Your friend should contact an arborist and not just a tree removal service. The arborist can determine whether the tree must be removed. The removal will cost more than just the consultation. A real arborist will carry professional liability insurance in case they’re wrong and the tree falls later.

Most people self medicate.

Pretty sure killing yourself to prove a point requires insanity.

Intelligence and sanity are not linked. There are lots and lots of real world examples of very insane people being very very intelligent. There’s also lots and lots of in universe content that shows he really is quite insane. The sheer number of times Joker’s only goal was to get Batman to kill him should be enough proof of that.

Gender is a social construct. Always has been.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faʻafafine

All my server drives come to me with these many hours and truck on for many years.

Great story, but complete lack of compliance.

They are both problems. They both can and do exist. Decentralizing like you suggested reduces the problems from my first comment, but it brings a whole new set of problems that are arguably bigger. Either way the capacity needed to attempt it will take huge leaps in manufacturing and installation capacity. And we need to get started on that yesterday if we want this to happen in a decade.

Yes, that’s what it will take. And we’re going to have to fight like hell for it.

I hate to tell you, very few places are building new nuclear plants as well.

The Fossil industries have lobbyists and money on their side yes, but their infrastructure also already exists. That’s our biggest challenge. And it takes functional governments looking out for the interests of citizens to build and/or subsidize infrastructure. And functional government takes an educated and engaged electorate.

Manufacturing and installation manpower are very real problems that take many years to solve. We needed to start working on them a long time ago. And they should be the first step in moving forward.

Hard sell. Also, say through collective action we actually somehow get governments to pay for a $20,000 battery for every home. How will you make that many, who will install them, who will maintain and replace them? You need a very large number of trained electricians and manufacturing capacity to make that a reality. You also need to plan for and earmark funds for replacements to make it not a complete waste. Just throwing out batteries as a solution is way easier said than done. There are a lot of barriers. That is why things take time.

Cynicism aside, there are genuine engineering and logistical problems with relying too heavily on solar power. Storage and distribution being chief among them.

Pretty sure the entire Republican party and the ruling class they serve just orgasmed at that thought.

AI will remove 41% of execs, say 100% of people who know what AI is.

Because it destroys the Internet for the visually impaired?

International law, who needs it I guess? Seems to me like Israel doesn’t need allies.

The GP.

But it IS a state. Sorry if you’re not a native English speaker but just because your vocabulary is lacking doesn’t mean they are wrong.

You meet enough doctors and lawyers and you tend to find that combination unremarkable.