AmidFuror
@AmidFuror@fedia.io
- Comment on What are some franchises with characters that personify countries? 5 days ago:
Walt Disney's Enchanted Tiki Room with Pierre and Suzette.
- Comment on Have there been any technological advances in boucey ball technology in the last decade or two? 6 days ago:
Thanks. Fixed it.
- Comment on Have there been any technological advances in boucey ball technology in the last decade or two? 6 days ago:
Please stop putting in comments about bouncy balls. OP made clear by typing it twice he wants to know about boucy balls.
- Comment on A goodbye to kbin ... 6 days ago:
There are dozens of us.
- Comment on If you argue for a cause like affordable housing for everyone, is it necessarily hypocritical if you also own investment properties? 1 week ago:
You can make them affordable by screening for high income.
- Comment on If you argue for a cause like affordable housing for everyone, is it necessarily hypocritical if you also own investment properties? 1 week ago:
What if you think affordable housing should be government subsidized? Or as is the case in many places, below market priced units that the builder is required to include, with limits on how they are used (income qualifications and owner occupation).
Neither of those requires you not to rent to other people. It would be like saying I'm for mental health services being paid for by the government but running a psychiatric business.
- Comment on Japan Just Switched on Asia’s First Osmotic Power Plant, Which Runs 24/7 on Nothing But Fresh Water and Seawater 1 week ago:
Returning to this thread long after everyone has moved on.
How do you get enough net energy out of mixing brine from desalination with fresh water to use to separate saltwater into brine and fresh water? Especially when the energy producing method is already known to have poor efficiency?
This seems like this is just terrible at converting treated wastewater into drinking water. Must have something to do with government subsidies instead.
- Comment on Is this Lemmy thread full of bots/ Fake comments? 1 week ago:
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- Comment on XC Running: Does anyone else's parents do this? 1 week ago:
That's like 400 times around the track!
- Comment on XC Running: Does anyone else's parents do this? 1 week ago:
I find for cross-country and track you really just end up back where you started. If you want to get somewhere, you have to run a 5k. If you really want to go far, marathons are where it's at.
- Comment on Pirates are just hyperindividualized, privatized navies engaged in a competitive market with one another so how can they be worse than navies according to the logic of capitalism? 1 week ago:
This whole post is just a political "capitalism bad" statement. It might as well be about bank robbers.
- Comment on Hypothetically, if you have memory problems and need to write down events, is there a system which you can verify that its not tampered with? (Like a digital checksum, but for a journal) 1 week ago:
He murdered your wife.
- Comment on Would you ever give up your right to leave a bad review about a company? 1 week ago:
The sign could be about missiles - rocks on the road kicked up by the trucks tires - rather than the truck spilling its load.
- Comment on Japan Just Switched on Asia’s First Osmotic Power Plant, Which Runs 24/7 on Nothing But Fresh Water and Seawater 1 week ago:
This seems like a terrible use, since these plants work by mixing fresh water with seawater (or in this case the brine leftover from desalination). I guess the catch is they can use treated wastewater instead of potable water.
This method gains very little net energy compared to other renewables.
“While energy is released when the salt water is mixed with fresh water, a lot of energy is lost in pumping the two streams into the power plant and from the frictional loss across the membranes. This means that the net energy that can be gained is small,” said Kentish.
- Comment on Illegalism Community 1 week ago:
No, it's fine. We'll just pick representatives to enforce the code and all will be good.
- Comment on Illegalism Community 1 week ago:
Anarchist code of conduct. Lol.
- Comment on What strategy would you use to estimate the number of hazelnuts 2 weeks ago:
This is a 2D image of a cup of hazelnuts. The number is just the ones you can see. The ones you can't see aren't part of the image.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I would take more time to sit with the diagnosis before doing anything rash. See what your actual progression is like.
- Comment on If conditions on earth are perfect for life to form shouldn't have happened more than once? 2 weeks ago:
Assume you mean from simple building blocks instead of evolving from the reproduction of other bacteria, we could know if there were ever enough of this new bacterium for us to find and isolate it.
For one thing, if it didn't come from other living things it would not share the genetic code. Almost all organisms on earth use exactly the same translation of RNA codons to amino acids. The few exceptions are changes of just a couple of codons which had fallen to very low frequencies in the hosts' genomes.
That universal code is one of the reasons we know all life discovered to date evolved from a common ancestor.
A new bacterium, if it evolved convergently to use DNA and RNA and a 3 letter code (a big if), would not use the same translation as modern life. Even if there is some bias towards specific codons, the chance of the same core code happening twice is astronomically low.
- Comment on If conditions on earth are perfect for life to form shouldn't have happened more than once? 2 weeks ago:
This takes agnosticism to an extreme. There's no way to know anything "for sure." But there are different levels of certainty, and we can work with probabilities to make reasonable conjectures. That's how science works, at least.
- Comment on What does 🥀 mean? I've seen it used online a lot recently. 2 weeks ago:
She loves me. Or...She loves me not.
- Comment on Schools in Florida are testing armed drones as a defense against school shootings 2 weeks ago:
As long as the drones are fully autonomous but still use WiFi with the factory default password, it should be OK.
- Comment on The people developing vegan meat alternatives must have eaten a lot of meat beforehand so they can replicate the taste and texture. 2 weeks ago:
Can we say any woman can consent to breastfeeding her child if she lives in a patriarchy?
- Comment on If copyright on a work expired immediately after death, would be that a bad or good idea? 3 weeks ago:
Those fees won't pay for the cost of registering all these copyrights. Currently the government doesn't need to get involved until there's a suit, and then they get court fees. Everybody registering their first 2 to 5 years of copyright would be a massive burden.
Also, at every 5 years you're only up to a few hundred bucks at 40 years. Definitely needs to be on the lower side.
- Comment on Hundreds of thousands of Grok chats exposed in Google results 3 weeks ago:
Ah, yes. Ask Grok to come up with a secure password that only you and everyone else know.
- Comment on A real question about trans athletes and records 3 weeks ago:
One reason would be that he would have been barred from entering the contests.