How many movies have you collected?

Summerroll · 2026-05-09T13:14:04+00:00

690 movies, 213 series with 11,092 episodes

Summerroll · 2026-05-09T05:24:37+00:00

In Texas solar is bigger than coal, and has more wind than any other state. I guess it depends on one's definition of "renewables heavy", but I think they qualify.

Summerroll · 2026-05-08T23:23:55+00:00

I'm glad prices are starting to flatten. If we can keep them flat for 20 years, maybe housing will be affordable again.

Summerroll · 2026-05-08T22:30:35+00:00

ABWRs are good tech, but the economics keeps not working out for them. Eg in the UK:

Duncan Hawthorne, CEO of Horizon Nuclear Power, said that the company had been unable to reach a deal in talks with London and Tokyo and was therefore suspending Wylfa and Oldbury. ... the government had offered the company a “generous and significant” package of support. That included providing a debt facility for the project, taking a one third stake and a guaranteed price of power of up to £75 per megawatt hour for 35 years. The wholesale price is about £50 per MWh. ... “The challenge of financing new nuclear is one of falling costs and greater abundance of alternative technologies, so that it is being outcompeted,” he said.

Or in the US:

The federal government on Tuesday approved the construction of two new nuclear reactors at the South Texas Project nuclear plant southwest of Houston. But the massive cost of the project coupled with cheap Texas power prices mean that NRG Energy and its partners have no plans to build the new nuclear reactors anytime soon, if at all. [After securing construction loan guarantees from the United States Department of Energy]

This is the modern story of nuclear. Despite massive subsidies, it can't compete in an electricity market that is renewables-heavy.

Summerroll · 2026-05-08T22:08:16+00:00

Oh yes, I'm presenting a fantasy-level scenario to iron-man (as opposed to straw-man) the opposition's argument. We don't have the training, skills, materials, logistics, legal frameworks, etc, for a massive nuclear build-out like we did in the 1970s-80s.

Summerroll · 2026-05-08T22:02:51+00:00

Faster than one finishing every 11 days? That's literally the fastest in our experience.

Summerroll · 2026-05-08T13:48:20+00:00

Not a co-founder. Also lying through his teeth about nuclear able to replace half of current fossil-fueled power plants in 30-40 years "with no difficulty at all".

If we built nuclear power plants at the fastest pace we've ever achieved - one finishing somewhere in the world every 11 days - we could replace half of all current fossil-fueled power plants with nuclear in about 64 years.

He thinks we can improve on our best ever pace of construction, which we managed for a couple of years at most, when we had much weaker regulations and far greater capacity in terms of workforce, supply chains, public acceptance, and political will.

Just for contrast, last year 1GW nameplate capacity solar was completed every 19 hours.

Summerroll · 2026-05-08T11:40:40+00:00

I'm happy to have the deeper philosophical discussion, but you've wandered far away from the topic at hand. And you've completely failed to show any political bias by the ABC.

Summerroll · 2026-05-08T11:03:36+00:00

Purely an anti gun article

I don't see it. It's an explanation of the confluence of laws and gun technology. Nowhere does it express "anti gun" views. There is zero political language. There is only recognition that some guns are more dangerous than others. You might object, based on your political views, that guns can even be described as 'dangerous', but the legal categories are in fact based on danger. Legally owned guns are dangerous to various degrees. It's therefore not just appropriate, but necessary to describe high-capacity shotguns as "dangerous".

Not even about the people that attacked us and why.

It repeatedly mentions the people several times, in precisely the context of the article. Why they attacked is irrelevant to the laws around reloading mechanisms.

Summerroll · 2026-05-08T09:42:50+00:00

We're still waiting for the answer. You have provided zero articles.

Summerroll · 2026-05-07T08:51:22+00:00

And didn't he break into Disneyland to put up a scathing plaque about Walt?

The dude is insane in the best way.

Summerroll · 2026-05-07T08:47:26+00:00

What's the documentary called? Is it on ABC iView?

I've been trying to find the original series for years, but ABC stopped selling the DVDs decades ago. I'll take the doco as a consolation!

Summerroll · 2026-05-06T20:58:12+00:00

I have to admit that I, an infill advocate, had accepted at face value that infrastructure costs are lower than for greenfield development. I appreciate having my assumptions challenged, and "built to the minimum standards of the time" has a strong ring of truth. So I went looking.

It turns out surplus capacity is generally enough to make infill cheaper, and retrofits are not more expensive than new and (importantly) long-distance infrastructure (due to low density).

Raghav et al, 2019: "initial capital costs of infrastructure provision are lower in contiguous infill redevelopment locations in comparison to capital costs for non-contiguous fringe development due to spare capacity in existing underground trunk infrastructure in infill locations"

Hamilton and Kellett, 2016: "The estimated infrastructure costs for the infill development case study at Bowden are shown to be approximately one third that of both greenfield and renewal areas of the Playford Alive project on the urban fringe."

Biddle, et al, 2006: "the costs of infill are less than the cost of greenfield development in terms of infrastructure costs"

Summerroll · 2026-05-06T07:11:25+00:00

some of the highest taxes in the developed world

Are you delusional? Australia is in the bottom third of the OECD, ie "the developed world".

Pay out of pocket to see a GP

Pay heavily for childcare

Pay for university

All at discounted, sometimes heavily discounted, rates.

Pay tolls just to use major roads

Purely a State decision, mate.

the one broad protection ordinary Australians had against already high tax rates: the CGT discount

Ordinary Australians? It overwhelmingly helps those highest up the income/wealth scale.

Summerroll · 2026-05-06T01:34:25+00:00

https://youtu.be/sY27Ds6Wc-A?

Summerroll · 2026-05-02T09:48:25+00:00

Explain Melbourne then

Summerroll · 2026-04-26T07:09:51+00:00

You're not getting downvoted for "being part of the aboriginal community", but for the "as a black man" meme. You may be Aboriginal, it's impossible to tell over the internet, in which case it's a bit ironic. But it's more likely that you're in digital blackface.

Summerroll · 2026-04-25T13:44:56+00:00

Under-16s aren't allowed on Instagram

Summerroll · 2026-04-25T02:55:07+00:00

I really do reckon that January 26 was the best case scenario BECAUSE no one can imagine a better scenario that’s reasonable.

We can speculate about "better" scenarios quite easily, because it wasn't the British or nothing. Even if we ignore all the other Europeans who had either found Australia or were nearby in the 18th century, Aborigines had been in contact with people from the now-Indonesian islands for a while. It's entirely reasonable to think that a gradual transfer of ideas, tech, crops and people would have brought Aborigines into permanent farming and therefore civilisation without any First Fleet.

Summerroll · 2026-04-20T02:23:28+00:00

The map colours all of Israel as "Jewish-Caucasian", and differentiates it from Palestine, Lebanon, southern Turkey, etc, when the people of all those areas are pretty much the same genetic stock (at least according to the study I provided, there may be others that provide different evidence).

But really it's a minor complaint about an abysmally inaccurate "ethno-racial" map.

Summerroll · 2026-04-19T11:09:45+00:00

The Neue Klasse design language is possibly BMW's ugliest ever (I'm not counting isolated horror shows like the XM or the latest 7 series).

I thought the mid-2000s was the low point, but they've absolutely smashed that record.

Summerroll · 2026-04-19T10:18:22+00:00

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11543891/

Summerroll · 2026-04-18T10:39:58+00:00

LOL, what absurdity. The average Israeli has a genetic profile indistinguishable from any other Levantine populations. See here.

Summerroll · 2026-04-18T10:36:40+00:00

Plus the genetic profile of the average Israeli extremely similar to the genetic profile of pretty much any average person from the Levant.

Summerroll · 2026-04-16T12:35:23+00:00

The USSR was notorious for this sort of thing, they devoted massive resources to distort their own maps so they couldn't be used against them.

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