BastingChemina
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- Comment on But yes. 1 day ago:
You have to engrave special runes on these rocks for them to work.
I heard that some wizards on the remote island of Tayouan far east are very good at it.
- Comment on Why don't we just gather up all the ocean's trash and all the nonrecyclables, put them in a rocket, and launch it into the sun? 2 weeks ago:
First steep, gather all the ocean’s trash.
Good luck with that !
- Comment on Why are people impressed with SpaceX? 4 weeks ago:
No, NASA has the budget. They already spent $50 billion on the development of SLS and Orion, Starship development cost is estimated to be around $10 billion.
So in theory with the money they spent on SLS they could have built 5 starship program.
The problem is that NASA has to follow political interests, sometimes the political interests align with technical interest and we get great things like the Apollo program.
- Comment on Why are people impressed with SpaceX? 4 weeks ago:
Imagine you want to build a cabin in a very remote place in Alaska.
Getting there is quite difficult, you did it a few times in the 60’s but the path is so bad that you had to throw the truck away each time (around $45,000 per trip, for the truck + gas)
You are still planning to build your cabin but having to buy a new truck for each trip is not great, plus the fact that only one company can make this SLS truck so you can’t get more than once a year.
Building a cabin in these circumstances is close to impossible.
Now SpaceX makes a new Starship truck that can go all the way AND be reused. The trip from the hardware store to the build site now only costs you around $100 for the gas plus truck expenses AND you can now do the trip to the hardware store multiple times a day !
Now building the cabin becomes way more accessible.
Replace the Alaskan cabin with a scientific base on the moon or Mars and multiply the amounts by 100,000 and you have an approximation of the situation
- Comment on Why are people impressed with SpaceX? 4 weeks ago:
It reached the altitude of 96km, not space but not far either.
- Comment on I'm as white as snow but I'm still not white enough to eat this. 1 month ago:
Similarly seasoning peppers are a staple of Caribbean cuisine. They look and taste almost identical to habaneros peppers minus the heat.
- Comment on What letter has the best games? 1 month ago:
Factorio !
- Comment on Why isn't apple a popular ice cream flavor? 1 month ago:
Caramelized apple ice cream is amazing !
- Comment on Sorry to be a bother... 1 month ago:
I think you described quite accurately the difference between introverts and extroverts.
Extroverts gain energy with social interaction whereas it costs energy for introverts to be in these social interactions.
- Comment on I just want to make cookies :( 2 months ago:
Are you using an American, Canadian, British or metric cup ?
Because they are all different measurements.
- Comment on Or even a few days 2 months ago:
Or he is being fed by the neighbor. It happened to us, we started to ferry worked because it cat stopped eating, only to realize later that our neighbor was feeding him too.
- Comment on 2red 2 months ago:
Mango juice is meeh but green mango juice is amazing. Not as sweet and slightly sour make it a perfect drink.
- Comment on CAMPEÃO DO MUNDO 2 months ago:
Same, none of the Brazilian I’ve meet said they ever been murdered.
- Comment on For here am I sitting in my tin can 3 months ago:
From what I see the thrusters are faulty.
Boeing said the cause is a Teflon seal bulging, they cannot identify why and when it is bulging but they say it will not happen on the way down.
Also, all the previous flights of Starliner had thruster malfunctions or shutdowns and they “fixed it” without knowing the root cause of the issue.
- Comment on What has he done to deserve this? 3 months ago:
Applied to a real situation I’ve been through :
- my pool 4.5m wide, 9m long and 1.5m deep, the current level of salt is 2.5g/l and a bag of salt weight 20kg. How many bags of salt do I need to bring the level to 3g/l ?
- OR: my pool 14’9" wide, 29’6" long and 5’ deep, the current level of salt is 2500ppm and a bag of salt weights 40lbs. How many bags of salt do I need to bring the level to 3000ppm ?
The answer to one is 1.5 bag, the answer to the other one is “fuck that, I’m getting 8 bags at the store and it should be good enough”
- Comment on Aluminum 3 months ago:
I love my steel bike, it’s great on the road, on gravel or for a quick grocery shop.
I’m not gonna win any competition with it but it is honestly such a fun bike.
And with care it should last forever.
- Comment on Good game soundtracks? 3 months ago:
Jeremy Soule made some soundtracks.
Guild wars 1 and 2, Skyrim …
- Comment on Machine Learning 3 months ago:
From my experience it’s quite good in the Caribbean and it’s getting better.
- Comment on Factorio Friday Facts #418 - Space Age release date 4 months ago:
It releases on my birthday !
I don’t think I have a choice then, I’ll have to get it on day one.
- Comment on Real 4 months ago:
For people interested an extensive report by French appliance store after sale service. It gives the reliability of each brand. There is a note for the reliability, ease and cost of repair.
It’s only in French unfortunately : https://www.darty.com/achat/services/barometre-sav/barometre.html
- Comment on Pathetic. 5 months ago:
I can guarantee if the story is true or not but my father talked regularly about a neighbor that he knew when he was a kid.
The neighbor was a ballet dancer above 2m tall and was driving an old school mini.
To be able to fit in it he removed the front seat and was driving sitting in the back seat.
- Comment on Why isn't jerking off more valorized as an easy dopamine hit that's also literally good for you? 5 months ago:
At least 4-7 times a week. I have not read anything about an upper limit so go for it.
- Comment on Why isn't jerking off more valorized as an easy dopamine hit that's also literally good for you? 5 months ago:
Ejaculation lower the risk of prostate cancer, so masturbation should probably be medically advised to all men.
4-7 times a week is a good number according this study
- Comment on History says tariffs rarely work, but U.S. President Biden’s 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs could defy the trend, researcher says 5 months ago:
Is it really a drop in the bucket b when we take the value per vehicle ?
If we compare Ford to BYD for example.
In 2023 Ford sold around 2 millions cars and BYD around 3 millions.
For Ford only 72 608 cars out of these 2 millions were EV (3.6%) For BYD it’s was almost 1.6 million EV (53.3%)
In 2023 Ford got $9.2 billions from the US government to produce EV, so around $126 000 per EV sold in 2023.
$126 000*1 600 000 = $2 trillions ! So unless BYD received more than $2 trillions dollars from the Chinese government in 2023 it means that each EV sold by Ford is more subsidized than an EV sold by BYD.
This is not an analysis, I took huge shortcuts in this comment and might have done mistakes in the calculations.
- Comment on History says tariffs rarely work, but U.S. President Biden’s 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs could defy the trend, researcher says 5 months ago:
The argument of China subsidizing EV is always coming back but I would be curious to know the comparison with the US.
The US are subsidizing EV too I would not be surprised if the amount of subsidy per EV produced is much higher for US manufacturers than China.
- Comment on Ya yeet 5 months ago:
Its the other way around, to some people cilantro have a similar taste than the smell of stinkbug.
For these people cilantro taste awful.
- Comment on This Doctor Won’t Take Health Insurance - and Charges Just $35 a Visit | AJ+ (5:46) 6 months ago:
In France the cost for a doctor’s visit is 26€. 18.55€ is reimbursed by the public health care insurance and the rest is generally reimbursed by private insurance.
There is a big debate right now because the doctor’s unions want the cost of the visit to go up to 30€ !
- Comment on Hades 2 early access launch on Steam reaches over 100k concurrent players 24 hours after launch 6 months ago:
- Comment on Anon hates aluminum 6 months ago:
Great if you want to cosplay a smurf
- Comment on Anon hates aluminum 6 months ago:
Steel is much stronger than titanium.
Titanium is a middle ground between steel and aluminum.