Sodium Ion is a real game changer. But I doubt it will compete with Lithium Ion on energy density anytime soon.

But that’s not necessary to make major changes in the power grid. Solar and wind is already cheapest form of energy generation even considering the expense of Lithium to store the energy when renewables aren’t generating. If you’re just installing stationary battery banks, you don’t care that much about the energy density as you would for a battery in a car or phone. Set up banks of cheap sodium ion batteries strategically and not only do you have plenty of power stored for when it’s not sunny or windy, you may avoid widespread power outages when power lines are downed.

Evil triumphs when good people do nothing.

He leaks secrets that remind him of the good times He leaks secrets that remind of the better times

Oh Petey boyyyyyy

Well the person that created Mary Sue probably shouldn’t get so much flak if they were making TNG fanfic in 1973.

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Wesley was a Mary Sue. The writers of Star Trek should’ve been able to avoid that trope given the original Mary Sue was a character in a Star Trek fanfic.

Why the hell is a kid at the helm Starship? Apparently because “he’s a genius”. Someone piloting an airliner has to have many many hours of experiencing before they’re allowed to do that, but apparently in the future you just have to be a smart kid, experience doesn’t matter?

And yeah he solves the problems adults can’t figure out. It’s this weird thing where writers think they need a kid in something so kids will like it. And even better yet, a kid that’s smarter than the adults! It winds up just annoying everyone.

Typical of American culture isn’t it? Just say bullshit loudly and confidently enough and attack anyone who questions you. Insult the other person. Never admit you’re wrong.

Y’all are becoming more Trumpian every day.

People tend to use a lot of jargon when they’re trying to convince others they know what they’re doing.

I’m supposed to ignore the fact that Hamas tortures people? I’m supposed to ignore the fact that Hamas has objectively made things horrible for the Palestinian people?

While you make jokes and memes, while Palestinians in the parts of Gaza Hamas still controls are being tortured. You don’t care about Palestinians, you only care about conforming to meme culture.

Ok… so why are we in “Late stage capitalism” now, and we weren’t in the 1930s? Things were way worse in the 1930s than now.

Perhaps there were some changes in economic policy that fixed the problems then? What reason do we have to believe the solutions that didn’t work in the past (ie. communism) will work now, and the solutions that actually did work in the past won’t work now?

So you agree that constant attacks on the media (the post above for example) and the political opposition to Trump (the many many attacks on the democrats we see everywhere) is being done by those indoctrinated by a fascist society?

So “liberal hypocrisy” is worse than torturing people?

Cognitive dissonance is when you spend all day attacking the exact same things the fascists attack and you think you’re not working for them.

Yup, it’ll screw up, but so do middle managers.

Another use case is replace Hollywood movie execs with LLMs. Sure it will greenlight unoriginal movies, but it would be no real change over the current state of things.

Whataboutism. Whatever you say doesn’t matter to the people Hamas is oppressing.

And really how has the violence of Hamas benefited the Palestinian people? Like at all?

If Cuba were a democracy then sure. But it’s not. So it’s authoritarian vs. authoritarian. No matter what you do, you’re helping an authoritarian asshole.

Hamas tortures people when they speak out against them.

While you joke around and pretend to support the Palestinian people, actual Palestinians are being tortured and killed by Hamas.

“Late stage capitalism” is not a call to action, it’s a call to apathy. It’s used by monetized “socialist” influencers to give a permission structure for people to continue buying from their merch stores.

The logic is the failure of capitalism is inevitable so you don’t need to do anything. So you may as well buy some swag to signal to others that “you get it”. It’s the slogan of those that want to fall in line with the “socialist” aesthetic, without thinking about how socialism is just another thing packaged and sold in a capitalist system.

Are you a bot? Or just an American?