You win on drug count, but still tie on “doing all the drugs available” with multiple other mammals

Thank you for bringing the detail and tone I was going to type. You covered so many good points. It’s nice to see someone outside the tech-heavy, privacy-hyperaware echo chamber.

It’s on the internet forever, but whatever the regular user needs is lost behind poor content indexing and incompetent search functions

They slowly ditched better services for convenience. The account/login struggle is the barrier to entry that myspace/facebook/discord “solved”. A unique login for each forum, a different set of rules between each, some auto-deletion of supposedly inactive accounts, no photo hosting capability until death bed, yet another set of credentials for the latest photo host, and so on. Nothing was immediate because it took time to build the replacement communities and libraries. The problem is, it took years to realize how inaccessible the information became.

Eh, never mind. You’ve got it figured out. You are above the algorithm, above the predatory UI, above the ruthless drive by corporations to manifest addiction. Modern platforms are no smarter than 1980s Chess AI and phones are only as manipulative as a light switch. Your suggested media feeds are purely your own making. Carry on.

as a human woman, which represents a greater imminent threat?

No. This is NOT the takeaway. The bear is clearly the statistically-imminent threat (let’s say a brown bear to ensure it’s hostile and deadly). The point is that you know exactly what the bear will try to do: kill you. You don’t have to greet it, you don’t have to worry about it’s intentions, you don’t have to worry that your social interaction may push the bear over the edge, you don’t have to worry about hurting it’s feelings and risk making it a threat, you don’t have to worry about sending mixed signals, you don’t have to worry about your clothing choice, and you certainly, certainly don’t have to worry about it raping you without witnesses. It simply is a violent threat. You use bear spray and hope you can run far enough, fast enough. You don’t get to make that immediate reaction to a man, between compassion for the innocent, societal pressure to not ostracize men, and legal repercussions if you get it wrong.

You’ve never come across something and view it out of curiosity? The algorithms love when you branch out like that.

You’re being amazingly condescending to people being abused and guided by the algorithms, acting like you’re above it. You’re not. I actively fight these curated feeds with alternate private browsers and sometimes going as far as using a VPN just to see what something is about, yet it’s not foolproof and there’s a reason ti’s their ein the first place. It’s not just your viewing choices. It’s clear that you get put into various categorizations and the algorithms keep your feed fresh by suggesting content that other people who watched the videos you watched have also watched. You think your science-based category is safe, but it’s not. You’re 3 clicks away from conspiracy theories flooding your feed by way of “here’s how flat earthers explain gravity” because your chosen video, the bridge video, and the conspiracy videos are all using the same keywords. You’re not noticing all the “harmless” unrelated suggested content from the games you don’t play like Factorio, Stardew, Hollow Knight, No Man’s Sky, or Star field but it’s there, just as predatory, seeing where you’ll bite. The overlapping keywords and viewerships are there. It’s exactly the same situation.

This category association is how people get drawn into deep, dark corners. This is how segmented conspiracy groups converge. This is how the manosphere becomes an echo chamber. This is how self-harm and self-hate content puts someone in a hole by themselves. So many users aren’t even aware of how curated their feed is. They come to believe “everyone thinks this” because there’s 100 videos sitting there waiting for them to “freely” choose their next clip.

You’re acting morally superior without an actual understanding of what these platforms are designed to do. They do not give a fuck about your health or morals. All they want is your attention, your addiction, because time spent on their platform is participation taken away from 20 other major platforms.

Agreed. It’s 1/100 with old panels at 1/300 with modern high performance panels, being up to 300w/m.

Edit: solar radiation is only 1.3kw/m2

They were, factually, Indian. It says something about the exploitation of poorer labor to impress some San Franciscans with fraudulent tech

Map the physical area to a scale. Map the scale to the rainbow. Make chords a 2D representation of sound space. Make palm mutes drain the color. Make squealies vibrate the array. GIVE ME THE MUSIC VISUALIZER IN MY HANDS (and a blunt)

Yes, yes, this art is nice, but you know what it needs? Lights

Not /s

SpongeBob should be smiling, aloof, and looking the other way

I enjoyed the Tokyo Drift achievement in Sea of Thieves. I was running from a larger ship and naturally thought of going full steer around a rock and dropping anchor. It worked! We lived.

The data used to create that image of the black hole had a transfer speed of 14GB/s because ~700TB of it was captured in Antarctica and spent 14 hours traveling by plane

Median class? Mode class?

Or that the site owners aren’t just two bit grifters

Same, especially because I’m a frequent sky-looker but have to prepare any ride-along that all we’re going to see by eye is pale fuzzy blobs. All my camera is going to show you tonight is pale sprindly clouds. I think it’s neat as hell I can use some $150 binoculars to find interstellar objects, but many people are bored by the lack of Hubble-quality sights on tap. Like… Yes, and then sent a telescope to space in order to get those images.

That being said, I once had the opportunity to see the Orion nebula through a ~30" reflector at an Observatory, and damn. I got to eyeball about what my camera can do in a single frame with perfect tracking and settings.

Adding that there’s also many cartoon skins that use cel shading, which I assume is part of why this looks so weird if you’re not up to date at all. Peter Griffin might be the earliest I remember, but there’s dozens now. They had a whole Simpsons season recently.

That makes sense. There’s some basic requirement for height and width to make you a standard shooting target for which SpongeBob would not work.

OK, so you don’t have fossil-fuel-free solutions, either, and you don’t have a reasonable plan to handle night time energy needs. You specifically said that utilizing fossil fuels at all was an issue, including for production of renewable, with the claim about not being able to source a turbine without fossil fuel use. It sounds like you don’t understand that “night” happens during normal human waking hours, that there are actual activities and demand for energy specifically at night, and that there is no direct path to a fossil-fuel-free energy solution. I have no idea how subsidizing alternates erases fossil fuels for your idea.

Its the winter solstice in the northern hemisphere and I have 8.5 hours of daylight today. That’s about 4 hours of decent solar production without clouds, since the sun is so low. I guess I’ll just try sleeping, without electric heat (since CNG is a fossil and solar is dormant), for 14 hours tonight from dusk to dawn (5pm-7am). Wait, solar panels are still using fossil fuels for production, so those are out. Is a wood stove OK? It’s renewable, but it’s a major CO2 burden, much worse than CNG. Can’t mine lithium or nuclear material with the existing industry, all runs on petroleum. I’m not sure if life is worth living, as every waking hour has been spent at work, using the small time frame to try to support myself financially.

This also means no activity can occur at night. No manufacturing? Triple the facility sizes to allow the “night time” morning shift and the “night time” late night shift to operate with the daytime shift. Can’t go anywhere, can’t entertain myself, can’t eat, can’t enjoy anything other than lying in the dark, waiting for the sun to come back. That’s weird, putting all the overnight demand in the daytime is causing brownouts because we couldn’t triple our energy production. But hey, the burden is being shared and we’re all miserable for 5 straight months. But the summer will be rad with only demanding 8 hours of dormancy.

Look at the project. It’s not a continuous production of CO2. It says this one contains 2,000 tonnes of CO2 and produces 200MWh/day. A CNG power plant is somewhere in the range of 0.5kg CO2/kWh. That’s 10,000kg CO2 from CNG for 20MWh, or 10 tonnes. In just 200 days, a CNG plant of the same capacity will produce as much CO2 as this entire facility contains.

Bashing innovative projects like this for being anything less than a time machine to go pure nuclear actively hurts progress. Is that your goal? To maintain the status quo?