all we’re left with is people being mean and ugly toward each other.
Disagree. There would be some people being mean and ugly toward each other, but those subthreads can easily be hidden by the user.
rage is monetized on social media platforms
Yes, we certainly don't want to encourage rage for attention and clicks. But locking a thread always seemed over-authoritarian to me.
Obviously I'm only talking hypothetically here. I'm trying to understand the logic behind locking threads in general. Nothing against you or regarding this topic in particular.
Stopping working for a fascist government is collaborating?
It seems you are damned if you do and damned if you don't.
this conversation has some seeds for productive discourse, but that doesn’t seem to be the direction that things are headed toward right now.
Why is some unproductive discourse a problem? Why is it so severe that a (hypothetical) thread lock is needed?
upgrading powerlines won't fix power fluctuations :
It can certainly help
that is due to imbalances between production and consumption,
Those imbalances are usually localised (and so are power cuts, usually). Having multiple paths for power to get from generation to load will increase stability.
no amount of upgraded to transmission capacity is likely to help.
Better connections between Spain and France is certain to help. But EDF don't want cheap Iberian electricity flooding their export markets.
actors all over the world are performing trials exactly like this all the time
I marketing speak this is called A/B testing.
The key result
When researchers asked the AI to personalize its arguments to a Redditor’s biographical details, including gender, age, and political leanings (inferred, courtesy of another AI model, through the Redditor’s post history), a surprising number of minds indeed appear to have been changed. Those personalized AI arguments received, on average, far higher scores in the subreddit’s point system than nearly all human commenters
Could you build a waterproof shelter using found materials?
Rope and plastic sheeting would be a minimum requirement for me.
You listed storage and sources of energy. I'm not saying there can't be improvements there, but the Grid is the transmission network used to carry the electricity.
More power lines, more/better interconnections with other countries (France). Better load management. That sort of thing.
There are very few American products that don't have European subsidiaries.
If it really is infinite then it will be difficult to prove that there are only 2 players.
I'm curious what will happen when they try to abolish the Federal Reserve.
I agree with your stepfathers reasoning, but not his method.
In the CCTV photo he is wearing a similar coat and backpack, but definitely not the same clothes as the shooter.
Are we supposed to believe he shot someone and then changed his clothes, but not the color or style?
they absolutely will be on the list.
The list has been sorted ascending by wealth. They are too far down the list to care.
There is still confusion to be had before 1582-11-29
Yup. Nothing to be gained by getting into an argument with the king.