"The solar panels delivered by a single container ship will generate as much power over their lifetimes as more than 50 ships carrying liquefied natural gas (LNG) or 100 carrying coal, according to recent IEA analysis."
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mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06Something professional for a long time, now I take photographs.
A bit techie, somewhat political, rather English.
I started on another instance which ceased to be comfortable.
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@cstross@wandering.shop I worry how much their collapse will drag down the rest of the world.
At a time when there are larger clearer tasks for all hands than ever before.
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@cstross@wandering.shop
I love that first phrase ;)
Much of finance isn't "product" in any meritorious way. People who build could build, etc, and there is plenty to build or fix.
The financial system is between a horde of parasites and a cancer.
A pity. The correction seems to be growing in size and sharpness.
RE: https://social.vivaldi.net/@lproven/116261777645322921
Fun. Possibly instructive.
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@mattblaze@federate.social it is a common failure mode. Our Post Office (counters, not mail delivery) embraced it when their Fujitsu software was obviously unreliable.
Bits of the health service, possibly of all health services fall into it sporadically.
The whole Administration of a major power are throwing it at themselves.
The Lock-Picking Lawyer is quite amusing.
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@cstross@wandering.shop
$610Bn is nearly a Musk
(I think that may become a large unit of currency.)
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So he'll want to conquer Canada to get the icebreaker to invade Greenland to ...
... I forget what he wanted Greenland for. Golf courses?
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@cstross@wandering.shop
Building and running a copy of the dead person has seemed to me more something a company etc would do for its convenience, or I suppose relatives would for theirs.
Thiel wakes, internally hated, officially dead, and with tasks set by the owners of the assembly.
OTOH attaching a device to the still-living person's skull which quietly programs and replaces module by module their biological brain might keep a continuous being.
Until "the seat of the soul" is replaced, and Will enacted.
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@cstross@wandering.shop @CartyBoston@mastodon.roundpond.net
(He's probably lying!)
For non-pharmacist-etc-s: Clopidogrel is more effective against infarction, causes bruising more markedly, and perhaps is expensive enough there to annoy Americans who are not the POTUS/rich.
OTOH Apixaban is more effective against stroke if he is in AF.
I wonder if Aspirin has been Hoovered, become a generic name for bruise-encouragers as well as generic drug.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@glynmoody/116266235810285474
The common purpose of our State is to look after our citizens, make life easier and more comfortable for us, and support citizens in doing any reasonable things they want to do.
I don't see any of this as doing any of that, particularly for those we should all be raising (it takes more than a village nowadays).
I suspect this was a hangover from the previous government, which saw us as a resource and life as a game to play.
The Home Office is well known to hate everyone.
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@cstross@wandering.shop
I suspect the existing rules on using people's likeness to attribute or associate a viewpoint to them cover most of that.
And the exceptions.
And the people who maliciously ignore that are likely to ignore additional, criminal, laws, as well.
Possibly more effective to set up a foundation to chase them. And disseminate their likenesses ;)
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@cstross@wandering.shop @jshawthorne@packmates.org
Something similar is a plot element in one of the Reacher books, and as I recall ends badly.
Reacher would be younger though.
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@cstross@wandering.shop
One of the short SF stories in #Nature #Futures described the situation of a simulated or copied rather than wholly artificial machine intelligence, once human, which had been put in a phenomenal number of jars and shaken, and then discarded, of course, over a long period into the future.
Seemed bad.
One of the #basilisks , perhaps.
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@cstross@wandering.shop
An essential ingredient of terrorism is, unsurprisingly, #terror.
Mild-annoyance-ists exist, and various laws probably cover them, but I cannot be terrified by for instance the application of cold #soup to a thing or person, nor a grammatical demand that un- or most specified actions be taken in or over some geographical area.
"ance" may be redundant. I expect there is a better #German word.
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@cstross@wandering.shop
Dentists hate it.
It would fit Trump more convincingly, I think.
Odd place, America, so far as prescriptions and "co-payments" go. I assume Aspirin is OTC and Clopidogrel isn't, there, as here, and I assume this annoys people and causes some people to buy Aspirin rather than negotiate Clopidogrel.
Also, many Trumpists will have heard of Aspirin.
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@cstross@wandering.shop
The story of prolonged interruption of its development when the Mafia got involved was interesting.
Via Voice via vice.
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@cstross@wandering.shop
I think you had it spot on in Saturns Children, where the successive instars are substantial changes, and with a definite vector.
Here? Less so, I think.
Host??
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A stunningly successful blow which #Farage will have trouble topping
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I hope it is a PhD, and not in one of the serious subjects.
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@cstross@wandering.shop Well, there's good eating on posh gits, but are they sustainable.
Just that I'm conscious that I live in a country which can perhaps grow 2/3 of the food the inhabitants need to eat (and considerably less than they want to eat) and we recently left an association with countries who can grow more food than they even want to eat.
To set a desired population above the number the area can feed needs a plan, whether it is making enough electricity that people will send food, or whatever.
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@cstross@wandering.shop @quixoticgeek@social.v.st @anon_opin@mastodon.social
Money is, at root, promises.
The US dollar is severely devalued.
Because Administration.
They may not have noticed yet.
Like Wiley Coyote and cliffs.
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@cstross@wandering.shop
In principle, audio #transcription includes #dictating to a person, and offers the real intelligence feature of watching the #human react.
Jubal Harshaw is running through my mind.
Including "oh I finished that one boss and sent it off"
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@cstross@wandering.shop
Is there
1) a reliable source or two of plain news about there;
2) anything we - State or otherwise - could plausbl6 do to 8mprove the outcome?
(For improvement meaning fewer deaths, more aggregate happiness, less gods)
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(There are also some problems with the single justice process, and with outsourcing of things that can generate income - more if agencies can be used to locate individuals. )