Technology Connections gets so stupid retarded when it comes to these things, it actually makes me mad.
"Oh, a battery can be refilled many times!" so can a fuel tank, jackass. And unlike a battery, a fuel tank doesn't need to be replaced in 20 years.
I figured that to store enough energy to convert the US to renewables you'd need about 3 days storage, minimum. To do that, you'd need to create thousands of warehouses filled with batteries, several times more lithium ion batteries than mankind has produced to date, and a several year monopoly on humankind's entire lithium generation capacity (and they need to be replaced). Meanwhile, several times that amount of energy is kept in the US strategic petroleum reserve in a really cool cave someone found. When people point to battery plants, it's like saying you bought a pack of AA batteries "so we don't need to plug the tesla in". It's so trivial it doesn't even count.
"Oh, the sun is free and I'm cheap!" the sun was free back when the pants that died and became oil were growing too, jackass. It isn't free for us to use. Just ask the people in Australia and California.
"Don't worry, I'm not saying you have to give up your oil and gas powered things" no, you're just going to condescendingly act like you found a perpetual motion machine because your pocket calculator never needs a battery, and that we're the idiots for not realizing your brilliance. Jackass.
Jeez. You'd think a guy from Chicago would know better, if only for the long dark cold nights. Maybe he should try practicing what he preaches, and he can be a broke, frozen, dead jackass with a bunch of expensive magic environmentalism boxes on the roof of his house that just got a natural gas furnace installed after the new owners fix all the frozen pipes that burst.
"Oh, a battery can be refilled many times!" so can a fuel tank, jackass. And unlike a battery, a fuel tank doesn't need to be replaced in 20 years.
I figured that to store enough energy to convert the US to renewables you'd need about 3 days storage, minimum. To do that, you'd need to create thousands of warehouses filled with batteries, several times more lithium ion batteries than mankind has produced to date, and a several year monopoly on humankind's entire lithium generation capacity (and they need to be replaced). Meanwhile, several times that amount of energy is kept in the US strategic petroleum reserve in a really cool cave someone found. When people point to battery plants, it's like saying you bought a pack of AA batteries "so we don't need to plug the tesla in". It's so trivial it doesn't even count.
"Oh, the sun is free and I'm cheap!" the sun was free back when the pants that died and became oil were growing too, jackass. It isn't free for us to use. Just ask the people in Australia and California.
"Don't worry, I'm not saying you have to give up your oil and gas powered things" no, you're just going to condescendingly act like you found a perpetual motion machine because your pocket calculator never needs a battery, and that we're the idiots for not realizing your brilliance. Jackass.
Jeez. You'd think a guy from Chicago would know better, if only for the long dark cold nights. Maybe he should try practicing what he preaches, and he can be a broke, frozen, dead jackass with a bunch of expensive magic environmentalism boxes on the roof of his house that just got a natural gas furnace installed after the new owners fix all the frozen pipes that burst.
Trump, eh?
Why did Trump seize the truckers bank accounts in canada? Why does Trump arrest tens of thousands of people for speaking out on political issues in the UK?
Curse you, Trump!
Why did Trump seize the truckers bank accounts in canada? Why does Trump arrest tens of thousands of people for speaking out on political issues in the UK?
Curse you, Trump!
To honor NoFX putting out an album about how much they agree with the bilionaires and world leaders who tell them what to think, I present this AI slop, a 100% corporate AI approved punk song.
AI is pretty good at playing the 4 cords required for this brand of punk.
AI is pretty good at playing the 4 cords required for this brand of punk.
wow amazing that this punk group released an album saying exactly what every establishment figure in a dozen countries is saying so they can get their way.
Very punk. "We will do as we are told, we will speak the words we're told to speak, please daddy step on me harder"
Very punk. "We will do as we are told, we will speak the words we're told to speak, please daddy step on me harder"
There's already a legal construct called parents, instead of giving more power to the state, that particularly legal contract should be exercising it's sovereign power.
We are not the property of the state. The state is not our mother or our father.
We are not the property of the state. The state is not our mother or our father.
I've talked a lot about it before, there are a lot of people who go to places like blue sky, and they weren't happy on X and even if they get everything that they ask for they're not happy on Blue sky.
On the other hand, with a fraction of the apparent users, the fediverse is so fun and vibrant. For the most part, the people are who are here want to be here because it's not easy compared to big Tech.
The fact that we are also starting to get sites like minds and protocols like nostr means the userbase is plenty robust to have fun.
And never will there be a shadowban or a suspension from the entire fediverse because that's not how it's architected.
On the other hand, with a fraction of the apparent users, the fediverse is so fun and vibrant. For the most part, the people are who are here want to be here because it's not easy compared to big Tech.
The fact that we are also starting to get sites like minds and protocols like nostr means the userbase is plenty robust to have fun.
And never will there be a shadowban or a suspension from the entire fediverse because that's not how it's architected.
Damnit, you're right.
My next book is all about how seemingly contradictory things can be true at once, why wouldn't these two contradictory things fit that?
My next book is all about how seemingly contradictory things can be true at once, why wouldn't these two contradictory things fit that?
tbh, I do, I'm making a criticism of people who try to pretend the only way you can be high class is by having a higher number so we should pay attention solely to the people with high numbers instead of stuff that matters.
Making the argument in the same backhanded style you are, saying it out loud so it becomes clear how silly it is when you say it out loud.
Making the argument in the same backhanded style you are, saying it out loud so it becomes clear how silly it is when you say it out loud.
Also class is only how much money you have pay no attention to powerful people if they hide their money better or just get the state to do everything for them so their number can be artificially low.
When I saw the Americans going to sanction India while the Europeans went to open up trade to india, it all really fits.
They just want the Americans to sit down and shut up and keep sending military hardware wherever they tell them to. It's part of the post-fascist European state, they need to pretend that they're pacifist, and they do that they get the Americans to do all the ugly bits of diplomacy.
They just want the Americans to sit down and shut up and keep sending military hardware wherever they tell them to. It's part of the post-fascist European state, they need to pretend that they're pacifist, and they do that they get the Americans to do all the ugly bits of diplomacy.
It's true that we are tiny. One look at the sheer number of star systems in the universe should be enough to break our sense of scale.
But it's also true that we're massive. Tens of trillions of individual cells working in concert in a way that's kind of insane to think of, and a chain of life that's lasted billions of years through multiple mass extinction events.
The universe is so massive, but at the same time it's so tiny, and in that context we're like a massive megastructure, like seeing a supernova from billions of light years away. There's forms of life so small you can't even see it with light, but we're so large that each microstructure looks like one giant individual instead of trillions of individuals.
And we carry entire ecosystems we don't even know or care about. There's an entire galactic empire in our digestive tract, and global civilizations in our mouth, our ears, our nose, and around our skin.
Some of our cells only purpose is to be born, grow, and die, and the corpses become national walls to protect against others.
Imagine that people think that a 4 billion year old micro-civilization of tens of trillions of lives working in a unison so powerful that it can produce the phrase "Cogito ergo sum" and mean it is small and meaningless. Imagine people that think such a micro-civilization ought to stop that 4 billion year fire.
And the stuff we're made of, it's a miracle by itself. Energy so immense that it structured itself into something we call matter, something so intense it literally warps the universe around it in what we call gravity. Then everything that wasn't hydrogen in our bodies was born in the heart of a star, fused together into a new thing, and that star died of old age and scattered the corpse throughout the universe, slowly aggregating into the complex structures capable of supporting this micro-civiization. A single atom is a thing of wonder, and we're made of so many of them that the human mind can't imagine the number properly.
But it's also true that we're massive. Tens of trillions of individual cells working in concert in a way that's kind of insane to think of, and a chain of life that's lasted billions of years through multiple mass extinction events.
The universe is so massive, but at the same time it's so tiny, and in that context we're like a massive megastructure, like seeing a supernova from billions of light years away. There's forms of life so small you can't even see it with light, but we're so large that each microstructure looks like one giant individual instead of trillions of individuals.
And we carry entire ecosystems we don't even know or care about. There's an entire galactic empire in our digestive tract, and global civilizations in our mouth, our ears, our nose, and around our skin.
Some of our cells only purpose is to be born, grow, and die, and the corpses become national walls to protect against others.
Imagine that people think that a 4 billion year old micro-civilization of tens of trillions of lives working in a unison so powerful that it can produce the phrase "Cogito ergo sum" and mean it is small and meaningless. Imagine people that think such a micro-civilization ought to stop that 4 billion year fire.
And the stuff we're made of, it's a miracle by itself. Energy so immense that it structured itself into something we call matter, something so intense it literally warps the universe around it in what we call gravity. Then everything that wasn't hydrogen in our bodies was born in the heart of a star, fused together into a new thing, and that star died of old age and scattered the corpse throughout the universe, slowly aggregating into the complex structures capable of supporting this micro-civiization. A single atom is a thing of wonder, and we're made of so many of them that the human mind can't imagine the number properly.
Latest upgrade to this dollar store toy. The original car didn't have any kind of antenna on the car, and so the remote range was basically within arm distance.
I bought an antenna and replaced the one on the remote, then drilled a hole through the body and welded the antenna in the body (Those plastic welders with the metal reinforcements are both very interesting and useful and totally useless depending on what you expect out of it), then connected the antenna to the internal connection which was basically just taped to the roof.
Preliminary test showed that now I can use the remote way past the old range, which is all I'd hoped to accomplish. While I was down there I found that the body already had some cracks because it's 1/64" plastic and you'd get more material out of a coke bottle, so I welded them shut and reinforced the opposing side similarly.
This should've been a Honda Civic, because the upgrades do nothing to improve the value of the thing but cost several times the car's actual worth.
I bought an antenna and replaced the one on the remote, then drilled a hole through the body and welded the antenna in the body (Those plastic welders with the metal reinforcements are both very interesting and useful and totally useless depending on what you expect out of it), then connected the antenna to the internal connection which was basically just taped to the roof.
Preliminary test showed that now I can use the remote way past the old range, which is all I'd hoped to accomplish. While I was down there I found that the body already had some cracks because it's 1/64" plastic and you'd get more material out of a coke bottle, so I welded them shut and reinforced the opposing side similarly.
This should've been a Honda Civic, because the upgrades do nothing to improve the value of the thing but cost several times the car's actual worth.
Just because you redefine "a cold" as only diseases caused by rhinovirus doesn't mean cold weather doesn't have a direct effect on the body that might look exactly like a cold, meaning it is for all intents and purposes a cold regardless of the cause. It's an etymological sleight of hand where you redefine a common disease by the vector you want it to be caused by and ignore counterfactuals.
