troyunrau
@troyunrau@lemmy.ca
Centrist, progressive, radical optimist. Geophysicist, R&D, Planetary Scientist and general nerd in Winnipeg, Canada.
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- Comment on Why aren't you creating more workers?? 16 hours ago:
Me too! Our cat is the perfect child, most of the time. Except when she pukes on the bed.
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- Comment on Fallout season 2 radiates NEW VEGAS with a trailer heavy on stupid sexy House and a December debut date 5 days ago:
Trailer direct link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZY5WiqeyQQ
- Comment on FediForum October 2025 Tickets Are Now Out! 1 week ago:
I worked on open source software for over a decade (KDE). When we started having in person conferences, that’s the first time money changed hands. And even then, the conference attendance was free. Viewed through this lens of experience, this feels like an attempt to earn money from the fediverse for running video chats, rather than a grassroots effort.
Old man yells at cloud.
- Comment on FediForum October 2025 Tickets Are Now Out! 2 weeks ago:
Paid online event? Weird. What happened to IRC for these sorts of meetings. I’m old.
- Comment on She's a keeper 4 weeks ago:
This is a real phenomenon. Men are more attractive when they’re already in a relationship.
There are similar psychological effects that exist elsewhere. A job applicant is more attractive if they currently have a job. A scholarship application is more attractive if you list your existing scholarships. The effect is basically: someone else found you desirable, and therefore I must also.
The effect is so strong that it encourages people to fake it to gain the benefits.
- Comment on Doing a pack a day 4 weeks ago:
Carrot cake is hard to light.
- Comment on Not great, not terrible 5 weeks ago:
As a geoscience, I like spicy rocks
- Comment on Deserved? Poll inside 5 weeks ago:
This is not flirting. It is socially maladjusted behaviour. Just because it has worked before doesn’t mean it is a good idea.
Pickup artists do all kinds of stupid shit that works that isn’t socially acceptable either.
- Comment on What would you do in this scenario? 1 month ago:
Everyone making a huge problem outta this. Wait until birds are gone if they’re there (fall or winter is fine). Borrow a ladder (preferably fibreglass), and gently remove while wearing gloves. Doesn’t look like any wires are damaged or at risk.
Someone else suggested a leaf blower. Might work. ;)
- Comment on Fun new game 1 month ago:
Daaaad
- Comment on Fun new game 1 month ago:
Amazing!
- Comment on Man 'refused entry into US' as border control catch him with bald JD Vance meme 1 month ago:
Wish you luck 🤞
- Comment on Man 'refused entry into US' as border control catch him with bald JD Vance meme 1 month ago:
🦟
- Comment on Man 'refused entry into US' as border control catch him with bald JD Vance meme 1 month ago:
gramie already mostly answered in line with what I’d say: there is an alt-right political shift there, where the lunatics are running the asylum and we keep expecting for sanity to re-emerge. Every country has a pocket like this somewhere. Most people in Calgary are perfectly nice, in the same way that most people in Omaha are perfectly nice, until a trans person is on TV.
- Comment on Man 'refused entry into US' as border control catch him with bald JD Vance meme 1 month ago:
Aha, “just south of me”, I saw from a thousand miles away.
If you’re a mountains person, yeah BC is the place to be. But it’s also same-same as what you can see in a lot of places in the US in the mountains. Like, you won’t tell the difference between much of BC and much of Washington.
If you’ve got the time, go straight north from your location. Way way north. Go to Yellowknife, and do it in March – it’s about three days driving. You’ll get there and they’ll have northern lights galore, ice castles on the lake, people driving their trucks on the ice to their houseboats that have just frozen into the ice for the season…
Or go in summer and go fishing there. The lake is 600m (1900ft) deep… Trout like tuna.
Unsolicited advice ends ;)
- Comment on Man 'refused entry into US' as border control catch him with bald JD Vance meme 1 month ago:
Assuming you’re coming from the US, where are you coming from? Driving or flying? Troy’s travel tips and unsolicited advice for free, this evening only!
- Comment on Man 'refused entry into US' as border control catch him with bald JD Vance meme 1 month ago:
Or come to Canada. We’re mostly nice. Ignore those bots in Albertastan
- Comment on (☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞ 1 month ago:
We agree entirely.
Without the ability to exert control and therefore reinforce the definition, borders are as arbitrary as any other law. They are created by people, enforced by people, and if we change our mind then they can go away. It’s not some intrinsic property of the planet.
While I’m ranting, the definition of a relic or artifact is equally arbitrary. As well as the definition of a people. And ownership. At any point in history, these definitions will be different. Right now we’ve defined it in such a way that we’ve decided that it is socially acceptable to return relics to people who live inside geographic areas where the relics originated from. This is also arbitrary.
But as long as people, decide to exert force to reinforce this definitions, there is true as any other law.
- Comment on (☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞ 1 month ago:
When I was in grad school, the philosophy of science students would egg me on with things like: “I’ll buy you a beer if you can prove the electron is real”. I’d like to think I’m carrying on their tradition in science memes.
- Comment on wtf 2 months ago:
One time, I was in the arctic doing some research. On a snowmobile, in winter, we crest a hill and see a couple of wolves pigging out on a caribou. I’m riding in the toboggan, and I start telling at the driver: “go go go!” They proceeded to chase our snowmobile for like a mile, with no hope at all of catching us, but running anyway. Like dogs chasing tires, I think they had no choice. Instincts are strong.
- Comment on (☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞ 2 months ago:
Countries and borders are an arbitrary concept created during the peace treaty of Westphalia.
Those relics belong to dead people.
- Comment on Absolute unit 2 months ago:
By approximately the wingspan of a pterodactyl
- Comment on I Believe in Science—But Not Necessarily Science Journalism 2 months ago:
To be fair…
None of that is good journalism, nevermind good science journalism. Bad journalism is the problem here, not bad science.
Unfortunately, regulating journalism would result in abuse and tyranny (eventually) as it removes the effectiveness of the fourth estate as a check against the government’s power. But damn – wouldn’t it be nice if journalists (and their editors) were required to at least have knowledge of the domains they cover.
- Comment on Hawaiian volcanic rocks reveal Earth's core contains vast hidden gold reserves 2 months ago:
Smh my head
- Comment on Geologists doubt Earth has the amount of copper needed to develop the entire world 2 months ago:
Things like platinum notwithstanding, It will almost always be more expensive to go get things in space than on earth.
Hell, even on earth it is often too expensive to get metals like iron if there isn’t rail or a port nearby. Imagine having to fly iron ingots around and the associated aviation fuel cost. Whatever crazy fuel bill you’re imagining, multiply by a hundred or more if you’re imagining getting it from space.
No, all of those metals in space are best used to build some future version of our civilization _in situ. _
- Comment on Geologists doubt Earth has the amount of copper needed to develop the entire world 2 months ago:
Very true. However, it doesn’t add new material to the equation. If we need it to build electrical infrastructure, recycling won’t suffice.
Recycling aluminum is actually literally the best thing you can recycle in terms of environmental impact and cost efficiency. There are other things we recycle, but nothing pays off nearly as well.
- Comment on Geologists doubt Earth has the amount of copper needed to develop the entire world 2 months ago:
That alternative material is aluminum. It’s like a top four abundance material in the crust. It’s just super fucking hard to refine from minerals that don’t like to give it up without oodles of energy. Like, turn minerals into plasma levels of energy. So the irony is, to grow our energy economy past the need for copper, we will first need to grow our energy economy.
Should fusion ever actually meet its promise, then this is one of the likely things we could do with this level of energy.
If we ever become a spacefaring civilization, it’ll almost certainly be necessary during the colonization of other planets/moons/asteroids, since the geological processes that concentrate copper on the earth are not present in those places. Whereas aluminum is plentiful any place rocky.
- Comment on science never ends 2 months ago:
Understand that science is a name given to both a method, and to a mostly self-consistent body of models that can be used to make useful predictions. Science doesn’t get things wrong. Science gets iterated upon.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Didn’t notice until you said anything. Getting too used to jpeg
