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He’s just an objectionable little squirt. If it weren’t for Trump the world wouldn’t feel the need to pay any attention to him. It’s not like he even has particularly clever plans he just insinuates himself into whatever catastrophe his father-in-law is currently engaged in.

In another universe he is probably in some massive open plan investment bank office trying to sell dodgy shares.

Because everyone else will expect money for the land. But it’s easy to steal from dead people.

I think it’s their policy at this point to give the world cup to human rights abusers because it’s cheaper and it makes them more money. So in a way, indirectly, yeah they did.

I’d already decided I wasn’t going to go simply because I don’t trust ICE to keep it in their pants. That was before the killings, I’m even more firm than that conviction now.

They could be very explicitly given instructions to stay away from tourists but it won’t matter because they wouldn’t be able to help themselves. I’m surprised insurance companies are still prepared to offer insurance to travel to the United States, it just seems like a bad move for them.

An opportunity to take down both Trump and FIFA. Hell yes. FIFA are corrupt beyond belief anyway so who cares, them giving Trump that golden statue was probably the least objectionable thing they’ve done recently.

Also I really really really want to see them trying big up a match between Haiti and the Maldives because all they have left is the little teams that no one cares about.

Bit petty to point that out since it’s entirely irrelevant to the discussion.

In a considerably more ideal world than the one we live in, all games, not just mods, would be free and everyone could just donate to developers of games they found worth the money.

Great idea so now corporations are going to think they can get away with not paying me as well because I should just donate my labour. It’s a nice idea but it doesn’t work unless we have robots to do all the work, and then of course I still wouldn’t have any money in that scenario so the government would have to give me some. And I just know people would start complaining about freeloaders.

No one’s saying they’re entitled to free labour. But you can’t make money off somebody else’s work, that’s not fair to them, not if they haven’t already given agreement.

Firstly no it isn’t, they have an independent prime minister, and secondly that isn’t the definition of a country anyway.

It’s an independent self-governing region which Denmark provides for. It’s like 4 seconds to Google this.

It took about a century to get decent electric cars so I stand by my statement. It may no longer be true in the 22nd century, but there are fundamental issues with this technology that have not been addressed. I can’t imagine where likely to see solutions anytime soon, mostly because I don’t think there are solutions, I just don’t think the technology works.

Pressure change refrigeration is just so much more efficient. The light on your refrigerator consumes more energy than the refrigeration process, so it’s not like there’s even a massive impetus to make the system even more efficient because it barely uses energy as it is.

Where this technology might come in handy is where size is a severely limiting factor. Such as on satellites or small drones.

Is there a higher resolution non-cropped version of this map with colours I can actually see?

I’m assuming the “joke” is that the USA is the only No country.

Greenland is a country. It’s a country that’s part of Denmark.

Countries can in fact be part of other countries. It’s allowed.

No one’s saying the technology isn’t interesting just at the article is rubbish.

Who wrote that headline anyway, the headline should have been scientists have created sub-zero solid state cooling, but the writer somewhat arbitrarily decided that this was about environmentalism which this has got nothing to do with.

The scientists are not even making the claim that this is a necessarily viable technology, it’s just a thing that they’ve managed to achieve.

I’m surprised the article writer didn’t do the usual thing that science “journalists” tend to do, which is claim that it kills cancer. So we should be thankful for small mercies.

What through a wormhole?

There’s a lot of air between the refrigerator and space I think it might get in the way

I’m asking what saurce you have that says that they are more efficient than refrigeration systems because everything I find says the opposite.

Refrigeration already is cheap. The problem a lot of places have is not an inability to afford a refrigerator it’s no energy to power the refrigerator. This technology does not into address that problem. In fact it probably worsens it because this technology is less efficient in terms of power consumption.

Also I would love to live in the world where you live because over here food costs money. It isn’t free.

That’s reflection of external heat not removal of internal heat. Refrigeration requires effort and therefore energy.

That’s also impossible. Anything that does work generates heat, it’s a fundamental law of thermodynamics.

There is no such thing as a thermally neutral mechanism, because all energy is eventually thermal. You can reflect heat, as in you can prevent heat from being added into a system via thermally neutral mechanisms but you can’t remove it without exerting energy.

Did a damn lot more than old trumpy pants did. His excuse for not fighting was essentially that he had some bad bones, and for some bizarre reason the military accepted that answer.

Been from a rich family he would have probably been shipped to some logistics base and never seen combat anyway.

What sources?

The article doesn’t list any. All it says is they reached a cooling temperature of -12°C, but has no information on the energy used to achieve that.