Tiresia

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨repair cafes are oriented to “give you fish”, rather than “teach a man to fish”⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  In that case, check out this list of repair cafes and other DIY stuff around Europe. It’s far from complete, but there are repair cafes in the Netherlands, England, France, Italy, Portugal, and Poland.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Amount of Electricity Generated From Solar Is Suddenly Unbelievable⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Circuit breakers cost money and provide no benefit to the park operator, so it makes sense that they would prefer to sell the electricity for a negative price instead as long as that negative price costs them less than the circuit breaker.

  Also, solar parks in Europe are subsidized, so beholden to government demands. From the perspective of the government and the public good, it’s better if the electricity is sold for a negative price than if the capacity to produce it for free is wasted, because it can still be used for productive ends. The value for buyers is positive, but because it’s a buyer’s market the electricity is still sold at a loss because the buyers can threaten to go to a different solar park operator.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can somebody please explain why the world hasn't gone nuclear yet?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Nuclear safety standards in most western countries are legally defined as whatever was high enough to make the reactors unprofitable (with language such as “the highest reasonably attainable level of safety”). This results in ridiculous scenarios like nuclear reactors being expected to store their waste perfectly for 100,000 years even if nobody attends to it while fossil fuel plants kill millions with polluted air and agriculture just pisses pollution into the environment. We build monuments to nuclear waste so that future civilizations may know to fear it properly even if all contact is lost because oh no what if like ten of these hypothetical post-post-apocalyptic people die, while hundreds of millions are set to die right now because of the climate change that waste could have mitigated.

  Nuclear reactors are safe enough that grad students can operate them. If the entire world electrical supply ran on electricity you could put the nuclear waste in a couple hundred oil drums and drop those in an olympic swimming pool and people nearby would be under less risk than from a steel mill.

  And yes, without the nuclear arms industry it would have made more sense to develop cheaper and safer fuels like thorium. But nuclear disasters are like train crashes - terrible, of course, but vastly overblown by the media in a way that somehow coincides perfectly with fossil fuel/car industry interests.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's Breathtaking How Fast AI Is Screwing Up the Education System⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It can and it has done creative mathematical proof work. Nothing spectacular, but at least on par with a mathematics grad student.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's Breathtaking How Fast AI Is Screwing Up the Education System⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Why is a baseline bulk level of education the goal? People are different, people live in a society where they can ask others for help. People don’t retain most of what has been crammed into their heads, and the fact that they were threatened with social exclusion if they didn’t cram it in gives many of them an unhealthy attitude towards knowledge that will take them decades to unlearn. Many subjects are propagandistic or taught in a way that makes them irrelevant for the rest of one’s life.

  People learn how the mitochondria work but not how to recognize a stroke. How to write a formal proof about triangular equalities but not how to untangle a legal document. How to recognize a baroque painting but not how to make art you enjoy. How to compete at sports but not how to listen to what your body needs. How to memorize what an authority says but not how to pick apart lies.

  So sure, let everyone follow a completely different education. Let them learn things at their own individual pace, let them focus on the things they care about and let them use their own interest as a guide. Maybe some will be functionally illiterate, but that is already the case.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's Breathtaking How Fast AI Is Screwing Up the Education System⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s really not true. Paper production takes a lot of (often non-renewable) energy, ink usually consists of non-renewable chemicals, paper is often harvested from nonrenewable destruction of forests (especially in the US with Trump’s plans to cut down national forests), paper production belches a lot of pollution into the air and pollutes a lot of water, etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Blizzard's Overwatch Team Just Unionized: 'What I Want To Protect Most Here Is The People'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Besides, better working conditions for the team means more mentally healthy workers means a better and more creative product.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apex Legends writer gets laid off 24 hours after the character she wrote is revealed, because that's what the games industry in 2025 looks like⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry for not engaging with the content, but please add paragraph breaks. kthx

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Full Circle⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Tell that to the 10% of the German population that didn’t survive WW2.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We’ve unlocked a holy grail in clean energy. It’s only the beginning.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Click the “paywall” link in the post body.