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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As coal fades, Australia looks to realize dream of 100% renewable energy⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Then Australia will need to decarbonise its transport. In the cities (well, Sydney and Melbourne at least) it’s building out more effective public transport systems and increasing residential density to allow less car-centric lifestyles. Between major cities, aviation is still the undisputed king, and with there being no safe electrical storage technology with an energy density approaching A1 kerosene on the horizon, renewably-powered electric airliners aren’t happening any time soon. Australia still has railways, but they’re in a poor state: old, slow Victorian-era alignments, and a lack of electrification. Passenger trains run between Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane, but they’re slow (you’d get better Sydney and Melbourne quicker driving at the speed limit down the Hume Highway than on the XPT train); meanwhile, working passenger trains between the east and west coasts were replaced with premium-priced boomer rail cruises some time in the era of cheap flights.

  For decarbonisation, Australia will need improved passenger rail. Ideally high-speed rail, though that will take a generation or two to build (the Albanese federal government’s generation-defining HSR project is, wait for it, an intrastate line between Sydney and the regional city of Newcastle). A better approach might arguably be to quietly upgrade existing lines, straightening out the slowest curves and adding electrification in increments, while increasing service frequencies and reliability. Where HSR is built out, it should be classic-compatible to add value to the rest of the line. (A HSR line connecting Sydney to Canberra in one hour would cannibalise the aviation market between them, and would also shave a few hours off a Sydney-Melbourne route that could use the alignment before crossing to the old slow line.)

  Also, not neglecting night trains: they’re easy enough to dismiss as some kind of whimsical fantasy or Instagram photo-op for hipsters, at least if the mindset is “yeah, nah, normal people just fly, mate”, but there’s a revival in them happening in Europe, and plenty of people find boarding a train in the evening and getting off in the centre of town next morning to be convenient. Having the Sydney-Brisbane train leave at 2pm and arrive at 4am doesn’t show concern for passengers. And ordering replacement trains without sleeper carriages (as TfNSW did) is a huge lost opportunity. Until you can do the trip on a Shinkansen in under 5 hours, you need sleeper carriages.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TV/MA 'High School' teen drama shows should be set in college and centered around young adults or adults.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Teenagers should be piloting giant robots, not doing drugs and hooking up

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do we still joke about setting up old wooden guillotines?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You can make them modular, with telescoping rails, for portability. The blade needs to be weighted, but the weight can consist of a stack of weights, like on gym equipment. In fact, you could probably repurpose a bench press machine into a guillotine with a few minor modifications.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mmmm... Yeah. It checks out.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Kittens meow, but adult cats in the wild don’t. So they literally speak baby talk to us.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We need a Thomas the Tank Engine horror game⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s accurate. The assets look cheap, and the game itself is a bit dull.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨1919 (correctly)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s an Everett True energy about this

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starmer used land tax dodge to avoid inheritance tax⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Tony Blair would undoubtedly approve

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lara Croft is a Sociopath⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  One example: the early-80s arcade game Elevator Action, in which you play a secret agent who abseils to the top floor of an enemy building and has to grab secret files and make his way down to a getaway car on the ground floor. Well, that’s how it’s described. In reality, you’re a spree shooter rampaging through an office.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lara Croft is a Sociopath⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Are they talking about her physically modelled breasts?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lara Croft is a Sociopath⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, you don’t want to know what she thinks of trans people

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Time to reset the “days since” board to 0

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PhDebaters⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Horny philosophers want only two things

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New U.S. gov't rule says chipmakers have to make one chip in the US for each chip imported from another country to avoid 100% tariffs — Trump admin allegedly preps new 1:1 chip export rule under new t⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Do they still have the chunky old process nodes that can make such chips? Some vintage chips there is modest demand for (such as ASICs from cherished vintage computers; think the SID chip, for example) cannot be economically revived as there are no more facilities to fab chips of those long-obsolete technologies. (And even the trickle of 6502s being made are a later CMOS redesign rather than the original design.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I want you to know that I'm happy for you⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey, it’s Gladly

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scottish Government considers quitting X following owner Elon Musk’s use of platform to incite violence⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They can set up their own fediverse instance. The EU, Germany and the Netherlands have done so. Beyond that, they can automatically mirror posts to Bluesky or wherever they need to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨in sickness and in health⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Were houses by the seaside less packed with toxic substances?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3142: -Style Pizza⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A pizza you can make in a toaster oven

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Invest⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  New Lemmy instance name up for grabs

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The first rule of debate club⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fanfic with Tyler Durden and Green Mario going Nazi-scalp collecting

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australia to spend $1.1 billion on Anduril undersea drone fleet⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Next, develop a loitering munition drone and call it the Dropbear.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vimeo is getting acquired by Bending Spoons, the parent company of Evernote⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They’ll hollow it out, asset-strip it and laugh all the way to the bank.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I had realized how shitty the sound was in the MRI headphones I would not have asked for one of my favorite bands when they asked me what music I wanted⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you don’t ask, they default to Autechre

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thawing permafrost is turning Arctic rivers orange—spelling trouble for fish⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What better monument could the Trump era have?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendogs⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hope you weren’t planning on getting any reading done, though

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Step 1: Delete⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re talking about aerodynamics, you don’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Inquiry finds British committed genocide on Indigenous Australians⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Roses are red, male horses are stallions…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's a whole genre! ⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  He’s Woody Allen with grossout gags instead of pseudointellectualism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨1 UPVOTE = 1 AGREEMENT! ⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Needs an absurd one-word option like “Egg”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨asked and answered⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Back when fast food restaurants ripped off Sid and Marty Krofft

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨it would be a better look⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Though Christians tensing up, grimacing and shaking would be a lot more peculiar than them touching their forehead, belly and shoulders in succession.