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- Comment on Can A.I. Be Blamed for a Teen’s Suicide? 1 week ago:
Or access to his fathers handgun?
- Comment on For states on the coast with excess solar energy why don't they invest in water desalination and pump that water back upstream? 1 week ago:
- chemical batteries are cheaper
- we don’t really need the water that badly
- desalination needs somewhere to dump the brine
- it costs tens of millions to billions to build a pump and pipe large enough to pump a meaningful amount of water uphill into reservoir
- an investment in desalination needs to be run continuously to make sense financially
- Comment on Favoirte indepth youtube channels? 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on [USA] How can sales tax brackets affect purchasing behavior when prices are pre-tax? 1 month ago:
Tax brackets usually applies to income tax. You are talking about sales tax which varies by state. Oregon doesn’t have sales tax and California doesn’t tax any grocery food. Maybe this is a discussion for the state you live in, not the whole USA.
- Comment on I'm the developer of WalkScape, the RuneScape inspired fitness MMORPG where you progress by walking IRL. We're now accepting more people to the Closed Beta! 2 months ago:
Sounds good, best wishes bringing your game into cash flow. If you inspire others to be more active, you’ve already done a lot of good in the world.
- Comment on I'm the developer of WalkScape, the RuneScape inspired fitness MMORPG where you progress by walking IRL. We're now accepting more people to the Closed Beta! 2 months ago:
I never played RuneScape, but I did just delete Pikmin Bloom. What if players cheat their steps? How will you detect the difference between that, and a Pacific Crest Trail thruhiker who legitimately walks 60,000 steps day after day, and over 1,000,000 steps per month?
Anyway your game sounds cool. I had an idea for a one player game while I was hiking the PCT - kinda like the Oregon trail, or dope wars, but it would be a simulation of the Pacific Crest Trail and the steps would be 1:1. So you’d have to walk 7 million steps to beat the game, and obviously make decisions along the way about food and water, weather, resting, hitchhiking, etc. But there will be long stretches of the game where you just look at a new vista, or look at the location, eat food, camp.
Anyway the reason I’m commenting is I wanted to tell you why I quit playing a walking game. I quit after a backpacking trip of 7 days with no service. When I came back, the game had nothing to do for my ~150,000 steps. No confetti or prizes. If I was actually playing it for any achievements it would be a setback to be offline for 7 days.
So yeah, if you have any players of your game who do serious miles in one day, or one week, or whatever, you should pile on the rewards. Because at the end of the day that’s all I want out of a game like that. An automated micro-recognition that I kicked ass. So I can relax my tired legs and use all my hard earned digital loot.
- Comment on Knife vs. Gun Control? 2 months ago:
Cut the tape, not the box.
- Comment on Are Tetra Paks actually recyclable? 4 months ago:
Maybe it can be safely burned?
- Comment on [NightHawkInLight] DIY Supermaterial Could Save You From Heatstroke: Salt based PCMs 4 months ago:
I was just thinking about this. Love these videos. Cooling of a solar panel is a good application, as long as it gets cold enough for long enough to re-solidify at night.
An alcohol/NaCl solution with a stabilizer can make an ice pack that freezes colder than water. That could be used to keep ice cream frozen in an ice chest.
It would be cool to have recipes for a few different temperatures. There’s a German company Qool Products that sells PCM temperature elements (ice packs), at a variety of temperatures, to store ice cream up to red wine/cellar temp in their ice chest. With some trial and error I guess we could now make our own!
- Comment on Pros / cons of riding a bike? 4 months ago:
There are plenty of protected lanes in my city, but they just hide bicycles behind parked cars, making it less safe at every intersection.
The only way I can think that might work better would be to convert a 3-lane road (with suicide/turn lane in center), into a 2-lane road. The center lane gets converted into a two-way bicycle road - raised up like a sidewalk with curved curb. No left turns allowed for cars, only right turns. This way bicycles are visible and protected.
- Comment on How do I verbally say 2.1 ng/kg 4 months ago:
Yeah it’s typically not used for dosages, rather it’s for concentrations in solution. However strictly speaking the grams cancel in the units of ng/kg and you are left with ppt. I think of ppm and ppt as very small percentages anyway. As per cent means part per one hundred. Can’t use “permille” because it means part per thousand but sounds like part per million.
In the case of a lethal dose, I think it would be fine to say, “it’s lethal at a rate of 2 trillionths of body mass”.
- Comment on How do I verbally say 2.1 ng/kg 4 months ago:
2.1 ppt (parts per trillion)
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
If you go 80 mph on the way there, and immediately turn around and go 60 mph on the way back, what is your average speed for the 160 mile trip?
Tap for spoiler
68.6 mph
- Comment on Biden Administration Tightens Mileage Standards to Buoy E.V.s | The new rule requires automakers to achieve an average of 65 miles per gallon across all models by 2031. 4 months ago:
Unfortunately it doesn’t really incentivize smaller or lighter vehicles in any way.
- Comment on Biden Administration Tightens Mileage Standards to Buoy E.V.s | The new rule requires automakers to achieve an average of 65 miles per gallon across all models by 2031. 4 months ago:
The average mileage for light trucks, including pickup trucks and sport utility vehicles, would have to reach 45 miles per gallon, up from 35.1 miles per gallon.
That’s a reduction from 2.85 gal per 100 miles down to 2.22 or a 22% reduction in fuel consumption.
The standards will also require heavy-duty pickup trucks, such as the Chevrolet Silverado 2500 HD, and large vans, such as Amazon delivery vans, to reach 35 miles per gallon by 2035, up from 18.8 miles per gallon today.
That’s a change of about 5.3 gal per 100 mi to 2.9 gal, or a 45% reduction in fuel consumption.
A Toyota Highlander Hybrid currently gets 35 mpg. To do over 20% less fuel it would need to be super aerodynamic, and lose about a ton of mass. Or it would have to be fully electric - the Rivian R1S gets 70 mpg equivalent.
- Comment on How do rainbows work? 4 months ago:
It’s explained pretty well in Optical Physics for Babies. Take a peek in the kids books section next time you’re at a book store. It also explains double rainbows, and why the second one has the colors in reverse order and is always more faint. This is a detail they got wrong in my favorite episode of Bluey: Rain.
- Comment on Biden to Allow Ukraine to Use U.S. Weapons to Strike Inside Russia | The permission is intended solely for Ukraine to attack military sites in Russia being used to attack the Kharkiv area 5 months ago:
I didn’t realize gifts of weapons came with so many Terms & Conditions. I guess they could have thought more carefully about those terms when supplying weapons to Israel.
- Comment on Flood water use 5 months ago:
In California we have a project called Flood-MAR, which stands for Managed Aquifer Recharge. Farmers who have land that wont be damaged by floods volunteer to pump lots of water onto their lands during floods. This reduces the downstream flooding slightly, and the water soaks deep into the ground for safe keeping until it needs to be pumped up during a drought.
- Comment on Does it seem odd to track my lifespan? 5 months ago:
If you use the actuary life tables for your expected lifespan, you can have a true mid-life crisis when you turn 39 or 41 depending if your male or female.
Or if you’re the age of one of the presidential candidates you’ll know what it feels like to have under 10 years of life expectancy remaining.
Anyway, I do think it’s weird. You have plenty of time to waste at your age. It would be a misuse of your youth to try and allocate your time wisely.
- Comment on How come liberals dont hate conservatives the way conservatives hate liberals 5 months ago:
I hate racists and bigots, but there’s not much to be done about it. Stress and anger will take years off your own life - don’t let them harm you. On the other hand if you can troll them a bit, you may be sending some of them to an early grave, just with words. It’s not hard to do they’re triggered by anything gay, reparations, dominant women, intelligence and education, health foods, immigrants, solar power, and so on. So you don’t really have to send them any hate, you just need to be an example of the world you want to live in and they’ll rage about it.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 5 months ago:
There is no life without death. In order to feed vegans, countless insects must die. In order for agriculture to exist in any form, we must wage war against nature (and win). For example, coconut oil is a terrible vegan product. If vegans are complacent about killing insects and ravaging natural habitats, why not kill and eat crustaceans and mollusks - they’re not all that different in terms of neurons. We can keep stepping up the level of consciousness - fish, etc… when does it become unacceptable?
The next question I would ask, is whether death is always equal to suffering. Death can be painless. Some vegans don’t eat honey because many honey bees are treated horribly. What if they’re not? Also, if you feel that way as a vegan, you shouldn’t eat anything pollinated by bees (try not to starve). Some animals have good lives and painless deaths. If there’s no financially viable market for animal products of happy animals (by vegan boycotting), we’ll be left with only industrial animal agriculture. Do you think a deer would rather be ripped apart by a puma, hit by a car, shot by a bullet, or become elderly and senile - abandoned by the herd to die alone in a field, picked apart by buzzards. Nature is brutal as fuck. Death by human is not the worst outcome for many animals.
The final thing I’d assert is that animal agriculture has an important role in the overall food system. Pigs, cows, and chickens are fed a lot of agricultural byproducts, like spent brewing grains or corn stalks, and their manure is used as non-petroleum fertilizer. Many animals are raised on land that is too hilly and rocky to farm any other way. Our industrial food system is like a artificial ecosystem of its own. Each piece of the industrial food web has a role, and you can’t simply remove all the animals - you’d be overwhelmed with green waste, reliant on petroleum fertilizer, and many would go hungry.
Ethical veganism is idiotic because it places human morality onto nature. It’s a child-like misunderstanding of the real world. The reality is that for you to be fed, the natural world will suffer. Don’t draw a line in the sand and think you’re living a better life. You’re an ostrich with your head buried in sand.
Freeganism on the other hand, is something we could use a lot more of (25-50% more). The only thing worse than raping and killing animals to feed ourselves, is that there’s so much abundance that we throw a lot of it in the trash. Freegans understand the real crime against nature is food waste.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 5 months ago:
Everyone, the answer to the thread is right here.
- Comment on A Difficult Game About Climbing is a difficult game about climbing 5 months ago:
If his legs are just gonna flail, should have just made him a double amputee.
- Comment on Which is the best Lemmy app for mobile? 5 months ago:
I just switched from Memmy to Mlem
- Comment on California law would give employees the 'right to disconnect' during nonworking hours 6 months ago:
The law as proposed allows them to contact employees for emergencies or for scheduling. So as long as it’s about scheduling employees can’t safely ignore it.
- Comment on Alright, where do I begin? 1 year ago:
The Orville feels like a very good update of TNG at times. They deal with a lot of cultural drama with analogs to our current society. And upping the humor a bit helps.
- Comment on Alright, where do I begin? 1 year ago:
Blasphemy warning…
I’d probably start with Strange New Worlds. Then go back for TNG, DS9, and Voyager.
- Comment on how do i pick out a good avocado 1 year ago:
Avos can bruise before they are soft. The bruises go sour before the whole fruit is soft. Most grocery stores absolutely abuse the fruits. Find a store that doesn’t. Look for a single layer, not a pyramid, heap, or pile. Costco keeps them in the flat boxes.
Anyway the restaurants buy them wholesale and they’re cared for in nice flat boxes so they can ripen beautifully.