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- Comment on Green party drops longstanding opposition to nuclear power 3 hours ago:
But more research into renewables (new solar cells, turbine designs, geothermal drilling techniques and such) makes them even more cost competitive, which puts immense pressure on fossil fuels.
It’s of course cheaper in some cases, but if renewables were drastically cheaper, I think lobbying would only get them so far.
- Comment on Green party drops longstanding opposition to nuclear power 7 hours ago:
Well, yeah, I agree with that.
But I’d argue that it draws from the same limited funding pool as renewables and other climate-important research.
The latter is urgent. We will not get to the point of effectively utilizing fusion unless we stabilize the planet, so if we have to trade one for the other, I’d say the bulk should be diverted away from fusion.
It’s not that we shouldn’t research it, eventually. There’s lots of long horizon concerns. But factoring in the time horizon is very important, and reducing emissions is needed yesterday.
- Comment on Green party drops longstanding opposition to nuclear power 10 hours ago:
I see a lot of assumptions about fission here, but aren’t startups trying to make new reactors modular and quicker to assemble? Some even made in factories and transported to the site?
I wouldn’t stand in the way of that. It’ll get bought if it makes sense.
…Now. Fusion?
I think that’s a money black hole.
It’s cool in theory, kinda like living in space is cool in theory, but it solves problems that really aren’t that bad (storage, supply), leaves massive ones unsolved or worse (like higher neutron flux), all for a stupendous amount of research money into something that isn’t necessarily economical.
- Comment on 103°F in Los Angeles all week 21 hours ago:
I know scientifically minded people who view it both as ‘hysteria,’ and for what remains, something that geoengineering can solve in the future.
In other words, look up the WSJ article advocating for fossil fuel production maximization as a net economic optimization in the long term, as basically ‘better to maximize efficiency now, to better geoengineer solutions in the future.’
…I read geoengineering papers. They are horrific, as in “well, in our state-of-the-art-solution, maybe the ice caps will go extinct under acid rain and we’ll have to evacuate millions, and it’s still economically unfeasible, but maybe it will blunt things some?” I’m offended such arguments are being presented.
But I can see where those opinions come from. All the conspiracists are right.
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- Comment on Why has abortion faded from America’s national conversation? 1 week ago:
It’s just not the popular narrative now. People, in aggregate, tend to go with what’s presented to them and what’s trending, and abortion isn’t trending in algorithmic feeds:
- Comment on Realistically, what do people plan to do on the Moon and Mars that requires a permanent, or long term human presence there? 1 week ago:
It’s scientifically priceless. For instance, a space telescope/excavation base on the dark side of the moon would be incredible.
…But realistically, that should be handled by drones.
The people pushing for expansion into space aren’t really technical; they don’t have a good scientific background. But they think they are because they’ve seen some sci-fi, and their egos are the size of the moon.
- Comment on Xbox lays off 268 more employees, merges Obsidian into Bethesda and puts Activision in charge of Halo 1 week ago:
Since 2016, Obsidian has released 10 games. BGS released 2.
Grounded 2 is out in EA, seems to be close to release, and by all accounts is excellent.
- Comment on Xbox lays off 268 more employees, merges Obsidian into Bethesda and puts Activision in charge of Halo 1 week ago:
Obsidian is doing fallout.
But under BGS now. To me, that is frightening.
- Comment on Xbox lays off 268 more employees, merges Obsidian into Bethesda and puts Activision in charge of Halo 1 week ago:
They made a bunch of good RPGs/RPG-ish games, and a bunch of “mid” ones.
My personal favorite is Grounded. It does sorta feel like an Obsidian/BGS game, with its heavy implicit environmental storytelling, audio logs and such.
- Comment on Xbox lays off 268 more employees, merges Obsidian into Bethesda and puts Activision in charge of Halo 1 week ago:
Halo was an attempt at a better direction, compared to 5.
- Comment on Xbox lays off 268 more employees, merges Obsidian into Bethesda and puts Activision in charge of Halo 1 week ago:
Mojang must have a pretty strong contract, given how little they messed with Minecraft Java Edition.
- Comment on Xbox lays off 268 more employees, merges Obsidian into Bethesda and puts Activision in charge of Halo 1 week ago:
Holy moly.
That is basically the worst case scenario, no?
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The absolute last thing Obsidian needs is more Bethesda.
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They should have folded Bethesda into Obsidian and given them TES/Fallout.
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The absolutely last last thing Halo needs is to be more like Call of Duty.
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They should have cut 343, and split the IP amongst specialized studios. Like an Arkane special ops stealth game, or a strictly multiplayer Activision game.
This is beyond even my worst expectations.
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- Comment on Microsoft patent describes in-game advertising triggered by boss fights, loading screens, and cutscenes 2 weeks ago:
My guess is it will go into Xbox/Gamepass on PC, and in MS games, but not in other launcher ecosystems.
Still, go ahead and start researching. Whether it’s this or something else, something will be the final straw for you in Windows, soon.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
My sibling’s dishes won’t get clean unless she runs the water first, as her sink takes a crazy amount of time to warm up.
YMMV though.
If your dishes get clean, no problem. And not all sink piping takes so long to “warm up” anyway.
- Comment on Anon hates tiktok 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Anon hates tiktok 3 weeks ago:
What I fear is when TikTok’s shaping of public opinion becomes more dramatic.
For instance, let’s say someone connected to the its owner didn’t like their opponent? What if they just deprioritized them from the algorithm, so they are basically unknown? Or what if a certain scandal was countered by boosting opposition videos?
If this sounds like I’m describing extant scenarios, well… yes.
- Comment on Anon hates tiktok 3 weeks ago:
Lemmy is more beholden to the “upvote algorithm” though, where the most popular tends to snowball and more obscure posts get less attention.
4chan is purely chronological. It’s “pure” in a way.
- Comment on The good old days 5 weeks ago:
18 years ago
Prehistoric YouTube is the best.
- Comment on Meanwhile at Meta HQ 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, I saw a CNBC news segment that delivered literally this with a straight face, but with the addendum of “age verification may affect user retention temporarily.” It was completely wild.
- Comment on We all know that Mr Beast, Logan Paul, and KSI are all horrible people. Why do they still have subscribers? 5 weeks ago:
Because the algorithm loves them.
Everyone is acting like its the sea of kids fault. These guys don’t pop into children’s feeds on accident, or through random selection.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Its just ragebait.
Trump is like an ascended internet troll.
- Comment on Every Game is an Outrage | Unpacked [7:15] 5 weeks ago:
Actually, I tried again, and it seems to work on my desktop! It must be some specific incompatibility with mobile?
No, I got no recommendations for an alternative, unfortunately.
- Comment on Every Game is an Outrage | Unpacked [7:15] 5 weeks ago:
Tried it again… all 8 sources are down.
This is the thing I dont get about invidious, TBH. A YouTube proxy is never going to work unless its self hosted. Wouldnt it make more sense to use and alt YT client plus a VPN?
- Comment on Every Game is an Outrage | Unpacked [7:15] 5 weeks ago:
Also.
…Does anyone else feel like they spend more time doomscrolling gaming drama than actually playing?
Because this is both my struggle, and observation. Like I know a person that watches more influencer lets plays than they actually play.
- Comment on Every Game is an Outrage | Unpacked [7:15] 5 weeks ago:
Link is dead for me:
Here is their Patreon link with an embed, for those struggling like me:
- Comment on aurafarming 5 weeks ago:
It usually doesn’t look like that though.
Some weird or really old lenses can have effects like this though.
- Comment on aurafarming 5 weeks ago:
That’s some weird bokeh. What lens is this?
- Comment on Peacock has ads when pausing a movie to read the text 5 weeks ago:
It was pretty optimistic, as far as dystopian fiction goes.
- Comment on Peacock has ads when pausing a movie to read the text 5 weeks ago:
