Rivalarrival
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- Comment on Aged like milk 1 day ago:
Broken Clock.
- Comment on Time to bash Americans again 2 days ago:
That makes sense from an outside perspective, sure. But your criticism was about Americans turning a blind eye to the “cultural” problem.
Within the US, blaming gun violence on “culture” means pointing out that 13-17% of the population commits (and are the victims of) 55-65% of the murders. Blaming “culture” means pointing out that mass shooters are predominantly white, they also account for less than 1% of all murders.
The Americans broadly adopting your “cultural problem” argument are MAGAts. Normal Americans are turning a blind eye to that viewpoint, rather than being lumped in with those racist pricks.
- Comment on Time to bash Americans again 2 days ago:
We “tend to turn a blind eye to it” because “cultural problem” is primarily used as a racist dog whistle.
If your intention was to point at the underlying cause, you need to be talking about systematic impoverization, lack of generational wealth, devaluation of labor, etc.
- Comment on Good luck! 3 days ago:
Waffle Stomp!
- Comment on A conundrum 4 days ago:
The alternative is some variety of private mortgage insurance. The insurer bets that housing prices will rise, so that you won’t default. If you do default, they reimburse the lender on their losses associated with your default.
- Comment on if "you are what you eat", and you only eat vegans, you're both vegan and not at the same time 1 week ago:
Antelope eats vegetation, which means antelope is a vegan and a vegetable. Tiger eats vegetable-lope, which means tiger is also a vegetable and a vegan.
Pig eats cheese, which was produced by the milk of a cow, which is a vegetable because the cow eats vegetables. Milk is therefore a product of a vegetable, making it vegan.
It’s vegetables all the way down.
- Comment on How decentralized Bluesky is compared to the Fediverse. 1 week ago:
Yes. The relevant metric:
99.55% of posts are on a single instance. That is not “federated” in any meaningful sense.
- Comment on Taco Bell rethinks AI drive-through after man orders 18,000 waters 1 week ago:
I’ve tried this repeatedly. I’ve answered “No” to their upsale. I’ve sat there in silence, waiting for it to time out. I’ve asked for a human. Every time the AI takes my order, it adds nacho fries that I didn’t order and specifically rejected.
The problem isn’t that I need a human to fix it. The problem is that the AI is specifically programmed to ignore a rejected upsale. Their AI is smart enough to recognize the rest of my complicated order, but it can’t understand “No”? Horseshit. They are using this fraudulent programming to increase their upsale metrics, expecting us to docilely accept the sale rather than raise a fuss.
Drive-offs are another of the metrics they look at. Since I’ve communicated with nobody but the AI, they have nobody but the AI to blame for the drive-off.
- Comment on Taco Bell rethinks AI drive-through after man orders 18,000 waters 1 week ago:
Or, and hear me out: I can drive off, flip them the bird, and go down to one of the other 15 fast food places within a 5 minute drive, that doesn’t use a speech recognition AI to take my order.
- Comment on Taco Bell rethinks AI drive-through after man orders 18,000 waters 1 week ago:
The fucking taco bell AI likes to ask if I would like anything else, then ask if I want nacho fries. Then, hearing “No”, go ahead and add them anyway.
Then it likes watching me drive away, giving the store the finger.
- Comment on What age gap is too big of an age gap if someone's in their early 30's? 2 weeks ago:
Romeo and Juliet laws are fairly common. 24 states allow a 2 to 5 year age difference. AFAIK, federal law allows up to a 4-year age difference.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I’m guessing he owes about $1232 in employment taxes…
- Comment on Out of 10. Be specific! 2 weeks ago:
This fork isn’t stamped out of sheet steel. It appears to have been forged out of a round bar stock. For that alone, it receives high marks, despite the unconventional appearance.
8/10.
- Comment on Schools in Florida are testing armed drones as a defense against school shootings 2 weeks ago:
A dead fish can open doors better than Uvalde police officers.
- Comment on The average age of Disney princesses is 505y. 2 weeks ago:
Then we respect their personal agency.
- Comment on To install a new outlet with a dedicated circuit do they have to cut the drywall all the way from the electrical panel to the outlet? 2 weeks ago:
yeah they’ll need to open up that drywall to drill holes in all the studs.
Not necessarily. They make 54" long, flexible drills that can go through 3 studs from a single hole. Some have 4’ extensions that you can attach as well, to drill studs 8 or even 12 feet out from a single hole.
- Comment on To install a new outlet with a dedicated circuit do they have to cut the drywall all the way from the electrical panel to the outlet? 2 weeks ago:
They’ll typically use something like this: Image
This flexible bit is about 4’ long. You cut the hole where you want the outlet, then insert that flexible bit to drill through the floor or ceiling, inside the wall. The cable is routed through the basement or attic.
If basement or attic are inaccessible, you can drill horizontally, three studs at a time. You’ll have holes every 4’. If you are creative, you can install new outlet boxes in those holes, and not have to do any drywall work.
- Comment on 🎶 picture this we we're both butt naked banging on the bathroom door 🎶 2 weeks ago:
Since shower water is a mixture of hot and cold, tank size, tank temperature, and cold water temperature are the predominant factors, at least initially.
For a given shower temperature, hot water consumption rate will increase at an exponential rate until tank temperature falls to shower temperature, then shower temperature will fall.
- Comment on The average age of Disney princesses is 505y. 2 weeks ago:
Laws are for generalities. Courts are for specificities. The situation you describe is resolved in the courts, not by legislation.
If the guardian is the problem, the courts assign a new guardian. That guardian can be another relative, or it could be a department of the state.
- Comment on The average age of Disney princesses is 505y. 2 weeks ago:
The same laws that protect drunk, unconscious, disabled, senile, or otherwise incapacitated people would still apply. Here, the 18-year-old with a child’s mind would be deemed incompetent, and assigned a guardian.
- Comment on AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over 3 weeks ago:
I literally explained that the economic incentives necessary to maximize the potential of one were completely opposite the incentives necessary for the other.
Again: nuclear needs daytime loads driven to off-peak hours. The difference between maximum demand and minimum demand needs to be lowered as much as possible, because nuclear can’t be quickly ramped up and down to match demand. That means increasing overnight demand: Lowering off-peak pricing for large industrial consumers.
Solar needs minimum night time demand, and maximum daytime demand. It needs to drive consumers to daytime hours. Raising prices for overnight consumption, reducing them during the day.
The two require opposite, incompatible pricing strategies to maximize their efficiency potential.
Whichever one we choose as a primary, we drive the other to an inefficient auxiliary role.
- Comment on AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over 3 weeks ago:
I literally just explained that.
- Comment on AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over 3 weeks ago:
Exactly. That is exactly what we need to do.
Then the rest of the year we have cheap hyper-abundant power.
Ideally, yes. But, what is actually happening is that near the summer solstice, generation rates aren’t “cheap”. They are negative. We are putting so much power on the grid that generation companies are paying for people to take it off during ideal generation conditions.
That is a big fucking problem. Negative rates mean we stop “spamming” solar panels long before we have enough to meet winter demand.
The solution to that problem is 3-season industries. Major industrial consumers that only operate from spring through autumn, soaking up the excess power, then going offline, shedding their excessive load for the winter.
- Comment on AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over 3 weeks ago:
Not feasible.
It’s barely feasible to use pumped storage for solar to match the daily demand curve in some small areas. Grid scale storage cannot be feasibly scaled to serve our current overnight power needs. But the daily demand curve isn’t the problem.
The real problem is the seasonal variation.
For solar to be effective, it needs to be able to meet our winter demand with our winter sunlight. 9 hours of low-angle sunlight under largely overcast conditions. That means we need a lot of solar panels, to get sufficient power from these suboptimal conditions.
Now, take that same number of solar panels, and give them the 15 hours of high-angle sunlight under largely clear skies that we have during the summer. When we do this, we have so much power pushed on to the grid that the price of electricity actually goes negative. They literally have to pay people to take it.
There isn’t enough lithium in the world to make the batteries we would need to balance seasonal variation. There isn’t enough land on the planet to support pumped storage facilities that could balance seasonal variation.
We need demand shaping to make solar feasible as our primary energy source, which means driving our heaviest loads to daytime, away from the dark. (This is the exact opposite of what we need to do for nuclear, coal, and other baseload generation.)
We also need 3-season industries that can soak up excess production in spring, summer, and autumn, while going offline and shedding their loads during winter.
- Comment on Trump says Ukraine needs to make a deal after summit with Putin ends without ceasefire 3 weeks ago:
Sure, sure. Now, about those Epstein/Trump files, discussing exactly how many children Trump has raped. When are those going to be released? Does the prison commissary currently stock his particular variety of orange tanning cream?
- Comment on What would be ancient ways to properly store vitamin C? 3 weeks ago:
Fresh meat contains vitamin C, as most animals can synthesize it themselves. “Livestock” would have been the preservation method.
Fermentation can develop vitamin C, depending on what you’re fermenting. Cabbage is probably the most famous example, but pretty much everything you ferment produces at least a little.
- Comment on What would be ancient ways to properly store vitamin C? 3 weeks ago:
Jams are preserved by canning, which introduces heat, which destroys vitamin C.
- Comment on What would be ancient ways to properly store vitamin C? 3 weeks ago:
Making jam involves heating the fruit, which destroys the ascorbic acid.
- Comment on What would be ancient ways to properly store vitamin C? 3 weeks ago:
www.usni.org/magazines/…/finding-cure-scurvy
Gilbert Blane was appointed to the staff of Admiral George Brydges Rodney as Physician to the Fleet in 1779. Blane was a medical reformer who was convinced by Lind’s original experiment with citrus and appreciated the need for a practical way of storing them. After considerable experimentation, he determined that adding 10 percent “spirits of wine” (i.e., distilled ethyl alcohol) to lemon juice would preserve it almost indefinitely, without destroying its beneficial properties.
- Comment on ChatGPT 5 power consumption could be as much as eight times higher than GPT 4 — research institute estimates medium-sized GPT-5 response can consume up to 40 watt-hours of electricity 3 weeks ago:
Bing is for porn.
