It's not stated well in that article but the bill actually has an exception for secret societies to request permits to wear masks for parades and such. A Democrat state rep (forget her name) pointed out this explicitly would protect the KKK but not regular folk wanting to, say, legally protest Palestine murders, because everyone knows they would be denied permits.
Earlier versions of this bill kept failing until they added what people are calling the KKK exception.
I did an internship in a small data center. That hurt to read. Made me miss the job too.
Brings me back, Xbox live just doesn't have the same finesse in it's trash talk these days.
It's not just the financial cost though. Going solar+batteries requires a significant increase in lithium production which has all kinds of environmental downsides. New battery tech is in the world to use just sodium and such but we're nowhere near large scale for that yet. Nuclear (alongside other technology and reducing our power usage) could bridge the gap to the new tech.
Either way, good luck getting anyone in charge to agree on anything, let alone that hurts their coal and gas profits.
Good news then, Microsoft is building a new multibillion dollar AI facility which will ratchet up power demands alongside the increase in power demands for crypto. Oh wait, I said good news. Uhh....
Or bring back the classics. I haven't been called a swamp kisser in a while.
Is this the same place some nutjobs say the Vatican uses to guide a trillion pounds of gold and their illicit sex human trafficking ring or is that a different tunnel network?
I dunno, sounds like the tea version of butter coffee, which is coffee and butter and sprinkle of salt. I'd personally totally be down. Is yak butter a very different taste from cow butter? I want to try sheep butter but can't find it reasonably anywhere.
It's complicated, but some would argue the modern Internet started in 1986 (with the adoption of DNS and TCP/IP for the NFSNET), a full year after Handmaid's Tale was published even.
But yeah, Atwood stated she took inspiration from religious movements in the 1980s to oppress women, the Islamic revolution in Iran in the 1970s and it's effect on women, and the pushback in late 1940s against women working after the war ended.
All of this prexisted the Internet by a long shot.
Ol' Georgie boy wasn't wrong. (Well, about cars. If I remember correctly he was wrong about his mom's love).
No, but you can be average and Tinker Bell.
No sun to warm us, No global warming.
But in all seriousness some of the breakthroughs in fusion reactors have me excited long term. It's nowhere near ready yet, but we've hit net energy gain, just can't sustain it well.