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In a liberal democracy with many opposing viewpoints, having to elect a single "head of government" that will be necessarily beholden to only one part of the electorate is detrimental, especially in combination with something like FPTP.

A directorate where executive power is distributed over multiple people and executive policy is decided on in a concordat it a much better solution.

Between 1950 and 1980 the home market for computers was non-existent.

So of course this didn't change in the 30 years following 1980, right?

That's primary energy, of which about half is wasted as heat. Electrification will bring this down by a lot.

> I imagine those countries have sane energy prices compared to Western Europe.

No. There is no argument being made regarding "legacy hardware’s power inefficiency isn’t as big of a deal when electricity prices are lower".

That's just complaining that Western Europe has high energy prices compared to China without taking into consideration how different these economies are.

Since you didn't make this argument in this thread - how is that argument relevant to the discussion at hand?

No. You're comparing apples and oranges.

Lobbying corruption with lipstick and a law degree.

Nope. Nothing will last. Everything is chance. Entropy will eat us all.

That's why it's important to find joy in the moment and ways to share that joy and happiness with those around you.

I think that's be best argument one can make for environmental protections. Forget the warm-and-fuzzy-koombaya altruistic argument and appeals on mother nature or whatever.

In the end this is about protecting and preserving our own ecosystem without which we will perish.

That's conjecture.

For all we know the universe could be teeming with life, in whatever shape or form. And since we see the first signs of life about 500 million years after the plant was formed, there's a good argument to be made that life doesn't need much more than a stable energy gradient and some basic building blocks to get started.

Phenomenal deep book with layers upon layers of ideas. Not a easy read read for a single afternoon, this one really requires you to work for your meal; read, go back, reread with new context, ponder.

Probably a bit too heavy on ideas for most and those who are only used to lighter cost might find it boring. But for me one my all time favorite sci-fi books.

Russia is currently in the denial stage of losing a war.

You're describing the human condition.

That hasn't changed for the last 300k years.