Wanderer
@Wanderer@lemm.ee
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
No what you don’t understand is women are completely powerless and must be protected at all cost. They can’t be responsible for their own decisions. If a (female) adult wants to date another adult then it must be okayed by other people that have nothing to do with the situation. Otherwise everyone needs to step in and protect them.
I think people refer to it as equality.
- Comment on The Telegraph has deleted this sob story 6 days ago:
Private school to pay for education.
Public school you pay for connections (education good also) see Eton.
- Comment on The Telegraph has deleted this sob story 1 week ago:
State schools.
- Comment on The Telegraph has deleted this sob story 1 week ago:
Agree.
But why should some kids go to elite schools just based on who their parents are?
- Comment on The Telegraph has deleted this sob story 1 week ago:
If you are smart and hard working enough you can get into the top units that not a problem.
But it’s pretty much taken as a fact that people that go to private schools will do better than if they went to a state school.
So if you get AAA* in state school, private school isn’t much benefit.
But if you going to come out with anything less or generally a troublemaker private schools might be better for you.
- Comment on The Telegraph has deleted this sob story 1 week ago:
Private and public schools should be banned though.
- Submitted 1 week ago to energy@slrpnk.net | 0 comments
- Comment on Call Centers Replaced Many Doctors’ Receptionists. Now, AI Is Coming for Call Centers. 1 week ago:
Honestly in some ways this is such a stupid solution to the problem.
When it comes to cost saving or on the other side of the coin efficiency. The most useful thing is to remove it not make it cheap.
We should be looking and giving people very good and easy alternatives elsewhere were they don’t need call centres at all.
I called my doctors a million times to book an appointment and if I could have done it all online I would have. This is how many times I called:
Went to hospital and Dr told me book drs appointment.
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called to book
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they call back asked futher questions
got one (got told to come back by doctor)
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can’t book that doctor for the future call up first thing in the morning at our busiest and we can rush you in. (I then got a job so needed to book)
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we have no staff call back when we do (didnt say when)
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called. We have no appointments call be next week. “Can I book that Dr”? “I don’t know. You’ll have to call back Tuesday”
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I’ll call back next tuesday.
This isn’t fixed with an AI this is fixed by me being able to book an appointment online. If the Dr needs to give me a slip for one booking approval to not be abused so be it. Receptionist doesn’t need to know my business so fuck them.
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- Comment on Factcheck: Why expensive gas – not net-zero – is keeping UK electricity prices so high 2 weeks ago:
I wish I had time to read it now. But I’ll get to it tomorrow
Is there any talk on here (or elsewhere) about being able to run the grid entirely without gas. Seems like currently gas has to be running in some form even if that means turning off renewables. I haven’t heard anything concrete about fixing that. Just seems hand waving vaguely long enough into the future we don’t care.
It doesn’t seem like anyone is treating it as a big issue.
- Comment on Tesla paid Powerwall owners $10 million through virtual power plants 2 weeks ago:
Is that until the battery stops working or till the 10,000 cycles 10 year guarantee?
Because there would still be life in it after that
- Comment on Kids are short-circuiting their school-issued Chromebooks for TikTok clout 3 weeks ago:
Yea but if I want to find something I want to be able to find it.
- Comment on Texas Senate passes bill requiring solar plants to provide power at night 3 weeks ago:
No batteries don’t count.
“The Texas Senate on Wednesday passed a bill to create a new “dispatchable” power credits trading program that would effectively require utilities, generation companies and electric cooperatives in Electric Reliability Council of Texas territory to offset new renewables and battery capacity — with an equal amount of new dispatchable capacity beginning as early as next year.
The bill’s definition of “dispatchable” excludes batteries while also exempting power generation companies that exclusively operate battery energy storage systems from the dispatchable power generation requirement.”
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to energy@slrpnk.net | 38 comments
- Comment on Kids are short-circuiting their school-issued Chromebooks for TikTok clout 3 weeks ago:
Man I feel like a large part of the internet is out of reach.
Why have I got to sign up for tiktok just to watch this happen?
Shit like this used to be easily finable on google or something. Now I can’t seem to find shit. All I get get in news articles about it.
- Comment on If it's good enough to keep your house warm, it's good enough to keep your insides warm 4 weeks ago:
The time of exposure was low. Asbestos was also outside and unbroken.
Insulation was only 1 attic.
- Comment on If it's good enough to keep your house warm, it's good enough to keep your insides warm 4 weeks ago:
Yea pretty much.
Put a shower pipe through a brick wall.
- Comment on If it's good enough to keep your house warm, it's good enough to keep your insides warm 4 weeks ago:
Oh for fuck sake is this another thing you have to wear a mask for?
My fucking dad I swear to god. He knows I got asthma. He had me install insulation as a kid and remove asbestos. I got fucking tinnitus from him giving me a drill and neither of us wearing hearing protection.
- Comment on Crude oil futures end week lower as market eyes potential for increased supply amid OPEC+ tiff 5 weeks ago:
Yes but the trend has changed. Oil demand was growing largely due to China. That has stagnated massively. The change is trend of demand links with a change in the supply from Russia. I’m not on expert on these matters and I don’t want to come across like that.
But it seems if China didn’t stop increasing we would have had price issues.
With dropping oil prices American firms won’t want to drill. Also imports of materials has gone up and China has stopped buying American LNG.
- Comment on Crude oil futures end week lower as market eyes potential for increased supply amid OPEC+ tiff 5 weeks ago:
Oil is interesting at the moment. Russia has been getting cutoff for a few years from global markets and oil didn’t really rise. Maybe I missed other reasons but it seems like demand didn’t increase enough for it to matter like it would have in years gone by. China is rapidly reducing their oil demand, Europe and America are following. Renewables seem set up surge around the rest of the world.
OPEC+ is having issues with countries not sticking to quotas.
Trumps then got a lit a petrol can on fire and thrown it onto the pile and everyone else and himself which has caused economist to predict a recession which is causing oil prices to drop.
There seems like a lot of reasons for oil to drop in price and if OPEC+ sees the writing on the wall for the end of times maybe oil will drop in price further. Which ironically is worse for the things that are causing the price drop in the first place.
Personally short term I hope it just fucks over Russia.
- Crude oil futures end week lower as market eyes potential for increased supply amid OPEC+ tiffwww.spglobal.com ↗Submitted 5 weeks ago to energy@slrpnk.net | 3 comments
- Comment on Waymo reports 250,000 paid robotaxi rides per week in U.S. 5 weeks ago:
My view is it’s pure hypeware until proven otherwise.
This isn’t Tesla hate from my side either. The general consensus from enthusiasts since the beginning is Tesla is way off the mark. But the latest self driving upgrades using more LLM tech has apparently been a big step up. By that I mean going from poor assisted self driving to good assisted self driving. Getting it from there to no driver behind the wheel is another matter all together. Maybe they had a single jump or maybe it’s a new path of consistent progress, I have no idea.
I’m not expecting much from Tesla. I would absolutely love to be wrong.
Expecting more from baidu, pony.ai and zoox more than Tesla. Hell even BYD with the Chinese backing it has might beat Tesla.
- Comment on Waymo reports 250,000 paid robotaxi rides per week in U.S. 5 weeks ago:
I’ve been to Los Angeles and Austin. Is San Francisco seen as a bright sunny desert climate?
- Comment on Waymo reports 250,000 paid robotaxi rides per week in U.S. 5 weeks ago:
Was hoping at this point in time Waymo would be expanding more aggressively.
But no one else seems immediately on the horizon and Waymo is consistently expanding well so they are doing very well indeed.
I’m excited for the last mile problem to be solved and be able to cycle on roads without drivers that actually wish I was dead or playing about on their phone. Also I hate driving.
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.world | 19 comments
- Comment on Rural counties ask Gov. Hochul to slow down on renewable energy projects 5 weeks ago:
Economically disastrous.
Fossil fuel shills push nuclear because it takes so long and costs so much it will keep us on fossil fuels longer.
- Battery giant CATL showcases three innovations: 1500km range battery, 520km in 5 minutes ultra-fast charging, and 2025 mass-production sodium-ion batterycarnewschina.com ↗Submitted 1 month ago to energy@slrpnk.net | 2 comments
- Comment on French newspaper: The British elites always talk about their special-relationship. They claim the americans are their lovely cousins. But do US elites actually respect them ? 1 month ago:
Yes they should be.
But fuck they are the pettiest people in the world.
I’m not saying they aren’t a close ally, they are. I’m not saying we shouldn’t work with them more, we should.
But we aren’t going to have a close relationship with them because they can’t stand us or anyone else really.
Long term I feel like Germany is a much closer ally. Culturally they act much more similar to us. France only act closer militarily which is where the main focus of that relationship should be.
Canada, nz and aus should also be kept as closest allies.
- Comment on French newspaper: The British elites always talk about their special-relationship. They claim the americans are their lovely cousins. But do US elites actually respect them ? 1 month ago:
God no. French are the pettiest most arrogant cunts in the world.
The British will want something even if the rest of Europe agrees and France will argue about fish.
- Comment on Former UK Prime Minister Liz Truss to launch ‘free speech’ social media platform 1 month ago:
In a way.
But there was a lot of lies that represented legitimate concerns and remain didn’t really do a good enough job of bringing leave along with them. Pleanty of “we got lied too, no on told us”. No no no no. Remain clearly said the truth and you listened to the lies.
Also fish was fucking weird. Seems like people will die over fish.
But people were told immigration would go down. People have been wanting immigration to go down for 60 years and it’s never happened. First direct vote about immigration going down is obviously going to be a big factor. Didn’t happen though so far right will win soon.
- Comment on New Report - Rooftop Solar PV is THE biggest climate mitigation technology | Just Have A Think 1 month ago:
Solar rooftop just seems like wasted resources.
Solar farms are cheaper and more efficient. The government should just be buying land and building new grid cables out to the middle of nowhere then auctioning off connections for battery and solar projects that are ready to go.
