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- Comment on U.S. approves mega geothermal energy project in Utah 2 days ago:
It's similar to hydroelectric -- if it works and it's cost effective, people will use it and consider it a privilege.. Some green energy works really really well.
- Comment on The UK officially closes its last remaining coal power plant 1 week ago:
More coal for China to burn manufacturing disposable junk for us to buy!
- Comment on PayPal implements default data sharing with third parties: users must manually opt out 2 weeks ago:
The same paypal that thought they can fine you for TOS violations?
Deleted my account, nothing of value was lost.
- Comment on Employers added 254,000 jobs in September, blowing away forecasts 2 weeks ago:
The establishment media is destroying itself by breathlessly cheerleading every "beat" that turns out not to be true and not in any way mentioning that the numbers have been revised so heavily all year.
If they're going to mindlessly read press releases, you might as well just read the press releases.
- Comment on Staff Picks: Our Favorite Plastic-Free Fall Recipes 2 weeks ago:
Came looking for plastic free-fall recipes, came away disappointed.
- Comment on Beware Hollywood’s digital demolition: it’s as if your favourite films and TV shows never existed 2 weeks ago:
Absolutely, if you care about historical works you should make sure that you have a copy that you control.
A large portion of the things on my jellyfin are like that, because once they take away media ownership, and they can change or take away your stories at any time.
- Comment on So…. What’s the worst idea you went through with? 3 weeks ago:
It's really simple when you think about it, the taste of any fermentation is going to be the taste of what you put into it minus any of the sugars. Maple syrup is sugar and the liquid extract from a tree. So once you remove the sugar, all you have left is alcohol and the liquid extract from a tree.
It's actually one of the reasons that I think my need made from honey turned out to be so lovely, is once you take the sugar out of honey what you're left with is extract from flowers.
- Comment on So…. What’s the worst idea you went through with? 3 weeks ago:
It wasn't a terrible idea, but I tried to make maple syrup mead, and it tasted exactly like breaking a branch off of a tree and trying to suck it. Like, that green tree taste. Complete waste of some very expensive maple syrup.
- Comment on PC gaming fan Steven Spielberg says he "can't do controllers," prefers keyboard and mouse 3 weeks ago:
The d day level of medal of honor was a serious moment. It's like "yeah, you keep dying and it's frustrating. You're watching all these other people die. But that's what it was actually like."
There was a moment where I had made it to the buildings and looked back and saw my brothers in arms being mowed down and it's a different experience than seeing it on TV.
- Comment on Major flaw found in CUPS - time to run Linux system updates 3 weeks ago:
It seems like the thing to do if you don't use printers is to erase the cups packages from your system to close that port. Not sure it's even patched yet.
- Comment on Chrono Cross, a bad sequel but good game 3 weeks ago:
It's actually pretty decent as a generic 90s square RPG, but fails miserably as a sequel or even as an addition to the Chrono trigger universe to the point that I'm pretty sure most people just pretend there was never another entry in the Chrono series.
- Comment on "That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime" Season 4 and New Movie Announced with New Visual, PV 3 weeks ago:
I always figured slime is a story about the power of friendship, so sometimes you need some chatting around a table because friends don't just use demon lord powers on each other all the time.
- Comment on 2024 Self-Host User Survey 3 weeks ago:
One thing is that education isn't the same globally. You should probably have an other option to account for that.
- Comment on 2real4me 3 weeks ago:
Then you say "this argument doesn't exist."
And it replies "you're right! That argument has never been a part of package x. I've updated the argument to fix it:" and then gives you the exact same bleedin command....
- Comment on Global carbon capture and storage potential way overblown, study finds 4 weeks ago:
Turns out trying to capture a gas from the air at the scale of gigatonnes is really really hard.
- Comment on You can't fight the cuteness! 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Elements of Renewable Energy 5 weeks ago:
Industrial scale power requires massive destruction of nature. That's the nature of trying to light and heat millions of homes, especially in the winter. The question must become what is the least harmful most effective thing to do. It isn't as simple as "solar farms and wind farms" since you have to heat and light those homes when the sun isn't shining and the wind isn't blowing. "Batteries!" Sure but the environmental devastation from having to build battery banks that large would be overwhelming, not to mention having to size your solar and wind to provide all the province's power while the sun shines and wind blows meaning there'd be way more than you expect, and then after 30 years you'd have to do it all over again because the batteries, windmills, and solar panels would all have to be replaced.
Water looks nice when it's at a scale that can't power anything too. In fact, even small enough scale fossil fuels don't look that bad. The problem is when you make it big enough to actually provide all the energy you need. One big reason why "reduce" is the most important thing we can do.
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- Comment on Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 142,000 in August, and the unemployment rate changed little at 4.2 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. 1 month ago:
The job numbers have been revised in a downward direction pretty consistently[1]. The year over year numbers from the BLS were revised massively downwards a few weeks ago, by 800,000 jobs.[2]
- Comment on Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 142,000 in August, and the unemployment rate changed little at 4.2 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. 1 month ago:
Just remember that of the last 12 months, there's been something like 11 downward revisions. The bureau of Labor statistics has been doing an abysmal job with its preliminary numbers.
I'm not saying to completely disregard the data, but in a previous month I ended up making the mistake of listening to some of the old podcasts I used to listen to from NPR and APM regarding money, and I don't remember which one but one of them was just going on and on about how good the numbers were with absolutely no mention of the fallibility of those numbers.
- Comment on Openblack is a an attempt to recreate lost god game Black & White in a modern, open source game engine 1 month ago:
Glad to see a Black and white open source recreation, but you're correct in this regard. I have black and white on my PC right now in a dark corner.
- Comment on Whats on your USB stick? Looking for recommendations for handy tools 1 month ago:
It actually saved my life a few months back, I had a dying windows server I needed to resurrect and the tools on there were perfect for it.
- Comment on North Korea’s Kim Jong Un reportedly ordered dozens of officials executed after deadly floods 1 month ago:
I wonder if North Korea inherited the concept of the mandate of heaven?
- Comment on Whats on your USB stick? Looking for recommendations for handy tools 1 month ago:
Hirens boot cd is a great tool if you're working with windows. You are not always going to need it, but when you do need it it's awfully nice to have it.
- Comment on Monthly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing? 1 month ago:
Anyone who owned doom 1 and doom 2 got a new item in their steam or gog library with damn near everything included including stuff like sigil and a new episode they just made.
There's a new doom 2 RTX mod that clips into that version and it combines ray tracing with voxel art to give the most impressive raycast doom 2 I've imagined so far. Well worth a look especially since it's free for a lot of gamers.
- Comment on USB Floppy Drive 1 month ago:
I picked up an Amiga at a yard sale and found floppy disks on Amazon. I didn't bother buying any and instead bought a gotek floppy disk emulator.
- Comment on Is it safe to consume mead that is still fermenting? 1 month ago:
One of the key bits of fermentation is that the conditions need to be pretty close to perfect for yeast to be a dominant Factor. You need to have a relatively sterile environment, you definitely need to make sure that there's nothing else competing, and you need to make sure that you're within certain factors of things like acidity. Stomach acid has a pH of 1-2, most brewable juices are closer to 3-4.
Some microbes do end up surviving the journey through your stomach, and they become the microbiome inside of you. I think that brewer's yeast would find that environment extremely challenging more than the stomach even because that microbiome is like skid row, filled with the dregs of the food you eat. The spoiled rich kid brewers yeast isn't going to thrive in that environment.
Consider a piece of advice from cider brewing: you are sometimes told if you don't have yeast to just juice the fruit without washing it and natural yeast on the fruit will grow in your cider and if you're successful it'll taste better than beer brewer's yeast. This shows that yeast is everywhere and it's on many things we might routinely eat and people aren't going around naturally drunk after eating an apple off a tree or some berries off a bush.
- Comment on Republicans suggest in 'private' that they would be better off if Trump loses: GOP insider 1 month ago:
From a non-partisan standpoint, we're cutting it really close. Most alarm lights that haven't had masking tape put over them by the government are screaming imminent stagflationary depression, maybe one of the worst in American History, and everyone with eyes and basic math skills can see the looming sovereign debt crisis. Nobody wants to be holding this hot potato because whoever is in power at that time is almost certainly going to preside over a disaster and there's nothing to be done about it.
From a totally non-partisan standpoint, Kamala Harris is a terrible candidate for President. She speaks to the American Public like they're 4 year olds, her record as Vice President is basically free real estate for the Republicans, she was the least liked vice president in US history, her only primary campaign was the weakest of all the Democrats on stage with her dropping out first, There are better people within the Democratic party to run, but they didn't and they aren't -- instead they installed Kamala more or less by fiat. I think part of the reason for that is they're not stupid and they know full well winning the next election is a phyrric victory, and whoever is president during that term is effectively ending their political career so might as well let the weakest candidate either lose and end her career or win and end her career. In so doing, they keep their powder dry for the next viable election cycle.
Notwithstanding concerns that Trump will try to crown himself dictator (concerns that I think the conservative response to January 6th prove unfounded -- conservatives want to conserve the constitution and violating that would not go over well), he's only got one term left as president, and he's getting quite old so this is probably his last kick at the can so regardless of whether the party wants to win or not, he clearly does. He seems to be going all-in on a big tent strategy this time, which is why he's brought former democrats like RFK Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard into the fold and adopted compromise positions on wedge issues such as abortion. Personally, as long as he retains his core identity and brand, I think it's a winning strategy, insofar as such a thing can exist.
- Comment on Anger after Macron rejects France left-wing government 1 month ago:
Seems like he just doesn't want anyone but himself in charge. Ni de gauche, ni de droite. C'est moi.
- Comment on 2 min benchy - YouTube 1 month ago:
"dad I'm sanic"