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You think so? Earth and the Sun are only about 5 billion years old, or 1/3 the age of the universe. Life is estimated to have appeared on Earth about 4 billion years ago.

Under the law of averages, life could have independently developed and reached comparable maturity to Earth at least two other, non-concurrent times. We're third generation at best.

Am manager, hate should.

Should presumes an ideal set of conditions with perfect context.

Could is a much better term as it implicitly accepts real world conditions and a lack of total context by couching the affirmation as contingent upon only the discussion (and prior references) at hand.

It's also due to social inertia.

Power companies charge by the kWh because their generators are measured in total output wattage and consumers consume at different wattages at different times.

Sure, it would be easier to measure in total joules consumed per period time but it would also be easier to measure with world standard metric units. The pain of changing is harder than staying the same, so muh freedum units.

I read the Endymion half of the Hyperion Cantos this year I think the whole series is tied for my favorite Sci Fi series, right next to the Expanse books.

1- Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons

1- Expanse series by James S A Corey

3- Bobiverse by Dennis Taylor

Honorable mentions: Fatherland by Robert Harris; Consider Phelbas by Iain M Banks

I thought the same way, then became an American engineer. Fuck a horsepower, because it's so goddamned context dependent.

Dallas, from the '80s.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_shot_J.R.%3F

Does Sanders have enough life left in him to develop a far-left party? How will it differ from the existing left-leaning third-parties? How would the party stand out and "matter?" Relevant XKCD

I ask these things as a perennially disappointed minarchist classical liberal.

Is IoT LTSC a viable replacement for a Pro install in a home enviroment? I do a lot of remote desktop work to access the machine. It's either that or Linux with Proton to emulate Windows must haves at home.

That depends, how far in the future, how big of an expense, how much interest can you earn, and what's inflation looking like?

If it's more than a couple thousand dollars more than a couple years out, you could possibly make useful money with a high interest bearing account provided inflation is expected to be less than about 2/3 of the interest rate of the account.

Time IS money.

Just got Satisfactory on Steam. Total newb. Can I play?

Please elaborate

Also depends on our limits. $25,000 in liability will cost less than $250,000 in liability.