wildbus8979
@wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Some heroes don’t wear capes 1 week ago:
Woooosh
- Comment on Some heroes don’t wear capes 1 week ago:
The DailyMail now advocating for respecting trans people’s preferred genders now?
- Comment on If I wanted to bury a hard drive for archival purposes (e.g. Country becoming Dictatorship), how to keep the contents from being damaged and where is the safest place to bury it? 1 week ago:
Thanks :)
I think they are kind of neat. Large volume cold storage is a big issue for home gamers/self hosters. Storage, at scale, can be very expensive and so hard to backup. Tapes are great, but incredibly fucking expensive (the tapes no so bad, but the drives are thousands of dollars… Used!) So I really wish high capacity BluRay M-Discs were more prevalent, market at scale would easily drive down the cost of the media, and the drives are/were already cheap. Unfortunately seeing the trajectory optical medias are in right now, that’s very unlikely to happen :(
- Comment on If I wanted to bury a hard drive for archival purposes (e.g. Country becoming Dictatorship), how to keep the contents from being damaged and where is the safest place to bury it? 1 week ago:
Just throwing the 1000 years mark is a kinda of marketing. But the cool thing is there’s actual science behind it.
But the issue with writable optical discs is that the substrate is based on organic material. These material, usually a cyano group, oxidize over time. You can help slow that does by keeping them out of the sun, prevent heat cycles, etc. But short of storing them in nitrigen they will eventually oxidize. What’s more, CDs have their data layer completely exposed on top making the problem even more pronounced. DVDs and Blu-ray at least have a layer of plastic on top of the data layer, but that’s obviously still not 100% impermeable to oxygen.
M-Discs on the other hand use a carbon glass for the data layer. Something that doesn’t oxidize. Heat cycling night form cracks in it, so yeah I would avoid significant heat/cold cycles if you want them to last, but past that they should be really fucking stable.
It is 100 years? 500? 999? Maybe, but it’s kind of irrelevant. In optimal storage conditions (which are easily achievable) they should last many lifetimes.
- Comment on Canadian/German/Mexican Initiative 1 week ago:
Yeah it’s not like the WV Westfalia that had you sit over the front wheel where the only choice for crumple zones was your legs.
When they made the new beattle it had a very similar shape as well. I see no reasons why it couldn’t be made with modern safety standards with very minimal changes to the exterior body. Obviously, I’m not a member of the SAE.
- Comment on Poll: What connector do you prefer for your shack? 1 week ago:
N, but I wished TNC was more common. It’s smaller but way nicer to handle than SMA.
- Comment on If I wanted to bury a hard drive for archival purposes (e.g. Country becoming Dictatorship), how to keep the contents from being damaged and where is the safest place to bury it? 1 week ago:
M-Disks are rate for one thousand years. Unlike other writable optical meidaz it doesn’t use an organic substrate. It’s carbon glass, very stable.
- Comment on Expand North! So much room up there. 1 week ago:
ICE isn’t CBP though. They technically don’t have jurisdiction over American citizens. CBP does.
- Comment on Why doesn't the US build a bridge here to connect Alaska to the mainland? Are they stupid? 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on He didnt calculate with that 3 weeks ago:
Bully: fine, I was already going to become a cop, but now I’m gonna become a cop even harder!
- Comment on advertisement 4 weeks ago:
Sir or Madam, this is shitposting, not piss posting!
- Comment on Waffles shaped like genitals 5 weeks ago:
Damn inflation, in my time that would have been three fitty. No more, not less.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
They made an incorrect assumption that some of us are correcting.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Most of the reports I see about the police being awful seem to come from the US.
They made an incorrect assumption that a lot of us are correcting.
What’s your issue exactly?
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Yes that’s the point. I’m replying to one one who thinks this is only an issue in the US.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Since at least 1976, police have picked up Indigenous men, women, and boys, then left them miles outside the city on sub-zero winter nights, leading to what’s known as the Saskatoon freezing deaths.
- Comment on Why doesn't the US government just tax illegal immigrants a little bit more than the Average american? Then use those funds to fix infastructure or a new WPA of the 21st century? 1 month ago:
a) the main purpose is to avoid paying b) because spending a bunch of cash can be suspicious to other agencies that are looking, like if law enforcement is already suspicious and starts seeing a ton of large purchases without a legitimate source of income they will figure out something is up c) because people don’t know any better.
- Comment on Why doesn't the US government just tax illegal immigrants a little bit more than the Average american? Then use those funds to fix infastructure or a new WPA of the 21st century? 1 month ago:
Fair enough. The same saying often goes for sex workers.
That’s how they ended up catching Al Capone, on tax fraud charges.
- Comment on Why doesn't the US government just tax illegal immigrants a little bit more than the Average american? Then use those funds to fix infastructure or a new WPA of the 21st century? 1 month ago:
How do you mean? The whole point is to encourage people, everyone, to pay taxes. It’s a great system. Taxes enforcement should be truly independent from all other agencies to maximize trust and honesty.
- Comment on Why doesn't the US government just tax illegal immigrants a little bit more than the Average american? Then use those funds to fix infastructure or a new WPA of the 21st century? 1 month ago:
The IRS normally doesn’t share files with anyone. Don’t you know the old saying? The best way not to get caught as a drug dealer is to file your taxes.
If you look at my other comment, undocumented people in the US contribute over $90B in taxes every year!
- Comment on Why doesn't the US government just tax illegal immigrants a little bit more than the Average american? Then use those funds to fix infastructure or a new WPA of the 21st century? 1 month ago:
You can’t tax them at all, at least officially, without giving them the authorization to work.
You should probably know that this isn’t correct at all. Undocumented immigrants do in fact pay income tax in the US. The IRS issues Individual Taxpayer Identification Number to everyone, regardless of status.
Regardless of immigration status, both resident and nonresident immigrants may have federal tax return and payment responsibilities under the Internal Revenue Code.
reuters.com/…/undocumented-immigrants-can-do-pay-…
Undocumented immigrants paid nearly $97 billion in federal, state and local taxes in 2022, according to a July 2024 report , opens new tab by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP), which used data on taxpayers with ITINs to estimate tax revenue.
The ITEP report said undocumented immigrants contributed $59.4 billion to the federal government, including payments for federal income tax and federal social insurance such as Social Security, Medicare and Unemployment Insurance.
- Comment on Why doesn't the US government just tax illegal immigrants a little bit more than the Average american? Then use those funds to fix infastructure or a new WPA of the 21st century? 1 month ago:
The IRS issues “Individidual Tax Identification Number” for undocumented immigrants who don’t have a social security number.
- Comment on How do you wash a weighted blanket, is it just the outside you wash after removing it? 1 month ago:
Mine isn’t :/
- Comment on How do you wash a weighted blanket, is it just the outside you wash after removing it? 1 month ago:
Yeah I have the same worry. We have a weighted blanket that we still haven’t washed and it bothers me. I don’t need to wash it regularly but it would be good to give it an initial wash after purchase, but I’m worried about damaging my front loader :(
- Comment on Do the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few? 1 month ago:
What are you? A communist?
- Comment on Is WW3 more likely to accelerate or slow down anthropogenic climate change? 1 month ago:
This is indeed not a new concept. But the previous tank (Ambrams) was using a turbine turbo-shaft. So this is a pretty radical departure.
As for battery technology… Let’s compare LiFePo4 (not the densest, but safe, reliable, long lasting with wide operating ranges) to modern lead acid (let alone 100 year old lead acid)…
Energy Density (Weight): 120-200 Wh/kg vs 30-50 Wh/kg
Energy Density (Volume): 250-530 Wh/L vs 75-120 Wh/L
Cycle Life: 1000-3000 cycles vs 200-1000 cycles - Comment on Is WW3 more likely to accelerate or slow down anthropogenic climate change? 1 month ago:
The next US tanks is supposed to be a disele electric hybrid actually. But I’m not saying this because I think it’ll be some sort of improvement. It’s just interesting that they think that is the superior tech.
- Comment on Is WW3 more likely to accelerate or slow down anthropogenic climate change? 1 month ago:
War releases MASSIVE amounts of CO2 and green house gasses and destroys casts swaths of green spaces.
That’s your answer.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
The auth right is not pro-Palestine at all. They are very pro-Israel for a variety of racist reasons
As far as I hate to say this, a section of the auth/far/alt right is also anti-israel. Because (((Jews)))… But that also doesn’t really make them pro Palestine.
- Comment on I'm gonna mute this one 2 months ago:
It’s been one of my favorites for decades!
