I think I understand a bit better now, thanks for your interesting comments !

You asked for something politely, someone gave it to you politely, and you politely conceded the argument.

What is this place?

I get that taste has a lot to do with it, but usually when I read one of the SF “classic”, even though I don’t like it I can see what other people like in it. Ubik is really one of the first where I didn’t understand this. I just read an article saying that what I consider a lack of connections between the different part of the story is in fact a writing effect, to make readers have a “dreamy feeling” while reading the book. I hadn’t considered it that way, and was looking to analysis like this, I’m not trying to tell people my taste is better, just wanted to have their input on the book

Exactly, this is known as the Jevons paradox

How can anyone not be sure, with all the videos, the reports from the NGO, hell even the bragging from the IDF

Hey, you’re not supposed to say this out loud!

Multiple times, voluntarily

Not saying he did, but he 100% would if he could

Who controls the couriers though

Still better than when everyone was talking about the no poop for 3 days guy

No.

Me, living in France, where a cafeteria room is mandatory, 1-2h long lunchs are the norm and your employer has to give you at least 4-5€/day to buy lunch:

Absolument, d’ailleurs la centrale devra être arrêtée pour changer le couvercle de la cuve du réacteur dans quelques mois suite à des malfaçons, je ne comprends pas pourquoi des gens t’ont downvotés

J’imagine pas comment ça a pas levé de gros red-flag chez les mecs ?

La culture du viol est réelle est très présente, à un moment faut pas tourner autour du pot, y’a pas d’autres termes ou d’explications

Jr serai curieux de voir à quel point les compétences ont été internalisees et l’impact sur cela aura sur le prochain projet d’epr. Si on a fait tout ça pour se taper les mêmes merdes sur une nouvelle centrale, l’EPR n’est clairement pas une option viable pour notre mix énergétique

Not blockable by any government would be a positive in my book if it didn’t imply bloclable by a single billionaire with huge mood swing. Don’t forget how musk switched off starlink in Crimea at Putin’s request when the Russian realized starlink guided missile were heading towards their ships (Source

TBH he even started a concurrent of it, so he probably expected Twitter to lose value

Lien Insta

Negative pricing IS a demand shaping method, you need to have a certain % of the electricity produced that is consumed at the same time, otherwise you risk having an unstable electricity grid.

I’m not sure that their stay will be long enough that microgravity becomes a problem, I saw here that average mission length is around 6 months