Redjard

@Redjard@reddthat.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can also ask your mom⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Through this meme I learned I was named Hunter because the song hunter was no.1

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bisexuality released in 1995 and the devs still haven't dropped an update⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly I know this is unpopular but Pansexuality was a cash-grab. They just rereleased Bisexuality with a new marketing campaign.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EU’s new social media child protection rules to require all social media accounts to produce state ID - Leaked documents suggest that some existing accounts will also be subject to identification che…⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If anything truly local and zero knowledge was allowed, there would be someone sharing their access eu-wide and everyone could install that and be done with it. One person authenticating millions.

  Just due to that every system proposed has at minimum a central authority that does rate limiting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Useful things at the mall⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  First, @nialv7@lemmy.world was roght, the background by itself without the box has a synthid, I commented some screenshots below.

  I also see those “ai artifacts” on the barcode, though I wasn’t as sure about it before seeing the synthid.
  I can make out that the lines don’t run quite parallel but form these V and Λ shapes, closer together on one end and merging together.
  Counting the left most blurry line as one, the 5th is leaning into the 4th line at the top for example. The compression is strong and the image doesn’t have enough resolution to make it out very clearly, but it still looks like an actual detail not a compression artifact to me. The lines are all a bit wonky, more than the noise could do.

  Here’s a way more obvious example:
  Image

  This has some other artifacts too that I don’t see in the post, but you can see the general wonkiness. And also how some lines have “bled” together, though this isn’t a great example of that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Useful things at the mall⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If so you can black out the product package and check if there is still a synth id.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Electrifying ⚡️⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  People found out I’m not a very good electrician.
  They were shocked.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Impressive⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Or non bendy, like metal. Tube does a curve, straight thing won’t fit.
  But also this is likely made up. The pee tube does circular contractions just like your throat, moving stuff out very efficiently. Even something bendy shouldn’t go in more than you push it and immediately come back.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨To be happy…⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  20° where there used to be glaciers :|

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lil fella⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The piano uses hammers so it’s not a string instrument, it’s percussion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cat vs Dog⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah that makes sense. I commend your valiant effort for cat-kind.
  Hope you did manage to break that fight at least.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cat vs Dog⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been scratched by cats but never bitten. And I’ve been around a lot of cats. How’d that happen in your case?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Greatest unsolved mysteries⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Think they meant sliding. I don’t see any rubber feets.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A fossil-fuel plant seeing nuclear coming...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  consumes a colossal amount of resources […] so it takes a huge amount of oil

  Solar is the main source of interest, since it’s gotten so cheap. And solar is fundamentally a thin slice of silicon with trace amounts of mystery elements. The entire thing can be made extremely thin, but it doesn’t really matter. Because silicon is just fancy sand, and we have enough, it’s not a concern. The trace amounts of mystery elements (dopants) are so minor they don’t matter, regardless of what they are and how they are sourced. Then there are conductors and structural elements, for which you can use what is available. This would be say aluminum for contacts (though they are very thin so you can still use fancier elements), aluminum and epoxy for the frames and protective layers, …
  In sum solar has no problematic elements, and the amounts involved are minor on the scale of large construction projects.

  Wind I want to say is similar. Mainly bulk construction materials like resin, concrete, steel. With some electrical components. The main difference is that here you have generators that might need a lot of copper. Though that is changing, I am not sure how far that is in the rollout but it won’t a concern into the future. Generators won’t need nearly as much copper in the future.

  The only thing relevant for pollution, oil use, cost, supply, … in the constituent resources are the batteries. If you put electric car batteries from 10 years ago into a box, you’ll have a bad time.
  Since then though, we’ve seen chemistries that make good lithium batteries without problematic elements like cobalt or nickel.
  Making batteries that don’t move lets you optimize things even further than for cars in that respect. The production for car vs grid batteries are now also separate due to that.
  The main issue of current grid batteries is thus lithium. Which is environmentally problematic to refine, and is expensive, but is readily available and does not depend on oil to my knowledge. The existing production also does not emit enough CO₂ to matter in the ultimate CO₂/kWh numbers when those go into grid use for decades, especially under overprovisioning where you need less batteries per renewable power production to begin with.
  And ofc there are many developments in battery tech. Lithium is not inherently necessary for all batteries, there will be alternate chemistries available not too far into the future.
  If you are thinking of building a nuclear plant now, then you need to consider what batteries you would need to buy in 10 years when it would be done, not which batteries are available now. In 10 years I’d expect something like molten metal or iron batteries that don’t have any even slightly problematic elements.

  the fact that they require an enormous amount of space

  Loosely about 0.1% of current agricultural land. Even if you don’t want to build some solar farms in place of existing farms for various reasons, it’s not that much compared to other large infrastructure like cities, roads, agriculture, so you can find mixed use situations where they fit well.
  For example over parking spaces providing shade, on top of roofs where you don’t usually see them, or on top of crops that benefit from the shade.

  If you look at countries that have a few tens of percent of their grid on solar at present (often with gas turbines instead of batteries), there will of course be a few panels visible when you get around, but it isn’t omnipresent.

  the fact that we still don’t have even the beginnings of a storage solution capable of lasting more than a few hours

  Overprovisioning. If you naively assume you build exactly as many solar panels as you need to average to the demand over the year, you get some very large numbers for storage. But given that solar is very cheap and batteries are expensive and problematic, there is no reason to do that. What you do in practice with both solar and wind, is you build more than you would need, enough so that under suboptimal production you still don’t need to draw from storage. Wind turbines don’t always spin when it’s windy, especially very windy, since then they produce so much power all demands are fulfilled and the rest would overload the grid. For solar it’s increasingly the same, you just can’t tell.
  Private micro-solar often has a maximum power it can send to the grid, and home solar installations are over-specced for that and can send the maximum for far more of the day. Simply because overspeccing is minor increase if cost compared to everything else so financially the best decision.

  In short: The sun shines every few hours, you don’t have to store seasonal power.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A fossil-fuel plant seeing nuclear coming...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The price stuff is only relevant for new production, there’s not yet a financial reason to replace all existing plants with renewables.

  As for China, I’m not fully sure why they aren’t. Either it’s internal lobbying, making decisions against the public interest, or it could be China wanting to keep their market control.
  There is still limited supply, for example building solar cell fabs is a very involved process. China might well be able to use their entire production internally for a long time before fabs scale past their demand. And in the mean time, the rest of the world would first see price increases or shortages, and then build their own fabs taking chinas market control.

  There is also the very short-term thing where they are replacing oil with coal due to the Iran war (best war in the history of war, maybe ever).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A fossil-fuel plant seeing nuclear coming...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Batteries need to be included if you want to compare renewables to batteries, yeah. Still by now they beat nuclear on price, including the batteries.
  Hydro can be disregarded since it’s usually already built, as you mentioned.

  For solar and wind, especially solar, things have changed quite a bit. Of course mainly batteries just got a lot cheaper and better, but the power production got so ridiculously cheap that you can use over-provisioning. Meaning you build way more power than you’d need if you could store it, and them simply don’t store it all. For example you build enough solar to supply average power for a rainy day in winter, and then only build batteries for the night, completely disregarding seasonal and weather-based storage.

  Overprovisioning compared to naive numbers (still thrown around by lobyists) can save you like 80% of battery capacity.

  And as a bonus you can run power-based industry (aluminum, hydrogen, titanium, …) for free when you are otherwise not using the over-capacity, if you don’t mind running the machinery on-demand.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A fossil-fuel plant seeing nuclear coming...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  We should charge fossils for them, else we are just disadvantaging everything but fossil and nuclear.
  Green doesn’t get subsidies either and still competes on price with fossils, and it does not have home solar (except arguably residential solar in some places).
  A CO₂ tax has been demanded by lots of organizations over the years, but in the EU (and I presume elsewhere) has been repeatedly obstructed by fossil lobyists.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A fossil-fuel plant seeing nuclear coming...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  From memory, the issue with France is specifically that they use a russian design for the fuel rods that only russia makes.
  I wanna say that is hexagonal rods, vs the us standard of round.

  There are projects running to make these hexagonal ones in western supply chains, but that is at least 10 years away, and there are not enough rods in storage to bridge that.

  And for new plants you’ll see initial prospects for the cheap russian format, and then either the plant sees a massive cost overrun when they build the way more expensive more available rod design, or it’s dependent right from the start.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A fossil-fuel plant seeing nuclear coming...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Russia has a lot of control over all layers of nuclear power, so this gives them political leverage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Suit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Strategic tie placement

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what the fuck is that allowed???⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think that date is incorrect. Probably a new post and this image appears in the recommendations/feed.
  In general I find those dates on search results increasingly unreliable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨how to cut aluminum pipe with hardly any comments about flock cameras⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Make sure the glasses are not heavily tinted, else you’d be unidentifiable so your friends wouldn’t hit you up on a conversation when they happen to walk past you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Guys Did I Get Scammed?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Nono, to check if this was a scan they now need to rerun it and see if the card was added.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It could be net positive by wasting mating attempts from other wild individuals, decreasing offspring amounts of the population.
  iirc some places airdrop sterile mosquitoes to reduce mosquito populations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valid point⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Get a card binder. Can even put in a note or two with rarely used cards.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fingies⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The lower leg is the palm, not a finger.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I know which one I'm picking!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hating Frnce keeps you sharp in these trying times where Brtain is too busy self-owning.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dunkle⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  still it isn’t the bone that’s on the outside

  That’s what I mean. Skin that gives color but mostly preserves the look of the bone plates, with gaps remaining visible

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dunkle⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  could be like turtle shells

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sweet Temptation⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  0/5 health? You want to kill me?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stay chill, no matter what⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  These seem self-made, which I also did. Probably using like A3 or A2 cardboard.
  It’s a nice thing and you just buffer these things up however or leave them partially empty, they’re closed anyway.

  The size gives you more canvas for decoration.