And I declare Palantir execs and shareholders the defenders of sucking on their own chodes.
That's the nice thing about free speech, you can say whatever you want, to whomever you want. Ironic that Palantir is helping the federal government undermine it.
That's not bad, but how about instead of prohibiting them from existing, we make it so that any organized religion that operates solely as a business gets heavily taxed instead(and put that tax towards public education). If you prohibit all religion, then it just goes underground, or pays off fines, etc. Better to let them legally exist In a way that actually benefits society imho.
All fair points, though I would argue that the main reason we transport oil isn't because it's cheap, it's because we kind of have to. You can generate electricity pretty much anywhere, oil has to come from specific holes in the ground.
Gas stations, tanker trucks, oil pipelines, ect were all originally built because we needed those things in order to make the things that use them go, including most of the things that bring the finished oil products to us.
And yes, it would be costly and impractical to move uncharged batteries back to where they are charged.
If anything, I think this comversation highlights the absurdity of modern oil infrastructure when compared to electric.
With electricity you can build machines that sustainably harvest it, keep the power generation away from the things it's used for, and transmit it efficiency at a low cost(albeit not overseas). While on the other hand, oil must be mined in a specific location, transported, refined, transported again, and burned at the appliance, never to be used again. I know I'm preaching to the choir here but I really think the only thing holding renewable electric power back is politics, like oil subsidies and the like.
Well yes I agree running power cables between continents is generally unviable(I was thinking more along a neighboring country/state scale). For your example, it would make the most sense to just build seperate infrastructure and have both countries be energy independent imo.
Allow me to address the battery concerns though. There are batteries that do not require rare earth minerals, and even if you do use ones that require them, once they've been used past their lifespan(which is still 1000s of times more uses than gas, which is single use), those rare earth minerals don't just vaporise and go away(like gas), they can be recycled into newer batteries, and for a fraction of the overall effort of mining new rare earth minerals.
In any case, my original point is that you can in fact "bottle" and transport renewable energy, even across continents, even if it makes no sense to do so.
And honestly, If every country had enough oil reserves, it probably wouldn't make much sense for oil either
Yes you can, using batteries, but in most cases it makes more sense to just run cables between the power grids and transmit power that way, since you expend hardly any energy just transporting it.
Yes, and I'll add that these events need to be historically preserved as well. There will be an effort to wash these events from our history, don't make it easy for them. Stream, record, backup, archive everything. Make it as easy as possible for future humans to learn from what is happening today.
The voltage(electrical equivalent of force) is what travels.
It's analagous to pushing something away from you with a really really really long stick, then pulling it back again. The stick didn't move much but you still affected something far away.
Your backups aren't nearly as likely to be subject to an immediate civil forfiture as a phone is. Cops don't need a judicial warrent to take your phone, but they do need one to search your home legally, and if you do your offsite backups in another country, they would need the cooperation of the local authorities of that country. Strong encryption can provide a relatively safe barrier for offsite backups.
Also, it's possible to have some things that may only exist on your phone and not your server/backup system(easy biometric unlock for a password manager, or encrypted chat logs, to name a few examples).
Other than literally everything I think and feel you mean? I think it's perfectly reasonable to not want to allow police or especially federal agents into my own head. My note taking apps, my password manager which links to all of my online accounts, and my entire web browsing and search history are all linked through my phone. Also signal and discord and lemmy, and on and on...
Even better, set it to 1234567890 or 00000000 or similar easy to guess pin, and change it to the length of your actual pin, now if someone tries to bruteforce your phone it will instantly wipe and you can make a case that it was the law enforcement who destroyed any "evidence" by their own actions if in comes up In court.
Yea sure, there's a good chance I would say something mean as well, out of impulse if nothing else, or perhaps I would just stare at the empty hand that was holding a pastry a moment ago and be very confused, I guess I won't know for sure until it happens to me lol.
So I get a free spam filter for not verifying? Guess I'm never verifying then, lol.