I’m not sure where you got that from, the moon absolutely is gravitationally bound to the earth, so much so that it has become tidally locked.

Thats a meaningless distintion, the moon orbits the earth with an elliptical orbit in the Earth’s frame of reference, or an eliptical orbit with fairly large, low frequency oscillations in the Sun’s frame of reference. The same is true for something in LEO except the oscilations are smaller and shorter period.

This is exactly why its such a bad word to use to describe this, it automatically puts people on the defensive and needs to be explained to people that it doesn’t mean what the word means (rule of the fathers).

It’s not, to provide 2 weeks of storage (a reasonable amount to cover a period of no wind in winter) for the UK would cost about 2,000 Billion USD at current Li-ion prices.

Intermittent renewables are great as a component of energy generation but storage costs become prohibitive as you get to large fractions of intermittent power generation.

Of course you’d need to stabilise it somehow, maybe also have a shoe that drops off after the high speed thrust?

Games that people actually play are very rarely Linux native.

Was your exact quote, I think showing 1/4 of the most played games on Steam are linux native shows that isnt the case.

of the current top 30 on most played on steam 7 have a native Linux version, just shy of 1/4. I’d hardly call that almost never.

All of the Paradox games, Civ, Pillars of Eternity, DoTA, Counterstrike. its a small fraction sure, but its not like no big games have native linux versions.

“Let me help subsidise a company paying below minimum wage” totally normal not batshit insane idea.