cogman
@cogman@lemmy.world
- Comment on Please stop 1 month ago:
If twitter were a video game, it’d be Homie Rollerz.
- Comment on Meanwhile, in Springfield Ohio 1 month ago:
Agreed, very well done.
- Comment on Why is Kamala Harris being held at such a higher standard than Trump this election? 2 months ago:
Corporate media likes elections to be close and exciting because that draws ratings. Hence the reason they put on kid gloves for the idiot fascist.
- Comment on Real 4 months ago:
There are premium brands that do well, but there are also non premium brands that do pretty well. GE, for example, tends to make fairly reliable product (even today) for roughly the same price point of samsung/lg.
- Comment on Real 4 months ago:
An insulated box with a decent compressor does not cost 10k. Making a compressor that fails after 2 years is actually hard to do, something both LG and Samsung spent time and money to achieve.
Consider, for example, that nearly every car manufactured with an AC. Which is exactly the same tech as a fridge. Yet you rarely end up needing to replace the compressor on your car. You might need to recharge it or clean it, but not replace the compressor. 10k of your car price isn’t the HVAC.
- Comment on Real 4 months ago:
There’s some appliance breakdown vids (idk if Rossman is one of them) but the gist is Samsung and LG like to put cheap plastic parts in high wear locations which inevitably fail.
Fridges are dead simple appliances. A compressor and evaporator coils with a temperature sensor. There’s absolutely no reason they shouldn’t outlast you and everyone you love.
It’s insane these “premium” brands are built to fall like they do.
- Comment on Not happening, dude 6 months ago:
I think we are on the same page. I completely agree that EVs aren’t enough or even the best solution.
- Comment on Not happening, dude 6 months ago:
Where does your power come from?
Right now? Primarily hydro with a strong solar and wind showing. Roughly 10% of my power is from Fossil fuels.
You are just shifting the shit elsewhere
Even with a pure fossil fuel grid, EVs still end up producing less CO2 than ICE vehicles. However, grids aren’t pure fossil fuels which means EVs are far cleaner than Fossil fuel vehicles. Especially in my current circumstance.
Less than 8% of energy consumption in the US comes from renewable energy. Another 8% come from nuclear.
13% while being one of the fastest growing energy production sectors.
www.eia.gov/energyexplained/us-energy-facts/
That’s petrol / natural gas / coal powering your home, factories, shops, and restaurant
Not mine because I live in the Pacific North West which is the greenest grid in the US.
- Comment on suck it, math nerds 8 months ago:
Yup, similar to the square root of two and Euler’s number.
These are numbers defined by their properties and not their exact values. In fact, we have imaginary numbers that don’t have values and yet are still extremely useful because of their defined properties.
- Comment on What happened to the flat earthers who demonstrated that the earth is round in the netfilx documentary ? 1 year ago:
It’s mostly a religious belief. There are a couple of Bible verses that say things like “the earth will be rolled up like a scroll” and “spread to the four corners of the earth”.
Biblical literalists cannot handle the Bible being incorrect about anything, so it’s everyone else that’s wrong.
- Comment on incredible 1 year ago:
Copper is the easy part. Get it hot enough and you’ll end up with high quality copper… Sourcing the copper is much more difficult.
Finding magnets is somewhat simple, you just need some iron… That’s a lot more difficult. Iron smelting is way harder than copper smelting (especially without electricity).
Making bearings is also difficult. It requires not only iron smelting but also high precision machining.
- Comment on Tale as old as time 1 year ago:
Iron man was a hail mary by Marvel. Their IP was failing. RDJ was a lucky casting. Given where he was at at the time he was a pretty risky pick. Marvel didn’t really have the budget to be too picky at the time.
There’s a reason Spiderman is owned by sony and the hulk by universal.
- Comment on Why do most religious conservatives support capitalist ideology? 1 year ago:
Behind the bastards did a 2 part podcast on this
[Behind the Bastards] Part One: How The Rich Ate Christianity 🅴 #behindTheBastards podcastaddict.com/…/137287957 via @PodcastAddict
- Comment on People who back into parking spots: Why? 1 year ago:
Visibility is way better and traffic rules play to your favor.
When you back in, you already have right of way. Traffic has to wait for you to park and you aren’t reversing into cross traffic.
If you park forward, when you go to leave you have to worry about cross traffic and your head/eyes are far removed from where you need to be looking. You don’t have right of way which means a lot of awkward mashing the brakes when a car or pedestrian pops out of your blind spot.
In short, you can park faster and more accurately and you can leave faster and safer.
The only reason to park forward is there’s a line of cars behind you that won’t let you reverse into a spot. Otherwise, it’s always the right choice.