Well the article says that
the brother of a man who died without children is permitted and encouraged to marry the widow. However, if either of the parties refuses to go through with the marriage, both are required to go through a ceremony known as halizah, involving a symbolic act of renunciation of their right to perform this marriage.
So, permitted and encouraged, but not forced into it. Except by god it seems.
To add to this, the most closely related passage in the bible is in Genesis 38, where this guy Onan was ordered to have children with his brother’s widow so the child could inherit his brother’s estate.
This seems to me a bit outside your usual family obligations, and so did the guy because while he engaged in sexual intercourse, he “spilled his seed” on the ground to avoid fulfilling this familial duty.
God didn’t think much of that and killed him on the spot.
The tale is usually linked more to the “sin” of contraception, but it seems like a much more pragmatic story: it’s best you knock up your brother’s widow than have everyone start a war over the spoils.
They’re playing fuck, marry, kill.
Not sure if this is a jest, but it isn’t true.
People move to other countries sometimes with little more than the clothes on their backs - just look at historical immigration to the US.
If you have the luxury of doing it the proper way - getting a job offer, a place to live, etc - then that’s perfect, but desperate people will do desperate things to survive.
I love how fucking biased that article is. It mentions Obama like 10 times, including this gem:
Clearly, the Obama administration decided to spend taxpayer funds on a technology that was poorly conceived and quickly outdated.
Thanks for the hindsight, moron writer guy. So what’s trump doing, investing in better renewables?
No, instead of building an underperforming power plant, he spent the same money just to prevent a power plant from being built.
Money for nothing and the chicks for free amirite.
What? Hydroelectric power stations use gravity and the falling or flowing water makes the turbines turn. No steam.
Thermal plants (nuclear, coal, gas), including solar thermal plants, use steam.
That would be absolutely amazing - the whole US economy, imploding in 1 day.
Agreed.
If you’re gonna steal groceries, might as well pick up stuff that the dealer needs and deliver them to his door for full price + delivery fee.
With how crazy prices are getting at the supermarket, might as well start selling smuggled eggs from dark corners…
To explain this joke: velocity is a vector quantity, so it has a magnitude (speed) and a direction, which mom failed to indicate, shame on her.
Trucking companies will be very happy to pass that cost along to you, esteemed final consumer.
Road infrastructure is already heavily subsidized by the taxpayers, which in the US is basically the same as saying drivers, so I don’t see how that changes anything.
So? Most nurses wouldn’t make it as cops. They just don’t have the stomach to thrive in that racist and fascist environment, sooner or later they’d fuck up and show empathy, marking them as the future victims of an unfortunate crossfire.
/s just in case it’s not absolutely clear…
Let me take a page from Democratic advertising geniuses: hey, at least it’s not McDonald’s amirite
I know right? Remember last year how powerful and impactful the award was?
Right? What devilry holds them up like that, and how are they so neatly aligned, almost like in a line??
Throw them in the fire! And the towels too.
Not sure if the same applies to WinZip though.
True, but that’s just one part of the process, and it’s not comparing to the initial energy in the source fuel.
If nothing else, there’s an absolute efficiency limit from Carnot’s theorem, but in reality it’s much lower, even for the most modern and efficient gas plants, the limit seems to be ~60%, and for nuclear or coal, it’s even lower at around 30-40%.
I call it Bytejunkium, but I don’t think it catched on.
I’m not disputing what the current gold standard is, I’m looking for theoretical possibilities.
When you say heat, in fusion, most of the energy would be a neutron moving really fast, right? It sucks that it doesn’t have a charge because then it would be really easy, but there’s options here if we get creative.
Maybe there’s some sort of material yet to be invented that can be slapped by a neutron and “deformed” in a way that causes electrons to shift/make holes and exploit that to make electricity.
And that free neutron will eventually decay into a proton and electron, and those have a charge, so if we keep them going around a loop until that happens perhaps we could harness it.
Ok that’s one fucked up family. Out of all of them, god only saw fit to smite one of them? Sheesh.