And God help you of you ever try to browse the site using an older, low resolution monitor. It borders on being unusable.

Russian oil revenues are at near record highs though so we’re still a long way from any kind of collapse.

You can’t control how or even if you will arrive at old age but you can swing the odds dramatically in your favor by the choices you make when you are younger. Eat healthily, avoid hard drugs and tobacco, drink alcohol only in moderation and get plenty of excercise that consists of four categories: resistance (aerobic), VO2 max (anaerobic), strength and stability.

For what purpose? Selling EVs is not like selling property.

BYD is now the second largest EV vendor in the world and there market share is growing rapidly. They’ve stayed out of the US market for some reason (probably worried about getting hit with sanctions like Huawei) but there are plenty of them in Europe, Asia and Latin America.

Renewables suffer from intermittency … production depends on whether the wind is blowing or the sun is shining … and they can’t be ramped up quickly to cope with increased demand. So you need a baseline source to take care of that and the only options we have are fossil fuel or nuclear.

The problem in South Africa has nothing to do with state owned companies vs private ones. It has everything to do with corruption. Not just the mild, occasional bribe here and there but rampant endemic corruption at almost every level. Corruption is like a cancer and in South Africa it’s been allowed to fester and grow unhindered for decades, so removing it will be a monumental endeavor … there are too many vested interests at stake now. I’m not optimistic any solution will be forthcoming anytime soon. Privatisation without fixing the underlying rot won’t change anything.

It will come, hang in there and give it time. When my wife of 11 years left with our two children I thought it was the end of the world. Turned out there was another life waiting that was even better (apart from not getting to seeing my kids every day). Being with someone you love who actually loves you back, who lifts you up instead of bringing you down… that feeling is amazing.

Mejor que los chinos. Por lo menos los canadienses dan empleo a mexicanos inclusivo hasta los gerentes de las empresas. En las minas chinas que he visto todos los trabajadores son de china.

I can’t answer your question but it’s particularly annoying for me because I travel a lot for work. Sending me an SMS message when I’m in the middle of Africa isn’t going to work. (In fact I found a way to make it work by enabling wifi calling with my US cell provider… but I shouldn’t have to jump through hoops to verify my identity)

Not of it’s just a quick rinse in cold water. Many people in Latin America take a shower multiple times a day but it’s not what people in the US would call a shower. It’s quick and often doesn’t involve soap. I shower at least twice a day but only one of those is a real “shower” shower with soap.

Yep… this is exactly the way. Take the high road, no matter how much it may hurt you to do so. Future you will thank you.

For most people their choice of life partner is the most important career decision they will ever make. 500 bucks could be a smart investment if it improves the odds of hooking up with the right person.

There is always an error. The important thing (apart from eliminating bias) is to know the magnitude. Radio chronological analysis is well understood and laboratories can reliably report the magnitude of the error (or more specifically the uncertainty) accompanying any determination of age. But news articles rarely publish it.

In this case the age is quoted as “at least 476,000 years” so we can infer a precision estimate of plus or minus 1,000 years.

Gmail’s UI is awful unless you are coming from the Outlook webmail client … then it’s freaking amazing.

Yes, because they keep children indoors so they don’t receive enough vitamin D. There’s evidence that reduced time spent outdoors has precipitated a dramatic rise in myopia for the same reason.

We don’t have all the answers yet but we’re making progress in finding them.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7597170/#:~:text=A crucial element in connectionists,as to sustain conscious experiences.

All the evidence so far seems to indicate that consciousness is a purely physical phenomenon … despite the fact that it may not seem so to us

If you enable wifi calling before you leave then you can leave your Rogers esim active and use your local sim for data and calls. The advantage is that you still receive sms messages on your Canadian number.

They’re called kilts and they’ve been popular for ages in Scotland

What did the Romans ever give us eh?

Unilem has a specific policy of not blocking users or posts. Basically unless it’s illegal it’s good to go. I prefer to be treated like an adult and allowed to decide for myself what I want to see online.