Some of these guys making the news give off a "I was an incel before incel was a thing. I've never felt the touch of a woman that I wasn't related to. My parents had to pay people to be my friends" energy.

@sean @mtcerio
Safer than coal, yes.
I'm not sure microwaves are the best way to carry energy though.
A ludicrously large number of LEDs sending photons short enough to drive photovoltaic panels might be easier to collimate.

How much that resembles an orbital laser is left as an exercise.

@Denjin @MonsterMonster
Other things they say are also not true.

Look, guys, I know this sounds bad, but Microsoft can only give away your encryption key if you store the key in OneDrive.

Which they turn on by default.

(And tell users to store their keys in.)

https://cyberinsider.com/microsoft-quietly-gave-fbi-access-to-bitlocker-encryption-keys/

@sean @mtcerio
Probably not much.
A gigawatt over a thousand meter square might make a tin foil hat and copper gauze golfing umbrella seem stylish, but would represent rather tight focussing.

@cstross Reform spokesman was at pains to emphasise she has not received treatment for any mental health problem.

Paul Krugman today -

"One thing I can safely predict is that Trump and his people won’t admit error.

Why will the brutality continue? Because these people are malignant narcissists, whose lives are all about displaying dominance. The sheer horror of what they’ve already done makes it impossible for them to change course, because climbing down after you’ve murdered people and lied about it would be humiliating — and humiliation is their greatest fear."

https://substack.com/home/post/p-185773512
#UsPol
1/n

ESA study maps strict discovery and geometry requirements to intercept a future interstellar visitor
- By Andy Tomaswick

https://www.universetoday.com/articles/how-to-catch-a-comet-that-hasnt-been-discovered-yet
More: https://hype.aero/coverage/space-exploration-science-missions/?story=c052a541-77b2-469c-84a9-c42354d52a10 #space

#Clarke suggested we need 3 communication satellites.
I'm sure he was right.
We probably need, or want, a low orbit space station.

“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.”

― Frank Herbert, _Dune_

@mtcerio _in space_ seems plausible, if hard. The _from_ bit is trickier, no?

@pre
The cost doesn't affect who may stand, it isn't at all undemocratic.

The cost is a reason for a party to not select someone to stand as the party's candidate.

_Sufficiently_ before, then.

@pre
You might care to consider that long before this the party established a rule that sitting mayors and PCCs were not eligible for selection for by-elections.

I've no idea how much objection there was at the time.

Saving the State and the Party the cost of a second election, and not risking the loss of a significant post seem a reasonable basis.
Nevertheless one member of the NEC thought th3 rule should be set aside.
Why do you?

As a note: one Tory Mayor stood for parliament. Ended badly.

@theguardian_world_news
(Also there seems to be a previously established rule...)

@NanoRaptor
To save effort, spin a Lofstrom loop around the whole equator, hang as many trains off it as you like.

@dogzilla
The American Administration regards all the citizens as monsters.

No not like that

@Fragarach @futurebird @julesbl
"Masked gunmen of the embattled government's auxiliary continue to rampage"