Back in the 60s they tried to make a car that can use a turbine engine. Turbines have some really cool features that could make them more efficient than piston engines, and way fewer moving parts so they could last way longer, but they also don't really want to be doing what cars do, spinning up and down constantly to deal with the ups and downs of driving.
Seems like a big use case for generator electric, to be able to focus on building your turbine generator to be simple, reliable, and efficient.
Of course one problem with all this is if they build cars that last, nobody will need a new car every 5 years...
I have a set of PIAA silicone windshield wipers on my car. They've been on my car since February 2020 and they're still going strong. Anyone who has ever owned a car in a place that gets sun and snow in the same year will recognize that's an absolutely absurd amount of time to have the same set of windshield wipers. Nobody's trying to sell me a set of these, because replacing wiper blades every year is a useful business model. A turbine engine could potentially last for a million miles and only has a few parts.
Seems like a big use case for generator electric, to be able to focus on building your turbine generator to be simple, reliable, and efficient.
Of course one problem with all this is if they build cars that last, nobody will need a new car every 5 years...
I have a set of PIAA silicone windshield wipers on my car. They've been on my car since February 2020 and they're still going strong. Anyone who has ever owned a car in a place that gets sun and snow in the same year will recognize that's an absolutely absurd amount of time to have the same set of windshield wipers. Nobody's trying to sell me a set of these, because replacing wiper blades every year is a useful business model. A turbine engine could potentially last for a million miles and only has a few parts.
EVs as a class of vehicle are about a tenth as useful as a real car, so if teslas get down to about 1/10th of their normal price in the used market I'd probably even get one.
ngl I can get behind that to a large extent without any politics at all. The guy's like a circus carney, and most of his fortune is from making people think he had a lot more success than he did. Has he *ever* met a deadline?
Most of the time when you see so-called "Canadian Patrioism", it's just anti-Americanism.
I mean, consider that despite all these claims of patriotism, nobody seems to care all that much that China is basically going hard bareback on us.
I mean, consider that despite all these claims of patriotism, nobody seems to care all that much that China is basically going hard bareback on us.
I can answer that one actually -- apparently if Donald Trump were to oppose it, then they're suddenly super nationalists.
At least, that's how they're running their campaigns in Canada.
At least, that's how they're running their campaigns in Canada.
Anyone trying to run one of those pieces of crap off the road would probably succeed ngl.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Take_Five
You ever think you've found some neat little niche song that nobody else had heard of, only to find out it's the #1 top selling song of all time in its genre?
I will ask: Does a 66 year old song really need government copyright protection? Does a 66 year old song really need another 29 years of copyright protection? The guy who composed the song died in 1977. So he died, he could have had boomer kids, gen X grandkids, millennial great grandkids, zoomer great great grandkids, gen alpha great great great grandkids, gen beta great great great great grandkids, and gen gamma great great great great great grandkids who are finally cut off from the benefit of getting paid for a song written in the post world war 2 period. (the red cross gets the proceeds in the case of this song, but that's immaterial to my point) -- if the purpose of copyright is to promote the arts, I don't think the guy who died in 1977 is going to be producing more material just because there's another 29 years of copyright left on the song.
I put my money where my mouth is on this point. My books all have it in the legal page to release to the public domain 15 years after publication because if I can't make my money back in 15 years then maybe it just wasn't meant to be.
Honestly, my first book is now 3 years old, and I'm already at a point where I just want to move on from it. Creatively speaking, there's only so much you can extract from one work before it's just time to make something new.
You ever think you've found some neat little niche song that nobody else had heard of, only to find out it's the #1 top selling song of all time in its genre?
I will ask: Does a 66 year old song really need government copyright protection? Does a 66 year old song really need another 29 years of copyright protection? The guy who composed the song died in 1977. So he died, he could have had boomer kids, gen X grandkids, millennial great grandkids, zoomer great great grandkids, gen alpha great great great grandkids, gen beta great great great great grandkids, and gen gamma great great great great great grandkids who are finally cut off from the benefit of getting paid for a song written in the post world war 2 period. (the red cross gets the proceeds in the case of this song, but that's immaterial to my point) -- if the purpose of copyright is to promote the arts, I don't think the guy who died in 1977 is going to be producing more material just because there's another 29 years of copyright left on the song.
I put my money where my mouth is on this point. My books all have it in the legal page to release to the public domain 15 years after publication because if I can't make my money back in 15 years then maybe it just wasn't meant to be.
Honestly, my first book is now 3 years old, and I'm already at a point where I just want to move on from it. Creatively speaking, there's only so much you can extract from one work before it's just time to make something new.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnPM7I49fj8
The only thing I think of when I hear about DMSO.
(Rip spoony)
The only thing I think of when I hear about DMSO.
(Rip spoony)
You kind have to admit that Star Trek isn't much of a post-scarcity socialist utopia.
For one thing, it's viciously elitist and hierarchical. You'd think a "post-scarcity socialist utopia" would have ways that a decorated captain would be able to get their hands on a ship in a pinch, but every Star Trek captain has had to steal a ship at some point because turns out there aren't a lot of them and they don't hand them out very easily.
Now you might say "Yeah but they can't just give out prime war assets to whoever asks for them!" -- at one point the ship they steal is an Enterprise that's being decommissioned -- you can't even use their junk without permission! Then ended up sending half the fleet after a piece of junk they were in the process of throwing out!
"We're delivering food and medical supplies to the colonies!" why? Why is that a thing you need to deliver? I thought this was post scarcity?
For another thing, Seems to me like there's plenty of racism in the star trek world. I mean, you don't want to be a borg, and God forbid you're one of soong's androids, you'll be on trial because they want to dissect your brain.
God help you if your ancestors were genetically modified, that's a jailin'.
Wanna live on the wrong planet? That's a jailin'.
Wanna stop a pre-warp civilization from being destroyed? that's a jailin'.
Wanna be a pre-warp indigenous civilization and not be destroyed if the Federation wants your planet? that's a jailin'.
Wanna get trained at star fleet academy without being part of the top 0.1%? You know that's a jailin'.
wanna be a hologram and get too uppity? That's a deletin'.
Wanna be a combination of two of the captains pet crew members and you don't want to be separated again? That's a murderin'.
Wanna be inconvenient to the fleet? That's a section 31...in'.
Some utopia. Some socialist utopia.
But look on the bright side! If the shiny headed captain wants to bang your mom, maybe you'll get made a member of the bridge crew anyway! Hope you have a hot mom!
But uh oh! Sorry Wesley, you got kicked out of the academy, you have to go off with space pedo now or no space for you! Maybe if your mom was seven of nine instead? "Your mom is seven? Never mind then, no space pedos for you because I want to get in that skintight catsuit!"
It's actually a technocratic aristocracy where we get to see the aristocratic few and only occasionally see the earth tone bedecked underclass in establishing shots.
Oh, we do get to see a space autist in Barclay -- oh, and he's mocked and ridiculed and belittled, and they're looking for any chance to get rid of him. Utopia, ladies and gentlemen! (Let's not talk about the fact that he's not allowed to be a space autist, but anyone is allowed to use the holodeck to create bangable versions of real people you've met or are likely to meet. Turns out the hierarchy can't enter yellow gridlines, go ahead and bang the ship's doctor, or the hot lady who's real good and making the space ships go fast good!)
"We're so advanced because we don't use money" great but who needs money when the highest ranking aristocrats get to choose exactly how all the capital gets used and the lowest ranking proleteriat can just die because there's no star ships available to deliver supplies this week?
"You don't understand! We're morally superior! We've ended want! We've elevated the common man to a new level!"
Yeah, that's exactly the logic by which the natives in America were subjugated. "Good news! We're bringing you Jesus and freeing you from your heathen ways!"
To be honest, Voyager is really great because it lays bare the fascist undertones. The young, attractive crew in nice uniforms walk around the pristine ship and live under the thumb of the God-King Janeway who will kill you if she can get 2 crew members out of it, and will destroy entire civilizations if she deems it acceptable.
But don't worry, she got her comeuppance by.... being promoted to Admiral (and that's not in Picard, that's during the movie timeline)! But don't worry, our good pal Picard, he.... was kicked out of Star Fleet for having political opinions the people higher on the hierarchy (I guess Janeway?) didn't like. How embarrassing. I guess he just didn't murder enough crew members to get them to multiply like firing neutrons at an atom until it splits.
While we're talking about Picard, let's talk a bit about holograms and synths. Why does star trek need EMH mark 1s cleaning plasma conduits in a socialist utopia? Why does star trek need mass produced worker-synths in a socialist utopia? Is it because they need slaves and they're not allowed to use black people anymore in their space aristocracy? Sounds a bit like a Greek or Roman socialist utopia.
But all joking aside? It's the space military-industrial complex. It's Space America minus the capitalism and the democracy. Far from a socialist utopia, unless joining space Raytheon is socialist utopia.
Maybe Q was right and humanity is just lucky he picked the francophone shakespearian hawk-tua who bamboozled him with bullshit into thinking humanity wasn't still a savage child-race?
For one thing, it's viciously elitist and hierarchical. You'd think a "post-scarcity socialist utopia" would have ways that a decorated captain would be able to get their hands on a ship in a pinch, but every Star Trek captain has had to steal a ship at some point because turns out there aren't a lot of them and they don't hand them out very easily.
Now you might say "Yeah but they can't just give out prime war assets to whoever asks for them!" -- at one point the ship they steal is an Enterprise that's being decommissioned -- you can't even use their junk without permission! Then ended up sending half the fleet after a piece of junk they were in the process of throwing out!
"We're delivering food and medical supplies to the colonies!" why? Why is that a thing you need to deliver? I thought this was post scarcity?
For another thing, Seems to me like there's plenty of racism in the star trek world. I mean, you don't want to be a borg, and God forbid you're one of soong's androids, you'll be on trial because they want to dissect your brain.
God help you if your ancestors were genetically modified, that's a jailin'.
Wanna live on the wrong planet? That's a jailin'.
Wanna stop a pre-warp civilization from being destroyed? that's a jailin'.
Wanna be a pre-warp indigenous civilization and not be destroyed if the Federation wants your planet? that's a jailin'.
Wanna get trained at star fleet academy without being part of the top 0.1%? You know that's a jailin'.
wanna be a hologram and get too uppity? That's a deletin'.
Wanna be a combination of two of the captains pet crew members and you don't want to be separated again? That's a murderin'.
Wanna be inconvenient to the fleet? That's a section 31...in'.
Some utopia. Some socialist utopia.
But look on the bright side! If the shiny headed captain wants to bang your mom, maybe you'll get made a member of the bridge crew anyway! Hope you have a hot mom!
But uh oh! Sorry Wesley, you got kicked out of the academy, you have to go off with space pedo now or no space for you! Maybe if your mom was seven of nine instead? "Your mom is seven? Never mind then, no space pedos for you because I want to get in that skintight catsuit!"
It's actually a technocratic aristocracy where we get to see the aristocratic few and only occasionally see the earth tone bedecked underclass in establishing shots.
Oh, we do get to see a space autist in Barclay -- oh, and he's mocked and ridiculed and belittled, and they're looking for any chance to get rid of him. Utopia, ladies and gentlemen! (Let's not talk about the fact that he's not allowed to be a space autist, but anyone is allowed to use the holodeck to create bangable versions of real people you've met or are likely to meet. Turns out the hierarchy can't enter yellow gridlines, go ahead and bang the ship's doctor, or the hot lady who's real good and making the space ships go fast good!)
"We're so advanced because we don't use money" great but who needs money when the highest ranking aristocrats get to choose exactly how all the capital gets used and the lowest ranking proleteriat can just die because there's no star ships available to deliver supplies this week?
"You don't understand! We're morally superior! We've ended want! We've elevated the common man to a new level!"
Yeah, that's exactly the logic by which the natives in America were subjugated. "Good news! We're bringing you Jesus and freeing you from your heathen ways!"
To be honest, Voyager is really great because it lays bare the fascist undertones. The young, attractive crew in nice uniforms walk around the pristine ship and live under the thumb of the God-King Janeway who will kill you if she can get 2 crew members out of it, and will destroy entire civilizations if she deems it acceptable.
But don't worry, she got her comeuppance by.... being promoted to Admiral (and that's not in Picard, that's during the movie timeline)! But don't worry, our good pal Picard, he.... was kicked out of Star Fleet for having political opinions the people higher on the hierarchy (I guess Janeway?) didn't like. How embarrassing. I guess he just didn't murder enough crew members to get them to multiply like firing neutrons at an atom until it splits.
While we're talking about Picard, let's talk a bit about holograms and synths. Why does star trek need EMH mark 1s cleaning plasma conduits in a socialist utopia? Why does star trek need mass produced worker-synths in a socialist utopia? Is it because they need slaves and they're not allowed to use black people anymore in their space aristocracy? Sounds a bit like a Greek or Roman socialist utopia.
But all joking aside? It's the space military-industrial complex. It's Space America minus the capitalism and the democracy. Far from a socialist utopia, unless joining space Raytheon is socialist utopia.
Maybe Q was right and humanity is just lucky he picked the francophone shakespearian hawk-tua who bamboozled him with bullshit into thinking humanity wasn't still a savage child-race?
I mean, some do go around calling themselves MGTOW, but I guess that's technically a different thing.
The quote I showed is a quote. Someone said it today. That's why I responded to it today.
I'm willing to break bread with reasonable people and even some fairly unreasonable people. Neither side of the political spectrum has a monopoly on truth and multiple things can be true at once even if they're contradictory. But I see someone saying something silly, I'll probably mention it.
I'm willing to break bread with reasonable people and even some fairly unreasonable people. Neither side of the political spectrum has a monopoly on truth and multiple things can be true at once even if they're contradictory. But I see someone saying something silly, I'll probably mention it.
"remember: it is your patriotic duty to vandalize Tesla's"
I can't imagine how painful it must be to belong to these people's tribe.
I imagine taking the hit to buy an impractical 60,000 dollar virtue signal just to have the meta change before the payments are up, and suddenly I'm having my car which I bought to save the world vandalized.
How can you guys claim to have empathy for people who aren't like you when you don't even seem to have empathy for the people who are exactly like you?
I can't imagine how painful it must be to belong to these people's tribe.
I imagine taking the hit to buy an impractical 60,000 dollar virtue signal just to have the meta change before the payments are up, and suddenly I'm having my car which I bought to save the world vandalized.
How can you guys claim to have empathy for people who aren't like you when you don't even seem to have empathy for the people who are exactly like you?
The other thing that's annoying is when chatgpt rewrites what you just said. If I wanted you to rewrite what I just said I'd rewrite it myself.
It's always important to remember that these stories are by their nature not entirely real. It's like "oh, we produced all these solar kwh!" And then it's like "cool, how many were at night?"
For my Canadian compatriots, just a reminder that today is the end of advance polling, if you can get into a polling booth now and not on election Day, you probably should.
The way to make it ok to murder innocent people is to convince them that they aren't innocent people, and in fact the devil.
Yacy is an open source distributed search engine. Basically, you can have it crawl whichever websites you want, or you can even send it up as a transparent proxy so that it knows which websites you've gone to and it will crawl any websites you've ever been to, and it hooks up with everyone else running the software so when you run a search, you end up searching all of the things in your index, as well as all the things that everyone elses index. Kind of like bittorrent, it also has each node on the system pass around different chunks of data to each other, so there's lots of different copies of different pieces of the index everywhere.
I've got a copy set up at https://yacy.fbxl.net
You don't even necessarily have to use it exclusively, because it can hook into a searx instance so yacy results are just one piece of the total results. That's how I've got my search.fbxl.net set up, it looks at a bunch of different websites, and yacy is just one of them.
I've got a copy set up at https://yacy.fbxl.net
You don't even necessarily have to use it exclusively, because it can hook into a searx instance so yacy results are just one piece of the total results. That's how I've got my search.fbxl.net set up, it looks at a bunch of different websites, and yacy is just one of them.