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- Comment on Turbine go brrrr 4 days ago:
The energy needed for phase change for supercritical CO2 is substantially lower than steam.
There’s more wiggle room. My understanding is that similar to heat pumps, they can build systems with different optimal temperatures, and even daisy chain them together. They’ll never make a perpetual motion machine, but they can waste less energy.
- Comment on Turbine go brrrr 4 days ago:
It’s funny (in a sad and sardonic sense) - I pay attention to the energy industry and the outcry over data centers has got me watching these generators closely. If they deliver on their promises, they could represent a great way to deliver on mirror-based solar reactors in areas with limited water resources. (And to recapture and use waste heat from the servers of data centers.)
Society is on the precipice of investing a lot into increasing energy generation for data centers that have to be near the same sorts of resources that people need - fresh water, environs conductive to generating power, stable (enough) climates. But this technology is arriving/set to reach adoption just in time for this boom-bust cycle. All those data centers in populated areas already have a timer ticking for when the shell corps have their rugs pulled.
- Comment on Whether it's baseball or golf - new glove style to provider a better grip 6 days ago:
Weird fucking glove.
- Comment on Dream 🦕 Big 1 week ago:
Meh, I’ve seen better arteries.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Being treated only as a font of knowledge, a hard worker, a reliable friend (when the friendship is otherwise not rewarding), having a lot of tools, etc, is kind of crappy. I at least get pleasure from sex. Honestly, if I had my druthers of how folks reduce me, I wouldn’t hate being valued for being good in bed.
I wonder if the friend with the truck ever feels like that.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
The pain aspect is something you should address. First with your partner if their technique can be changed, and second with your doctor. And this one is like a layer cake - maybe you’re ace, maybe there is emotional context (that could be entirely unrelated to your current situation) that causes physical discomfort, or possibly there’s a physical component that your doctor might be able to help you with. Or some combination of all of them, because people are complex.
But romantic asexuality is definitely a thing, as is a number of variants within it.
- Comment on cigs w/o u 2 weeks ago:
You don’t message your homies at 2 am to tell them you miss them?
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
They did read my memoirs!
- Comment on Dear Faith II 4 weeks ago:
A friend once revived an email riddled with misspellings and grammatical errors from her boss that critiqued her (appropriate) use of exclamation points. Specifically, that appearing cheerful was not professional.
Some people just like to be miserable.
- Comment on Dear Faith II 4 weeks ago:
They’re in there. You don’t see them?
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
A long time ago, someone said something really useful to me about oversharing online:
“I would like to fuck you, but I’m afraid you’ll write about it on your LiveJournal.”And on that day, I became a lot more selective about what I shared online. At least when it relates to others. I’ll tell you all about my childhood trauma.
- Comment on we're all a little gay inside 1 month ago:
My old apartment used to be set up in just such a way that after a midday shower, you would see a small Brocken Spectre’s centered around each of your eyes when you looked in the mirror. It was honestly kind of terrifying. The first time I noticed it, I wondered if I’d finally lost it.
Glowing circles around your black eyes in a fogged mirror.I think that means I have the opposite of a pot of gold in me.
- Comment on Modern problems require modern solutions 1 month ago:
I’ve begun to use nonsense statements, made up words, and random vocalizations to make the bots think they couldn’t help me. That usually gets me to a human faster.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
My circulation is terrible. I’ll have cold feet and hands while my core is too hot. Sometimes I will move the blanket so it’s over my feet and arms but my body is just under sheets. I need a blanket that is like a reverse vest.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
I cannot!
- Comment on 1 month ago:
I can’t smell ants, and cilantro tastes soapy. However, I do have dry earwax and my armpits don’t smell. (Which is just spurious information to your hypothesis.)
- Comment on This is a really cool clock 2 months ago:
Unimpressed. It’s not 7:20.
All that engineering and they didn’t get the time right.
- Comment on Bioindicator PSA 2 months ago:
It indicates other things, too!
- Comment on no eggs were harmed in the making of this video 2 months ago:
Well, it’s likely the DOGE cuts haven’t shown their impact just yet.
Of roughly 30 National Highway Traffic Safety Administration workers dismissed in February as part of Musk’s campaign to shrink the federal workforce, many were in the “office of vehicle automation safety,” — Car safety experts at NHTSA, which regulates Tesla, axed by DOGE
Personally, I’m sort of hoping for the same karma as when Elaine Chao was secretary of transportation and let Tesla roll out an untested and confusing shifting system, which later helped kill her sister.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Having just read a comment about someone who actually went through the process of having a kid by employing stuff like cycle and fertility tracking, scheduling both sex and abstinence, as well as other not-fun stuff, your comment made me think of taking the kink to an extreme, where instead of lots of rambunctious boning, it was a couple nerds doing intense and fruitless science to find the optimal way to impregnate someone that was impossible to impregnate. (Unless they start looking at the mating habits of bedbugs, but that’s a third, separate, entirely unhinged thing.)
I mean, I’m pretty sure I know which interpretation you meant. But brains are weird and I’m sleep deprived.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
As someone who isn’t going to have kids and doesn’t want them, I still get the growing old alone concern.
It’s not that I would have wanted children to take care of me, but that I don’t trust the social safety system in the U.S.
Even if things are going well, it’s still a terrifying proposition. My first job ever was as a dietary aid at a mid-level retirement home, and while some of the people there were thriving (namely the folks who somehow managed to go into the home with their partners), the majority were a study of what happens when the ability to live exceeds the will. It was a formative experience.And why I’m in therapy and desperately scared that between neurodivergence and trauma, that I’m not going to be one of those really social old people with friends everywhere that care for them and keep them company. Although I think it’s not a given that kids will automatically be there for you as you age, I can see the appeal of doing what you can to hedge your bets. It’s a terrifying world out there, and we only have each other.
- Comment on Anon thinks about wheat 2 months ago:
I thought cats domesticated themselves
- Comment on Anon thinks about wheat 2 months ago:
To be fair, I’m one of the 10,000, so it was novel to me!
- Comment on Anon thinks about wheat 2 months ago:
Are you saying wheat domesticated early man?
- Comment on They are German, of course. 2 months ago:
Science vs religion, baby.
- Comment on Pizza styles 2 months ago:
It’s too socialistic by the standards of capitalists and has been run out of most cooking schools. It’s occasionally taught as an ‘alternative’ recipe, but for some reason, despite rendering a better pizza, it’s never widely adopted.
- Comment on Pizza styles 2 months ago:
I think the joke is that might be AP style pizza.
- Comment on I need to vent about plastic milk jugs 2 months ago:
In the U.S. milk comes in half gallon and gallon measures, which look like your 2L and 3L containers, respectively.
Sometimes you will find milk in waxed paper cartons, but that is not the norm. (It’s very common, however, for dairy products that are often bought by pint and quart — typically half and half, heavy cream, or coffee creamers.) Our fancier non-dairy creamers tend to be in tetrapaks, with less expensive (or at least distributed in higher volumes) creamers in plastic bottles.
- Comment on Anon tries to understand credit scores 3 months ago:
In another comment, someone mentioned that it’s not just repayment of interest that profits credit card companies.
Even if you pay all debts monthly before interest can compound, the CC companies still charge processing fees to merchants on a per-transaction basis (which merchants either pass directly to consumers or indirectly through higher prices). They still get their cut, even if you don’t see it on a line item.Recently I had house work done. The contractor offered to charge me 5% less if I paid with cash or check instead of credit card.
- Comment on The 2025 Hater’s Guide To The Williams-Sonoma Catalog | Defector 3 months ago:
It’s okay! You can buy an upgrade to use a stainless steel milk tube! 😒