Maybe? It won’t stop them all, but the network effect also works in reverse - one teen leaves, and it’s less attractive to their friends. Hmm, I should check the latest from Australia.

Are you trying to tell us that a government designed entirely around surviving a US bombing won’t be easily dislodged by US bombing? Really?? /s

IIRC it’s still a bit cheaper than gas, but pretty close.

If exchange rates come into play it can of course get a lot more stark. Like, North Korea probably burns coal in anything humanly possible. They don’t have domestic oil, and forex to buy things is precious to them.

This would have worked way better centuries ago. Now, anything with a coast is a bit of a surprise bag.

Australia is far from England, and NZ is literally antipodal to Spain which is close, but they’re pretty English and not very Papuan or Indonesian.

Or they need employees to expand that AI integration, since management is obviously onboard with it. Or they literally just have hype and the economy is booming, and can hire because of it.

Unexpected. It’s probably down to who has investor money to spend on new hires, TBH.

If it lasts that will be WTF, because AI that does nothing should actually just leave hiring about where it is, and AI that does something should lead to layoffs.

Other plant oils are even better yet, if you don’t insist on the consistency. Except peanut, maybe? I forget.

Learn a second language and keep up with the language your parents speak. You will regret being a brat about not wanting to speak this language especially as your family members pass.

Languages are the one thing that gets harder as you get older. Kinda why immersion schooling seems like a decent idea, even if it delays other skills a bit.

Also, Peskov would like you to know water is dry.

American English is the most spoken kind and pretty close to British RP, so it’s not Quebecois. If you want a weird dialect, maybe Jamaican patois, or some of the ones from backcountry UK.

I think you already have the answer, and know everyone else here agrees with you.

Ah, the wonders of geopoliticking with someone who values words about as much as actions.

Why yes, Trump is right, the sky is green. In fact, it’s blue, which is a kind of green.

Like the first on-site comment said, that feels like predicting something after it’s already kind of happening - Venezuela is currently under US proxy control, and it seems to be holding, and Iran is currently having a power vacuum bombed into it. For the same reason 2050 is too far off.

Lightbulb moment implies he’s learned something.

Oh right. I supposed unless it’s absolutely cooking a thermal blanket would hide it decently well. You’d need to be careful the radio/microwave frequencies of interest aren’t blocked as well, though.

Edit: If it’s a non-directional transmitter you can just find it pretty easily from it’s transmissions anyway.

A receiver should be totally cold.

Noo not Fossangel too!

Hmm, how much heat does it take for something to become visible? A high power antenna will get hot, but if it’s a signal type that’s jamming resistant otherwise maybe it can use a normal civilian level of power.

You’ll need a big dish or phased array to get that kind of directionality, but it’s doable.

If you wanted to do radio stations, which are on longer wavelengths, it probably isn’t anymore.

I would be surprised if anything comes of it on trade. Continuing the status quo on Ukraine might be achievable with the right ass-kissing, though. Assuming there’s anything left of US resources to go around.

Another way to bypass YouTube.