RCV at least allows for options, and it’s pretty easy to understand. First past the post is literally the worst.

Stick enthusiasts !stick@sh.itjust.works

I hope they implement ranked choice, so many of the current problems are from the two party system which is inevitable from first past the post.

There are versions of math where that isn’t true, with infinitesimals that are not equal to zero. So I think it is an axium rather than a provable conclusion.

With Russia wanting to stir things up, there are a lot more coup attempts recently since they hope they’ll get support.

More info: https://youtu.be/gYvht5nu7rU

Prehistoric gif coming in!

Lots of different estimates, but looks like between 11% and 20% of ghg emissions are livestock. That’s way higher than I thought.

https://thebreakthrough.org/issues/food-agriculture-environment/livestock-dont-contribute-14-5-of-global-greenhouse-gas-emissions

Yeah, given campaign costs in the US at least, that is really tiny money.

We make a lot of sausage in meetings. Brainstorm ideas and figure out what the challenges will be. Having all five or six people there at once is much more efficient than taking back the forth to each one individually.

There are status update meetings, but those are so other people know what you’re doing so if it effects them they can work with it.

Maybe he uses the Wicked Bible translation

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicked_Bible

Maybe he uses the Wicked Bible translation

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicked_Bible

Yup, free market only incentives competition when it’s actually free. Demand monopolys are just as bad as supply ones.

My friends with a lot of kids got a used airport limousine. I guess it was cheaper than an express van at the time. That was pretty cool and unique.

I used my mom’s graphing calculator without issue.

You only need a graphing calculator because you’re not allowed to use wolfram alpha, desmos, or Matlab. Since you’re mandated to use graphing calculators, (sometimes even specific models) there’s no incentive to make them cheaper or better since you need to buy them anyway.

No they fired him, but he’s staying on till they find a replacement. (He did get millions of dollars to boot though)

4.8kg per day gives 1.75 tons per year, giving an 800% increase. That’s still really big, thanks for tracking down the numbers.

48 tons per day, so it’d need to be less than 0.08% aluminum to double it.

Yeah you’d need to put up fewer sats per launch. But they might still have enough lift capacity on starship to do that.

Wood is interesting, but the article doesn’t address off gassing at all, which is a huge problem for communication satellites. Is there a way to keep the wood from off gassing? For 3d prints in vacuum, they metal coat them to keep the gas inside. Or maybe you could resin soak them? With hopefully an extremely UV stable resin. But I didn’t know what the weight trade looks like then, resin is heavy.

But if you’re looking composites anyway, carbon fiber would be another great option. Lightweight but with a few manufacturing constraints. But should burn up to carbon dioxide on reentry.