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- Comment on Meta Censors #Democrat when searched for 9 hours ago:
What was that story warning people that if they use RedNote they’ll experience ‘Chinese style censorship’ for the first time? Looks like they didn’t even have to switch apps in the end.
- Comment on Marvel Snap is banned, just like TikTok 2 days ago:
My favourite part is “challenge” being misspelt multiple times. It’s just chefs kiss
- Comment on The rest of the world looking at the state of US democracy [Day 51] 2 days ago:
They got the results of the tests back. They definitely have cancer.
- Comment on Got any must-play games for strategy fans? 2 days ago:
One game that we always play at LANs is Spellforce III . It’s got a great old school RTS vibe while throwing some new stuff in the mix and there’s a free version of the multiplayer which gives it a really low barrier of entry.
- Comment on Marvel Snap is banned, just like TikTok 2 days ago:
They targeted gamers.
Gamers.
We’re a group of people who will sit for hours, days, even weeks on end performing some of the hardest, most mentally demanding tasks. Over, and over, and over all for nothing more than a little digital token saying we did.
We’ll punish our selfs doing things others would consider torture, because we think it’s fun.
We’ll spend most if not all of our free time min maxing the stats of a fictional character all to draw out a single extra point of damage per second.
Many of us have made careers out of doing just these things: slogging through the grind, all day, the same quests over and over, hundreds of times to the point where we know evety little detail such that some have attained such gamer nirvana that they can literally play these games blindfolded.
Do these people have any idea how many controllers have been smashed, systems over heated, disks and carts destroyed 8n frustration? All to latter be referred to as bragging rights?
These people honestly think this is a battle they can win? They take our media? We’re already building a new one without them. They take our devs? Gamers aren’t shy about throwing their money else where, or even making the games our selves. They think calling us racist, mysoginistic, rape apologists is going to change us? We’ve been called worse things by prepubescent 10 year olds with a shitty head set. They picked a fight against a group that’s already grown desensitized to their strategies and methods. Who enjoy the battle of attrition they’ve threatened us with. Who take it as a challange when they tell us we no longer matter. Our obsession with proving we can after being told we can’t is so deeply ingrained from years of dealing with big brothers/sisters and friends laughing at how pathetic we used to be that proving you people wrong has become a very real need; a honed reflex.
Gamers are competative, hard core, by nature. We love a challange. The worst thing you did in all of this was to challange us. You’re not special, you’re not original, you’re not the first; this is just another boss fight.
- Comment on What is currently holding us back from mining in space? 1 week ago:
Or a space elevator perhaps
- Comment on What is currently holding us back from mining in space? 1 week ago:
Very fair point
- Comment on What is currently holding us back from mining in space? 1 week ago:
Throwback to an ancient thread on Reddit by AdmiralPelleon
It takes 6 BFR launches to put a fully fueled BFS in orbit, going for $7 million/launch. I’ll be generous, and pretend that the BFS making the trip to the asteroid doesn’t lose value along the way (hint: it does).
So let’s plug in the Rocket Equation for a fully-fueled BFS in orbit, let’s see how much fuel we must expend to get the BFS to the asteroid to pick up it’s cargo:
Delta-v to Ryugu (a near-earth asteroid) has $95 billion of minerals on it = Raptor Engine ISP * ln( (start fuel mass + empty mass)/ (start fuel mass - fuel used + empty mass) )
OR: 4666 = 3759.81ln((1100+85)/(1100-fuel used + 85))
fuel used = 851.67
So just getting the BFS to the closest near earth object takes up 851,000 kg of fuel! This is before we’ve loaded any minerals on board. To calculate how much payload we can bring back do earth, it’s the same equation except:
Delta-v to Earth = Raptor Engine ISP * ln( (start fuel mass + payload + empty mass)/ (payload + empty mass) )
OR: 4666 = 3759.81ln((1100-852+p+85)/(p + 85))
payload = 28.893 metric tons
So that sucks! We go all that way, launch 6 rockets, spend probably years in outer space, and all we get are 29 metric tons of cobalt!?! At current prices, that’s worth ~$899,000. Compare that to the “best case” cost of 6 BFR launches or $42 million.
BUT WAIT!
It’s commonly agreed that some sort of ISRU (creating fuel out of the asteroid itself) will be required for space mining. The asteroid Ryugu probably has water, and while I don’t think it has carbon, amateur scientists like us need not be constrained by such petty laws of chemistry! Let’s assume that, once the ship arrives, it is fully refueled at zero cost. Now our return-payload looks like:
Delta-v to Earth = Raptor Engine ISP * ln( (start fuel mass + payload + empty mass)/ (payload + empty mass) )
OR: 4666 = 3759.81ln((1100+p+85)/(p+ 85))
payload = 345.5 metric tons
The good news is we’ve increased our revenues by an order of magnitude (~$ 10,710,500)! The bad news is we are now at just over 25% of our fixed, “best case” costs. (I’m actually not sure if the BFS could land with that much payload, but at this point it doesn’t really matter does it?)
These numbers can be made to work for elements like Helium 3 and Platinum, due to their super-high cost-per-kg (345.5 metric tons of Platinum is technically worth over $10 billion). However, the world’s yearly supply of platinum is roughly just 243 metric tons, and increasing this significantly would serve to quickly crater the price.
All this is to say that no, asteroid mining is not, and may never be, feasible>
- Comment on Checking in 1 week ago:
Would go well with my Zenit 11 SLR camera
- Comment on Checking in 1 week ago:
I like old tech
- Comment on Why do AI bros and other staunch AI defenders seem happy about the potential of killing off the creative industries? 2 weeks ago:
I absolutely don’t agree with your perspective.
AI is just another way to ensure control of the means of production stays in the hands of capitalists.
It empowers the techno-feudalist monopolies to put further pressure on more industries, not content to own a portion of every retail purchase, every digital payment, and every entertainment property. They now get to own a portion of every act of creation, every communication that could possibly challenge their power.
They can subvert any act of independent impactful art by copying it and remanufacturing lesser versions over and over until the original’s impact is lost. And they can do it faster than ever before, cashing in on the original creative’s effort and syphoning returns away from creators into their own pockets.
- Comment on What's the deal with male loneliness? 2 weeks ago:
The atomization of society. The process of a society breaking down into smaller, isolated units, where individuals are self-interested and self-sufficient. It can lead to a feeling of being alone even when surrounded by people.
- Comment on ohh ... 5 weeks ago:
People in Australia do experience medical bankruptcy. It’s incredibly rare now. But it’s true. But it used to be so much worse before we had a public health system. And health outcomes were worse as well. And it cost more.
- Comment on Has any country actually _solved_ the housing crisis? 1 month ago:
Singapore HBD.
- Comment on A freight train of voter anger might be about to hit Albanese 1 month ago:
I think this is already under way. The problem is that nobody’s material conditions will improve if they’re incentivised to exploit less well off tradies. The number of dodgy builders who burn through their tradies because they want to make a buck is unsustainable.
- Comment on A freight train of voter anger might be about to hit Albanese 1 month ago:
Fair point
- Comment on A freight train of voter anger might be about to hit Albanese 1 month ago:
Agreed on nuclear, my view would be to fund the creation of policies that would allow for the construction of nuclear were it to become more cost effective in the future.
- Comment on A freight train of voter anger might be about to hit Albanese 1 month ago:
Cost of living - Introduce divestiture powers and use them on the monopolies. Reintroduce competition or nationalise that’s the only two options left when it comes to Australia’s consumer markets. The current situation benefits nobody.
Housing -> build public housing. Not affordable housing. Not social housing. It’s not a demand problem, it’s a supply problem. Use the Singapore HBD model and start building to get us back above the 10% minimum public housing stock at a minimum.
Healthcare -> Move to a fully funded GP model. The hybrid has failed and a fully private system makes healthcare even more unaffordable. Clear out emergency rooms by putting a huge emphasis on publicly funded preventative care.
Climate change -> Fund the sovereign resources fund to the level of Norway’s, introduce mandatory royalties on all natural resources so that the majority of our natural gas doesn’t go oversees uncharged like it does not. Use that money to fund renewables AND investigations into the legalisation of nuclear.
- Comment on A freight train of voter anger might be about to hit Albanese 1 month ago:
The centre is completely failing to meet the material needs of the working class. Cost of living, housing, healthcare, climate change, equity of GDP. People are mad because Labor has failed to recognise or act on the massive shifts that need to happen to solve any one of those challenges. They continue to tinker with the balance sheet as if it’s the 90s.
- Comment on Billionaire Waits Outside Supermarket To Fight Call Of Duty Fan 1 month ago:
For a more serious news sister site, i’d also recommend www.404media.co
- Comment on Billionaire Waits Outside Supermarket To Fight Call Of Duty Fan 1 month ago:
A lot of their best writers moved to aftermath.site
- Comment on If a leftist ran for president, would liberals support him? 2 months ago:
That’s a fair point.
- Comment on If a leftist ran for president, would liberals support him? 2 months ago:
No. And they’ve said as much.
“Clinton would not pledge to support Sanders if he won the 2020 Democratic nomination.”
abcnews.go.com/Politics/…/story?id=68424746
“However – I do reject socialism as a economic system. If people have that view, that’s their view. That is not the view of the Democratic Party.” - Pelosi
- Comment on When was the last time a Republican Oresident left office with a good economy? 2 months ago:
- Comment on Realistically... How fucked is the US? 2 months ago:
Yep. Look for things to start to look shaky just as he leaves office and then continue to degrade for the following 15 years as the sell off of the world’s future in favour of 2026s Q4 results finally starts to effect people.
- Comment on What do you like/dislike about lemmy? 2 months ago:
I’ve got no problem with the communists. I like having a part of the internet that isn’t completely commoditised and filled with ads and people trying to sell side hustles. I hate the search function.
- Comment on Make this thread look like it's your first day on the internet 4 months ago:
Digimon.com Neopets.com Furrypets.com Furries.com Hotfurriesforum.com Deletemyhistory.com
- Comment on Borderlands is no longer the biggest box office flop of the year 4 months ago:
What was in 93-94?
- Comment on Borderlands is no longer the biggest box office flop of the year 4 months ago:
Is this the lowest rated year of movies ever? Does rotten tomatoes do average ratings by year?
- Comment on 4 months ago:
Haha I wish I could manage 365 days of leisure time.
