The gun nuts have convinced so many people there is only one way to read the 2nd amendment.
"Despite the Supreme Court’s rulings in Heller and McDonald, many constitutional historians disagreed with the court that the Second Amendment protected an individual right to “keep and bear Arms” for the purpose of self-defense in the home. Indeed, for more than two centuries there had been a consensus among judges as well as scholars that the Second Amendment guaranteed only the right of individuals to defend their liberties by participating in a state militia. However, by the late 20th century the “self-defense” interpretation of the amendment had been adopted by a significant minority of judges. The self-defense view also seemed to be taken for granted by large segments of the American public, especially those who consistently opposed gun control."
Tidal pays more for the artist and has a higher quality streaming option if that matters to you. Qobuz is another good artist friendly stream that historically paid the most to artists but it has a bit smaller catalog than Tidal.
I would be more accurate to say parts of the planet will become hostile to human life that currently are not. India, for example, will have human shattering heat waves. And it is hard to live in a city when it is underwater.
However, by the middle of the 16th century supplies of wood were beginning to fail in Britain and the use of coal as a domestic fuel rapidly expanded.[10]: 22
The reality is economies of scale have kicked in for solar and wind energy in a way they never can for nuclear. We are at the point where it makes sense, at times, to overprovision renewals to ensure enough supply.
The issue with renewables is storage, of course. But that problem looks to be more solvable than cost effective nuclear, a problem which we have not solved in over 50 years. One can say if we were only smarter we could make nuclear more cost effective, which is probably true. But we built a nuclear power plant where a tsunami occurred in the past, only to find it occurred again, so we aren't that smart. The issue with nuclear is everything has to be right for it to be cost effective and safe, and nuclear is too complex for humans to consistently do this.
Safe nuclear power that is also cost effective is not a problem we have solved.
This does signal what type of person you are dealing with if they don't go along with the word change. For example, if I heard someone using the negro word I would think that there was an excellent chance that person was racist. The renaming also signals to everyone racism isn't acceptable (in a very minor way). It is hard to change a culture but the words we use in one of the ways we do it.
When the world stops being racist this renaming will stop.
I believe nuclear can be cost effective. I believe nuclear can be safe. I just don't believe nuclear can be safe and cost effective. We have been trying to solve this nuclear energy problem for over 50 years and we still aren't there.
The issue of renewable energy storage is significant, but look to be easier to solve than how to make nuclear energy cost effective and safe.
The key is in the name, mobility. Being able to look at a map on the web on your home computer is nice, being able to look at map anyplace your phone works is the so much better.
It is more complex, and worse than that due to heat domes. Air, when it descends, heats up. And a high pressure heat dome results in air descending, so the amount of heat is higher than the amount of solar heat input - earth heat output.
A recent study put the Pfizer vaccine at a 97% hospitalization prevention rate, which is much better than the AZ one. How comparable all these studies is a good question.
I don't see any evidence humans are smart enough to operate nuclear power safely. There are too many examples of humans not fully understanding nuclear, or just being stupid with nuclear. For example, building a nuclear power plant near an earthquake fault line in CA, or where tsunamis occur in Japan. We can't get the basics of safety right here.
Modern renewable power is like a server farm, whereas nuclear power is like an old mainframe. Server failure is built into the server farm model, whereas mainframes try to avoid failure through expensive redundancy in the mainframe server.
People weren't saying we are doomed, but were saying are doomed if we don't do anything about an issue. For example, if the birds are dying out because of ddt, we eliminate ddt. If the ozone layer is disappearing from the atmosphere, then we try to eliminate certain gases that destroy the the ozone layer. If we find out certain chemicals cause cancer then we try to clean up the chemicals and reduce the creation of those chemicals. And there are always people that say these obvious issues aren't a problem even with overwhelming evidence to the contrary. People don't want to understand science.
But we are still here because there are enough people that can recognize and fix out mistakes.
And global climate change is one of the biggest mistakes humankind has made.
As a side note, do people think Russian trolls have invaded this site to foster dissension? If any group of people could figure this out the people on this site could.
Elon Musk has start up ideas, and most start up ideas fail. Yes, he overhypes the ideas, but this is common in the start up world.
The difference is he has been involved with three large successes - ebay, telsa, and spacex. This success/failure ratio is leagues better than just about anyone else. And he did this in three very different industries.
So his self driving car effort will likely fail, or at best be very late.
But we do need more people willing to take chances like this who can also execute as this is rare.
The relative performance of these two queries will vary by data volume. Swap in a sales table for the weights table, and make that a massive sales table at that, joining it to much smaller prices can be much faster than a group by. Stated differently, a join can be faster than a group by. This is even more true when the small table can fit into memory and a hash join can be used, and the data in the group by can't fit into memory.
Solar panels, which we have built millions of, are on a learning curve. The more we build, the cheaper they get. Storage is still a problem, but that too can handled in a distributed manner where the learning curve can be applied.
Nuclear, which we have built 100s of, never got to a critical mass where the cost started going down. Nuclear plants are just not built on time and budget. The alternatives to nuclear aren't going to be easy, but humanity has been trying to get nuclear to work for over 50 years and has failed.
"Despite the Supreme Court’s rulings in Heller and McDonald, many constitutional historians disagreed with the court that the Second Amendment protected an individual right to “keep and bear Arms” for the purpose of self-defense in the home. Indeed, for more than two centuries there had been a consensus among judges as well as scholars that the Second Amendment guaranteed only the right of individuals to defend their liberties by participating in a state militia. However, by the late 20th century the “self-defense” interpretation of the amendment had been adopted by a significant minority of judges. The self-defense view also seemed to be taken for granted by large segments of the American public, especially those who consistently opposed gun control."
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Second-Amendment