Santiago

[Joe Barnard 🚀 @joebarnard]

These videos are nuts, this is SO cool. It sounds like they're going for a catch on the tower next time, but if not, I hope they toss a few underwater cams on the buoys to see how the exhaust plume looks beneath the surface

[Santiago @citlaltec]

@Phrankensteyn Why would it be steel instead of a nickel superalloy? Plenty exist that can operate for extended periods at those temperatures

[Santiago @citlaltec]

@rcolvile @EdConwaySky This is true and I spent hours DIY'ing a second pipe to my single-pipe portable air conditioner with cardboard, tape and pipes.

[Santiago @citlaltec]

@_DylanHamilton_ Two massive factors: pavements in the UK are mostly black asphalt, excellent at absorbing all energy from the sun and re-radiating it as heat. "Hot" countries use concrete that reflects a lot of the energy and doesn't get as hot. The other thing is trees along pavements!

[Santiago @citlaltec]

@SandyofCthulhu @IamtheTaconaut Noooo! There's some amazing Mezcal. You can use "Tonayán". A bottle sells for 2 USD and it no longer can legally be called Tequila. Absolute rot-gut!

[Santiago @citlaltec]

@PhilipKAllan Kills me to say it, but this is an AI illustration.

[Santiago @citlaltec]

@0xMichangelo That's what I hated about Season 1 actually. Korra and the avatar team lose *every* fight until the very last one of the last episode. Writing team thought they were raising tension by bad ones always winning, but just made good guys look hideously incompetent.

[Santiago @citlaltec]

@CoKeynesian The Dark Knight Rises is one of the most egregious examples. Final climatic battle between the NYPD and Bane's terrorists and they just charge each other like it's the middle ages and get into fisticuffs.

[Santiago @citlaltec]

@JulieLovesFluff This is a huge reason why healthcare in the US is so expensive. Private hospitals are meant to compete on price, but how can they when it's an emergency? But you still have this insane bureaucracy with the insurance company and the hospital that provides no value.

[Santiago @citlaltec]

@Spelt_D_o_n_a_l @mattlovesjenni It's more about the size of the car you need to fit more than two car seats. I don't doubt this has a measurable impact in likelihood of couples having more than two kids.

[Santiago @citlaltec]

@s8mb This is an insane take. Where's the cost benefit calculation on this? How many children would be saved from abuse vs the harm caused to all men who are/want to become nursery teachers? Or the harm to kids of only having women nursery teachers?

[Santiago @citlaltec]

@RealiaAmelia Spanish and Portuguese do not use open/close. It's either to "light" (as in, "to set fire to", "encender") or "prender", which originally meant "to grab" (see "to apprehend" in English).

[Santiago @citlaltec]

@Nyct0phil3_x The worst one is requiring child car seats for taxis. Devastating for low income families that don't have a car but need to get somewhere quick and/or that isn't served by public transport. Vast inconvenience when flying to visit another country.

[Santiago @citlaltec]

@TechSpatiales @peterrhague But the inelastic demand is not likely to stay that way, once reusable launchers exist. Europe will want its Starlink equivalent. The flow of cheap satellites has increased and will increase further because launch will become cheap (but only from the US).

[Santiago @citlaltec]

@moultano There's tons of discussion around it. One other massive thing is that wheels are mostly useful when there's roads (or other flat, hard ground). They are terrible in dense forest, in mud, on hilly or rocky terrain.

[Santiago @citlaltec]

@EigenGender Working from home, faffing around with ImageJ and Excel.

[Santiago @citlaltec]

@Robotbeat This also means the profit for making ships is tiny. This means only countries that decided to specialise in building ships and developing the infrastructure and skills to do so are competitive. Any new country trying to do so needs to spend a ton of money setting that up.

[Santiago @citlaltec]

@Robotbeat Since ships are so "transportable" you can basically make them anywhere. Also means a shipyard in the US competes with all other shipyards in the world. Likewise, welding the hull together, installing equipment, etc. low/medium skill & technology, lots of countries could do it.

[Santiago @citlaltec]

@HonestlyNaoSei @cremieuxrecueil Generally speaking it's been found that increasing aid, particularly in the form of medical support and family-planning services, greatly reduce fertility rates. Basically, places with high infant mortality have a lot of babies. Aid should, if anything, be increased.