This type of battery is being used right now in certain applications in industry. One thing that is a problem with it is it takes energy to keep the battery molten. If the battery drops below a certain point, then the battery will freeze, and it will take a whole bunch of energy to change the sodium back into liquid.
Honestly shouldn't be a big deal with grid storage or other stationary uses.
Honestly shouldn't be a big deal with grid storage or other stationary uses.
Ah yes, the famously misogynistic (checks card) supermarkets. famous dens of masculinity.
Me and the boys were hanging in the febreeze aisle, planning hate crimes as one does near the febreeze aisle.
Me and the boys were hanging in the febreeze aisle, planning hate crimes as one does near the febreeze aisle.
Tent cities in places that Turn -40C, in tiny little towns that never had anything like them, deaths of despair everywhere, federal debt doubled in a decade, and it's like "let's go galavanting in Europe!"
Yeah, the question is wrong. We don't need to be worrying about all this international stuff while our own house is in such disorder.
Yeah, the question is wrong. We don't need to be worrying about all this international stuff while our own house is in such disorder.
These schools want to give you good news that's fake. Iraqi information minister levels of false.
The problem is, you need to know your kids are failing miserably because the numbers are just the map, the territory is the competence level of your kid. You increase your kids competence, and if (and only if) their grades improve for that reason they'll have an easier life. Otherwise Its just the administration that has an easier life giving kids paper degrees.
The problem is, you need to know your kids are failing miserably because the numbers are just the map, the territory is the competence level of your kid. You increase your kids competence, and if (and only if) their grades improve for that reason they'll have an easier life. Otherwise Its just the administration that has an easier life giving kids paper degrees.
"this is my d&d campaign about getting your credit card number stolen on the internet and the police not taking you seriously when you call them on the phone"
But it isn't though, is it?
But it isn't though, is it?
Depends on the program. There are some 3 year programs that grant degrees, most are 4 though. People who fail a class could end up taking much longer obviously.
I know, not terribly helpful. But my brother did a 3 year ba program and then had his masters in like 1-2 years.
I know, not terribly helpful. But my brother did a 3 year ba program and then had his masters in like 1-2 years.
Being honest, many of the boomers made it, but it wasn't all sunshine and rainbows for them either. They came of age during the stagflation of the 1970s, dealt with a financial crisis in the 1980s, the 1990s were ok, the 2000s had the dot com crash and recession and the great financial crisis, the 2010s look good on paper but were rough too, and now just as they start retiring they see covid and the stagflation afterwards and many can't retire because their retirement plans are showing 20% less money than 4 years ago in terms of purchasing power. The dollar an hour they made 50 years ago might have become 40, but their costs have gone up more than that.
Housing went up for boomers who owned a home, but also went up for boomers who didn't and are paying the same rent as you. Stonks went up for those who held them but most boomers don't own stonks. Factory jobs existed in the 1970s but the boomers face the same layoffs as the plants close as everyone else. It's been rough for everyone except the wealthy -- a group that does include many boomers but also includes many non-wealthy. If many A are B it does not mean many B are A, after all. Especially when there are not a lot of A but there are a lot of B.
Housing went up for boomers who owned a home, but also went up for boomers who didn't and are paying the same rent as you. Stonks went up for those who held them but most boomers don't own stonks. Factory jobs existed in the 1970s but the boomers face the same layoffs as the plants close as everyone else. It's been rough for everyone except the wealthy -- a group that does include many boomers but also includes many non-wealthy. If many A are B it does not mean many B are A, after all. Especially when there are not a lot of A but there are a lot of B.
I got a question for you then: is most of Spain desert? And if it is, what's growing on all of those farms?
I ended up looking at Spain's satellite view and found it confusing.
I ended up looking at Spain's satellite view and found it confusing.
Half the reason the conservatives got so badly pantsed in the last UK election is that people wanted conservative policies and instead got the same blairite postmodern neoliberal consensus (neoliberal is another one of those words that basically means the opposite of what it claims to mean). Reform UK only came to exist as a party in 2018, and despite that got 14% of the popular vote in the previous election (compared to the majority party Labour, which got 34%) because people wanted a conservative conservative party.
The same is happening in a lot of Europe though not in quite the same way. There's a lot of elections people never would have expected to go a certain way 10 years ago, such as the rise of Marine La Pen in France, AfD in Germany, or Giorgia Meloni's party in Italy. Outside of Europe, we're seeing more like this -- Trump is facing a second term, Milei won in Argentina, and in my home of Soviet Canuckistan the 'far right' Peoples Party of Canada got 5% of the vote in the last election, which was part of the catalyst for the new leader of the conservatives Pierre Poilievre, whose revitalized party is on track to win a massive majority in the next election.
A lot of what is being "conserved" by many of these conservatives is classical liberalism -- they're promising to push back against the left wing parties overreach in areas such as censorship and overwhelming government spending and regulation, but there's also pushback against a lot of the consensus liberal ideas -- why exactly does a little island like the UK have to take on all the world's problems when Bill from da norf is struggling?
The same is happening in a lot of Europe though not in quite the same way. There's a lot of elections people never would have expected to go a certain way 10 years ago, such as the rise of Marine La Pen in France, AfD in Germany, or Giorgia Meloni's party in Italy. Outside of Europe, we're seeing more like this -- Trump is facing a second term, Milei won in Argentina, and in my home of Soviet Canuckistan the 'far right' Peoples Party of Canada got 5% of the vote in the last election, which was part of the catalyst for the new leader of the conservatives Pierre Poilievre, whose revitalized party is on track to win a massive majority in the next election.
A lot of what is being "conserved" by many of these conservatives is classical liberalism -- they're promising to push back against the left wing parties overreach in areas such as censorship and overwhelming government spending and regulation, but there's also pushback against a lot of the consensus liberal ideas -- why exactly does a little island like the UK have to take on all the world's problems when Bill from da norf is struggling?
Taking away people's agency by assuming they can't possibly choose how they want to live their lives is just dangerous.
There's things I disagree with my parents on, and so I chose to live my life differently. I love my parents, both my mom and my dad, but I'm not the same person they were, I choose how I live.
They don't need to look in the mirror every day and see my face staring back, I do.
There's things I disagree with my parents on, and so I chose to live my life differently. I love my parents, both my mom and my dad, but I'm not the same person they were, I choose how I live.
They don't need to look in the mirror every day and see my face staring back, I do.
I saw a video today suggesting that the boomers were authoritarian parents and the millennials softer touch is a reaction to that. The idea that the boomers were extremely authoritarian parents really lacks historical context.
The boomers were the first postwar generation, and grew up and came of age in the most progressive era in the history of the world. They were the generation of the hippies, they were the generation of rock and roll, they were the generation that actually started to say things like "it's wrong to spank your kids".
You listen to the stories from the boomers, they had corporal punishment not just from parents; they still got smacked by teachers with rulers, and they were the generation that ended that practice. You know how millennials didn't routinely get a cane from the principal for doing something wrong? Guess what? That used to be common. Most of these ideas of gentler parenting came from the boomers and were implemented in large part by the boomers, and millennials are just more of what their parents were.
If we look at the trend of iPad kids, we could actually potentially trace this phenomena to the boomers. They raised the "participation trophy" kids, and raised them with empathy and tried to keep that generation separate from hardship as they grew up based on the psychotheraputic idea that all our problems are actually caused by childhood trauma and so by eliminating childhood trauma you eliminate everyone's problems. Unfortunately, the truth of emotional resilience is that it's like a muscle -- you don't get strong by sitting in a chair and never challenging yourself, you become strong by lifting the heaviest thing you can carry until your arms start to hurt. This led to the famously weak snowflake millennial generation, and that includes the weakness where they can't handle the stress of being an adult and raising kids and need to jam an iPad in their kids face to get a break. It doesn't matter if you're living in a community if everyone else in the community is weak too, only virtuous people getting together to form a community are stronger than their component parts.
As someone who works and plays deeply with technology (I mean, I run my own server farm so I can self-host most of my own services including search, social media, and media streaming), I am surprised to discover that I have such a low tech approach. That isn't to say I'm completely out of the loop, we have a fairly connected home -- we have google homes so the CIA knows I'm a good boy, and I have a chromecast audio connected to the living room stereo for music, and I have a chromecast with google TV hooked up to the main TV set in the living room, but it isn't the core focus. Even when we have a movie on, often what's actually happening is my boy tugs on my finger wanting me to come down and play trucks with him. He plays with his toys, he's not just sitting there holding an iPad, and -- importantly, I think -- we choose what he sees on TV, rather than him randomly mashing for the next video.
I'm a millennial and a father, and what I see out in the world is a ghost world: I go out for walks and to play at parks with my son every day I'm home to do so. Some days we go out twice, sometimes we go out three times. You would think that the parks would have someone at them, but sometimes I'll go to three different parks, and we'll have all three to ourselves. Occasionally I'll see someone on a holiday, but most days I see no one. The way I understand it is that the parents who are complaining about how hard being a parent is aren't actually going out and doing the job on a day to day basis. They can't hack it, the strain of doing what's right for someone else is too much. Instead of going to the park or the beach or walking down a walking trail (all stuff that's free and doesn't take a lot of time), they sit at home swiping twitter while their kids swipe tiktok.
Ironically, I think that the act of doing these things actually is itself good for your mental health as a parent. Going for a walk down a nature trail is good for you. Going for a walk in general is good for you. Taking time with family is good for you. Playing with your kid at the park is good for you. Going to a local beach or river is good for you. If these parents who complain that they're so stressed out by parenthood just did parenting, they might find their lives are a lot easier doing their job than trying to avoid doing their job.
All that being said, I'm not super-Dad, I'm just doing my best and there's a lot of ways I don't achieve top marks every day, so this is all really mediations on what I see...
The boomers were the first postwar generation, and grew up and came of age in the most progressive era in the history of the world. They were the generation of the hippies, they were the generation of rock and roll, they were the generation that actually started to say things like "it's wrong to spank your kids".
You listen to the stories from the boomers, they had corporal punishment not just from parents; they still got smacked by teachers with rulers, and they were the generation that ended that practice. You know how millennials didn't routinely get a cane from the principal for doing something wrong? Guess what? That used to be common. Most of these ideas of gentler parenting came from the boomers and were implemented in large part by the boomers, and millennials are just more of what their parents were.
If we look at the trend of iPad kids, we could actually potentially trace this phenomena to the boomers. They raised the "participation trophy" kids, and raised them with empathy and tried to keep that generation separate from hardship as they grew up based on the psychotheraputic idea that all our problems are actually caused by childhood trauma and so by eliminating childhood trauma you eliminate everyone's problems. Unfortunately, the truth of emotional resilience is that it's like a muscle -- you don't get strong by sitting in a chair and never challenging yourself, you become strong by lifting the heaviest thing you can carry until your arms start to hurt. This led to the famously weak snowflake millennial generation, and that includes the weakness where they can't handle the stress of being an adult and raising kids and need to jam an iPad in their kids face to get a break. It doesn't matter if you're living in a community if everyone else in the community is weak too, only virtuous people getting together to form a community are stronger than their component parts.
As someone who works and plays deeply with technology (I mean, I run my own server farm so I can self-host most of my own services including search, social media, and media streaming), I am surprised to discover that I have such a low tech approach. That isn't to say I'm completely out of the loop, we have a fairly connected home -- we have google homes so the CIA knows I'm a good boy, and I have a chromecast audio connected to the living room stereo for music, and I have a chromecast with google TV hooked up to the main TV set in the living room, but it isn't the core focus. Even when we have a movie on, often what's actually happening is my boy tugs on my finger wanting me to come down and play trucks with him. He plays with his toys, he's not just sitting there holding an iPad, and -- importantly, I think -- we choose what he sees on TV, rather than him randomly mashing for the next video.
I'm a millennial and a father, and what I see out in the world is a ghost world: I go out for walks and to play at parks with my son every day I'm home to do so. Some days we go out twice, sometimes we go out three times. You would think that the parks would have someone at them, but sometimes I'll go to three different parks, and we'll have all three to ourselves. Occasionally I'll see someone on a holiday, but most days I see no one. The way I understand it is that the parents who are complaining about how hard being a parent is aren't actually going out and doing the job on a day to day basis. They can't hack it, the strain of doing what's right for someone else is too much. Instead of going to the park or the beach or walking down a walking trail (all stuff that's free and doesn't take a lot of time), they sit at home swiping twitter while their kids swipe tiktok.
Ironically, I think that the act of doing these things actually is itself good for your mental health as a parent. Going for a walk down a nature trail is good for you. Going for a walk in general is good for you. Taking time with family is good for you. Playing with your kid at the park is good for you. Going to a local beach or river is good for you. If these parents who complain that they're so stressed out by parenthood just did parenting, they might find their lives are a lot easier doing their job than trying to avoid doing their job.
All that being said, I'm not super-Dad, I'm just doing my best and there's a lot of ways I don't achieve top marks every day, so this is all really mediations on what I see...
True, there's not a lot of browsers out there in terms of what they're built on -- chromium and firefox are the base of most of them. There's a new browser from scratch that was started a few months ago but it doesn't do much yet since it's really a massive undertaking.
And I won't disagree that that way of looking of things I spoke of is sort of a primitive monkey perspective. "ooh ooh ah ah it no baby it no look like baby"
Seeing my son on the ultrasound for the first time was a life changing moment for my monkey brain and so for it, that moment is important, but on a higher level it's difficult to dispute that the thing before it looks like a baby isn't already going to become that thing. The moment we choose to create a life should probably be the moment we treat that life as something worth protecting, and if we don't want to protect it then we shouldn't create it.
Seeing my son on the ultrasound for the first time was a life changing moment for my monkey brain and so for it, that moment is important, but on a higher level it's difficult to dispute that the thing before it looks like a baby isn't already going to become that thing. The moment we choose to create a life should probably be the moment we treat that life as something worth protecting, and if we don't want to protect it then we shouldn't create it.
It's a single undifferentiated cell.
I can definitely understand and appreciate the argument that it is all the stuff required to create a full human and so morally you should treat it as such, but looking at a cell there's noting particularly human about a particular undifferentiated cell. Even if you were a microbiologist I doubt you'd be able to look at the very first cell created after an egg is fertilized and go "oh yeah, that's a human right there" -- by contrast, as a baby grows out of that cell it becomes more and more human-like with all the attributes one considers when you think of a human such as hands, feet, a beating heart, and a brain.
I can definitely understand and appreciate the argument that it is all the stuff required to create a full human and so morally you should treat it as such, but looking at a cell there's noting particularly human about a particular undifferentiated cell. Even if you were a microbiologist I doubt you'd be able to look at the very first cell created after an egg is fertilized and go "oh yeah, that's a human right there" -- by contrast, as a baby grows out of that cell it becomes more and more human-like with all the attributes one considers when you think of a human such as hands, feet, a beating heart, and a brain.
It appears that Israel secretly replaced Hezbollah's pagers with Galaxy Note 7s. For shame......
I think peertube already does that using webtorrent so if a video is super popular anyone watching it is also helping to seed for other watchers.