porksnort
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- Comment on Hotdog, egg, and pickle bunt aspic 14 hours ago:
Ooh, gonna add garlic salt next time I make a milksteak
- Comment on It's not that complicated, guys. 14 hours ago:
The useful information is in the fine print.
“Red Bull gives you wiiiings (please wait 4-6 weeks for delivery)”
- Comment on Why can't countries with vast deserts make solar farms to power the world? 4 days ago:
How is dirt different from a building in terms of thermal mass? It’s the same setup. Panels can shade buildings just as well as dirt. It’s actually a super complex situation that depends on a huge number of variables.
I’m pushing back because this common trope (solar panels cause heat islands) was part of a whirlwind of anti-solar FUD about a decade ago.
The moronosphere turned some wonky studies that showed some local heating effect (in some situations, not all) into a panic about it causing mega-storms and causing dogs and cats to want to live together.
Since then, actual experts have been working hard to understand the costs and benefits of large installations.
An example:
- Comment on Why can't countries with vast deserts make solar farms to power the world? 4 days ago:
So you ignored the fact that it’s not the earth that is getting heated, it’s the panels. So when the sun goes down the thin panels and the air around them cool down quickly, much more quickly than a large mass of hot rocks and dirt.
‘Thermal mass’ is a huge factor here. You ignored the basic finding that buildings with panels on the roof are cheaper to cool just because of the shading effect of the panels.
- Comment on Why can't countries with vast deserts make solar farms to power the world? 4 days ago:
How do solar panels create a heat island? They shade the ground beneath them. There have been installations where panels installed on buildings saved money on cooling costs before the panels were even connected, due to the shading from the panels.
Am I missing something?
- Comment on We could have had it all 1 week ago:
Ok, I have to back the truck up.
I tie-dyed a t-shirt at an employee ‘appreciation’ event last week in the colora of the flag of Rwanda.
It was fun.
- Comment on We could have had it all 1 week ago:
That is an informative link. Do you talk to people this way at parties, though? cuz….
- Comment on We could have had it all 1 week ago:
Everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt.
- Comment on We could have had it all 1 week ago:
May I ask the significance of that symbol? It is lovely and fun to stare at.
- Comment on music 2 weeks ago:
Yes, a real band. They were really popular among the indie-folk-pop set around the turn of the last century. The bit on parks and rec was just a way to establish April’s character as ‘too cool for all you bitches’.
Pretty good stuff if garage studio music is your jam, but if you haven’t heard them yet, they may sound derivative because they did influence a lot of later stuff in that genre.
- Comment on music 2 weeks ago:
Sounds like something a cuckcel would wonder…
(Replaces headphones and settles into the chair, stares intently)
- Comment on UK Cops 'Ashamed and Sick' of Enforcing Ban on Anti-Genocide Group Palestine Action 2 weeks ago:
To be fair, cops have no other marketable skills, so rage quitting has more serious consequences than for normal people with transferable skills.
- Comment on Why China has a tech manufacturing advantage over the U.S. 3 weeks ago:
‘They’ do want it to happen. Ordinary USians are gettng uppity and need to be taken down a peg.
The global elite don’t really need anything specific from the US anymore. For a brief moment, the world needed our higher education system, which is why anyone under 60 who went to grad school had lots of non-US folks in their cohorts. Those folks have gone back home in large part so there are plenty of skilled experts in critical fields internationally.
The US has no remaining unique resources, be they skilled people or natural resources. So we need to be dealt with since many of us still hold on to quaint notions like ‘freedom’, ‘autonomy’ and ‘living wage’.
- Comment on Left-handed sep funnel anyone? 3 weeks ago:
Stop them? Or drop subtle hints as to how to do it correctly and teach some basic physics at the same time?
- Comment on What'd happen if a person was born with telomeres twice as long? 4 weeks ago:
(sigh) cool story
- Comment on What'd happen if a person was born with telomeres twice as long? 4 weeks ago:
The great flood that left no evidence behind and all large animals were rescued by a guy who built a boat? The one that also left behind no genetic evidence of such a catastrophic population bottleneck? That great flood?
- Comment on Anon is sick fuck 4 weeks ago:
Reminds of something my dear old grandpa said to me growing up: “If a hot girl DMs you about crypto, block him!”
- Comment on All while the skeletal, crumbling, dusty bones of an econ major pulls business backwards into hell. 4 weeks ago:
But, but KPI’s are how we know line go up.
Checkmate, artists!
- Comment on cum 2 mummy 4 weeks ago:
True, but such a shame.
- Comment on Creating dogs 5 weeks ago:
Biological evolution also suffers from survivor bias. ;)
- Comment on President Trump shows President Zelenskyy and President Macron his 4 More Years hats 5 weeks ago:
I hope Zelensky goes back to comedy after his political career. So much source material!
- Comment on Anon thinks there is a bicurious double standard 5 weeks ago:
Your experience is valid, as it happened to you and none of us in this thread were there probably anyway.
In my experience, friends don’t end friendships over homophobia. They just suddenly become very busy and they have less and less time to spend with the person who comes out as bi.
‘Bi erasure’ is such a common phenomenon that we invented the term ‘bi erasure’.
- Comment on Anon is Bri’ish 5 weeks ago:
Much too soon! (but totally a good one, i ill be stealing this one)
- Comment on sponsored by raycon 5 weeks ago:
Thank you for introducing me to the term ‘thundercunt’. It has me thinking of cosplay ideas.
However, Siri and notifications volume is controlled separately from media volume on iOS.
You can also set a repeating reminder to call Apple a bunch of throbbing thundercunts, perhaps weekly? Which is still a very important thing to do.
- Comment on Big Balls Clapped 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Lemmy be like 5 weeks ago:
I have to agree here. Injecting ‘nuance’ is an easy way to derail a discussion so that the obvious harms of a thing get obscured. The discussion devolves into emotional reactions to some aspect of the ‘nuance’ and the original point is lost. And nothing changes, which suits the powers that be just fine.
Nuance is a powerful tool for maintaining the status quo by disrupting the conversation. Leave the nuance to the academics.
Effective messaging campaigns require message discipline and dead simple provocative points repeated endlessly for a generation or two to effect change, usually.
- Comment on Anon shares a family moment 1 month ago:
I really wanted to see where this was going. The obvious flirtation, the passive-aggressive challenge, it was really building to something.