It is still an event that is mostly relevant to people living in NYC with little bearing on other US states, despite the media reporting on it as if it was a big deal everywhere. We are just starved for good news.

Most of the other news stories here affect entire countries or regions. I’ll grant you, it is more impactful than Japan sending soldiers to deal with bear attacks, but less than any other world news posts on my page 1. It would probably become world news if he pushes through some of his policies for being unprecedented in the US, though.

The problem is the word “internal”, someone winning a mayoral election should only be relevant to people of that city. World news should have bigger impacts than potential future city guidelines.

Kyoto’s tourism tax may be world news, who is elected its mayor isn’t.

That said, we are so starved for good news from the US that I confess it was of interest to me, a person not in the US. And it was treated as way more than a regular local election by the media.

Neighbourhood is dying, new or expecting parents do not move here any more. And old folks get really aggressive when you dare go around as a young teen, for some reason.

What do you mean “what”? I don’t think I could have been any clearer.

And if you meant to reply to the other comment, they meant to write horseshoe theory.

Sorry, that part was not meant to imply you specifically want to reduce safety standards, just that if you want to have it be competitive on the energy market, you would have to do something about that, or subsidise it by an absurd amount.

But the point still stands, nuclear energy is expensive, and it’s not because of subsidies to other energy sources. Please don’t claim so next time.

I’m pretty sure it’s not subsidies, but safety standards. I’m not trying to pretend to understand Lazards “levelized cost of electricity”, and their graphs are seem to be off by 20 or I don’t read them correctly, but they are at least very clear that subsidies are taken out when they make their comparison. Nuclear is still the most expensive no matter how you slice it (except rooftop residential solar, but I think that gets around paying energy providers or something). Anyway, I’m more willing to trust them than the world nuclear association on if nuclear is price competitive.

I’ll grant you a better argument for next time: Nuclear is incredibly safe compared to other energy sources, but is uniquely held to a way higher safety standard than anything else. And reducing the cost of nuclear by reducing safety standards actually is unpopular, so politicians don’t do it and the cost keeps rising.

I’d still disagree on loosening safety restrictions, but at least that would be true, instead of blaming subsidies.

Don’t claim some races are inferior to others, you are only encouraging them.

Are there not better means of renewable energy generation

Well, if you’re going to claim that, I’ll have you know that in our infinite wisdom to create an energy market, energy needs to be cheap to produce as well.

No current nuclear power plant where I live (cost seems to be rather location dependant) is creating cheap energy, they’re always more expensive than renewables. That’s why the investments in them has increased so much over the last few years while nuclear is just trudging along in the race to replace fossil fuels.

Ghost Trick’s entire second half is filled with them, but you cannot describe them spoiler-free… “When he looks at you” is the best I can come up with.

Return of the Obra Dinn, when you first look up in Abigail’s death scene.

Because it’s hens and cows that are farmed for their products, veganism is a feminist issue.

Feminism is notoriously concerned with chromosomes rather than personhood. /s

Interesting what’s written here, I actually saw it more often in some Discord server. As far as I know, there it is just for fun and/or homestuck nostalgia, without any deeper meaning behind it.

Just like calling X “twitter” or “the hellsite”, or annotating everything with parenthesis, or using or refusing to use emoji, there does not need to be more of a reason to do something with written language than “I like it that way”. How much stylisation you can inject into your writing before you stop being comprehensible is another question.

Plague doctor in 2020.

I could use his services on a car I no longer own.

Keys somewhere right, phone in the pocket inside my jacket, rest wherever.

I like to analyse stickers stuck on traffic lights and road signs.

I plan on making an app someday where people can contribute to a database of stickers and compare the sticker culture of different regions.

Ugh, I bet you people don’t even tip your landlord.

As they say in the article, it’s gambling. Gambling is inherently irrational.

Same way people won’t pay 5$ to take a 50% chance to earn 6$, but some will consider a 0.00005% chance to earn 6,000,000$. If the extreme’s are worth enough, some people just focus on that instead of considering the odds.

Yeah, Japanese media really goes hard into this blind box merch. Be it these Figurines, Gachapon machines or the new years tradition of Fukubukuro, buying without knowing what you’ll get is culturally much more normalized there.

It’s all unregulated gambling as far as I care, ban it all. Be it from there or homegrown, preying on the gambling addicts is just scummy.

Ah, you know, can’t complain.

Maybe I’ll take a vacation to the US someday and see what kind of bicycle infrastructure the worlds greatest economy can build.

For being mandatory where I live, it sure is odd literally no one decided to draw some reflectors on the spokes.