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• Commented on Necroqueen!
  That is not really my intention, but I'll admit to being triggered by certain posters that appear to be trying to shift the blame from aggressor to victim, while getting their facts wrong....
• Commented on Necroqueen!
  How about writing clearly what you mean then? The metaphor implies that it is somehow unfair to give weapons to a country defending itself on its own territory. Is that your position? Is it Pigeon's position?...
• Commented on Necroqueen!
  while the referee "wasn't looking" Eh? Do you believe the war is some kind of sporting event?...
• Commented on Necroqueen!
  I cannot speak to the 2013 Ukraine coup's backers or intent Please be careful about repeating slurs. "coup" is typically used when a small clique suddenly seizes power and deposes the previous rulers. The events leading to what Ukraine...
• Commented on The gathering crisis
  There is never ever a surplus of renewable electricity over the amount of electricity being consumed, so storage is not needed today or indeed in the next few years or even decades. On the contrary. Storage is very much...
• Commented on Crimes against Transhumanity
  I see, you're not willing to acknowledge that the Eastern Europeans have any agency of their own. The scramble to join NATO happened because the countries involved saw Abkhazia, Transnistria and Chechnya as something that could happen to them if...
• Commented on Crimes against Transhumanity
  Are you aware that other people than "the west" have actual agency? A lot of people in Eastern Europe decided they wanted to be as distant from Russia and as close to Europe and the US as possible after they...
• Commented on Crib Sheet: Dead Lies Dreaming
  Order of magnitude improvement in kWh/kg does indeed seem rather optimistic. However for grid-storage, getting a order of magnitude from currently $100/kWh to $10/kWh seems perfectly possible, even $1/kWh would not break any physical laws. This would allow renewables to...