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    His over-compensation of masculinity (via violent fantasies etc) should give you a clue. The rightwing guy I know at work is bullied by his wife, who knows what it is in this case...
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    Back in the 90s, "Think of the children, we need to track paedophiles on the internet" has been the federal government's go-to argument why encryption needs backdoors for the FBI and NSA. Why there should be a Big Brother surveillance society. Since that reasoning didn't work, they've now changed the reason to terrorism. More recently, covid-19. We all know how you feel about that. So you using the "think of the children" argument to demonise trans people - one, it's bullshit not supported by any statistics, two, is it really beyond your abilities to see what you're doing?
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    I was about to ask. Not that I care - he seriously needs help and this forum is no substitute. Back to the topic anyway, in my DZ several young women have received creepy behaviour, some bordering on sexual harassment and assault. All of the perpetrators were older men, some much older. None were trans. There really is no connection. Edit to add: there is actually one trans skydiver who jumps there occasionally, and I would definitely trust my girlfriend hanging out with her much more than the creepy old guys.
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    Does that fantasy also involve jumping in slow motion? How about awesome sequences in bullet-time like in The Matrix? That movie, by the way, was directed by two trans people - the Wachowskis. (They were known as the Wachowski Brothers when they made the Matrix in 1999, but they transitioned and are now living as trans women). Seriously, these things have no connection to each other. Old guys who molest girls are NOT trans. They're heterosexual paedophiles - still wrong, but miles away from being trans. Old men like you, no offense, are far more likely to molest girls than trans women.
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    olofscience replied to nigel99's topic in Speakers Corner

    Oh, definitely. https://www.theregister.com/2020/10/05/excel_england_coronavirus_contact_error/ edit to add: what's even funnier is their "solution" being to "break up the data into smaller spreadsheets". You'd think with £12 billion of our money they'd at least spend some of it upgrading to a more recent version...or a proper solution not involving Excel.
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    1984

    olofscience replied to nigel99's topic in Speakers Corner

    Well you'll still need a half competent government to be able to exploit it. The UK has the highest number of CCTV cameras, high percentage of smartphone ownership, high popularity of Ring doorbells and "smart speakers", so you'd think it was Big Brother's paradise. When it came to contact tracing for covid-19 though our government fell on its face - only a tiny percentage of contacts were traced, with the second wave here it's pretty much overwhelmed. The £12 billion programme even missed 16,000 contacts because they Microsoft Excel version 2003 (or earlier) and the row limit got reached.
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    1984

    olofscience replied to nigel99's topic in Speakers Corner

    Recent events have shown that no, the Republican Party doesn't really stand for their old values anymore - it's all Trump's party now. Whatever Trump stands for. Lies and denial of reality.
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    Well unless your brain is as powerful as the Fugaku supercomputer in Japan, I'd take the results of the simulations with more credibility than a random retired angry guy in Germany: If that's too long: The method they use seem to be a mix of standard CFD simulation (Navier-Stokes) and SPH (smoothed particle hydrodynamics).
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    Don't joke, he might have a walker or a mobility scooter that could really cause some damage. But wow, talk about being insecure. Why do these guys fit the stereotype so much?
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    My favourite is the argument against "masks reduce the oxygen you breathe" assertion - "If you're worried about masks reducing your oxygen levels and killing brain cells, don't worry - that ship has already sailed."
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    Calling the BLM protesters, a big proportion whom are black, "mindless savages". The 19th century wants its racist terms back. Do you think people who drive 60mph in a 20mph school zone are "independent thinkers" who aren't afraid of crashing? People don't slow down in school zones because they're "afraid of speed" and "rule-following bootlickers". Same for masks. Stop it with the strawmen. I hate to break it to you, but you're being neither original or clever.
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    As people say - after you die, you don't feel anything. It's only sad for the people around you. Same goes when you're stupid. Many conservatives are definitely stupid, I'd say a majority actually. But many leftists are also stupid. People are just people, and intelligence follows the normal distribution. Well the conservatives definitely underestimated their opponent during the last election. Despite record turnout for their candidate, they still got beaten by 6 million.
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    Ha, maybe you'll see me there. I really want this to end too - but on the topic of your post, all the anti-maskers, the anti-lockdown people are just prolonging our pain. But if it were not for the failure of the politicians, we wouldn't even need to lock down at all - look at New Zealand (back to normal) and Taiwan (having music concerts, packed stadiums, not a mask in sight - because they got rid of covid). Accusing the people of liking lockdowns is a complete strawman - NOBODY wants this. I hate the restrictions, but not killing people is more important to me. The vaccines are arriving - we just need to hold out a little bit longer. And they can't arrive soon enough - looks like Germany is about to run out of ICU beds.
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    They don't do that because of Trump. The problems that cause them to do that will exist long after Trump is gone. In fact, I think it will get worse. Trump just happens to be the peg they hang their hopes on right now. If not him, it will be someone else. So no, he shouldn't be immune from prosecution. Equal justice under the law.
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    what are you gonna do if someone does?
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    Well, looks like Trump "convinced" the Michigan Republicans to do something, after all: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-us-2020-55030617
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    Where's turtle to say that Tucker Carlson is now far left?
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    Well back to the topic then... It really was just a strawman argument, part of markharju's trump-esque meltdown.
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    Is there a rule about the topic name itself? "kommiefornia" and markharju doing more namecalling than in a school playground don't seem to be inducive of intelligent discussion.
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    Markharju seems to be using the forum in lieu of actual therapy for his multitude of anger issues.
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    Hence the search for less flammable battery chemistries, and the LFP research NASA is doing. Certification will definitely be cheaper with fewer parts - each part needs its own pile of documentation. Salaries of people to make those documents isn't cheap.
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    If their margins can afford it, and it means taking more market share from the incumbent turbine manufacturers then some will do it. I actually work for a fairly successful company who uses this exact strategy.
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    Some of the savings will be cheaper "fuel", but the main savings will be in the MRO. 2 or 3 orders of magnitude fewer moving parts adds up to a lot of maintenance savings, as well as normal operating temperatures being quite a bit lower (not counting thermal runaway). Fewer parts to TSO will also save a bit on certification (which the manufacturers will pass on to users anyway). For turbines, capital cost could also be a major source of savings - superalloys in the turbine section aren't cheap to make, electric motors would be a lot cheaper. However this benefit is wiped out by expensive lithium batteries, hence some attention on overcoming the current disadvantages of LFP.