Warl0k3
@Warl0k3@lemmy.world
- Comment on Trump says US Navy will begin Strait of Hormuz blockade after failed talks 2 days ago:
The idea is to ensure that Iran cannot charge for passage - and to buy time for a sufficent fleet buildup that they can clear the straight by force.
- Comment on I'm a MAGAt 3 days ago:
Thus demonstrating that baseless cope is not just limited to MAGA…
- Comment on When you're the type of person who commits. (xpost, because the Factorio joke inspired me) 1 week ago:
42 in the image, 65 in the series
- Comment on When you're the type of person who commits. (xpost, because the Factorio joke inspired me) 1 week ago:
Yeah, I really respect what a literary undertaking it was but… jesus christ, when the recommended reading order has to come in the form of charts like this maybe you should prune down the number of entries in the series guys.
- Comment on When you're the type of person who commits. (xpost, because the Factorio joke inspired me) 1 week ago:
Flight of the Eisenstein is pretty good too.
- Comment on California father arrested after repainting crosswalk, adding stop signs near children’s park 2 weeks ago:
It’s exactly the same - someone is changing the signage without knowing what they’re doing. I don’t think he should be harshly punished, especially if he’s right, but this also isn’t at all different from someone fucking with the speed limit signs because they feel they know best. That person may also be right - that doesn’t mean they should be able to make those changes.
- Comment on California father arrested after repainting crosswalk, adding stop signs near children’s park 2 weeks ago:
Ah, I understand. Thank you.
That’s a decent example of what I’ve been saying - basing a conclusion like that on the wording of an uncited press statement is pretty spurious. There simply may have been more reasons and this was judged the easiest to explain (which happens frequently), and without more information we aren’t simply equipped to make an informed judgement. Much as he wasn’t when he made the initial decision (but we admittedly court far less severe consequences)
- Comment on California father arrested after repainting crosswalk, adding stop signs near children’s park 2 weeks ago:
even the traffic engineers agreed that a stop sign was an appropriate treatment for this intersection when they rejected it on the basis that the traffic volume wasn’t high enough to warrant installing one
I’m not sure I follow your reasoning here.
- Comment on California father arrested after repainting crosswalk, adding stop signs near children’s park 2 weeks ago:
Sure! And if improvement is warranted hopefully this will bring enough attention that it gets reevaluated. But that all said, even if he was right, being arrested for it is warranted. Hopefully he was right and as a result he’s not punished, but if the only requirement for traffic engineer was community complaint there would be no speed limits and the bones of traffic engineers would hang from every street light.
- Comment on California father arrested after repainting crosswalk, adding stop signs near children’s park 2 weeks ago:
Traffic engineering is an actual science - what he did was extremely well-meaning, but it’s also the pavement equivalent of alternative medicine. Sometimes you’re right, but even if you nail the diagnosis most of the time you’re so ignorant you don’t even understand the potential harm you’re doing in brewing up your own treatment. It is very possible that his traffic revisions have made the area less safe for pedestrians by ex: shifting traffic congestion onto surrounding roads.
- Comment on California father arrested after repainting crosswalk, adding stop signs near children’s park 2 weeks ago:
As much as this case might have been justified (which we just don’t know without the traffic study), condoning random people fucking with street signage is a fucking terrible idea. There are very good reasons not to randomly change traffic patterns, especially outside of a popular park; fuckcars, but also vigilante traffic engineering is an insanely dangerous game to play.
- Comment on Is the "Gen z stare" a real thing? 2 weeks ago:
I assume they’re busy - I suppose what you assume is your business.
- Comment on The unAbomber. Otherwise, I agree. 2 weeks ago:
You’re being sanctimonious again.
Nah, I was just being sarcastic. You were being a troll, it seemed fair. That said, ‘Sanctimonious’ (“Righteousness accompanied by an unwarranted attitude of moral or social superiority”) is how you’re behaving now. I never implied any superiority over other commenters, just that they haven’t expressed any condemnation of him in favor of discussing his work with a concerning amount of detachment - and that I’m concerned about the social realities that leads to that being normalized. It’s concerning, especially because as others have pointed out the fame that came from him being a terrorist has buried discussion about the work of the much better philosophers he (charitably) synthesized his ideas from.
- Comment on The unAbomber. Otherwise, I agree. 2 weeks ago:
It’s a rather depressing statement on your personality that that’s what you consider brave, but I’ll take the compliment.
- Comment on Is the "Gen z stare" a real thing? 2 weeks ago:
you should not expect any response to that other than a hi back
Yes, exactly. Everyone knows it’s a pointless platitude, the goal is to get an acknowledgement in response that you can further the interaction. When you don’t get that response it’s a problem - you don’t know if they’re busy, and the vast majority of people don’t want to be rude by just launching into your order (or whatever) just expecting them to be ready for it.
- Comment on The unAbomber. Otherwise, I agree. 2 weeks ago:
I’m not sure it’s unwarranted to explicitly condemn the unabomber here, though. People are unironically praising him in these comments - if condemnation was as obvious as you implied you would have much stronger grounds on which to call me sanctimonious, but right now there’s plenty of people arguing how the effectiveness of what he did distributing in distributing his message and nobody that’s yet pointed out that he was a literal terrorist.
- Comment on The unAbomber. Otherwise, I agree. 2 weeks ago:
Given the 2:1 ratio on that comment it seems like it might actually is a contentious opinion. Maybe the backlash is all due to it being interpreted as virtue signaling, but… there’s so many comments in here unironically praising Ted for his ideas and refraining from commenting on his later actions (or actively justifying them as ex: a way to be taken seriously).
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Worry not, the implanted power systems I know of generate at peak a few nanowatts of energy. Enough to tricklecharge a device or run some very very very efficient digital hardware, but no way you’re harvesting that power for anything useful. It’d be far more practical just to have the humans chained to bicycle generators…
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Yeah. Unfortunately even rechargable pacemakers are extremely rare - almost all of them just expect that you’ll have to replace the battery every several years (I think the average is 5?), which in the long run isn’t terrible. Rechargeable batteries self-discharge far too much and as a result require quite frequent recharging so are far from ideal for implantation, although not having to undergo regular surgery to replace the battery is obviously a highly desirable outcome. The idea with internal power generation is to bridge the gap between the two and allow a person to go for far longer without the need for invasive surgery, but without the drawbacks inherent to rechargable chemistries.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I think the idea was to provide a redundant method of charging in case you’re unable or forget to recharge it externally.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Walter.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Real answer: The sheer amount of neutron radiation thrown off by fusion erodes the materials. This is why the Lockheed Martin fusion reactor they claimed to have built is complete BS - their design ignored the requirement to shield their superconductors from the neutron radiation, allowing them to be placed far closer to the reaction (and thus vastly lower the power requirements). While it could have theoretically worked briefly, it would have eaten itself into radioactive dust astoundingly quickly.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I’ll admit I’ve been out of the field for a couple years so my information is going to be outdated, but I believe the issue with using MHD for continuous stimulation is that it generates tiny amounts of power - enough to trickle-charge a pacemaker, but not enough to keep tickling the brainstem with the frequency needed in DBS.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Yep! And fun fact, all online encryption relies on exactly this technology. Radiophotovoltaic batteries provide uninterrupted current, which is used to ensure that encryption keys (stored in highly volatile memory for security) are not lost due to a brief power flicker.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
That’s the most common proposal for MHD generators - once it goes thru the MHD proper you use the waste heat to drive a conventional powerplant. Unfortunately MHD requires the production of plasma to be effective, and plasma just does not like to exist, so the engineering practicalities make it… unlikely to ever be even remotely viable outside of incredibly niche applications (non-plasma MHD has been studied, and I believe there are even some human trials, to power implants in the body like pacemakers)
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
There’s also direct energy conversion of the charged particles, radiophotovoltaics and Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generators, but none of those are practical for large scales…
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
ohh, mr hands. Classic.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
As an exhibitionist I approve, as a person who gets cold though no way am I wearing sheer fabrics on the daily. My fuckin’ nipples would freeze off…
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Wait, what story? It’s a damn good safeword tho, very meta-humor…
- Comment on Fookin Ghosties 3 weeks ago:
This is AI??
