With an energy conversion efficiency of usually 75 to 80 % they are really efficient and don’t have as much energy loss as other types of energy storage. It’s a simple, but powerful concept and I find it beautiful. However, there is some concern regarding their impact on the local ecosystem. Not only do they need huge water reservoirs, which are artificially created and therefore might impact nearby rivers and even fish migration, but the way they are sealed with concrete or asphalt also disallows the development of riparian vegetation. From an ecological perspective they are basically dead zones.

Still, considering several alternatives, I think it’s one of the better options. Although it’s not cheap to build those, which is a problem in our current capitalitic society

No.

1. It’s opt-in in my country.
2. I fear that medical personnel will give up on me way too easily and early if they know that I am a donor. Or that it’s even rooted in malicious intent.

I’m on the fence about hearings birds singing. It is really annoying to get woken up way too early by a bird who just knows two tunes and sings it over and over and over again. Like what the fuck?! Didn’t they teach you a third tune at bird school to make your song a bit more melodic and less irritating? Fucking twitter.

That’s why you need several security layers and failure protection systems.

That’s not separation, but a different ethical concept or a lack of thought about one.

Go back to kindergarten.

It’s objectively worse than Firefox. For example, Firefox recently passed all minimum security requirements by the German Federal Office for Information Security. No other browser meets them.

You can use E2E??? !!!

Don’t have friends. Problem solved.

And yet no one was able to crack it.

And yet no one was able to crack it.

If it works, it works.

and yes, largely correlates with maturity

That’s where we disagree. You say that as if it were a proven fact. If you got studies on that, please report.

My point is, that at least from my experience there is a lot more to maturity than mere age. And you can’t really know if you just superficially look at someone and their age.

Any quantitative measure of maturity is definitely correlated with age.

Is it? Do you have numbers on that?

I am already happy if there is any documentation at all. And I am euphoric if it doesn’t suck, i.e. sufficiently detailed and up to date.

So I guess Discord is better than nothing. But sure it’s a turn off.

Putting arbitrary numbers on people to measure their matureness is weird to me.

There are 15 year old people who are wiser and more mature than a lot with 50.

You can’t know without knowing the person.

Because there is no “experience” after death. You just start to rot.

How come that you refuse this so confidently?

Here just a few works from that wide field:

• Enhanced Interplay of Neuronal Coherence and Coupling in the Dying Human Brain
• AWARE—AWAreness during REsuscitation—A prospective study
• Neurochemical models of near-death experiences: A large-scale study based on the semantic similarity of written reports
• Surge of neurophysiological coupling and connectivity of gamma oscillations in the dying human brain
• Surges of Electroencephalogram Activity at the Time of Death: A Case Series
• Time to loss of brain function and activity during circulatory arrest

The Abrahamic religions do not have a monopoly on the concept of God.

Yes. I just made few examples on popular concepts. And I can make similar examples for a lot of other concepts. However, to discuss this further, we need some clear definitions.

Do the ridiculous things now ascribed to electricity […] prove that electricity doesn’t exist?

This is a form or erroneous attribution. It reminds me of the luminiferous aether of which physicists thought for a long time that it exists until it was disproven. This is a testable hypothesis. Your pixies might even be testable to a certain degree. But beyond a certain point they aren’t. Therefore being in the realm of pseudoscience again.

If we observe electricity, of course elctricity exists. But if we don’t know its cause, it’s important to investigate it. We have to investigate cause and effect instead of just assuming that a higher power plays a role. That’s our only way to gain knowledge and separate fantasy from reality.

And currently, religions with their concepts of deities reside in the realm of fantasy.

Debugging fucked up C/C++ code for example.