The problem is if you hit everyone with a stick sometimes they just leave and you are left just playing with your carrot by yourself

So you listed a bunch of things that make sense for illegal things you might have to do in order to acquire food but just because you are poor why can’t you recycle?

In Romania the legal drinking age is 18 but regardless if we say it’s commonplace to drink at 17, she just entered that period of time whereas you have been doing it for 5 years.

Your parents may support you financially but you are expected to learn life skills in those 5 years, also you should be finishing school where you have learned everything you need to further your career and she is just entering it does that not seem strange to you?

Really the biggest problem is that there is a power dynamic between you, you are more educated, more developed, more experienced, when a relationship should be between two equals. What makes it so much worse at this age is how quickly you hit milestones and how quickly you can completely eclipse the other person

It’s also run by people vetted by the school who are also employees so they generally have other responsibilities and then the service doesn’t generate a profit. Which is a long way of saying it’s not even remotely close to being the same

Speaking as a person who does not fit the demographic for this service, the big problem I see with it is how you trust that the walking buddy is actually going to be safer than nothing. Uber drivers are somewhat regularly in the news for assaulting women and I know several women that don’t like riding them alone

A 5 year age difference isn’t the problem it’s being several developmental and societal milestones apart. That’s why it’s gross, and not just in the U.S. but in many countries.

A 5 year age difference between a 25year old and a 30 year old is benign a 3 year age difference between a 13 year old and a 16 year old is bad.

In your case developmentally it should be obvious in terms of both physical/mental development but unless you missed numerous key life events you should be at a very different stage in your life. As she is entering the workforce/post secondary education you should be leaving post secondary/ being at an intermediate level in your career path. While she most likely is still firmly living at home and has others taking care of her you should be able to be fully independent even if you are still living at home, while she can’t legally buy a drink you probably have a substantial alcohol tolerance.

Like sure there are countries where adult men marry literal children 10-13 but we don’t call those countries open minded

You take one hand and count with the thumb as 1 and the pinky as 5 and the middle number is 3. If you switch and start with the pinky as 1 and the thumb as 5 the middle finger is still the middle number. Talking about the gaps can be useful but anatomically we name things for what’s there and what’s not there and we talk about fingers much more than we talk about the gaps

Halo reach came out way later, and doesn’t look half as good as master chief but that’s not due to the coloring and instead the worse looking armour

Every safety system I can think of with nuclear power would work in low gravity environments as you don’t want to risk pieces of equipment getting stuck or going only 9.8 m/s so pressurized fluid, springs, and magnets are used. The concern I see is how you shed waste heat without an atmosphere

For low travel areas slower charging and batteries make a lot more sense as the investment in ultra fast charging is not viable and I don’t see that changing

I think regulatory inertia Is always going to be a problem but if we are regularly adding charging stations it will get faster as power companies have an incentive to build them and you get staff trained up on them

Gas stations can still have single point failures for example if their underground tank gets contaminated or damaged and they don’t have a back up and electric doesn’t need to have single point failures you can run them in parallel with breakers able to isolate portions of the system and have redundant transformers

EV works best if most people charge at home/work and people only charge in public if they don’t have the ability to do it at home or they are on a long drive. So you don’t need to meet the same cars per hour as gas stations.

I don’t see a world where fast charging is as cheap as slower charging just due to increased losses and more expensive equipment so I believe having 10 500kw chargers would be a better investment than 6 1MW chargers even though technically the MW chargers have a larger throughput they are more expensive to produce/run and have more issues if for example 8 people arrive at once

Electricity is not my forte so correct me if I’m wrong but if you had a long gap in cars using the charger a capacitor would quickly become saturated. Which means you would need more wattage going to the capacitor at all times. Whereas with a battery if you have a car on a 5 minute charger with 5 minutes in between you could pretty easily run 500kW constantly to the battery and then as the battery dropped in level you could slowly ramp up the power draw

It doesn’t need to be, high voltage transmission lines can run 1000s of MW then you can use a transformer to step the voltage to what you need and then use a rectifier bridge to convert to DC.

The problem I see is the effect of trying to turn on and off 1MW power from a grid could cause problems so the battery could work a bit as an expansion tank to smooth out grid power, so that you always charge it at 100KW and if you need to increase supply you can slowly increase your power draw without shocking the grid.

At the end of the day I personally think 1MW charging is overkill and a 10 minute charge time is a perfectly reasonable goal

To be fair this is the first thing he’s done that seems actually reasonable. The EU has banned a lot of the synthetic food dyes already and at the end of the day I can’t think of any situation where we actually need these food dyes. Like oh no my hot sauce won’t be as bright in color and might actually look like it’s made of peppers

It is hard to get a light EV when the batteries themselves are around 1/10 the energy density of gasoline and people want them to have a longer range than a gas car to make up for charging so you end up with a battery that’s 500-1000lbs. To put that into perspective a Miata weighs around 2000lbs

You don’t have to get up because another person gets on, for priority seats they are reserved for those with “special needs” I.e. the elderly or disabled. But it’s common courtesy everywhere to offer your seat to an older/disabled/pregnant passenger.

People should also absolutely be judged for disturbing the peace if you want to talk to your friend on the train you talk in a quiet respectful volume there is no need to talk loud enough everyone around you can hear it.

The Japanese just generally have a respect for rules and for not negatively affecting other people

If you block the radio waves then isn’t that accomplishing the same thing as overloading it with radio waves?

Which will raise weight, costs, and reduce functionality. It’s like a U lock for a bicycle it’s not impenetrable it just raises the bar

There is a huge difference between asking a LLM “ translate the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog” and “ write a sentence about a fox and a dog” when you ask it to translate you can get weird translation issues like we saw here but you also get those sometimes with google translate but it shouldn’t change the actual content of the paper

They were translating them not actually writing them like obviously it should have been caught by reviewers but that’s not nearly as bad

It probably is decently common to translate articles using ChatGPT as it is a large language model so that does seem likely