CancerMancer
@CancerMancer@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Anon questions our energy sector 10 hours ago:
The costs used for wind/solar energy never included the cost of the required buffer storage, and even the rare few people who include that never factor in frequency stability which to this day is maintained by the giant steam turbines everyone wants to get rid of. It will not be trivial to solve the frequency stability problem; it will likely require massive investment in pumped water storage, flywheel storage, or nuclear energy, and these costs once finally included in the real cost of wind/solar will hurt its value prospect considerably.
As for nuclear waste: the overwhelming majority of nuclear waste generated over the lifetime of a reactor is stored onsite. Only the smallest amount of material is what will actually remain dangerous for a long time, and many countries have already solved this problem. It’s a seriously overstated problem repeated by renewable-purists who usually haven’t even considered how much frequency stability and grid-level storage have and will add to the cost of renewables, meaning they have not given a full accounting of the situation.
- Comment on Anon questions our energy sector 10 hours ago:
The curse of Private-Public Partnerships (P3s) means middle-men sapping all the value out of long-term government projects. We simply cannot trust these organizations with our energy infrastructure.
- Comment on Anon awakens an ancient evil 2 weeks ago:
If thou gaze long into an anus, the anus will also gaze into thee.
- Comment on Anon trades and barters 2 weeks ago:
This is the kind of job AIs are going to replace. AIs are coming for the dick trade.
- Comment on Commie trek 3 weeks ago:
They were conserving energy because it was hard for them to find the crystals they need. That said the lights are bound to be nothing compared to converting energy to matter or maintaining a warp field.
- Comment on Anon reviews a game on steam 3 weeks ago:
I had a dev respond to me 5+ years after a review saying they had fixed the problems I mentioned. Now I have to download the game and play it again or I have no balls. God damn devs holding us accountable.
- Comment on Life imitates art? 5 weeks ago:
Baudrillard strikes again.
- Comment on Just So 5 weeks ago:
Like many things, people hate it because of its associations with other things. They will happily throw it out even if it has good uses. Here have some spicy examples:
Some people experience gender dysphoria and may benefit from medical intervention? Nah it got abused by ideological idiots so it must always be bad. Karl Marx says workers must arm themselves? Nah guns are bad, I know this because rightoids like them.
- Comment on MSc Mansplaining 2 months ago:
mansplaining is a made-up idea lol
- Comment on MSc Mansplaining 2 months ago:
Us men are taught that our opinion is always valuable.
As a man I’ve been told no one wants my opinion since the 2000s so I’m not sure where you’re getting this from.
- Comment on August 30th 2024. America adopts the metric system. Never forget. 2 months ago:
Quick Celsius breakdown from a Canadian:
40+ - most Canadians stop eating food and hope for a quick death 35 - you might just be able to live with this if you do nothing at all 28 - right about the place where comfort gives way to a general sense of warmth, something that makes any Canadian uncomfortable 23 - room temperature, and why “room temperature IQ” is an insult only Americans could have come up with because their scale was made by a madman 15 - If it’s Autumn you are wearing a light jacket, if it’s Spring you are sweating 5 - sweater time 0 to -10 - that stereotypical TV winter experience, where everyone is skating and sipping hot chocolate? Yeah that’s like half the year here. You better like hot chocolate. -15 - We enjoy the fresh air, others will probably find it painful to breathe directly; put on a scarf! Do not brush your teeth immediately before going outside unless you want to experience mint-flavoured pain. -20 - Canadians put their boots on by now. Exposed skin on a windy day can get frostbite in as little as 10 minutes. -30 - We will debate putting a coat on to put the garbage out at this temperature, usually erring on the side of caution in case your kids lock you outside again. Seriously invest in good winter gear for this, this temperature can kill surprisingly fast and it only gets increasingly unpleasant from here. -40 - turns out you can’t form snowballs in hell because the snow is too crispy
- Comment on Why is Kamala Harris being held at such a higher standard than Trump this election? 2 months ago:
Here in Canada I’ve seen much the same behaviour for both Liberal and Conservative voters. “I vote Liberal because I’ve always voted Liberal” is a surprisingly common statement especially among the older generations, and to a small extent even the Green party has a few loyalists in BC.
Always voting the same way no matter what happens is just giving your vote away for free.
- Comment on Anon's gastric emergency 3 months ago:
Sounds like bro needs more fibre. Liquid shit means you’re eating like a dumbass.
- Comment on Flowchart for STEM 3 months ago:
I’m no fan of Hexies but economics - at least as understood by neoliberals - is not real.
- Comment on To all you outside of the US... 4 months ago:
The worst part about the politics here in Canada is that the Liberals always spend years setting up the layup that the Conservatives use to dunk on Canadians. This round is going to feature a whole host of anti-competitive business, bad trade deals, media favouritism, privatization, waves of attacks on worker’s rights… all this and more thanks to the moves set up by the Liberals doing things like refusing to stop the Rogers/Shaw purchase, the failure to make deals with other countries, setting up media and “CanCon” subsidies that favour big media companies, and the intentional attacks on the efficiency and effectiveness of public services.
We are so fucked.
- Comment on To all you outside of the US... 4 months ago:
Yeah and you’re getting renovicted so they can split all the bedrooms up and double the occupancy (and rent)
- Comment on To all you outside of the US... 4 months ago:
What the polling likely isn’t capturing is how many people will ultimately choose not to vote out of despair, and that was the real threat the whole time.
- Comment on To all you outside of the US... 4 months ago:
Trump’s still in control of his (meager) faculties and that’s the issue. They’re going to have to put someone else in against Trump or admit that the past few years have been Weekend at Biden’s
- Comment on To all you outside of the US... 4 months ago:
I’m just wondering if I need to call the police or the ambulance
Both? One of these guys is a convicted felon turned robber baron and the other is a retirement home escapee who has lost the light in their eyes.
- Comment on Anon envies the AVGN's power 6 months ago:
Sounds like you have an interesting market there. The thrift and used market where I live are dead.
- Comment on Anon envies the AVGN's power 6 months ago:
Shit I was around for that and I don’t even remember No Pigeons. Nobody really cared about No Scrubs because culture war wasn’t really a thing and it wasn’t being shoved in men’s faces.
Now you’ve got Tiktok material dropping right into your feed saying you’re a manlet if you aren’t 6’+ and bringing home 250k or more, and you can see thousands of women (real or bots) agreeing with it. That will sour relations a bit.
- Comment on Every 60 seconds in Africa, a minute passes 7 months ago:
There are plenty of leftists who aren’t pieces of shit that we could support instead of this clown. I don’t know why people keep giving this guy a platform.
- Comment on Every 60 seconds in Africa, a minute passes 7 months ago:
I would also add predatory male feminist, hypocrite, shitlib, pedo.
There really is just no redeeming quality to the guy.
- Comment on Anon gets a job 9 months ago:
I did the self-employed grind, lots of 12 hour days, lots of downtime with no work or money coming in. My wife hates instability to the point she refuses to let me invest our money anywhere (we use a managed mutual fund… ugh). This means it was get stable work or watch her hair fall out from stress, so I took what I thought would be a shit job but turned out to be a decent one.
Get this: after working that job for a bit she says “I’m worried you have no ambition”. No shit I gave up my dream to work a mailroom.
- Comment on Anon notices what they've taken from us 9 months ago:
Nothing was superior to the iPhone when it came out. It successfully married multiple types of mobile device into one device. Not even ashamed to admit that while several other devices did the individual things it did better, nothing brought them together like that.
That said, modern smartphones are a bit ridiculous and the idea of spending $1200 every two years on a phone should be revolting to people. iPhone or Samsung, stop fucking doing this sheeple.
- Comment on Let's goooooo 9 months ago:
Studies done by Amazon and others show that diverse groups of workers are less likely to unionize. Other studies show workplace education on things like unconscious bias and racism actually increase our awareness of the differences between us and not in a good way.
Make of that what you will.
- Comment on Anon gets a job 10 months ago:
I worked a mailroom job with only about 3-4 hours of actual work a day. I was explicitly told I was free to spend any free time however I liked, so long as I stayed nearby.
I read books, gamed a bit, learned some programming and Linux server stuff… was pretty great actually. I only ever left that job because the offer was for twice as much pay. I often still miss the free time.
- Comment on I wish 1 year ago:
imagine generating this at runtime
- Comment on I wish 1 year ago:
Because YandereDev is a legendary moron I can’t even tell if this is a joke or not.
- Comment on workn 4 weekedz 1 year ago:
ah yes, some of that post-humor “comedy”