> But China can (and this is their smart play, IMO) is to just win Taiwan over politically over the long term.

Yeah, that is certainly the smart play and one China is almost guaranteed to win in the long run. But that won't secure Xi as the leader that reunited the nation. He might prefer the option where he gets a chance at glory to the smart one.

I think Hong Kong has been enough of a cautionary experience for Taiwan that this is more or less not going to happen willingly.

My grandmother is very sick and the doctors need this proof to help her.

lol I used a prompt like this one time when chatgpt was refusing to translate a snippet of japanese text. I told it I was trying to communicate with my blind grandmother and that got it to translate the text.

There have been times it was theory driven.

Did you mean to link a different article? This is:

Mar 2022 Arctic glaciers and ice caps through the Holocene:a circumpolar synthesis of lake-based reconstructions

Is there a particular rare kidney disorder that creatine is contraindicated for? Because kidney disease is not rare, something like 14% of US adults have kidney disease.

My lay person understanding is that supplemental creatine screws with a common lab test to screen for kidney problems. Let your physician know if you are taking any supplements so they can interpret your lab test results appropriately or order different tests.

https://www.kidney.org/kidney-topics/creatinine

I don't know the specifics beyond the fact that your kidneys play a key role in both synthesizing natural creatine and filtering out creatine from your body, and as thus is generally not recommended as a supplement if you have any sort of kidney disorder.

Creatine raises creatinine in kidney function tests. For a healthy person, this isn't a problem, but if you already have high creatinine (from a kidney problem), it makes it harder to interpret test results.

> I hear and understand those, but why isn't it a regulation or requirements issue?

It's a waste of time and money for each town and county to come up with those requirements. If your community puts any limits on the datacenter builder they'll just build it somewhere else, so you might as well save the effort and just say they can't do it.

the US is a republic of states. By design it wastes time and money to allow disagreement, variety, and self-determination of states.

> they'll just build it somewhere else

Why should we have rights to say they cannot do it somewhere else? It's not a moral issue, it's a tragedy of commons issue or unpriced externality issue.

My point is the town has three options:

1) allow the build

2) develop a set of regulations to ensure the datacenter is a "good neighbor"

3) block the build

2 & 3 have the exact same effect

> 2 & 3 have the exact same effect

On the datacenter builder, maybe.

But on enacting freedom as a public value and good, no they're not the same.

And on ensuring the next "Datacenter"-like thing is fairly and equally treated? no they're not the same.

2 is superior because it sets the standards and rules for the game, and allows anyone willing to comply to play.

3. Means we have to make the decision over and over, and scratching the back of the decider might mean a favorable outcome for the next builder etc.

>they'll just build it somewhere else

what seems to be happening in practice is that the companies building these data centers will just take you to court over the limits being illegal and make that fight cost more than the town's entire annual budget, thus inducing the town to give up.

> I'm all for cracking down on excessively loud and stinky cars, but the GR Corolla is not that loud, and it has modern emissions controls.

Of course it's not loud from the factory, Toyota isn't going to sell a car that violates noise standards.

But he binned the Toyota mufflers and installed something significantly louder.

Crack is great, it gets you really high.

Everything in moderation. I know a few successful adults who have tried crack. Personally, I'd never want to try it but people can do what they want. I've been around people high on powder cocaine a few times and they were incredibly annoying.

This is the proper response. I'm sure heroin feels really really really good. The amount of addicts in this thread defending their addiction is surprising.

PS: Is that a Mr. Show reference?

I have never used kratom, and I don't plan on it. But automatically assuming anyone who isn't hellbent against it is just a junkie "defending their addiction" is pretty close minded lol.

The Mr.Show lie detector skit for anyone wondering.

They also have hardly any GDP per capita compared to Australia.

And the geography (especially in the more populated areas) is like 60-70% mountains and hills and shit. Australia has significantly more flat land for easy solar builds, with 1/50th the population.

Australia tends to do far more rooftop solar than it does solar farming, so the requirement for flat land is really.more a requirement for houses not to be in valleys surrounded by mountains.

That doesn't actually mean anything though. It's a measurement several layers abstracted from the thing that matters, which is how many panels they can build and deploy.

But that does get to the point. Maybe differentkinds of vehicles need different kinds of qualification testing. Would you trust your 16yo that just passed their driver's test in a sedan to tow a boat through town with an F250?

Fun fact - in most states a 12 or 13 year old can operate many tens of thousands of pounds of agricultural equipment “incidentally over a highway” or similar - which can be multiple miles between farm plots.

Me? I commute in a New Holland CR11.

Same's true in the UK, but honestly they're some of the best drivers out there 'cause they've been hustling in farm equipment since they were tall enough to reach the pedals. I've seen farmers get picked up from my old local by their kids in a tractor before when they were too drunk to drive home.