It’s expected that parents drive their children to primary school, or at least to a nearby carpark within walking distance. If you don’t live within easy walking distance of a primary school, you just have to have a car or no children.
You don’t hire the writers because they’re lazy, you hire them because they’re cheap and you want to minimise production costs because there are women in the film so you’re not expecting to sell any tickets except to people who’ve fallen for the social media marketing campaign you ran that said anyone who doesn’t watch the film is a misogynist. It’s just classic race-to-the-bottom profit seeking.
Your if it fully worked, the virus would have died out idea would only work if everyone in a population got vaccinated and that population didn’t have any contact with anywhere else where some people weren’t vaccinated. There weren’t any regions where everyone got vaccinated, so it’s not applicable to the real world.
Primary schools tend not to be fed by busses, and lots of children need to go to primary school rather than high school.
Depending on the country, it’s pretty common for most milk production to be cows kept in extremely cramped conditions indoors with little to no space to move and fed processed grain instead of grass. It does make the milk taste worse, but it can be so much cheaper that customers don’t splurge on the more expensive milk, so don’t know what they’re missing. Even if you only ever see cows outdoors, you might also see low-welfare dairies and just assume they’re warehouses or factories and aren’t full of livestock, as a factory farm can look just like any other large industrial building.
Lots of people new to Linux get recommended Debian-derived distros, and so end up with distro packages that are a long way from bleeding edge. If they’ve just come from Windows, they’d have been using the latest release of everything they use, as most software projects don’t even announce a release until their Windows binaries are ready, and many auto-update. That means that a lot of people have being presented with versions of things they stopped using two to four years ago as their first Linux experience, and obviously they don’t see that as good enough. Most people don’t want to run versions of things that old, especially now there’s so much stuff to package that downstream packagers can’t feasibly backport every bug fix to older versions of every piece of software, so running an old version gets you old bugs rather than a balance of avoiding new bugs at the expense of new features.
Anything that’s not a true x isn’t x at all, it just resembles it. That’s why the ‘no true Scotsman’ fallacy is a fallacy. For example, ‘bugs’ that aren’t ‘true bugs’ aren’t bugs at all, they just look enough like bugs that laypeople would call them bugs despite being a different kind of insect (or if the layperson is being especially flexible with what they’re calling a bug, potentially not even an insect). Saying glass isn’t a ‘true solid’ is literally the same as saying it’s not a solid, but with the added implication that lots of people get it wrong. There’s also a common myth that glass is really a slow-moving liquid. You said something that is literally the exact opposite of the truth in a thread about scientific facts that sound up but are 100% real, and landed on something that gets commonly repeated as a surprising fact, so of course people are going to correct you.
That article never says amorphous solids are liquids, and repeatedly says they’re solid. Your claim is like saying modern TVs aren’t true TVs because they’re really HD TVs as if HD contradicts the TVness of something. It’s just nonsense.
Yes I am, because that’s a safe assumption, just like assuming gravity will keep working. We’d need to discover new physics to make Lithium and Sodium plausibly form different compounds as our current understanding of physics predicts them to behave nearly the same. At this point in time, there’s nothing to indicate there’s anything wrong with that part of physics.
Lithium’s energy density is largely the cause of its flammability - if you accept density and capacity comparable to another battery chemistry, you can get it down to a comparable fire risk, even if there’s not much point bothering.
Chemically, Sodium and Lithium are very similar, so any improvement that applies to one should be pretty applicable to the other. That’s actually one of the main strengths of Sodium batteries - most of the research that’s already gone into making Lithium batteries can be reapplied with minor tweaks. However, Sodium is inherently larger and heavier than Lithium, with fewer atoms fitting into the same space and those atoms weighing more. If research for Sodium batteries catches up with Lithium ones, they’ll still be worse just because of that, and at that point, research would get easier gains from improving Lithium batteries than Sodium ones.
Sodium batteries aren’t seriously expected by anyone to supplant Lithium ones. The two things Sodium can theoretically do better than Lithium are being cheaper as a raw material, and working well at low temperatures, but it’s always going to be heavier and larger for a given capacity. Most applications for batteries care about their size and weight, and so the extra cost of Lithium will be worth paying.
Under modern physics, Lithium is pretty much the best possible chemical to build batteries out of. Anything else that might be better won’t be a chemical battery, and it’s not like there’s any reason to suspect some new magic thing will be created like a pocket-size fusion reactor that will make chemical batteries totally obsolete any time soon. Decades more of lithium batteries being relevant are as close to guaranteed as can be.
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He was governor of the Bank of England for a while, so he’s not totally unrelated to the UK.
It’s not really even used within the Federation, just for trade with entities outside the Federation which do use currency.
The justification for patents is that after a (relatively) short period of being under patent, because patents have to disclose how inventions work, the idea isn’t secret and anyone can use it. The patent system is the whole reason why companies don’t and can’t hide their inventions anymore. If we just got rid of the patent system wholesale, they’d go back to keeping things secret. That might be a big problem, or it might mean that, because anything that’s been reverse-engineered would be fair game, more things end up available sooner, depending on whether companies can obfuscate things well enough that it takes longer for a hobbyist to figure out than the patent would have to expire.
Technically it’s just that particular English translation that’s copyrighted. The original text is public domain.
Even then, it’s still not a particularly democratic democracy, e.g. disallowing felons from voting means people experiencing problems with the current law have no power to change it. When a citizen’s right to vote is conditional, suffrage is not universal.
COVID was more infectious than things like flu, and people who avoided the vaccine typically also were more likely to break lockdown and social distancing rules, so the r value managed to be close to/above one just from unvaccinated people (or people whose vaccines were for earlier strains) passing the virus on to other unvaccinated people. Breakthough cases obviously make things worse, but when one unvaccinated person typically passes it on to at least one other unvaccinated person, even if vaccinated people never got COVID again, it would still have stuck around, and that’s not the vaccine’s fault. A virus won’t go away until the r value is below one in all subpopulations.
The figures for effectiveness that were around 90% weren’t for getting the virus and passing it on, they were for getting enough of the virus to show symptoms, which for COVID, is more (hence why people kept spreading the virus and thinking they were fine). For a standard vaccine like an annual flu jab, that figure would only be around 70%. The figures that were around 99.99-100% were for effectiveness against serious infection needing breathing assistance. E.g. of the first 100,000 people in the AstraZeneca study, none of them needed breathing assistance from a COVID infection from the early strains that the initial version of that vaccine protected against. There’s never been a flu jab that effective.