SpongyAneurysm
@SpongyAneurysm@feddit.org
- Comment on I love astronomers so much 4 days ago:
shrug Non-issue. File name extensions are irrelevant on Linux and you can always use an alias if you don’t like the command’s name.
- Comment on We produce more resources than we could ever consume in the least sustainable ways possible. 1 week ago:
I don’t think trains can solve all of it, although you in the US especially could benefit greatly from better rail infrastructur, imho.
I suspected, it was a career decision. But I also think maybe you’d have chosen a different path, if you’d have had better opportunities closer to your home?
I won’t blame you for having taken those decisions in a system that takes flight mobility for granted. And it probably would be hard for you to go back, now that you’ve arranged your life that way. But also I think it would be a mistake to let that get in the way of envisioning a more sustainable future for our societies.
In my opinion, sustainability is more than just a tech challenge. But encompasses a broader political vision, that enables people to take more sustainable decisions in the first place. And people take decisions like that based on the opportunities and possibilities they see.
- Comment on We produce more resources than we could ever consume in the least sustainable ways possible. 1 week ago:
Wouldn’t be an issue if you could get rid of industry groups and lobbyists etc.
and we all know how easy that is…
I didn’t mean to sound too gloomy, those things can definitely be changed as well. I just meant to say, that if you purely focus on climate issues, those issues still remain unchanged.
I disagree with your analysis however. It’s not just meat consumption and energy crops. I mean, both of those are particularly bad, sure, but other fields (pun intended) are also not super sustainable.
- Comment on We produce more resources than we could ever consume in the least sustainable ways possible. 1 week ago:
There’s definitely a lot of work to be done. The relevant question for this discussion is, if we’re going to have to take cuts to productivity during the transformation to more sustainable practices.
I can’t give a qualified answer to that, but I guess we’d have to. However there are also promising new technologies emerging, that might be able to mitigate those; like precision farming and agro-robotics.
- Comment on We produce more resources than we could ever consume in the least sustainable ways possible. 1 week ago:
May ask, which circumstances in your life have lead you to the point where you need to fly to be able to see your family?
- Comment on We produce more resources than we could ever consume in the least sustainable ways possible. 1 week ago:
Too narrow a view. You’re looking at it purely through the climate change lens.
Our farming activities have other issues as well though, which won’t go away no matter how successful decarbonization is going to be.
Eutrophication of soil and bodies of water through intensive use of fertilizer and the loss of biodiversity which comes with that, as well as with widespread pesticide use and the loss of small scale structures across agricultural land is one huge example. Top-soil erosion is another one.
- Comment on Spicy Air ☢️ 3 weeks ago:
Kudos for a measured response to my sometimes snarky tone.
www.oecd.org/content/dam/oecd/…/29e7df00-en.pdf
I only had the time to read the executive summary of this thing, but I learned a bit more about nuclear power plants.
It’s still not enough for me to evaluate how well that can integrate with a grid dominated by renewables (can the load following be fast enough, to match wind and solar fluctuations) but still good to know more.
- Comment on Spicy Air ☢️ 3 weeks ago:
That’s a super basic view on the science of nuclear power. As an engineer, I need a lot more than that, because it needs a lot more to put basic principles into working projects.
So, is there a nuclear powerplant, that exists outside of some powerpoint slides, that is actually used to match fluctuating generation from other energy sources and/or fluctuating demands?
All of the ones I know are/were used to provide a base supply by running more or less 24/7 at their designated output, not least because they need to do that to be even somehow economically feasible.
- Comment on Spicy Air ☢️ 3 weeks ago:
Where’s an example for an operating nuclear power-plant that can be dialed down to match demand?
Afaik they have lots of momentum (for days even), and even their propenents argue for them being critical for providing a base supply^1^. Never have I heard anyone claiming they’d be good for matching fluctuating demand. Can you back that up?
Or are you getting your anti-reneweblaes lobbying talking points mixed up? That argument is usually used for natural gas plants.
^1^ which doesn’t make sense in a renewables dominated grid.
- Comment on Spicy Air ☢️ 3 weeks ago:
Nuclear isn’t exactly ‘burning fuel’, at least not in a traditional sense. But I guess you just mean that as ‘consuming a finite, non-renewable ressource’ which it still does.
No disagreement, I’m just here to nitpick that bit of phrasing.
- Comment on Military Grade 3 weeks ago:
THW spotted.
- Comment on Cup or nah? 1 month ago:
Aaand it’s called … ?
- Comment on Cup or nah? 1 month ago:
Who’s Lazlo? And is it the same actor that played Douglas Reynholm in The IT-Crowd?
If so: I loved that role and need to see this, because that costume looks like he’s playing a sleadzy vampire version of Douglas, and I need to see that!
- Comment on Some cheeses are luminescent. 1 month ago:
I’m linguistically 100% convinced. Somehow I have an intuitive understanding of the concept. Wonder where that came from…
- Comment on Full circle. 1 month ago:
English isn’t my first language, but can you even fix the prepositions to the verbs like that. Wouldn’t you have to define your frame of reference? I’d say it shifts with your perspective.
Example: I’m in Homeyland and there are migrants, who are emigrating from the Faraway Islands and immigrating to Homeyland.
When I’m in the Faraway Islands, I’d say the same people are emigrating to Homeyland. While Homeylanders coming here are immigrating from Homeyland.
- Comment on Some cheeses are luminescent. 1 month ago:
Didn’t you know? The enlightenment spreads like an ideology. Traditional physics outplayed.
- Comment on Some cheeses are luminescent. 1 month ago:
A good summary. I doubt the person who tweeted (?xed?) that ignorance is going to read it, though. And even if they were to read it, would probably not listen. This is moon-landing-hoax level ignorance and its most likely performative and maliciously intended.
But kudos to you still. I hope your post reaches other ill-informed, but less ignorant people, who need to hear this and might even appreciate, that you are enlightening the dark sides of their knowledge.
- Comment on A lot less blue too... Hmmmm.... 1 month ago:
You got your science all wrong. Global warming is about the earths athmosphere, which is gaseous. When gases get COMPRESSED they become HOTTER. The earth becoming smaller means the atmosphere is becoming SMALLER too, so the gas gets COMPRESSEd! Climate change is because the earth is getting smaller! And they want you to use less oil and gasoline and hook you up to the sun and stuff like heroin addict!!
/s
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Shouldn’t be a surprise, that some people are dumb as hell.
- Comment on it really do be like that 2 months ago:
I believe you. You so little about fashion, you don’t even have a verb for it.
- Comment on This is heresy but lol 2 months ago:
Sounds like a skill issue.
If you listen to Skeletons of Society, Seasons in the Abyss or South of Heaven and can’t find anything to enjoy. I have to say, that’s on you.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Well, not if you still want to have some fun while doing so.
But I agree, that a regular bike should suffice and you don’t need to worry about optimizing gear weight if you’re not competing for anything and just ride it for your own well-being.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Ever heard of footnotes? :p
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Mathematically speaking it can’t be, because if you put it in relation to only the OTHER people, you’d have to divide by zero which ends up non defined.
It only works out when you put it in relation to ALL people within those criteria, thus dividing by one.
- Comment on there is a special place in hell for these scientists 2 months ago:
Yes, but with a dimensional portal to Hell opened on them. Or where do you suppose the demons come from.
- Comment on Game over 2 months ago:
MSG isn’t just enhancing umami, it tastes umami by itself, because the umami taste is triggered receptors on the tongue that react to some amino acids, one of them being the glutamate in Mono-Sodium-Glutamate. The salty part comes from the sodium, which has its own receptors as well.
This stuff is literaly made for our taste buds.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
Metal in general. Not too many lovesongs there.
- Comment on A succulent meal 3 months ago:
The roast chicken is usually not an egg creating machine though.
They are fairly young male chickens, that have been raised just past their maximum growth rates.I guess that wouldn’t have been that much different in medieval times. The difference nowadays is, that we have specialized breeds for egg-laying or meat production vice versa and the respective ‘wrong’ sex of each will just be ‘discarded’ right after hatching.
- Comment on How does this thing work? (wrong answers only) 3 months ago:
Afaik. My flight instructor advises a strict diet of brussels sprouts, kidney beans, onions and Jalapeno chilies.
- Comment on How does this thing work? (wrong answers only) 3 months ago:
It will never be enough for anal aviation, but if you want to move stuff with your body heat, check out stirling engines.