Iceblade02
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- Comment on If God had wanted us to have nearly unlimited clean energy, He would have placed a fusion reactor into the sky. 1 week ago:
The days the steam engine are numbered.
Not really. Unless there are some breakthroughs in technology that significantly lower capex & opex for grid scale energy storage, they’ll be sticking around for a long time.
There is an asterisk on the 1TW number, and that asterisk is capacity factor. In practice it means that depending on the time of year and location, the effective output of your solar panel will be between 0-40% of label capacity .
In my country for instance, you can expect 0-2% output from a panel in the winter time, which also happens to coincide with the peak demands (heating). Luckily, our politicians had some foresight in the 70s & 80s and built lots of hydro and nuclear power, which has been the backbone of our grid ever since (despite attempts to dismantle it).
- Comment on London stabbing rates vs X posts about London crime 1 week ago:
How do you mean?
- Comment on London stabbing rates vs X posts about London crime 1 week ago:
Chiming in from Sweden, the situation here was getting very bad (relatively to how it used to be here, and how it is in the rest of the Nordics). When my dad was a kid, shootings would be national news, when I was a kid, bombings would be national news. Nowadays they are both so frequent that it barely makes the dailies.
Things have slowly started getting better again however, even if it’s slow going.
Here’s a link to a visualization tool from our national broadcaster. Keep in mind, all of Sweden is just some 10 million people.
- Comment on What challenge from a game isn't worth completing and what challenge from a game is worth completing? 3 weeks ago:
Most collecting achievements are just game filler really. The ones I find interesting are ones that im a more free-form game create an interesting goal to work towards.
For some of my favourites I’ve on occasion gone through the list and been like ‘Yeah that sounds like an interesting objective.’
The key for decent ones is usually that they are an achievable goal for one playthrough that act as a ‘guiding star’.
- Comment on What challenge from a game isn't worth completing and what challenge from a game is worth completing? 3 weeks ago:
My first Factorio playthrough was a Lazy Bastard run. The game is a lot more chill when turning off biter expansions & turning up trees slightly in the map gen.
Granted I think I racked up like 200hrs in that run, largely because I could leave the game running in the background whilst going off to study or do other stuff. Once you’re past the intial stage & have a mall set up, hand-crafting really doesn’t matter much.
There is no spoon was alright as a goal, but it also ends up being a definitive end to that playthrough (which, arguably, can be both good and bad).
- Comment on Is Winnie the Pooh considered "racist" now or are .ml folks using it as an excuse to defend Xi Jin Ping? 5 weeks ago:
the more reasonable parts of the internet
:)
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- Comment on The Strangest Yuletide TV Tradition 1 month ago:
The tragic part of this is that Disney is essentially positioned to extort an entire culture due to owning the copyright for a two-generations old piece of cinema that has become part of national tradition. Exactly how much is being paid anually for the air rights is subject to non-disclosure, but the fact that the Swedish National broadcaster has considered not renewing is telling.
Here’s a quote from an interview last year:
We know that Donald is loved by the Swedish audience and that there would be an outcry if the program disappeared from the schedule, but at the same time we have a responsibility for what SVT’s tax money goes to.
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- Comment on What free to play games can run smoothly on my old laptop? 1 month ago:
Cataclysm Dark Days Ahead, Dwarf Fortress, Space Station 13 (online), Simutrans, OpenTTD, Battle for Wesnoth
- Comment on Someday, someone will invent something that can ‘envelope’ small flat items so they can be shipped more efficiently. Until that day … 2 months ago:
Employee no. 5823 was all out of fucks to give that day.
- Comment on How do you sleep at night? Please respond with a number 2 months ago:
1, 5 or 20 depending on temps
- Comment on Insulin 2 months ago:
A lot of the benefits people associate with capitalism require a free market. The US problem is that the megacorps have gotten sufficiently powerful to abolish that free market through regularory (and legal) capture, enabling entrenched monopolies.
- Comment on What 3 months ago:
As a regular Swede I will say that Finnish swear words hit differently. More oomph in them xD
- Comment on Minecraft is removing code obfuscation in Java Edition 3 months ago:
most of them got stuck at 1.7.10
As did I :) The few times I boot up MC it’s the same old modpacks on the same old versions.
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- Comment on Why do conservatives define being fascist solely as "being violent?" 5 months ago:
False question fallacy.
Conservatives don’t solely define fascists as “being violent”, at least in my country.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
Is it because I’m (probably) autistic?
No, it’s a basic human decency thing. No man I know would (intentionally) touch without invitation (whether verbal or body language) and if someone does they deserve a smacking.
The most common gray area is tight crowds where some assholes try to get away with groping disguised as “accidents” which is disgusting.
- Comment on Choose one before starting the game... 5 months ago:
People being fine with higher taxes is a function of a trustworthy system where tax money actually goes to spending that benefits the tax payer.
If the expectation is that the funds get misplaced/pocketed/diverted along the way your average citizen will be far more willing (and view it as far more morally justifiable) to make efforts to avoid/reduce paying taxes.
- Comment on Every support thread on Reddit is literally this now 6 months ago:
What I did was mass edit all my comments. According to reddit customer support (about a year ago at the time), they do not retain old versions of edited comments.
- Comment on Calling VISA to discuss the censorship of Valve & Steam games 6 months ago:
If you are a MasterCard customer, like me, and have any concerns you’d like to bring up with the company they have a very convenient PDF with toll-free numbers for all countries available here:
mastercard.com/…/GlobalServiceTollfreeNumbers.pdf
I was very lucky to be able to find the link, because their customer support number wasn’t advertised anywhere on their website for my country!
- Submitted 6 months ago to videos@lemmy.world | 3 comments
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- Comment on Anon listens to the radio 7 months ago:
Yes!
FM radio has to compete with (free) Spotify nowadays given that 4g coverage is pretty ubiquitous, at least where I live. This means they can’t stuff too many ads in there.
- Comment on HAAAAAAAANNNNKKKK 7 months ago:
Honestly from the point where
::: spoiler spoiler Walter was offered to have his entire treatment paid for and turned it down in favour of selling drugs… :::
…he lost all my sympathy. I was increasingly curious about how things were going to go wrong for him. More fascinating train wreck, less investment in him personally.
- Submitted 8 months ago to games@lemmy.world | 1 comment
- Comment on Any interesting new (2024+ launch) browser games / web-based games? 8 months ago:
Prosperous universe might fit the bill depending on how deep into economy sim you want to go. Beware that you have some limitations as a completely free player, that are removed (last I checked) after you’ve made at least one purchase. So think of playing “free” as a demo.
- Submitted 8 months ago to games@lemmy.world | 3 comments
- Submitted 8 months ago to videos@lemmy.world | 8 comments