humanspiral
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- Comment on GOP sneaks decade-long AI regulation ban into spending bill - Ars Technica 8 hours ago:
The process itself must serve evil. As a process, single issue bills permit a clear stand on good/evil with debate on the issue to convince/justify vote. Multi issue bills permit a horse trade of my evil interests to be included for your evil interest to also be included.
It can backfire though. Too big a deal can get some to leave the corruption consensus over 1 provision included. Everyone is given more power to grandstand against evil.
- Comment on Texas Senate passes bill requiring solar plants to provide power at night 17 hours ago:
Providing power at night is much more reasonable than forcing an equal/backup gas plant.
Requiring solar to have 2-4 hours battery backup power is a great way to expand grid while still keeping existing plants around. Peaker/backup plants have always had a business model based on high rates. If the law says a solar project must buy into a legacy plant and promise to keep it ready for backup, it’s not totally crazy, as long as it can charge extortionist rates when it is needed. It doesn’t reduce benefit of battery storage, paired with larger solar array.
inventive new ways to store energy.
100 hour storage, like iron air batteries, is cheap but not as economic as mature battery technologies for power arbitrage. Still, if there is a regulation to have 18-48 hours of power reserves, then it is an ok solution. The problem with long term storage with solar is that if you get 6 hours of sun in a day, half to charge, half to sell directly, you only add 6 hours, even if most days you wouldn’t draw down 6 hours at night due to lower demand.
Hydrogen electrolysis is another solution to monetizing overproduction. It can be done more cheaply with methane than water, and still be zero emissions, zero capture and sequestration, with marketable carbon black solid as byproduct. Keeping a bit of H2 onsite, with a fuel cell as backup, or NG electric plant, can be profitable, but all depends on how much you have to pay for backup, and how much profit from use.
Introducing V2G service that pays EV owners to be “the backup” in addition to battery arbitrage revenue is another path, that will happen soon enough, but where some kind of regulatory obligation to have it, makes it happen with more commitment.
- Comment on GOP sneaks decade-long AI regulation ban into spending bill - Ars Technica 20 hours ago:
The bill that makes it illegal for precautions is snuck inside megabill with 100 other bad provisions so no debate occurs on it.
FYI, the US empire is evil. Like media, AI must be used to protect the Empire’s evil.
- Comment on Exclusive: InventWood is about to mass produce wood that’s stronger than steel 1 day ago:
we’re focused on skin applications
Seems weird for ultra strong wood, but another property is that it is pretty.
- Comment on i broke 2 days ago:
Your misery cannot possibly be the result a structurally oppressive society, look at how well I’m doing. Now go kick your mom in the vagina and suck dick for therapy fares, and come back next week.
- Comment on Chinese Trade Flow Resilient at End of April Despite US Tariffs 2 days ago:
7% sea cargo increase and 30% air cargo increase.
Trans shipments isn’t a great argument considering that most of South East Asia that is used/accused of being hubs have rail links to China.
- Comment on China has introduced a drone that flies like a bird. The new invention could turn the drone industry upside down 2 days ago:
OP isn’t even new. This is a special forces video that is 1-2 years old. It’s hard to make them land “gracefully”.
- Comment on Ukraine, US sign minerals deal 1 week ago:
Seems like they setup an empty shell corporation. It is ready for contributions. Unclear that Ukraine got anything, or US gave anything yet. Though maybe future mineral/resource licences get paid into this fund and US gets 50% of it even without giving anything.
Restriction against Russia is no good for limiting Ukraine’s future under reaonable/peace governance, and Zelensky’s constitutional authority to sign anything is expired.
- Comment on Trump Blames Biden for Disastrous Q1 Economic News: ‘NOTHING TO DO WITH TARIFFS’ 1 week ago:
On Nov 20th, Goldman Sachs expected 2025 growth to be 2.5%, and had just a 15% chance of recession. Now recession is likely, and the most optimistic forecasts for the year are 1.1%-1.2%.
- Comment on Trump tells Canadians to Elect the guy who'll make them the 51st State of US [Canadian elections today] 2 weeks ago:
FYI, this is unpopular among Canadian voters. Conservative underdog, tries to deny being a lapdog, or supporting the idea, but this unfiltered BS doesn’t help him. It’s just a sign that Trump is completely out of control surrounded only by people who must restrain themselves on pushback to only far stupider things he might say.
- Comment on Hundreds of smartphone apps are monitoring users through their microphones 2 weeks ago:
Good thing everyone diligently reads the T&A of Pool 3d before using it. You are reading every line of text before you hit agree, and then uninstall, right?
- Comment on If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed? 2 weeks ago:
Electricity is a pretty easy concept. Steam power driving magnets and copper. That rare earths make better magnets should be easy enough to search for them. Copper wires to deliver the electricity easy AF. Can help jump start progress to late 21st century for some things.
- Comment on If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed? 2 weeks ago:
I don’t know how to refine oil, but knowing that its refinable into diesel/gasoline is a pretty good start to looking for it. A head start on murdering some sperm whales for lighting industry seems easy enough to figure out. Partnering with metal smiths who might have a clue on making gun barrels, and pipe’s in general that could be used for advanced weaponry, would be an easy path to get governments to give me a ton of money for weapons research by just showing them some drawings. Doesn’t really matter if I ever figure out how to do it, just the vision of what is possible would make me richer than Musk. Richer if I can help enslave all of humanity to one empire.
- Comment on Researchers Tattooed Tardigrades. They Promise It Will Be Useful 2 weeks ago:
only around 40% of the tardigrades survived, but the researchers say this could improve with further refinement. Nevertheless, the study suggests that researchers could use this method to print microelectronics or sensors onto living tissue.
“This approach provides new insights into tardigrades’ resilience
The only thing that can kill tardigrades are tattoos.
- Comment on Slate, a no-nonsense EV pickup for $20k 2 weeks ago:
$20k with some cargo for a car is pretty good. If you need a F150, then you’ll have to pay for one.
- Comment on China tells US to ‘cancel all unilateral tariffs’ if it wants talks 2 weeks ago:
China is definitely winning the posturing game, and Trump saying “trade negotiators met today, but cannot be named” is yet another of his obvious lies.
China having meetings with Japan, while Japan’s meetings with US don’t go anywhere, because Trump is only interested in complaints instead of asking anything specific and reasonable, is simply a continuation of the original reason reciprocal tariffs were suspended for 90 days: Chinese trade and diplomacy exploded in just a few days.
- Comment on Sony Music Among Parties Pushing To Cut Off Internet for Pirating Customers — Supreme Court Asked To Intervene 2 weeks ago:
Emigrating to internet friendly country is something I’d do in a week. I guess sharing someone else’s internet, or account identity is an option.
- Comment on China says it wants to partner with Canada to push back against American ‘bullying’ 2 weeks ago:
Canada’s extreme stupidity and weakness is at the heart of an FT news item from yesterday: 2025/04/23/trump-to-exempt-car-parts-from-tariffs-on-china-imports-ft-says/
There is way more Canadian input in cars, but extortionist damage will eventually pay off against a weakling that refuses to make new friends with the actual global superpower. No need whatsoever to even pay attention to Canada concerns.
- Comment on China says it wants to partner with Canada to push back against American ‘bullying’ 2 weeks ago:
Definitely Canada needs to get closer to China. A likely outcome of Asian and other colonies negotiating with US extortion is buying their commodities from US, and Canada getting shut out of markets. FDI in auto sector going only to US. Threat to existing Canadian auto manufacturing, and other business.
If the US does destroy our economy, that is not a good reason to stop the boycott. Refusing to get friendlier with China is refusing the option other than slow death hoping/waiting for the US to get nicer.
- Comment on The Most Printable 3D Printer Yet 3 weeks ago:
I don’t like purity for purity’s sake, but maybe at 545% tariffs, this starts to be an out.
3d printing lugs for carbon fiber, bamboo, metal tubes and beams, and fitting in regular motors, electronics, bearings, belts is a good/best path to reduced BOM and high performance/value.
- Comment on *dies of cringe* 3 weeks ago:
Liz Truss was so horrible that if she did not actively poison the Queen, made her so digusted with UK/world as to give up all hope for life. JD, as vice anti-Christ, can have a similiar effect.
- Comment on Who should america be more concerned about MS-13 or Russia? 3 weeks ago:
The US has threatened Russia for last 80 years. At increased levels in last 20 years. Forcing Russia to defend itself in last 3 years has made it stronger. There is absolute blowback danger from Russia, that can extend to nuclear destruction, but it as fully self inflicted as going around zoinking Grizzly bears’ tails. Foreign national threats to US are entirely the result of US evil, and US desperation is making it worse.
- Comment on This is real 3 weeks ago:
They had their chance to show MS 13 gang membership in court, and failed. Screaming it over from podiums/media doesn’t make it true, or a basis for jail/death camps.
- Comment on Texas Senate passes anti-solar, wind bill 3 weeks ago:
Previous similar evil has failed in Texas before. Even DeSantis vetoed a bill against home solar.
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Someone confirm its fake?
- Comment on Bobby won’t live long. 3 weeks ago:
The honor thy parents commandment is justified as “so you live longer”, and is God affirming the law at the time that your parents can choose, have the right, to execute you for any reason.
- Comment on Fund managers worry about Trump’s mental state amid tariff debacle 4 weeks ago:
It’s more that the plan was based on overconfidence in US exceptionalism and power, and gross misunderstanding of Navarro’s stupidity. Like propaganda that west is stronger than Russia militarily, and sanctions would cause Russians to be as stupid as the west’s gullible population, instead of extremely determined to defend themselves. Tarrifs on the world combined with military threats to allies creates the same determination against US, and the illusion that the US is more powerful than China is something that disappears when reality is tested. The illusion that the US has any economic sustainability or strength at all, gets tested.
It’s all about plans that are based on lies, and the propagandized belief of those lies, must adjust to reality.
- Comment on Okay, who had Trump loyalty pins for Apocalyptic-Bingo this Sunday? Games just getting started, stay tuned! 4 weeks ago:
Unit will always come first, because you die if you cannot rely on direct brotherhood/unit/fellow fighter, and the Corps/Trump orders will never pay attention to details directly related to your survival.
- Comment on Commerce Secretary Lutnick says tariff exemptions for electronics are only temporary: Lutnick said "semiconductor tariffs" will likely come in "a month or two.". 4 weeks ago:
They definitely have to stop announcing tariffs effective in next few hours. Maybe a 2 year effective date announcement allows “progress” in US reindustrialization with CHIPS act type subsidies.