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- Comment on Park rules 13 hours ago:
Still awsome.
- Comment on Park rules 13 hours ago:
Where is this?
- Comment on I thought umm.. 20 hours ago:
That’s cute. And complies with the universal rule of “if it fits”.
- Comment on Parfait au pork 1 day ago:
Burn it by fire.
- Comment on Cable TV providers ruined cable—now they’re coming for streaming 1 day ago:
In my country, cable providers offer streaming subscriptions bundled with their standard service since pre-CoViD.
I knew Netflix was a thing because my provider started announcing I could add it to my service for an extra €3.
Didn’t get it regardless.
- Comment on Parfait au pork 1 day ago:
Burn this abomination.
- Comment on Xbox president: Studio closures will ensure 'business is healthy for the long term' 1 week ago:
- Comment on Xbox president: Studio closures will ensure 'business is healthy for the long term' 1 week ago:
I can’t agree with you.
The major share holder of a game studio, with a major success on its portfolio, already working on other projects, decided he wanted to move away from it as the day to day work had become too demanding and made his part of the studio available for purchase, in fact cashing out on a very large sum of money.
I really can’t see where that is “apples to oranges”, concerning the current debate on studios being bought out and shut down on the turn of a dime.
Are game studios some separate entity that exist exempt of the at work business logic or human nature? Studios are companies created to generate profit for its founders, that will most likely take the opportunity to cash out when presented.
By contrast, independent authors/creators are becoming a growing force to be respected - which is very good - but will such authors be immune to selling their work for a high offer their work if such opportunity presents itself? Hopefully, they will, but I won’t bet on it, neither for nor against.
- Comment on Xbox president: Studio closures will ensure 'business is healthy for the long term' 1 week ago:
Don’t know if I would. Never had such an offer, never will.
I’m not very invested in the game/game studio culture but boiled down it gets to either a private owner or a board of directors deciding if it is the right moment to cash out.
- Comment on Xbox president: Studio closures will ensure 'business is healthy for the long term' 1 week ago:
I won’t bet on that, neither for nor against.
Look at the guy that created Minecraft. He was passionate about his work, had a company that was doing great and with prospect of future growth.
One thousand millions later and the guy checks out a boat load of money and sell off the company: he already had his.
- Comment on PSA: Don't eat cicadas if you're allergic to shellfish... or at all 1 week ago:
Chtulhu was taking notes, I risk.
- Comment on Renewable energy passes 30% of world’s electricity supply 1 week ago:
I really wish that is true but I seriously doubt it. Although my country made a hard shift into renewables (hydro, wind and solar, more recently) to the point we have had entire days when those sources alone can provide the necessary energy to run the country, while fully deactivating coal centrals and only maintaining on or two gas powered, storage hasn’t been a great concern, unless we count green hydrogen as such, with a plant to be built somewhere in the near future (or not).
- Comment on PSA: Don't eat cicadas if you're allergic to shellfish... or at all 1 week ago:
What have I just read in this thread?
- Comment on PSA: Don't eat cicadas if you're allergic to shellfish... or at all 1 week ago:
Can we see, if only a page, of those books? Please?
That is the kind of unusual things from other times every person should get in touch with.
- Comment on Renewable energy passes 30% of world’s electricity supply 1 week ago:
But meanwhile, when price of energy enters negative figures, it’s the solar farms that get ordered to shut down operation.
- Comment on Adding insulation to an old house. 4 months ago:
Taking some available space away is a given.
Many places have a long experience in dealing with cold, which my country lacks, hence I’m asking here for advice. The default solution was either endure it or burn more wood.
I may be able to shave off one or two centimeters of the total volume required as the walls are currently covered with a very thick layer of cement that was set with no concern to prior levelling the stone (in places where the mortars started to fail I chipped away to clear the loose material and there are spots where 2 to 3cm of cement could be saved just by grinding away an edge of a stone) but going by the solutions my market has available, I risk needing to layer up to 10cm of material on my walls.
I do intend to insulate floor and ceillings as they will be, for all practical purposes, rebuilt, as the current wood floors are thin.
The house is squeezed between a pedestrian street, where I can’t encroach, as there is little room already, and another house. I do have one wall I intend to insulate from the outside as it faces an empty plot.
Mineral wool I have been looking into it but I was warned it wicks moisture. Is this true?
- Comment on What's wrong babe, you barely touched your hot dog bologna cake 4 months ago:
Cooking it is not the objective.
- Comment on What's wrong babe, you barely touched your hot dog bologna cake 4 months ago:
Burn this. Burn it now. Burn it with fire.
- Comment on Adding insulation to an old house. 4 months ago:
Go for the medieval look.
- Comment on Adding insulation to an old house. 4 months ago:
That was the kind of thought I was looking for.
- Comment on Adding insulation to an old house. 4 months ago:
None is an option.
- Comment on Adding insulation to an old house. 4 months ago:
I’ve seen that material, I think.
Does it look essentially like a piece of drywall lined with styrofoam?
I understand that concern and I intend to improve the thermal efficiency of the house but not at the cost of turning bedrooms into pantries.
The house is really old and there are rooms under 10 square meters; a standard couples bed (140x200cm) will not fit there and even a single bed will make the room feel cramped.
- Comment on Adding insulation to an old house. 4 months ago:
The cork I’ve been able to find specifically warns against painting it or covering it in any fashion. I could go for an accent wall on it but it is not a material easy to match and the texture is just off.
I may use cork liner on the floor before setting down wood pavement (I intend to reuse every piece of wood I can manage to salvage) but not on the walls.
And yes, styrofoam is horrendously fragile. At some point you may have to consider replacing parts of it, which apparently is very easy, but just putting up such a fragile material doesn’t make sense for me.
- Comment on Adding insulation to an old house. 4 months ago:
Stone. No gaps I can take advantage of.
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- Comment on Scientist Discover How to Convert CO2 into Powder That Can Be Stored for Decades 4 months ago:
Grab the torch, I’ll bring the pitchfork, and let’s ask the writer just why didn’t made the title less click bait.
- Comment on "Forget the pig is an animal - treat him just like a machine in a factory" | Source: Washington Post 4 months ago:
The first issue we need to take is synthetic synthetic fertilizer.
We already recognize oil is more of a source of problems than anything else: runaway methane leaks at the wells, soil polution, water polution, spills during transport, high energy consumption for processing, etc.
Manures are already available elements that only need to be reintegrated into the soil.
Composting operations also greatly benefit by having manures added to it (and manures technically require composting before use) as the bacteria from the animals digestive tract help breakdowm the material.
And yes, crop rotation and field management are essential but the more tried and tested techniques and resources we can use to shake away our dependency of oil, the better.
One lesser known source of nitrogen and phosphorous very under used: waste water management plants muds. Many countries are still sending precious resource for landfills.
- Comment on Scientist Discover How to Convert CO2 into Powder That Can Be Stored for Decades 4 months ago:
No matter what we do, this is not a problem that anyone alive today will see fixed.
I’ll be fucked sideways with a three pronged dildo if I don’t do whatever I can to leave this place better than how it was left to me, no matter how small the outcome of my efforts may be.
The mentality of “whoever comes next can deal with it” is what took us here.
This problem is humongous, if not humanity ending, and yet somehow most people think it’s something science will solve within the next few years.
If there is one thing we are good at is finding solutions for problems. Unfortunatelty, we often create new problems for ourselves, which is a nasty habit we should look into solving as well. Not doing anything, at all, is not what we are.
- Comment on Scientist Discover How to Convert CO2 into Powder That Can Be Stored for Decades 4 months ago:
Plants have a fixed life cycle. Unless we found a way to make all plants like bamboo, capable of growing at extreme speed (there are species of bamboo you can observe groing in real time with your naked eye), plants take a set time to absorb a set amount of CO2.
The promise here is to syphon CO2 straight from the atmosphere into a solid state we can store, reuse or dispose of, safely.
- Comment on "Forget the pig is an animal - treat him just like a machine in a factory" | Source: Washington Post 4 months ago:
Synthetic fertilizers are essentially processed oil and we already know what the extraction, transport, processing and distribution of it entails.
Integrated farming, where animals are integral parts of a well planned farm operation present more advantages than drawbacks.
Animals help in manage soil and landscape (by eating plants that can easily out compete or swarm cultivation areas), can combat pests (chickens and other birds will eat pests naturally present in the soil and areate it in the process), provide fertilizer and can even compost and correct it (chickens and pigs can be used to turn manure piles), which implies less machinery employed.
Goats and sheep are superb at managing dry vegetation or any kind of foliage that can present a fire hazard. Pigs are natural soil plowers, capable of removing stones, stumps and deep roots. Chickens are good to level and clear soil, very fast, and excel at keep tree roots clean of weeds. Angola chickens can clear a field from ticks and other potential parasites very fast.
We do have other sources of soil nutrients that do not entail processing oil but the farmers are often not aware or unreceptive to it.