Wanderer
@Wanderer@lemm.ee
- Comment on Petition: Create a public consultation on freedom of speech and disinformation 16 hours ago:
Freedom of speech should be something we absolutely we have in civilised society. I can’t believe how many people are against it.
I think it needs more protection. I don’t even understand how jobs can dictate your freedom of speech outside of work when not about work. It’s dystopian and no one cares.
- Comment on You have 8 seconds. 2 weeks ago:
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Be attractive
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Don’t be unattractive
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- Comment on You have 8 seconds. 2 weeks ago:
Just follow the good old rules of 1 and 2.
It’s not hard
- Comment on The US's first Atlantic floating offshore wind lease sale raises $21.9 million 2 weeks ago:
I can’t help but believe that building the largest factory in the world that pumps out floating offshore will be a game changer.
But first they would need to decide on a what the turbine looks like.
- Comment on Why solar will soon dominate & what that means for the world 3 weeks ago:
It is a sign of market opportunity and batteries will come into play more.
But it will always be cheaper in the middle of the day so demand shift would be good.
Things like heating, cooling, water, washing, cleaning, charging. All being done in the middle of the day will be the easy wins.
But certainly in high production low usage times the arse is going to fall out of the price. But really how many processes can run for short durations? Most high energy processes are high capital and run 24/7.
- Comment on Africa's road map to a bigger, greener power system 4 weeks ago:
I think that will be a waste.
Like if your household usage on average is 100% you might go on holiday and hit 0%. You might have a week where friends come over and you use 200% so you need 200% storage for those edge cases. But as a whole your neighbourhood will use closer to 100% all the time and doesn’t need that extra storage.
So individual is a lot less efficient than grid. Same applies to production.
If the grid is fucked and doesn’t work probably it might be better, but that says more about people controlling the grid fucking up more than it being inferior.
- Comment on Solar panels between railway tracks? 4 weeks ago:
This but for cycling pathways in cities (no cars allowed).
- Comment on Solar panels between railway tracks? 4 weeks ago:
These people can get fucked. Everyone can get fucked. We don’t need new ideas we need old ones.
We need the market to be able to react. Being able to build on land, fuck the NIMBYs. And being able to connect to the grid quickly, there is different ways to sort this but it comes from government intervention.
Then if you want more progress it’s externalities. Tax fossil fuels and use the same money to subsidise renewables and batteries, and grid upgrades.
Or another possibility is mandate shutdowns based on a percentage over time (this will work better for EVs I think than than utility power. “Oh you want tariff on Chinese cars. Well fine you will have that for 10 years and in return 100% of your sales need to be evs in 10 years and to get you moving in 5 years its 25%, 6 40%, 7 55%, 8 70%, 9 75%.”)
It’s getting so tiring now that they have evidence of what works and instead just talk about how the worlds going to be different in 2050. Start building some fucking grid upgrades then. You know it is going to take 10 years tondo anything meaningful, you know you are 10 years behind, you know if you build it they will come.
Christ
- Comment on Magic Mineral 4 weeks ago:
The first time I learnt about my asbestos I was about 12 and my mum was going off at my dad about it. This was after we just took a load of roofing off an old shed without masks or gloves.
Thinking of it. He also give me fucking tinnitus when I was like 22. Really should have fucking learnt my lesson by then :(
- Comment on Magic Mineral 4 weeks ago:
God: “I’ll make a wonder material. Fire proof. Strong. Insulating. Just dig it up from the ground. Common a fuck. Waterproof.”
“Then they can all get cancer the cunts”
“Okay I’m done shit posting for now. Where’s that big tittie blonde gone”
- Comment on Tough Shit 4 weeks ago:
Thank god for that.
Imagine if LLM were made in Oxford in the 1950’s.
It be trained on the fucking Iliad and Shakespeare.
- Comment on Chart: More and more rooftop solar buyers are adding home batteries 1 month ago:
It seems solar and batteries are much better ideas at grid level.
Seems like the government has 0 interest in building out the grid to accommodate it.
- Comment on Apple manufacturers moved from China to Vietnam. Now they’re desperate for workers. 1 month ago:
Capitalism working as intended.
Supply and demand. In this case means higher wages.
- Comment on Exclusive | Gov. Greg Abbott says Texas can’t afford a Kamala Harris presidency after spending $10B to secure border 1 month ago:
Wow I guess alternative views really aren’t tolerated on this website.
I was hoping after reddit lost it’s mind this might be a more open and free speech place. Instead it is more about right think and wrongthink than reddit has become.
Christ I miss the old internet were we could have different ideas and have actual conversations.
- Comment on Amazon tech workers leaving for other jobs in response to return to office mandate 1 month ago:
And no, the hypothetical of the robot skyscrapers is not “meaningless.”
It’s not meaningless in itself. Its meaningless to the conversation. It’s literally a hypothetical you invented for no reason. You’re just rambling.
Are you actually trying to claim that if the population was much smaller than it is today total resource use across the globe would be the same?
Because if not my point stands.
A lot of people think rockets can be very profitable. Its just a long term bet and you lack imagination. I would need to check but I’m pretty certain spacex is profitable.
Those other companies are still in R and D.
- Comment on Amazon tech workers leaving for other jobs in response to return to office mandate 1 month ago:
The only billionaire I know of that is launching rockets is Elon Musk.
That’s just evidence that capitalism is efficient. Because SpaceX has revolutionised space travel making the only reusable rocket doing something all the government agencies said was impossible. NASAs new unbuilt rocket is using tech from the 1970 that they are going to throe away into the ocean on every launch.
The rest you say is meaningless. How you expect this robotic skyscrapers to be built? Some MIT masters project or some capitalist experiment?
- Comment on Amazon tech workers leaving for other jobs in response to return to office mandate 1 month ago:
There has been efficiency gains throughout. Capitalism is amazing for that, far better than other systems.
The problem is too many people. If standard of living is to increase then the resource requirement is due to massive unsustainable population growth.
That and the fact the public hate externalities and don’t want them used at all never mind aggressively.
- Comment on The UK officially closes its last remaining coal power plant 1 month ago:
Coal is on it’s deathbed the world over.
With the price solar and batteries are going gas is going to be dead very soon in places that don’t have European winter solar potential.
- Comment on The boomer generation hit the economic jackpot. Young people will inherit their massive debts. 1 month ago:
It was just a joke. It was intentionally misleading.
- Comment on Vinegar 1 month ago:
Also perfect for going in a sarnie
- Comment on The boomer generation hit the economic jackpot. Young people will inherit their massive debts. 1 month ago:
They didn’t fight I just said.
- Comment on The boomer generation hit the economic jackpot. Young people will inherit their massive debts. 1 month ago:
Or we can give them lots of money for being old.
They didn’t fight in two world wars to not be given free money.
- Comment on OpenAI Execs Mass Quit as Company Removes Control From Non-Profit Board and Hands It to Sam Altman 1 month ago:
They always are and they know it.
Doesn’t matter at that level it’s all part of the game.
- Comment on Move over Harambe 1 month ago:
Japan is weird.
I really want to go and get involved, and I don’t mean not in those weird videos or game shows you see on the internet.
- Comment on Grid-scale batteries: They’re not just lithium 1 month ago:
24 hour manufacturing is here to stay.
Fix costs will have to drop an insane amount.
- Comment on What’s the most overhyped tech trend right now? 1 month ago:
Melbourne is a city of tryhards
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- Comment on Wales 20mph: Calls made for 1,500 roads to revert to 30mph 1 month ago:
This is the united kingdom anyone that needs a /s should be taken out by firing squad at first light.
- Comment on Wales 20mph: Calls made for 1,500 roads to revert to 30mph 1 month ago:
I’ve talked to so many fucking idiots about this that don’t get it.
Look roads are for cars and we all did a driving test and we know how fast is safe. Numbers don’t mean anything.
I should be able to drive 60 down a residential if I think I can. If some kid gets run over then that’s their fault and their parents. Roads are for cars. What you expect me to slow down and be late for work? I was already late when I left and this is going to add minutes to my journey people just don’t think.
I know I’m a good driver, I’ve only ever got points for speeding and for drunk driving (but I was still driving well). There some fucking idiots on the road I agree but we shouldn’t all be punished. We need more roads so we can go faster that’s the real issue.
- Comment on Inaccuracies 2 months ago:
Yea they really shoehorned her in. Would have been more accurate to make that character a man.
Oh well, could have been worse. Could have been made by Netflix.
