kattfisk

@kattfisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This Op Shop seems to have ordered their secondhand books by colour for some reason⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup, just like a library

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This Op Shop seems to have ordered their secondhand books by colour for some reason⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve never seen a place selling books not have them organized alphabetically! They might not be libraries but they have an interest in their customers being able to find what they’re looking for

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reactor goes brrr⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Another important point is the flexibility of wind and solar. The minimum investment to get some power out of them is very low, and a park can start generating power before fully completed and can easily be scaled up or down in capacity during construction if estimates change.

  Nuclear on the other hand is a huge up-front cost with little flexibility and no returns until completion, which could take a decade or more.

  Even if it wasn’t more expensive, nuclear would still be financially risky. Many things can happen that effect power consumption and prices during the time it takes to build a nuclear plant. It can still be valuable for diversification though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reactor goes brrr⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We have! Thermoelectric generators that make electricity directly from heat exist, they’re just often not very good compared to the spinny wheel.

  We even use them to make nuclear reactors with no moving parts, which I think is really neat. They’re used in places where maintenance or refueling is difficult or impossible, like space probes.

  en.wikipedia.org/…/Radioisotope_thermoelectric_ge…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Même] Which movie was this for you?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess if people expected it to be like Pitch Black they were disappointed. I didn’t see Pitch Black until later (and didn’t find it very memorable), but they are very different movies.

  I think the thing I like so much about Chronicles is that it’s unabashedly fantastical and epic. It reminds me of Warhammer 40k and Conan the Barbarian, really fine cheese.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Même] Which movie was this for you?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I loved The Chronicles of Riddick! It’s bombastic space opera, of which we have much too little that isn’t Star Wars tripe, and Vin Diesel is perfect in this role.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Academic writing⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m still pissed at being forced to write in a passive voice in university. It’s awkward and carries less information, and makes it seem like nobody had any agency, science just kind of happened on its own and you were there to observe it.

  I don’t know why anyone would prefer something like “An experiment was conducted and it was found that…”

  To the much better “We conducted an experiment and found…”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mushroom Guides⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t go by any general rules. If you are unsure, take it home and sit down with your mushroom guide book and go through all the ways of identifying it and separating it from similar species until you are sure, or you give up and throw it away.

  Just off the cuff here are a couple of examples that violate the advice given above, golden chanterelle is very spicy but perfectly edible; gyromitra esculenta (“false morel”) does not have lamelles, is supposed to be mildly flavoured, but is deadly toxic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨66% of Americans say they want extended European-style vacation policies at work⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Unionize!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨66% of Americans say they want extended European-style vacation policies at work⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I hope that this example can show that more humane treatment of workers is attainable and realistic. We were not given these rights by benevolent overlords; our parents, grandparents etc. fought for them, and so can you. Unionize!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨66% of Americans say they want extended European-style vacation policies at work⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The way the law works here is you get five weeks vacation every year and have a right (but not an obligation) to take four of those consecutive between June and August. You must however take four weeks of vacation every year, the rest you can save for up to five years (before you have to take them as well).

  Oh, and to really blow your mind, if you get sick during vacation, those count as sick days and you get the vacation back.