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- Comment on Dik Piks 1 day ago:
You drastically overestimate the share of people’s impulses that come from rational thinking, and fail to account for the fact that humans are rationalized beings, not rational beings. That means, people are emotionally first, and secondarily taught to act somewhat rational.
- Comment on Deserved? Poll inside 1 day ago:
lol i was touching about the women, not the food :D but i guess it’s both
- Comment on Deserved? Poll inside 1 day ago:
I’d be annoyed too if someone kept sticking their hand in my food every single day.
i’d say it depends on how hot they are, honestly
- Comment on Deserved? Poll inside 1 day ago:
and I had to desperately fight falling in love right then and there
but why?
- Comment on Deserved? Poll inside 1 day ago:
flirting? at the workplace? at this time and age?
have you all not heard about the drama that is going to happen these days because of “sexual harassment”?
- Comment on America is in the 5 stages of grief 2 days ago:
yeah exactly
- Comment on America is in the 5 stages of grief 2 days ago:
do you think that they are alive somewhere else, and will continue to be for a long time?
- Comment on America is in the 5 stages of grief 2 days ago:
yeah but MAGAts do
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- Comment on The Amount of Electricity Generated From Solar Is Suddenly Unbelievable 2 days ago:
i’ve been looking for that infographic for 15 minutes yesterday, but i couldn’t find it anymore, unfortunately.
- Comment on Chinese satellites appear to dock in orbit for historic refuelling mission 2 days ago:
This is a huge deal if true.
In the last 5 years, one of the constant nagging voices in the public regarding SpaceX was that it’s supposedly so difficult to carry out in-orbit refueling.
- Comment on Evading suffering is _itself_ a form of suffering 2 days ago:
anything that invades your focus without your desire for it to happen.
i guess some call that “harassment”
- Comment on Evading suffering is _itself_ a form of suffering 2 days ago:
i always read it a bit different
all life is suffering means literally that. suffering is just another term for the process of being alive. suffering is the experience of all our emotions and everything that we can do in the world. this is suffering, contrasting it to the coldness and stoicism of death.
- Comment on Evading suffering is _itself_ a form of suffering 2 days ago:
every organism is born hungry and needs to fight that constant hunger or die
huh, and i thought hunger was caused by greed which is itself tied to the modern society
- Comment on Why doesn't the Trump administration simply edit the Epstein files and release them? 2 days ago:
I guess they have a fear of a whistleblower from within the FED.
Imagine that an annoyed employee at the fed starts speaking out to the public that the released epstein files are actually fake and releases the actual files instead. that might make for a bigger shitstorm than simply not releasing anything in the first place.
- Comment on Scientists make game-changing breakthrough that could slash costs of solar panels: 'Has the potential to contribute to the energy transition' 2 days ago:
the glass lens probably is cheaper than a big solar panel
but the cost of setting up a glass lens in 5-10 meters altitude (because that’s what’s needed to bundle any sunlight) is probably more expensive than setting up a big solar panel at hip height.
and considering that labor cost is a significant part (i guess 10% - 50%) of overall solar park cost, i guess it’s probably not worth it.
- Comment on Scientists make game-changing breakthrough that could slash costs of solar panels: 'Has the potential to contribute to the energy transition' 2 days ago:
Yeah, community solar parks are really the best because they remove a whole lot of these soft costs.
These soft costs include:
- bureaucracy (you need 1 permit instead of 100 permits),
- nobody needs to climb on a roof,
- shipping many panels at once to the installation site is much more efficient than only shipping 5-8 modules at a time
additionally, any kind of fixed-cost complexity is spread over a bigger field. i.e., you should add circuit breakers to make sure the solar panels don’t feed into the grid when the energy prices are already negative.
adding that breaker has a fixed and constant price. adding one breaker to a large park is more efficient than adding 100 breakers into a 100 households.
- Comment on Scientists make game-changing breakthrough that could slash costs of solar panels: 'Has the potential to contribute to the energy transition' 2 days ago:
i guess a lot of research projects are just there to give the researchers something to do and money, and i’m sure the idea of using lenses has been floated before.
the thing is that it’s not really as good an ideas as it originally seems. After all, you need heavy solid lenses that you have to install above all solar panels, and the cost of that is not negligible. On top of that, there’s other problems that others have already mentioned.
- Comment on Scientists make game-changing breakthrough that could slash costs of solar panels: 'Has the potential to contribute to the energy transition' 2 days ago:
I’m not sure what to think about the Fraunhofer institute in general. They have made some nice discoveries in the past, such as audio compression algorithms and such. That is why i hyped them for a bit.
But they really disappointed me with their writings on solar panels in the past few years.
They said that the efficiency of solar panels today is too low to deploy them widely in practice, which is simply not true. They tried pushing Perovskite solar cells for no reason.
I’m not sure what to think about this idea. On one hand, adding lenses to solar parks makes them significantly more complicated and therefore expensive to build. Also, if the parks have complicated physical forms, they’re more susceptible to wind, and that could damage them.
On the other hand, yes, adding lenses means you need fewer actual solar panels for the same amount of energy harvested.
- Comment on The Amount of Electricity Generated From Solar Is Suddenly Unbelievable 2 days ago:
negative prices only exist because the operators of big solar parks have not considered implementing circuit breakers into their solar parks in the past.
with these breakers, whenever the energy prices are about to go negative, the breaker disables the solar park and it stops feeding into the grid. it’s a very simple measure but very effective. in theory, negative energy prices should not exist that way.
- Comment on The Amount of Electricity Generated From Solar Is Suddenly Unbelievable 2 days ago:
i saw a nice infographic a while ago which put that nicely:
installing renewable energy reduces our CO2 emission by like 90% if fully implemented,
meanwhile cutting back our bullshit CO2 emission only reduces our total emissions by sth like 3%.So the much more effective strategy is to focus on renewable energy sources, not so much on energy consumption.
- Comment on UwU brat mathematician behavior 3 days ago:
0 1 everything that comes after is simply summarizes as “many”
- Comment on It's just loss. 3 days ago:
Yeah the reason why biomass is used instead of number of individuals becomes rather clear when you consider the following:
- what counts as an individual? is an unborn already an individual? (that one’s a heated debate, as you can see by the abortion debate)
- if unborns are individuals, then at what age are they?
- if they are from the moment of fertilization, then some animals, like spiders or frogs, might lay a shitload number of eggs, like a million or sth, and it would drive up the number of individuals dramatically. But it would be a bullshit metric, because 99% of these individuals are never gonna survive a single year on earth. so it would be utterly confusing and misleading.
Going by mass solves all of these problems because it’s more clear and more direct. And on top of that it has the nice side-benefit of also giving an estimate of land usage. Land usage is roughly proportional to biomass, so measuring biomass is meaningful to estimate land usage as well, and that one really matters as that’s the limited resource that you’re trying to distribute among all species on earth.
- Comment on It's just loss. 3 days ago:
I’m in fact under the impression that the “number must go up” plot was played on us as well. Humans are increasing in quantity ever since the industrial revolution, but instead we should be focusing on the quality of life.
- Comment on It's just loss. 3 days ago:
i’ve been wondering for a time whether maybe, blood sacrifices didn’t ever actually end but the factory farmings are just a modern decoy for the actual blood sacrifices …
- Comment on Can a Russian pls confirm 5 days ago:
they’re not getting fucked
- Comment on Plant Slurs 5 days ago:
barks have the meaning that you agreed upon with your puppy girlfriend :D
- Comment on Why Americans Can’t Buy the World’s Best Electric Car 6 days ago:
why bail out the companies and not the people?
- Comment on Why Americans Can’t Buy the World’s Best Electric Car 6 days ago:
fair game IMHO. if you look at china as one big agent, then they can indeed act like that.
- Comment on Plant Slurs 6 days ago:
fish but with plants is trees