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Thanks! It’s wild that this is a thing now. It’s like we’re living in a cyberpunk dystopia!

What, no company names to help out a fella?

The argument is that the US government doesn’t have to follow US laws when interacting with US citizens outside of the US?

That’s especially dubious when “outside the US” is referring to a legally flimsy distinction like the international terminal of an airport which is on US soil and controlled exclusively by the US government.

There’s no way this isn’t going to be abused if allowed by courts.

Using ordnance survey maps is often like navigating a minefield. The ordinance survey maps are pretty helpful though.

I don't know. It's alarming how many people don't even have a rudimentary understanding of basic scientific principles. We were taught the laws of thermodynamics in elementary school here in the states in the early '90s for me.

The biggest lesson from thermodynamics is that there’s no such thing as a free lunch. We may only be taking a minuscule fraction of the wind energy, but taken to an extreme there are bound to be some bad effects. In between those extremes, there are likely less predictable effects like disruption to local wind patterns.

I doubt we’re anywhere near that and there’s probably little chance of ever getting close to that without huge jet stream harvesting generators or turbines covering most of the land, but we can’t pretend that the energy is free and completely without side-effects.

RTGs aren’t used for power in earth orbit, because of the danger of releasing the radioactive contents on deorbit and because there’s enough sunlight here to make solar a much better option (lighter, cheaper).

RTGs are mostly used for the outer solar system where the sun is too dim to be useful.

A slop PR should be the submitter’s responsibility, but if they’re trying to push out unreviewed slop, you know they’re just going to ask an LLM to refactor it instead of looking at it themselves. The best response is just to reject it outright and have someone else work on a new solution.