Do you remember where you played it?

It sounds/looks a little like some of the stuff from bontegames.

It's heavily dependant on the plastic type. PET bottles are pretty good.

Even if it's not recycled, it's still far better to landfill or burn it than have it hit waterways.

Are you talking about China or the US there?

Some smarter toasters apparently have compensation for this.

If you're an importer or manufacturer-importer, you can choose to take a lower profit margin or make a loss to maintain the same final price. If the market is dominated by domestic competitors, you might need to do this to maintain sales.

If there's no significant domestic competitors, they're too small to sway the market, or they're also forced to raise prices due to tariffs on their supply chain, the price the market will bear goes up.

But I agree: it looks like it's mostly trying to beat the idea into farmers' thick MAGA skulls.

Bankrupting a casino is usually a good thing. E.g. "I'm the man who broke the bank at Monte Carlo".

Using it to launder money usually results in an extremely profitable casino, not the opposite.

There were so many plastic miniatures in the game that tooling alone was a crushing financial burden that would cripple the merchandise line commercially before anything else was even produced.

Injection molding NREs are high? Such a well kept secret up to now. I never would have guessed.

relevant xkcd

The thing standing in the way of your dreams is that the person having them is you.

That's not bad pricing wise. There's very very little prosumer gear that's multi gigabit and it's all much higher price, or it's just a PC with several NICs.

If and when we move to hyperfibre this is going to be pretty high up on the list.

European governments and courts have a long history of laughing at US companies attempting to apply US labour laws on European soil. I'm sure they'll cope.

I'm not sure that lossy compression on vectors is strictly impossible.

You can do things like store less colour information and simplify splines so that curves are less complex.

Lots of places also have variable limit signs that get updated based on traffic, accidents etc.

Here in NZ those seem to all be marked on the speed limit maps as 100km/h even if in some places the signs never go above 80.

Ngauranga Gorge is one such location and I believe has the country's highest grossing speed camera.

Yeah, add two zeros, especially if using hard drives rather than SSD.

"This accident will have been preventable".

The question seems open to interpretation (which is bad for surveys like this).

If I visit a location that was the site of a mass shooting a few years later, have I been "physically present on the scene of a mass shooting"?

I think you could reasonably answer yes: you've been to the physical place where it happened, even if not at the time it happened.

Mass is not a major issue for towers, but it's a big problem for rotating parts.

All of those would also apply to turbine blade construction, except aircraft certification. You still want all the strength on the outside to get the most strength out of the material used.

You still want really good validation because these will not be inspected like aircraft are. I'm not sure if anyone will actually be getting close up with the full length of the blade surface post installation.

Intriguing, but I find this somewhat hard to believe.

Glu-lam isn't new technology.

If you could achieve comparable strength: weight from timber as aluminium, GFRP, or CFRP, we'd see a high timber content in aircraft, instead of near zero.

If they're making the blades heavier to compensate, you get all kinds of runaway knock on effects. Blades are heavier, so need to be stronger, so need to be heavier... tower, bearings, foundations, mountings etc all need to be stronger.

Sort of an xkcd 808 argument.

"Greater Canada".