KillingTimeItself
@KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on What your coffee preparation method says about you 12 hours ago:
haven’t gotten around to tea yet. Perhaps someday in the future though.
- Comment on What your coffee preparation method says about you 1 day ago:
i uh.
I don’t drink coffee.
- Comment on Realistically... How fucked is the US? 1 week ago:
and you’d be the stupidest person in the room if you did.
- Comment on Realistically... How fucked is the US? 1 week ago:
the military might be the only thing that stops him. Hence why i didn’t include it.
But i have no idea. Literally every other duty, and every other branch will be under the whims of the stupidest person in america right now.
- Comment on Know thy enemy 1 week ago:
the pandemic was really the only significant player here, since it stopped world trade.
Sure russia is a fair example, but here in the US we barely felt it, and we did pretty quickly close up the trade problems.
i’m sure countries are moving away from it, and ensuring industry a bit, that’s not surprising, it happens everytime. It’s going to get outsourced later eventually. And they’re not going to onshore every single industry either, it’s simply not possible.
- Comment on Realistically... How fucked is the US? 1 week ago:
you realize places without elections still have them, they just mean nothing right?
- Comment on Realistically... How fucked is the US? 1 week ago:
he doesnt even have to touch the military, just has to certify fraudulent voter slates, that’s it.
- Comment on Realistically... How fucked is the US? 1 week ago:
trump just barely failed to steal it last time, this time he has the fucking supervillain crackpot team behind him.
If he wants to do it, all he has to do is make the call.
He has the executive, he has the house, he has the senate, he will most likely completely have the supreme court, there is literally nobody to tell him no anymore.
- Comment on Realistically... How fucked is the US? 1 week ago:
anywhere from not really, to literally world war 3.
trump is a loose cannon.
We do not win here.
- Comment on Calculatable 1 week ago:
there are two big arguments for a denser layout, notably you move your hands less, which means you can type faster, statistically speaking. It makes it easier. Generally you see typing speed track roughly with this over time.
And since you move your hands less, it’s ergonomically better for typing, so you get less strain, you have better ergonomics in general, you can type longer, and even faster since there is less strain.
Different layouts optimize for different things, some optimize for efficient roll combinations, some optimize for switching between hands as optimally as possible. Some don’t really do any of that (qwerty) which also have a significant impact on typing.
- Comment on Know thy enemy 1 week ago:
that’s only true if you’re a trump supporter, it’s absolutely true if you’re not. There are most definitely concerns to be had, as there always are, but globalism is fundamentally good for the economy. There is no world in which this isn’t true, so you should push towards globalism, even if there is some risk, because it will likely stabilize relations significantly.
- Comment on Know thy enemy 1 week ago:
obviously not, and that’s mostly going to be military contracts more than anything. Regardless, this doesn’t change the economics here, if you can buy it from the hydrogen empire cheaper, and your business isn’t the US military, then it doesnt fucking matter. Just buy it from them.
- Comment on Know thy enemy 1 week ago:
you think i was saying they would manufacture hydrogen from natural gas?
ok.
- Comment on Know thy enemy 1 week ago:
oil and resource industries are pretty well known for being energy intensive no?
last i checked industry is the primary energy consumer. Sure there’s less people in alaska, but it was just an example i picked, and the market economics would still be applicable there. If it’s cheaper to buy hydrogen, than it is to produce locally sourced power, that’s going to be what happens.
- Comment on Know thy enemy 1 week ago:
yeah thats pretty much the TL;DR here. It’s complicated since oil is complicated and there isn’t really a “insert oil” oil to talk about, there are a lot of variations of it, and a lot of ways to refine it, and a lot of different resultant products from it as well.
The fact that the modern petro industry even works is kind of insane.
- Comment on Calculatable 1 week ago:
ah yes, wait until you find out about the qwerty keyboard. Or better yet, the fucking ABCDE layout for some godforsaken reason.
- Comment on Nuclear Demonology 1 week ago:
WHEN THE FUCK DID WE LEARN HOW TO MAKE GUNS TUCKER, HUH??? I WOULD LIKE YOU HEAR YOU ANSWER THIS QUESTION, WAS IT LITERALLY FUCKING GOD WHO CAME DOWN FROM HEAVEN AND WENT “hey guys check out this sick thing i just did” PLEASE TUCKER, PLEASE TELL ME.
- Comment on Know thy enemy 1 week ago:
all freight traffic is a pretty significant dent, i think the net total for all of transport is something like 15-20% of total emissions, so.
- Comment on Know thy enemy 1 week ago:
actually, it’s already happening, why do you think LNG is such a massive export from the US right now?
- Comment on Know thy enemy 1 week ago:
yeah, free market economies baby, making everything more efficient!
- Comment on Know thy enemy 1 week ago:
the problem with tar sands is a fundamental energy conversion issue. It’s really hard to refine because you don’t get nearly as much energy out as you put in, compared to something like fracking.
It may become reasonable in the future with really cheap renewable energy and higher oil prices for example, but as of right now, it’s economically unviable.
- Comment on Know thy enemy 1 week ago:
bc local supplies would generally be sufficient for industrial, non-fuel uses
this is assuming that its not just cheaper to import that needed oil? This is always going to be a fundamental problem, though maybe we already happen to produce plastic with native oil idk.
- Comment on Know thy enemy 1 week ago:
there absolutely is? What if i can buy hydrogen at 1$ per ton, from the hydrogen production empire, meanwhile in the manufacturing empire hydrogen is produced at 2$ per ton. Economically, it would make sense to buy that hydrogen from the hydrogen production empire.
It’s not going to be as significant as a trade as something like coal and LNG obviously, but the market IS going to do this in some capacity. And it’s a beneficial thing for everybody.
- Comment on Know thy enemy 1 week ago:
arguably, compressing natural gas into LNG is fucking stupid, but apparently the market rates work out, so it’s economically viable. And here we are compressing a gas into a liquid just to ship it over the ocean lol.
market economies are just funny.
- Comment on Know thy enemy 1 week ago:
you really think this is going to stop the globalism aspect from happening? If you can ship something, and get better market rates on it, you’re going to do it. Economics follows the cheapest route, not the most efficient.
It also just makes sense if you think about it. Places like alaska are going to struggle to generate green energy compared to another place like, texas for example. If you can ship in green hydrogen much cheaper than you can locally produce energy, why wouldn’t you? It’s a reasonable solution to the problem of supply and demand scaling.
- Comment on Know thy enemy 1 week ago:
it’s also to do with prices. There is a certain amount of this that is true, but the primary reason is oil prices.
- Comment on Know thy enemy 1 week ago:
to be perfectly clear, this probably wouldn’t help much, since we would likely just move to shipping something like hydrogen across the ocean anyway…
- Comment on Peak performance 1 week ago:
the size doesnt matter for aerodynamics, generally, but it matters for physics.
Drag is a square or cube scaling, i forget which, so at higher speeds it increases disproportionately.
A larger object has more air to move out of the way, which means more drag. It’s more capable of moving that air with it’s increased volume. But then you also start running into volume to surface area scaling issues. Elephants are really slow for a reason, and it’s the same reason small animals are comparatively fast.
- Comment on Most of the trick-or-treaters have been skipping my house, and I finally figured out why 2 weeks ago:
put a sign on your door next year, and report back on how well it works lol.
- Comment on Peak performance 2 weeks ago:
to be fair, the jeep is a car, and not a particularly aerodynamic one, and one that can go much much faster than a pokemon ever could conceive of so.