That's hilarious, I'd get a real GPU to play with this stuff if I had more than a few hours a week to use it.
Gooofuckyourself
6mo ago
Screenshot? Apparently that tweet is too NSFW to see if you don't have a Twitter account.
It's not even local imports from e.g. Indonesia either, it's majority trans-oceanic. Grain from Brazil, iron and coal from Canada and Australia, etc.
They can't try what Japan did with the co-prosperity sphere, even if they could cordon off the Pacific as far as Burma.
I wonder if they'll try to develop their domestic iron more. A thousand km over land from Liaoning to where the coal is in Shanxi, wonder how that competes with shipping from Australia.
Edit: woah, they're hauling in a ton of coking coal by rail from Mongolia now. , and they've actually succeeded in weaning themselves off Australian imports.
Gooofuckyourself
6mo ago
Ken Burns used to use actual letters and archive documents, and made it work without being scummy.
the wolf would eat the cabbage, or the goat would eat the wolf
At least when skynet harvests your skin for terminators you won't have to think "what did I ever do to you?!" Everyone's bullying the poor thing.
I've been saying for years that "youths" casually carjacking automated cars will be a thing because of this.
And now it's illegal for the company to have cars avoid streets where everyone keeps getting carjacked, so it will just keep happening forever and you'll lose your Wae2.go® Driving Privileges™ Account if you talk about it. Better hope you can afford a fire and urine-proof suit for the bus ride.
Gooofuckyourself
6mo ago
A lot of the extra content feels like being led by the nose to a specific workflow, whereas the original game was much more open. Compare all the options for handling ore vs being railroaded into one method for promethium harvesting
Gooofuckyourself
6mo ago
You, uh, have his meaning backwards. Open source is what did the solving.
Gooofuckyourself
6mo ago
Link got cocked up appending the motte url, don't know why that happens. Clean one:
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/tumblr-transformed-american-politics/
Gooofuckyourself
6mo ago
You'll have to unfilter him
Gooofuckyourself
6mo ago
I've got things set up to avoid probate with ToD deeds & orders (except the worthless junk cars, annoyingly), but I guess that would be a lot more complicated with billion-dollar estates where you might want to break up properties and change your will every time there's a new grandchild.
Not that anyone with under 27 million needs to think about this in the first place, as long as they're married.
I'll just say that this is blatant historical revisionism and leave it at that. The usual flip between "it's a glorious uprising for racial justice" (and they always used the word "uprising"), to "it never happened, Republicans made it all up, it was a cop riot"
Anyone have that screenshot of Robert Evans bragging about burning down that police station? He was mad the media were excusing it as an accident when he wanted credit for the "successful operation." I'll care about "norms" when he and the CHAZ murderers are rotting in prison. Until then my only concern is getting a better class of shock troop to fight the next corporate-sponsored "uprising" in my town
Gooofuckyourself
6mo ago
Same, I just slosh it over the kindling when I'm feeling lazy. Instant blaze.
Gooofuckyourself
6mo ago
What advantages do trusts have?
The line about "copper bullets" instantly jumped out to me, because it's obvious bullshit. The US only just introduced a copper rifle round in an attempt to go lead-free, and regular jacketed bullets are only like 15% copper
The Manhattan project did get the majority of its uranium from the congo mine though, because it had already been dug and stockpiled in New York before the war. Without that one specific mine with the magically high purity of uranium, I'm not sure how practical a bomb by '45 would be. Historically the limiting factor was enrichment, but maybe it would have been mining if they'd had to source it domestically. The Canadian mines were inaccessible hellholes and the US ones were just shit.
Gooofuckyourself
6mo ago
I think he has in the past used that to disarm investors, the same way Gates sometimes used to play the bumbling nerd. But his age and lifestyle catching up to him has definitely made him hit the wall.
Overpaneling is actually pretty cost-effective right now, even for home users. Until bidens tariffs hit this year, Chinese panels were just that cheap. The actual panels are a small fraction of system costs at this point, with the mounts, wiring, charger/inverter, and especially batteries being far more expensive. If you can rig up cheap ground mounts it makes sense to overpanel almost everywhere now.
I'm planning to expand to about 1200W of panel in a 3s2p for a tiny 30A charge controller for example. That's anywhere from 3x to 1.5x overpaneled depending on 12 vs 24V battery setup.
People are doing neat stuff with parallel east-west strings sharing hardware, min-maxing DC transmission wiring to reduce system costs, finding cheap DC dump loads for clipped power, HV batteries, etc.
It doesn't solve the seasonal issue of course, but it's definitely economical, and making hr-scale battery systems even more viable.
Gooofuckyourself
6mo ago
The technique of collageumentary propaganda has been perfectly refined in the last few years. The whole scene is people going "how can we craft this edutainment experience to make the audience bellyfeel rightthink?" and iteratively getting better at it.
There's not much you can do about it. If you criticize you'll just get the "clown nose on, clown nose off" excuse: "it's just fiction, you can't expect it to be accurate. And anyway, fiction tells Important truths that are truthier than what 'really' happened"
Gooofuckyourself
6mo ago
Filtering is baked into the codebase in a way that's difficult for zorba to disable, although I don't understand how or why.
Gooofuckyourself
6mo ago
It's only been a day, hasn't it
No, that was something the German greens picked up as propaganda. Wind is just incredibly intermittent. Where I live it will go still for a week at a time. It survives because of massive per-mhw subsidies that pay a flat rate even if nobody wants to buy the power produced (currently $27.5/MWh, but only for union-built projects, thank you "inflation reduction act" lol).
Btw, that green "biomass" line on the first chart is literally wood chips imported from the US and Canada. Nobody ever talks about this, but I find it hilarious that Germany replaced the power of the atom with wood fires for base load, to "reduce carbon emissions".
In a lot of places the meh wind areas do see a slight increase during winter, but the best ones come from summer diurnal winds blowing through passes.. So a propagandist can quote the 16mph figure to give a low price, then quote the winter increase to excuse variability.
Similar trick with quoting on-shore costs together with off-shore production.
(For reference any site under 9mph is rated "unacceptable" and anything under 13mph is "meh", so none of those other sites could be developed. Any wind below the turbine cut-in speed of ~6-9mph is wasted, and they only produce rated power at like 15-20mph)
In both Europe and the US, wind stops producing at all during those cold still days in winter, when heating demand is at peak.
Hilariously in Washington wind also vanishes during heat waves, because the ocean air is no longer cold & high pressure enough to flow up the Columbia gorge to the low pressure interior. So all wind energy does is get paid to make energy when nobody wants it and screw up energy markets with "you must buy renewables first" mandates.
Gooofuckyourself
6mo ago
In retrospect I probably should have guessed from the handwriting font used in a lot of the posts.
Gooofuckyourself
6mo ago
Related question, how do chips turn out? I love crinkle-cuts with a cheap steak, but getting real sick of deepfrying them in a pot. Trying to decide on a proper deep fryer vs air fryer.
Gooofuckyourself
6mo ago
Jesus Christ, I had no idea how shitty they were. All the sales-talk about "helping you achieve the feminine curves you desire" followed by dropping the "hardened scar tissue and breast deflation" stuff is surreal.
A) there's absolutely no way to fight the economic pressure to adopt such a useful technology.
B) it's an incredibly useful technology that should be adopted.
C) you also can't fight the reddit "that's not happening and it's awesome that it is" tactic. Which is being used both about the mandates and the terrorizing. (I don't have my bluesky screenshots on this phone, but they're already doing the "haha look how scared those tech bros are, what if we burned them alive in Minecraft tee hee hee" thing with vids of mobs surrounding driverless taxis)
As always the only thing worth fighting is the one struggle against leftism, so that at least some exec will be able to tell the engineers it's ok for the taxis to avoid the intersection of MLK boulevard and Angela Davis Ave after the 20th carload of people are murdered.
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