Fractional-reserve banking

That has already become outdated, at least according to some economists.
Banks can just create loans out of thin air without having to check their own reserves first.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_creation#Credit_theory_of_money

Once this has been implemented, something worse can be implemented.

I don’t like these slippery slope arguments. You might as well reduce it to any legislation.
Once people are allowed to make laws, bad people can make bad laws.
Which is why we must continue to vote in the right people, not abandon the concept of laws.

In this case, I don’t doubt that copyright infringement and general censorship are on some people’s agenda.
But this current proposal is bad enough itself and should be opposed because of that and not because someone might make other, even worse proposals in the future.

France has plenty of nuclear power.
It doesn’t help with renewable peaks in the slightest.

What is needed are storage solutions and flexible usage that can utilize cheap power at peak times.

Why is ‘threatened’ in quotation marks?

I mean, it seems they want to focus on the outcome not the reason so the title is pretty much on point.

The person who started the thread claimed that NSFW photos they had deleted “years ago” were back on their phone.
Another Reddit user said that they saw photos from 2016 show up as new images but that they didn’t think they’d ever deleted them. And a person claimed in a later post that “around 300” of their old pictures, some of which were “revealing,”

there is a difference between the end of a LICENCE and the end of something’s functional life?

This may be somewhat pedantic but the plant’s functional life ended when the license ran out.
The planned/ hoped for EoL may have been longer but if there was a 40 year license then the end of that license is also the end of the initially licensed lifetime. Otherwise they could have just issued a 50 or 60 year license.
That doesn’t mean lifetimes cannot be extended, many plants run longer than initially planned.
But not renewing a license is hardly a premature shutdown,

But NONE of that means that the plant was some falling apart scrapheap that needed closed

As already stated, I didn’t make any argument about its functionality and it has no bearing to my argument.
That said, other have claimed that the plant was apparently leaking, which does sound like an argument against renewal.

I never claimed that the license couldn’t be renewed nor that it wouldn’t be running fine.
The license period had a pre-determined END and it’s LIFEtime has not been extended.
Surely the very existence of a time limit to the license must mean that the option to not renew it after a certain time has been anticipated when the license was originally issued.

And for all that it does not matter, whether that was the correct decision or not, whether other plants had their licenses renewed orwhether these other plants are operating just fine.

If they had to apply for a renewal, then their old license ran out.
That is exactly what EOL is.

an ultra-light laptop, or a raspberry pi consume WAY less power than a full on gaming rig, and the same can be said between a data server that is used for e-commerce and a server running AI

And if external costs are priced into the cost of electricity then that will be reflected in the cost of operating these devices.
Also there are far more data servers than servers running AI which increases the total effect they have.

Tbf, talking about the environmental costs of generative AI is just framing.
The issue is the environmental cost of electricity, no matter what it is used for.
If we want this to be considered in consumption then it needs to be part of the electricity price. And of course all other power sources, like combustion motors, need to also price in external costs.

But at least pronunciation is mostly consistent.
In English two words can be written almost exactly the same but sound wildly different.
Looking at you, words with “ough”

Communism

Socialism, actually.

attempting to cancel them?

Just how many people did firing her prevent her from reaching?

Disney doesn’t want to ‘cancel’ her, they just don’t want to be associated with her.
They don’t care whom she reaches as long as people don’t think they endorse her views.

In this hypothetical scenario, if he paid by card you’d already have evidence that he was fined and what 50% of the amount was.
So the customs guys would have to bring in the same amount in cash. How would the cash part not make it into the report if there were a rule that there must be a cash part?

And once that is deposited in the bank, nobody can just walk in and make some of it disappear.

Baldur’s Gate 3 boss

Wow, Larian really breaking the 4th wall in this game.
One of those boss fights where you really regret having to fight him because he actually has a good point.
Probably still evil though.

First of, I couldn’t find anything to corroborate the experience existence of such a rule.
The article might not be entirely accurate.

But even if it were true, you think customs officials just take your money without giving you a receipt?
And how would underreporting even work if the amount is exactly specified?

“Yes, we fined him for 20k, he paid 10k by card and here are the other 8k in cash.”

but German customs rules require half of the charge to be paid in cash.

What a stupid fucking law.

Never heard of such a rule.
Afaik the reason why he couldn’t pay with card was that the card reader was broken.

Also, you lose your deposit.

There is quite the difference between 150/365 and 300/365.
One is about 3/7 the other 6/7 and now look at today when most of us work 5/7 on a normal workweek.