WoodScientist

@WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A prophet!!⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Well we just need to find some sort of latter-day Napoleon, and we’re off to the races!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So, is the USA screwed?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  The flaw with this scenario is that it assumes Trump would try to simply cancel the elections. Instead, he would be more likely to regulate them in a way that makes unseating him impossible. For example, federal regulations might be implemented that required states to use voting machines, voting machines that are produced by corrupted companies. He just straight up steals the election through rigged voting machines. Or they mess with registrations and voter purges to a level more than the amount that already got Trump elected this time. See the SAVE Act..

  Or alternatively, the election systems themselves will be unaffected. However, the candidates will be carefully managed. Any Democratic candidate that would present a significant threat to MAGA will be arrested on trumped-up charges. The courts will miraculously cease to give the Democratic candidate the same leeway they did to Trump when they “didn’t want to interfere with the election.” Or he’ll manipulate the Democratic elites so much that they end up electing someone even more conservative. They end up running Ted Cruz or something insane like that.

  Remember, even the citizens of the Soviet Union got to have elections.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A prophet!!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Obviously this means that with the US fallen to fascism, only France can carry on the light. France will liberate us all!!!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If you wanted to use an old printer, why buy an HP one? Even buying a used one indirectly supports HP. If there’s a secondhand market for HP printers, then they’ll have more value when sold as new. New cars wouldn’t sell so well if their value, rather than only taking a big hit, literally went to zero as soon as you drove them off the lot.

  Simply having an HP printer, even a used one, also serves as an advertisement for them. Every time someone visits you and sees your printer, they’ll be reminded of the brand’s existence. Having and using one, even an old one, is a constant minor free advertising for HP.

  If you already have an old HP printer that’s working well for you, I wouldn’t recommend trashing it and buying a new one just for the reasons above. There’s environmental concerns to consider. But if you’re looking to buy a used printer, why buy an HP? There’s plenty of other good brands out there that don’t engage is such evil.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I feel my life is empty. Is there any way to stop this?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Commit crimes for the greater good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ACAB, no exceptions⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  All cats are babs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Entropy? Never heard of it.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Nothing. You’re just asking trees to do something they’re not meant to do. Absorbing a single year of carbon emissions would require half the planet’s land area of trees. And that’s just while the trees are growing and absorbing a lot of carbon. Trees just aren’t efficient enough on a per acre basis to make a dent in carbon emissions, let alone capturing the carbon already in the atmosphere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Entropy? Never heard of it.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Because stationary energy generation is the easiest thing to decarbonize, while other sources are much more difficult. Also some carbon sources are so disperse to practically track down. You going to hunt down every person using a diesel generator in Subsaharan Africa, go to their rural villages, and take their generator from them? Maybe, or it might be easier to just set up one big nuclear powered DACC plant. Then you don’t have to deal with the practical and political nightmare of hunting down millions of low intensity carbon sources among the poorest people on the planet. Just let the poor village keep its diesel generator til they’re ready to switch to solar. You don’t have to go in and start taking stuff from poor people. There are lots of examples of this, low intensity sources that add up in aggregate but would be a political nightmare to try and stop. DACC shines for this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Entropy? Never heard of it.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Unfortunately, this is one area human imagination and intuition fail. Trees are great, but the math shows they simply aren’t remotely viable as a means of bulk carbon sequestration.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Entropy? Never heard of it.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Who says you power that thing with fossil fuels? The real way to do that is via giant nuclear reactors or reactor complexes.

  Fission power can be made cheaper per MW by just making the reactors bigger. Economies of scale, the square cube law and all that. The problem with doing this in the commercial power sector is that line losses kill you on distribution. There just aren’t enough customers within a reasonable distance to make monster 10 GW or 100 GW reactors viable, regardless of how cheap they might make energy.

  But DACC is one of the few applications this might not be a problem for. Just build your monster reactors right next door to your monster DACC plants.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you became a millionaire woman in your early 30s, how would your Friday would look like? From the morning until the time you close your eyes to sleep. Only straight answers, no bs.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know. And frankly, I don’t care. I have no desire for that level of wealth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Im watching an episode of Mr. Rogers Neighborhood, filmed in black and white. In this scene a guest is showing glass making. What is going on with the film to make these black areas by the flame?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s called conservation of energy. The flame is hot and represents a local concentration of thermal energy. In order to concentrate this heat, thermal energy must be drawn from the outside air, greatly cooling it. This causes the air around the flame to appear black on film, as it is giving off much less light than the flame.

  /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are old ladies so popular on the internet?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There are more things in Heaven and and Earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon finds a new way to get protein⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That does appear to be how words be.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon finds a new way to get protein⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Cat food isn’t even any more expensive than canned tuna and other similar canned meats. You’re not saving any money. You’re eating cat food for no reason!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We're in the endgame now⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly. That’s why my point is that there may be other mechanisms for courts to deputize or recruit people to serve as enforcers for the court.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LIVE: Jeffries, Democrats hold 'Rally to Save the Civil Service' on Capitol Hill⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, spread it or something like it to everyone you know using every platform you have. I am just one woman. No need to even quote me directly. Spread the message. We need to start spreading ideas in the public consciousness about how to actually fight back. Also start emailing these courts directly. They should be bombarded with emails telling them to take actions like this to directly enforce their orders.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We're in the endgame now⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The courts need to start deputizing large numbers of bailiffs to enforce their orders. Forget relying on funding from Congress for it; I’m sure they’ll have plenty of volunteers. Musk and his goons refuse to comply with court orders? Haul them into court at the point of a bayonet. I’m sure you’ll have no shortage of patriotic Americans also willing to donate weapons to arm these new bailiffs.

  The courts need to seriously build out their capacity to enforce orders independent of the executive branch. They need muscle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LIVE: Jeffries, Democrats hold 'Rally to Save the Civil Service' on Capitol Hill⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They need to start working with the judiciary on a plan to actually enforce judicial orders independent of the Executive branch. The courts need muscle. They need to deputize a large number of bailiffs and start enforcing court summons and orders directly. Don’t worry about finding funds to actually pay these deputized bailiffs; no appropriations are getting through Congress for this. But I’m sure you will have no problem finding a few thousands volunteers willing to act as temporary bailiffs. There are thousands of recently unemployed people in DC, who are very familiar with the layout of government buildings and the working of government offices. I’m sure you’ll get plenty of recruits among them. Need weapons? This is America; you’ll find plenty of patriotic people willing to donate firearms to arm this new squad of deputized bailiffs. We’re doing this Old West deputized posse style.

  Once sufficient bailiffs have been deputized, the courts need to start physically hauling in Musk and his goons, at bayonet point if necessary. If they refuse to comply with lawful court orders, then lock them up as necessary. If enough space can’t be found for them, or if the justice department doesn’t cooperate, improvise here as well. Lock people up in spaces private citizens volunteer, private warehouses and apartments if need be.

  Trump himself is likely off limits, but that matters little. He’ll quickly find that he has no one to give orders to, as all his appointed cronies willing to violate court orders are now rotting in jail. And while you can pardon people if they’ve received punishments for contempt of court, you can’t pardon people who are haven’t actually been charged or convicted of anything and are merely being held until they comply with court orders.

  This is war. And they need to start acting like it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If scientists could make you immortal but could only do it by transferring your consciousness into a single video game for ever, which game would you choose?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It would definitely have to be a MMORPG of some sort. Your biggest problem in this system will invariably be loneliness, and interacting 24/7 with NPCs will quickly show their cracks. You need a way of continually interacting with large numbers of real people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon cheats through college⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Two words: partial credit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon cheats through college⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They absolutely will. Companies hire programmers because they specifically need people who can code. Why would I hire someone to throw prompts into ChatGPT? I can do that myself. In the time it take me to write to an employee instructing them on the code I want them to create with ChatGPT, I could just throw a prompt into ChatGPT myself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do car share coops work? Have you ever been a member or started a car coop?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, typically how it works is that it’s an alternative to renting a piece of farmland in cash. Instead of paying the land owner in cash, you pay them in a portion of your harvest. /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I guess this means I need to get blown⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why prop it up? Tear that thing down and recycle it. There’s good wood in those old barns!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is 33⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s not a lot of overlap in the Venn diagram between the type of person described in this text and someone like Luigi. Remember, Luigi was the Valedictorian of his class. To do what he (possibly) did requires a great deal of knowledge, planning, and skill. You’re talking about someone that allegedly manufactured their own weapon from scratch, tracked down the CEO of a fortune 500 company, plotted for a moment of peak vulnerability, and was able to escape the scene of the crime in a daring and intricately planned escape. Oh, and he also managed to do it all in a way that turned him into a beloved folk hero.

  With Luigi’s alleged crime, you’re looking at the work of genuinely skilled and intelligent person. Someone like the guy in this green text isn’t going to be taking down any CEOs or politicians any time soon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The welcome mat is still out, don't like the visitors then take down the open sign⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You know what? Fuck it. Let’s go back to 19th century rules. We’ll have open unlimited immigration, but in a very annoying fashion.

  First, we’ll reopen and expand the Ellis Island facility. We’ll let anyone without a serious criminal record in, but all immigrants have to go through Ellis Island.

  Second, no more plane travel. That’s just too damn easy. You have to come here by boat. And we’ll require they be slow boats that take at least a month to cross the ocean. Also we’ll set a minimum ticket price to whatever the inflation-adjusted value of a steerage ticket was on a passenger liner c. 1910.

  We’ll turn immigration from a criminally regulated matter into what amounts to an international hazing ritual. We’ll let anyone who wants in, but you got to prove you really want it by putting up with a whole lot of pointless bullshit first.

  Live in Ciudad Juarez and want to move to El Paso? Nah, you’re not just going to be able to walk across the border. You’re going to have to haul your ass down Vera Cruz, book a ticket on a boat, and then spend at least a month fucking around on the ocean until you get to NYC. Then you’ll be let in and can go live in El Paso if you want.

  My ancestors came here during the time of open immigration, but they also had to put up with a lot shit in order to do so. We’ll make immigration like joining a fraternity or sorority. We’ll let you in, but we’re going to make you put up with a bunch of pointless and arbitrary crap first.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'll have one war please⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, I got good news at least. I’m officially no longer morally qualified to serve in my nation’s armed forces!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨unless it’s really really funny⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s why I said a wild bald eagle!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨unless it’s really really funny⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly. Don’t threaten politicians. Just wish horrible things upon them that are acts no human being could ever carry out. Let God do the dirty work for you. That way it’s not a threat.

  Dear Lord in Heaven, please open a sink hole directly beneath the president and his cabinet, and have the Earth swallow them whole, never to be seen again. Bend the earth to your will as if the bowels of Hell itself were reaching up to finally claim their own.

  I also recommend wishing lightning strikes, wild animal maulings, and just good old-fashioned heart attacks upon people. I personally think Trump being mauled to death by a wild bald eagle would be an incredibly fitting way for the fat bastard to finally die.

  It’s perfectly legal to wish death upon evil men. It’s only a true threat if it’s actionable. And it clearly cannot be actionable if it’s something no human being has any control over.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it possible to learn new things with no external stimuli at all?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You need to read Asimov’s The Last Answer.