Life would be like the northern extremes, just with much more land and less sea ice

Yeah. I’m good at spelling, but I still read over my errors and don’t see them until after pressing send

I edit so many of my own comments right after tapping submit, I have set up a five minute delay on outgoing email for the same purpose

You can also just shoot down your ideas as you speak them “but I would first need to clean that workspace, and that’s impossible”

On the good side your family and friends start just not believing you when you say you’re going to do this thing

On the bad side sometimes (so far exactly once for me) a friend will implement the idea you sketched that time and haven’t done yourself, and they do it wrong

That’s a fault of them telling you you’re doing it wrong, not telling you how they want it done. I wonder what they actually wanted

It really is bad when people expect you to intuit what they want from you

Most people think it’s best to upgrade 4 houses to a hotel

realistic

Has anyone personally known to you become randomly wealthy?

Keeping in mind Monopoly dollars are big enough to buy streets, utilities, houses and hotels

Wind is always blowing

This is absolutely the best world to set a post apocalyptic fiction on. Apocalypse aversion fiction is getting less credible

Accretion disc. Your word scans like a real word but seems less than palatable

The atom model we’re talking about is really, really unlike an atom

I occasionally accidentally open the fandom page for a game on Chrome with no ad block (which I keep around for Google apps) and it’s unusable. Go there on Firefox with ublock origin and it’s fine

And there’s worse sites than that

Download sites for things like Minecraft mods have several competing “download” buttons without ad block

It’s nuts people might accept these, let alone want them

I expect it’s an exec with non mainstream opinions on power generation

Wombats live in pretty flat lands. I doubt shit rolling has anything to do with it

Reading this comic in 1980-something was the first time I ever heard of people peeling carrots

My family would wash them, cut them (or not) and bake, fry or steam them

Regarding the second part, there really is little difference between buying clean power here versus there. The net carbon spend goes down just exactly enough

The only place it does matter is if you live near a coal plant you can’t directly fix your locality by buying green energy certificates

I find it odd that Microsoft thinks that nuclear power is the cheapest way it can zero carbon its data centers

Wind and solar have been so much cheaper for so long now

That’s sort of what is happening. Government is guaranteeing $1.6B of Constellation’s loans.

Constellation is sourcing a loan themselves, but if they can’t pay, government will pay $1.6B of what is left owing.

This makes Constellation’s loans cheaper

Aside from that, existing policy of government paying part of the cost of clean* power means Microsoft will pay less for the power

So taxpayers are on the hook for one and a half gigabucks if Constellation goes bust

Taxpayers are also on the hook for part of the cost of the power produced

English has so many dick words

Whole reimplementations have survived. IBM BIOS was the only original BIOS for PCs. Phoenix Technologies had a team read the source code for IBM BIOS (it was published in the user manual for troubleshooting) and wrote a specification for it which a different team wrote software from, making IBM compatible machines possible

I don’t know what law an emulator could be killed under, unless a license holder breached the user license as part of the development

Boot lickers?