rumschlumpel
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- Comment on The longer you live, the harder it becomes. 22 hours ago:
Definitely. My grandfather died like 3 years into his retirement. His early death was kinda avoidable (he had a pretty unhealthy lifestyle and avoided going to doctors even though it’s fairly cheap in our country), but even people with healthy lifestyles can die early from accidents or diseases.
On the flipside, my grandmother is still doing pretty well more than a decade later. But she’d probably prefer spending her retirement with her husband.
- Comment on The longer you live, the harder it becomes. 1 day ago:
It doesn’t fall off immediately, though. For a lot of people, at least the first couple of years as pensioners are quite livable, especially in countries that have a low retirement age relative to their life expectancy (e.g. Japan).
- Comment on The longer you live, the harder it becomes. 1 day ago:
Responsibilities definitely go down again when you become a pensioner.
- 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 day ago:
How does the tendency to monopolize fit into this?
- 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 day ago:
They pay bribes, though!
- 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 day ago:
I’d assume that capitalists aren’t happy about getting their ships nabbed by hostile navies, either. Generally, the only ones who get rich off violence and actually get away with it are the capitalists who build weapons, and only if their country never gets occupied.
- Comment on Japanese Power Plant Turns Saltwater Into Electricity 2 days ago:
Fair point.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
Most people aren’t entirely good or bad, I really think this kind of black-and-white thinking is hurting us as societies. Even Hitler cared about his dog and I haven’t heard anything about him being a bad husband, either - and yet this guy is one of the go-to examples for people who are considered completely evil. This leads to fallacies like people not wanting to believe that someone could be a murderer because they were always treated right by them.
People tend to care about some things in their lives and not care about other things.
- Comment on Japanese Power Plant Turns Saltwater Into Electricity 2 days ago:
Concentrated salt water might be a waste product, but the plant was built on purpose. How long does it need to operate before the costs amortisize? Even if we’re looking at greenhouse gases, building a plant emits a lot of gases.
The people who designed built the plant probably calculated all this, but the article doesn’t go into it and with novel technologies like this, it’s generally not safe to just assume that a given plant makes any economical or environmental sense.
- Comment on Japanese Power Plant Turns Saltwater Into Electricity 2 days ago:
Far cry from “perpetual free energy scheme”, though.
- Comment on Japanese Power Plant Turns Saltwater Into Electricity 2 days ago:
It’s pretty common to produce table salt by dehydrating sea water. This saltwater electricity plant doesn’t produce salt, though, since the basis of their electricity generation process is diluting concentrated salt water.
- Comment on Japanese Power Plant Turns Saltwater Into Electricity 2 days ago:
If they’re mostly using electricity or even combustion to evaporate the water (as opposed to sunlight), there’s no chance that the concentrated saltwater creates more electricity than it costs.
- Comment on Japanese Power Plant Turns Saltwater Into Electricity 2 days ago:
Doesn’t sound all that economical compared with other energy sources. It probably needs to be compared to longer-term energy storage solutions that don’t rely on geography like hot sand, the possibility to store the energy source (concentrated salt water) relatively cheaply is the most interesting part about it.
- Comment on All while the skeletal, crumbling, dusty bones of an econ major pulls business backwards into hell. 5 days ago:
Part of the issue is that the quality of the research is often really low, just a jumble of untested and untestable hypotheses that certain ‘scientists’ in these fields try to push and that get traction because they sound good. On some level it comes with the subject matter that is typically very hard to research, but too many people in these fields are entirely lacking in scientific rigour.
- Comment on here there be lions 5 days ago:
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- Comment on It's a simple thing, but one good way to make games memorable is for the developers to leave you words of encouragement in the pack-in material. 2 weeks ago:
(Obligatory “I wish we still got pack-in material in the new games” “Oh, I wish we still got - you know - packaging these days”)
I literally went to the comments to write that :D It really is such a shame.
- Comment on Be your Better version 2 weeks ago:
Can you, though?
- Comment on What would be ancient ways to properly store vitamin C? 2 weeks ago:
The issue with recreating that environment on a wooden boat is that the sea is really, really wet. Sailing boats definitely had issues with spoiling citrus fruit, it’s part of why they switched to citrus syrup at one point.
- Comment on What would be ancient ways to properly store vitamin C? 2 weeks ago:
What exactly does “stored correctly” mean? I assume dry and cool?
- Comment on What would be ancient ways to properly store vitamin C? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, that’s fair.
- Comment on What would be ancient ways to properly store vitamin C? 2 weeks ago:
On a boat, possibly in the tropics, without spoiling? Doubt.
- Comment on What would be ancient ways to properly store vitamin C? 2 weeks ago:
That wasn’t the question, though.
- Comment on What would be ancient ways to properly store vitamin C? 2 weeks ago:
Apparently meat contains enough vitamin c to fend off scurvy if you eat it fresh and raw (I don’t remember how raw it has to be, but definitely fresh). Depending on where your route takes you, that might have been an option.
- Comment on What would be ancient ways to properly store vitamin C? 2 weeks ago:
Fresh fruit spoil easily. How do you preserve fruit for months without destroying the vitamin c, before refrigerators were a thing?
- Comment on Does putting clothes in the closet protect them from dust, or is the dust in there too? 2 weeks ago:
It gets there too, but not as much. The dust comes from outside the closet, not inside.
- Comment on Fan Subber 3 weeks ago:
English is not my first language, either …
Though it’s not like I’m putting in the work to translate anything myself, so IDK if I should complain that much.
- Comment on Fan Subber 3 weeks ago:
Hopefully they can at least write English without tripping all over. Fansubs are usually fine for that, but I’ve seen some awful manga scanlations.
- Comment on How do AI data centers manage to *consume* water, but when I cool my house, my A/C *makes* water? 3 weeks ago:
Since when does yellow journalism care about the environment?
- Comment on How do AI data centers manage to *consume* water, but when I cool my house, my A/C *makes* water? 3 weeks ago:
At this point, I wouldn’t be surprised if it turned out that they’re destroying the environment on purpose for some nefarious purpose.
- Comment on Humanity will likely survive climate change, but the vast majority of humans won't. 4 weeks ago:
Bit heavy for the shower.