.
No one wanted, since you guys started it, that fucking rock ape as the USA’s first woman president.
If she had a brain cell, it’d be lonely.
I did try to make that clear in the comment you replied to.
The battery technology doesn’t exist.
There are no fully electric, or even hybrid, options for the type of vehicle I drive.
And even if there were, are you (tax payers) prepared to buy it for me, because I’m not due for an upgrade for about another 400,000 kilometres.
Can’t put wind generated watt-hours in my diesel tank.
Can’t put wishful thinking in my cars petrol tank.
This being Australia, likely a particular remote boarding school in a particular hot part of the county.
Come back when you’ve learned how to be reasonable sort of person.
Even if I am expecting a call from a service provider, insurance, bank, whatever…
They’ll want you to identify yourself, name, dob, address.
Never do this to unverified inbound callers.
And how do you verify an inbound caller is who thru claim they are and not a scammer?
You don’t. You tell them you never give out PII to inbound callers as they are indistinguishable from scammers.
Then call the them on their publicly listed number and deal with the issue from there.
We need to encourage service providers to stop doing that as it is exactly leads to people being more easily scammed.
They need only an electrical outlet for the charge stand.
In other nearby regions Slovenians, Lebanese, Vietnamese, Chinese, Taiwanese, Filipino, Indians, Pakistani, Nepalese…
Have all managed to end up co-existing, build businesses, even to the extent that we’ve got along well enough to build a nation together.
And yeah, I actually don’t know anyone who owns slaves around here. I’ve met people from all over Europe and the USA and none of them own slaves or are involved in the slave trade.
Australian doesn’t have forced labour prisons, it’s optional and the inmates gain additional benefits for their labour and the potential to have their custodial sentence reduced.
But anyway, the whole point isn’t to say that I don’t like brown people.
The point is to goad people like you to claim I live in some fetid corner.
Simply for saying I’m white, and I’m proud of what my ancestors have accomplished.
My Dutch and Italian ancestors left their home lands and have become know throughout the word as very successful farmers pretty much everywhere they’ve settled.
But thats not an okay thing to say.
It’s okay to be black a proud, LGBTQI+ and proud, it’s okay to sterilise children, mutilate their genitals, give them cross-sex hormones, it’s okay to be a proud Australian Aboriginal.
It’s okay to tax the working class, it’s okay to artificially restrict the supply of housing.
But if you’re white, you are guilty of things you didn’t do, and owe reparations to people who didn’t have it happen to them.
If your white and proud, your a Nazi. You drink Elon’s cum for breakfast, and enjoy eating babies with your Jewish handlers in Sundays.
Freedom of expression, not executing gays or hunting them for sport; the end of slavery, universal suffrage, space exploration, being able to criticise the government.
Am I allowed to have an opinion?
If it differs from yours?
Diversity. So long as I conform?
Come April, all the production and construction capacity will be commandeered for the war machine.
But we need to build the nuclear reactors first.
In the mean time, no: people can’t just freeze in the dark.
Nuclear advocates, like myself, claim drop in replacement nuclear power reactors at existing coal / gas sites would largely obviate this.
Even adding new nuclear power reactors at greenfield sites would constitute a significantly reduced grid build cost, as the power is highly concentrated.
And nuclear is so say that nuclear power reactors employees are routine exposed to less radiation at work than they are at home in their kitchen with granite bench tops.
YIMBY.
One party fucked us over slightly less than the other party isn’t really an argument in favour of either.
Dibber-dobber.
It makes no difference, we’d still need gigawatt scale electricity production, with some multiple of that at peak, just for a fairly unremarkable airport.
I apologise if that wasn’t clear enough.
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I love the wild mental gymnastics and cherry picking data these people put themselves through in order to delude themselves in to believing solar is cheaper than gas.
How can it be, when you need to build both. Or freeze in the dark.
As you said, in practice you either need batteries that don’t exist and would be prohibitively expensive because they would sit idle most the year where only hours to days of backup are required, but in winter you need weeks of storage and the output from the panels are significantly reduced so you need to massively overbuild…
OR you need to build gas peaker plants, which also sit idle most the year, but need to be run frequently and maintained to ensure they’re ready to run when needed.
The real world data is available for anyone who wants to run the numbers.
I was in Adelaide and participated in the discussions where Dr Barry Brook[1] and others ran the numbers over ten years ago. Exhaustively ran the numbers, both with real world data from recently built solar and wind, and optimistic projections of future improvements
The fundamentals haven’t changed. Even if the panels themselves were free, the amount or steel and concrete required to replace total global energy requirements with solar and wind is… it’s incomprehensible.
If I recall correctly, it worked out to requiring something absurd like more copper, steel, and concrete, than humans have produced to date (2013 figures) since the start of the Industrial Revolution, every year for the next fifty years just to replace existing energy production and distribution infrastructure, and in so doing we would double or triple atmospheric carbon dioxide levels. We’d then have to work out how to pull those emissions back out of the atmosphere, which wound require further resource use to produce the infrastructure to generate the energy required to extract and sequester the carbon dioxide.
Compare to what we’re doing now which has barely scratched the surface in replacing global energy requirements, with no reduction in carbon dioxide levels.
It all makes a pretty strong case for existing nuclear technology (Gen IV / Gen IV+) to give us time (hundreds of years with existing know uranium reserves) to perfect fast breeder technology so we can use Thorium as nuclear fuel for thousands of years.
That doesn’t sound right, so I spend twenty three seconds looking it up:
New Report Reveals Democrats Generated 90% of Federal Debt Held by the Public since WWII - https://www.jec.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/republicans/2011...
As of April 5, 2024, the national debt has grown by about $6.17 trillion, or 21.7%, since Joe Biden was inaugurated in 2021, according to the U.S. Treasury Department. - https://www.consumeraffairs.com/finance/us-debt-by-president...
Joe Biden - $6.66 trillion - https://www.usatoday.com/money/blueprint/banking/national-de...
Gold production by country:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_countries_by_mineral_...
In only the first half-century or so of the Spanish conquest of the Americas, over 100 tons of gold were extracted from the continent. - https://www.worldhistory.org/article/2045/the-gold-of-the-co...
Context is for kings though. In the context of what occurred when it occurred, you’re right.
For a while there, Australia was known as ‘the lucky country’ because despite the folly of politicians, and general fallibility of humans, we had wealth for toil.
Now we just give it away.