Well, make it swappable so it can be put into another car? Or use it as energy storage at home?

That’s because you do not own the things which increase productivity so much.

Instead they are provided by the company you work for. At the end of the day all you can sell is your attention to do a job, which hasn’t increased since the start of industrialization.

Everywhere. You have to consider two points: Most light in our nightsky comes from the reflection of sunlight by the Moon. Secondly deep space is not the space between planets or even between the outmost planet and the Kuiper Belt.

It is the place between stars, which is lightyears in diameters and where every star is just a tiny dot in the sky. This is not enough available energy to power our current level of electronics via solar. Which is why i.e. the Voyager probes use RTGs as power source after they left the area of our solar system where solar power is viable.

The type of flail seen in your picture wasn’t used by the peasantry but nobility. Some crafty blacksmith probably saw drafted farmers take their threshing flail into battle as improvised weapon and thought about how to properly weaponize the concept. Also we are not talking about two flimsy sticks here. Flails used for threshing had to be sturdy as they needed to last the whole harvest season. They were made from hardwood and I can personally attest, that they are heavy indeed. The things one finds when clearing the grandparents barn …

As for the practicality of the weaponized flail: it was indeed of dubious use and it is questionable whether it saw widespread military adoption or whether it was the equivalent of “tacticool” gear of the middle ages. An iron club is indeed a more effective weapon and is commenly referred to as mace and if you take a look at a specific type of mace you can probably guess where the idea of the spiky ball came from.

Flails are used for threshing.

Not that I am aware of atm, but I am very certain that people are working on them.

It was Iceland!

How do you mean? Nuuk is the capital of Greenland and the Orangeman constantly talks about taking over Greenland.

Please direct complaints towards the developer. I’m just playing!

Oh, that guy? Whos Instagram Brigade famously posts staged pictures from miles behind the frontlines? Yeah, he probably got a good grasp of what’s going on.

Well, there can be FOSS LLMs so why not support them?

No, but they are no immediate thread to animals and people, unlike fallout.

Also, I love that everyone argues as if I was pro-coal. Fuck coal. But we don’t need nuclear, either.

Sure, on paper those are incredibly safe compared to older models. However, our current economic system has no incentive to keep these reactors in a top-notch state. Instead, companies in order to maximize profit will reduce maintenance to the bare minimum of what’s necessary to pass whatever laughable security standards are imposed on them.

That is, if there are going to be frequent and thorough inspections at all. I.e. it is well-known here in Germany that due to tax evasion roughly 20 billion Euros are missing from the federal budget. I do not believe this is going to change anytime soon, and neither do I believe it will be much different if we build new reactors.

I’m not sure that oil companies are behind the various near and actual catastrophes of nuclear power plants. At least that’s what convinced me that it’s not worth the risk.

Mate, don’t ask me, ask those NIMBYs. For what it’s worth if the German state wants to rent the cellar below my flat I am fine with it.

Russia suffered 1.2 million casualties, including up to 325,000 troop deaths, between February 2022 and December 2025.

For anyone wondering why casualties are higher than troop deaths: The term casualty includes wounded people. So basically every person killed, wounded or otherwise incapacitated is a casualty.

Yes, nuclear reactors can’t do load balancing. However they can neither meet basic demand when they have to be stopped because of a lack of coolant or for repairs.

They are. Don’t let those fossil lobbyist tell you otherwise.

Yeah, that’s why it is being phased out, duh?

Sure, as Churchill famously (didn’t) say “I only believe in statistics that I doctored myself” but the trend is consistent even if the numbers might be not correct.

It’s a back and forth, yes. Though quite often the cause for France needing an urgent power injection is issues with their nuclear powerplants. With ever hotter and drier summers leaving powerplants with little to no water as coolant and the aging buildings requiring more and more maintenance.

I can’t find the article right now but sometime late last year Germany had its yearly “Dunkelflaute” scare (Dunkelflaute refers to a time when neither sun is shining nor wind blowing for renewables) and it turned out during this exact timeframe we even exported to France because of troubles with their reactors.