AwesomeLowlander
@AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on YSK: Your language settings in Lemmy might be wrong 7 hours ago:
If anything, I’m annoyed at the amount of foreign language posts that don’t tag their actual language.
- Comment on What's easier to shoot, a bow or a firearm? 7 hours ago:
Bows take years to learn and a lifetime to master. Crossbows were a military revolution simply because they were easy to learn. In that sense, crossbows and firearms are very similar, but depending on your range you’ve got more dropoff in accuracy with xbows due to gravity.
- Comment on Every Country That Has Their Own Lemmy Instance 4 days ago:
We’re taking a free ride on the Finns. !norway@sopuli.xyz
- Comment on Actually it's pretty cool 4 days ago:
While I find the fact that the pics are being hosted on lemmynsfw.com hilarious, they are having the unfortunate effect of being blocked by the office firewall 😅
- Comment on What do you guys think of rss.ponder.cat? 1 week ago:
Why so? It’s easy to block bots that have their accounts tagged as such. I block them myself, but I have no problem with them existing.
- Comment on place yer bets 1 week ago:
An interesting thought is that if it actually hits, this might provide the impetus for some countries to get their shit together and get into space for good. Potentially changing the course of history.
- Comment on nuked from orbit 1 week ago:
Well he did ask ‘what have you done that’s so great’
- Comment on yes god 3 weeks ago:
Turns out to be pretty funny instead of cringe
- Comment on yes god 3 weeks ago:
See my other comment
- Comment on yes god 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Economic inequality leads to democratic erosion, a new study finds. 3 weeks ago:
If nothing else, reproducibility is the key aspect of science that we are currently most lacking in.
- Comment on Economic inequality leads to democratic erosion, a new study finds. 3 weeks ago:
Were you expecting a new quantum physics theory? This is how science works.
- Comment on Economic inequality leads to democratic erosion, a new study finds. 3 weeks ago:
Who the fuck else should we blame beside corporations and economic leaders for economic inequality?
If you accept the existence of a capitalist system (and I’m not sure we have a better option at the moment), then it’s fully expected that economic leaders and corporations will try to maximise inequality because, that’s their entire purpose and yardstick of success. There’s no point blaming them, they’re not about to change. Rather, the leaders themselves should be to blame for not implementing proper guidelines and wealth-redistribution systems.
- Comment on What really happens inside a dating app. 3 weeks ago:
People were not speaking for very long conversations in general, they were happy to start a chat, but never really cared to continue it. Which always makes me say, that people registered on these apps are not really here for dating, but more for entertainment purposes.
Correlation is not causation. And in this case, is actively the opposite. It’s been shown multiple times that dating apps do not want their users dating, and have by this point probably winnowed their userbase down to those who aren’t interested in dating either.
The author is proof of this. So much of the article is about retention. Retention is great for the company, but retention and ‘dating’ are at odds. Nobody in their right mind would believe any major dating company is optimising their algorithms for compatibility.
- Comment on The 2025 SJW Update: Donations, costs and other points 4 weeks ago:
I know, that’s what I’m using at the moment :)
- Comment on Google Maps will rename Gulf of Mexico as Gulf of America in the U.S.. However, users in Mexico will see “Gulf of Mexico,” and the rest of its 1 billion monthly users will see both names. 4 weeks ago:
It’d just result in a filter on all reports on that location. Only thing being inconvenienced is one programmer.
- Comment on The 2025 SJW Update: Donations, costs and other points 4 weeks ago:
Any chance of enabling multi-instance support on tesseract? Mods currently need accounts on multiple instances due to issues with remote accounts not federating mod actions.
- Comment on Girls win: The UN condemns Ecuador and Nicaragua for forced pregnancies 4 weeks ago:
Can we get them to do the same for certain states in the US as well?
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- Comment on Question about flip cap bottles on mastodon, do you have any suggestions where to get them? 4 weeks ago:
IKEA sells bottles like this
- Comment on Canadian CEOs Want More Guns, Less Bread 5 weeks ago:
There’s nothing inherently wrong with defense spending. Given the current political shitshow worldwide, every country needs to be sure they can keep themselves secure if necessary. The problem is where the funding is coming from, i.e. they need to be taxing the fucking billionaires and conglomerates.
- Comment on Norway on track to be first to go all-electric 1 month ago:
You’re being ridiculously (and inaccurately) facetious. EVs refer to the entire car, not the battery alone. If anybody had claimed the batteries work just fine at cold temps (which nobody did), that’d be a different matter. EVs designed for cold climate work just fine in those climates.
We’re talking about the increased risk of them doing so in extreme heat
To begin with, that was not part of my original discussion, and I have little knowledge on that issue. However, since we’re on that, can you show some sources that there’s a significantly increased fire risk in summer, and how that compares to ICE vehicles? Based on the info I linked, they’d have to increase by several orders of magnitude to be doing worse than ICE vehicles.
But demanding we commit to only EV’s
Who demanded that? This conversation started when you claimed that EVs couldn’t work in cold climates, and that’s the only thing I’m really taking dispute with.
- Comment on Norway on track to be first to go all-electric 1 month ago:
Then don’t heat up the battery, and see if it runs. Won’t work, because EV’s have to heat up the battery to get it working, because they don’t function in extreme cold.
WTF is wrong with your logic process? Why would you remove a key component of the car? Lets take the starter out of ICE vehicles. Oh hey, they don’t function in any temperature at all!
The point is clear that ICE vehicles work just fine if properly engineered for cold climates.
And while we’re at it, what’s the workaround for the batteries catching fire and exploding in the extreme heat of summer? We need to implement some cooling pumps while we’re at it?
Would you like to bring sources to this discussion? Here’s mine.
1529.9 fires per 100k for ICE vehicles and just 25.1 fires per 100k sales for EVs.
Oh, were you just pointing to 1-in-a-million incidents as reasons to shelve an entire technology. Tsk.
abundant & clean hydrogen.
There’s nothing abundant and clean about them in the current car ecosystem. I’ll grant there’s a possibility of that, but that doesn’t mean much when the competition has already delivered.
- Comment on Norway on track to be first to go all-electric 1 month ago:
Read over what you just wrote, and think about it for a second. If they have to be heated up to function, it supports my assertion that they do not function in extreme cold.
They function at a 12% range loss. That is a far cry from ‘do not function’
That 12% is not insignificant, and that’s just for the piece to keep the battery at operating temperature.
No it’s not. It’s total range loss, not battery capacity reduction. The car gets 12% less total range, that’s the final figure taking everything else into account. You seem to have made up your mind about what you wish to support and are dismissing anything else that does not support your PoV.
- Comment on Norway on track to be first to go all-electric 1 month ago:
I’m not an engineer. I’m pointing out that the real world is proving that EVs can work just fine in the cold, so your assertion that they can’t doesn’t hold any water. This was a recent article of interest, though.
- Comment on Norway on track to be first to go all-electric 1 month ago:
EV’s simply can’t perform in extreme cold,
- Comment on Could you imagine a Nintendo title being advertised like this today? (Conker's Bad Fur Day, 2001) 1 month ago:
let’s call a spade a spade and say what it is
I’m not sure how you could get any more explicit and direct than ‘real hentai’.
- Comment on How active is Lemmy now? 1 month ago:
Yeah, but you’re like the community directory, you know everything 😂
- Comment on It's 2025 now, what are the games you'll be starting the year with? 1 month ago:
I believe there’s a Tabletop Simulator version out, but I don’t have TTS so can’t say for sure.
- Comment on USB-C gets a bit more universal as the EU’s mandate goes into effect 1 month ago:
Well it’s not going to change anytime soon since USB-c is current tech, but there’s really no reason to.
