Friends and family will either listen to a point before saying they can’t handle it

Well, that’s good to hear. Hopefully it helps, and I’d also suggest that it means they do care, at least a bit.

Maybe they do need to give you more time to vent, it’s hard to say without being there. In general, we on the internet don’t know you and can’t have enough information to help you the way a therapist can.

The fact that oxygen may have shot up to modern levels really early on for a bit fascinates me in particular.

If your water splitters are running, you should really just use the electricity they’re on to generate heat. Fire is especially dangerous in enclosed spaces.

Also for load balancing you could constantly be splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen, then react them back into water when you need a large amount of energy at once as an alternative to electrical batteries which degrades less over time, if heat is all you want at least.

Some kind of combustion with oxidiser built in might always have an application. Chemical rocket boosters maybe? (Hydrogen specifically can also be turned back into electricity with like 80% efficiency in a fuel cell, FYI, although it’s sooo hard to store)

I suppose there might be The Martian-esque edge cases as well, where more complex, controlled chemical reactions are temporarily impractical, but like in the book and movie that’s highly unsustainable and you’ll die if you’re stuck doing it for long.

You said turbines specifically. Parsons invented those around the turn of the 20th century.

Before that, it was the chugga-chugga kind of steam engine. They’re a lot simpler to design and machine, and don’t require the really high RPMs to operate, but then again can break in many different ways a turbine can’t.

Wow, that’s amazing. I’m guessing the then very-limited suffrage had to do with it. It would have been just white landowning males at the time, right?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_problems_in_loop_theory_and_quasigroup_theory

And I’m pretty sure a bunch of other pages related to loops and quasigroups. I don’t still have them open, though.

I mean, that’s 20th century, or (IIRC) just before depending on the level of tech maturity you require. The 19th century ran on pistons.

Burning random stuff for heat requires cheap, abundant oxygen, though.

Well, if that counts, addition also remains very popular.

I mean, if all the good secret information is going over fax and everyone knows it, sure, people will hack it. Blackhats are in it for the money, not to work with the newest technology. Most of what they do is already mind-numbing grinding.

The main security there is just the security of whatever phone line it’s going over. And that’s assuming you never dial a wrong number…

Please don’t tell me you buy that “they can’t be hacked”. It’s pretty much on the same tier as email.

I’m curious how 1840 came up.

Thanks! (Although, the policing by consent thing sounds like propaganda. Everyone and their dog claims the will of the people)

Ah. It wasn’t clear your “nobody” excluded them.

I think there are people out there who are privileged enough, that they fully don’t realise the police aren’t just on TV or theoretical. All states must actively maintain a monopoly on violence.

Uninventing guns is not actually one of the options. The police are definitely going to have them, because if they didn’t they’d be under threat from upstarts with a 3D printer or just a lathe, and they know it.

Society doesn’t want you to have any negative emotions. I need to know how to not express negative emotions at all whatsoever unless I’m alone.

What about your friends or family? Particularly in some countries, it’s true that public displays of unhappiness are taboo. Less-than-totally-public displays are kind of a huge part of people’s social lives everywhere.

Hmm, what are the historical reasons?

I wasn’t actually sure what the breakdown is across the continent, so I left it vague. I’m guessing French police are always armed.

In some European countries, most police are unarmed. It seems to work okay. Here in Canada, they all carry guns, but it’s serious paperwork if they ever have to unholster it.

Bring back the phalanx.

Would you extend that to knives as well? The logic still applies, and there’s a serious movement to limit knife access in the UK.