HaphazardFinesse

Base 10 time makes me irrationally angry though lol

Humans are a blight upon the natural world they inhabit

If you're so insistent on humans living in an environment counter to their own evolutionary instincts in favor of squeezing every drop of sustainability possible out of the maximum number of human lives (literally forcing humans to live in artificially dense population centers), why are you on the internet? You're wasting electricity that was either derived from fossil fuels or generated using renewable technologies reliant on rare minerals obtained through strip mining. Not to mention the plastics and metals that went into making the computer/phone you're using.

Still wearing clothes? Think of the water being wasted on manufacturing that! What about the resources devoted to growing the plant fibers, raising the livestock, or weaving the plastic fibers? The land that was destroyed and all the native life that was culled to create the farmlands? We should all be forcibly relocated to temperate regions and forced to live in dense nudist colonies.

Do you exercise? You know how many calories and how much oxygen you waste by doing that? Human physical exertion should be limited to only the bare minimum required to sustain the minimally healthy body weight. You know how much food we'd save if we banned all sports?

Don't get me started on the arts. Brain power costs calories too! What a waste. All human creative resources should be pooled together to create the most efficient base of entertainment media possible that enables a livable experience. No more unique languages, everyone will be forced to learn Chinese Mandarin or Spanish, so we can eliminate waste on similar media across languages.

Obviously MASSIVE /S

Now I don't want you to misunderstand, I'm very pro-renewables, rather pro-regulation, and even a bit pro-social-engineering. But literally seizing property and assigning concentrated living quarters to people who've owned their homes for generations is some seriously dystopian shit.

For sure, there’s no community as large and passionate as religion. BUT there are other communities that are centered around goodwill to others, living a better life…some of them even have chanting, if you feel like you’d be missing that part lol.

Those communities usually involve doing work though (volunteering, performing, teaching, etc.) while you can just show up to church and kinda pay attention, and you’re in.

I feel like, at their core, most religions boil down to two things, for most people:

• Giving you purpose/security/scapegoats ("I'm living a good life so I can go to heaven," "the Lord has a plan/is watching over me," "Satan/sinners/demons tempted me")
• Dissuading you from inquisitive, critical thought (out of self-preservation, I'd imagine)

Personally, I prefer to define my own purpose, live a more "dynamic" lifestyle than is traditional, think critically, and question authority. Doesn't make me "better" than religious folks, in fact they're probably overall happier than I am. But I can't imagine living that way, regardless of whether or not I believe in a magical sky Santa who can't decide whether he loves us unconditionally or whether or not he's actually omnipotent.

Looking at someone's lips can also be interpreted as wanting to kiss them, so watch out haha. I read that in a book on body language.

Yes BUT...there is a difference between platonic socialization and flirting/courtship. Some people can flirt naturally. Some people have to learn it. Some people can't turn it off. Which is why blanket advice for how to treat other people isn't particularly helpful.

So yes, most PUAs are creepy and gross. But also, for those who don't understand flirting innately, it's not like there are a ton of obvious reputable resources available on how to do it. And some PUAs do explain some of the key bits of psychology behind flirting. Things like tension and release, light teasing, managing eye contact, reading body language, escalating physical touch...things that you should be approaching differently if you're trying to flirt with someone vs being friendly. Things that people expect you to do if you're interested in them, that aren't inherently obvious.

And I say this as an ASD guy who confused a LOT of girls in high school by not courting them like I was "supposed" to, then started doing real research in my 20s into things like body language, flirting styles, love languages, attachment styles, etc, and coming to a lot of epiphanies about how stupid I had been, and am now in my 30s reasonably successful at dating.

For those curious on some actual resources, The Definitive Book of Body Language and The Five Flirting Styles are good places to start on learning the differences between platonic and romantic socialization!___

I did some research into MIMO modems, which is what you're looking for here. A MIMO router just utilizes multiple WiFi bands to speed up your home network. Fun fact: most newer cell phones are already MIMO modems (they have multiple antennae and can utilize multiple 4G/5G bands simultaneously), as are most hotspots/wireless modems (Verizon's 5G Home Internet modem is MIMO out of the box).

As far as the modems go, pretty much essential to use an external antennae to get any additional benefit out of them in a van. And the majority of external MIMO 4G/5G antennae are 1. directional and 2. expensive haha. So there'd be no mounting it permanently; you'd have to rig and strike it every time you move, and spend the time to aim it properly. And even then, it's not going to take you from "there's no signal at all" to "omg this connection is blazing fast," it'll take you from "this signal is passable" to "this signal is pretty good." If you live in a house on the edge of usable 5G coverage, they make sense to install permanently. Didn't make sense to me in a van.

And yes, T-Mobile's 5G home internet is basically the same thing as Verizon's. Which one you pick is up to you, your current plans, and their respective network coverage where you're planning on going. As a heads up, if you're tech savvy enough to disassemble the modem, you can install an external MIMO antennae on a Verizon or T-Mobile 5G home internet modem.

That's a neat idea! I initially thought he was going to use an Arduino to control the whole heater haha, guess he's just using it to convert the pulses from the diaphragm pump leads to PWM for the motor, essentially.

However, I don't know if a peristaltic pump is the best solution for this. First off they're not particularly reliable. I work with Stratasys 3D printers that use peristaltic pumps pretty extensively as first-stage pumps, and they break all the time. Good news is they're cheap and easy to replace. Don't know if I want to be crawling under my van in January at 3AM to replace a pump though lol.

Which leads to my second concern: Most vans have their pumps mounted externally, so the tubing the pump compresses would be subject to the cold, probably not great for it.

And three: flow rate can be difficult to accurately control. Especially at the low flow rate needed for a diesel heater. If you look at his pump towards the end of the video, and think about the internals of the pump, at the rate shown, it will rise in pressure for about 5 seconds, then drop to no pressure for like a full second, maybe even a slight negative pressure (from the pump arm disengaging the tubing, before the fluid from the next arm moves up to fill the void.

Now I'm admittedly naive about the internals of diesel heaters, but I'm pretty sure there's nothing in between the external pump and the combustion chamber nozzle to regulate the pressure, so a full lose of pressure from the output of the pump for >1 sec could cause flame failure.

Don't get me wrong, I'd love to get rid of the diaphragm pump, I also hate the clicking haha. Just think we'd need something with more precise flow rate control at that low a level.

Sooo...100% of future transportation should be done by train or bus? Gonna build an express line out to grannie's house in the woods of rural upstate LargePlace? Maybe with a few local stops at some hiking trailheads? Can't forget to add a direct line from there to the closest grocery store two towns away, or maybe granny can just hop on the train to CenterTown and take the connecting bus over to Nowhere'sVille, and grab another train from there. God forbid she wants to visit Aunt Sue in Isolated Harbour. Or maybe we should just seize both their properties and relocate them to Dense Village, which was specifically designed to be public-transit friendly.

Yeah trains are awesome, and we should utilize them more (especially in the US). But public transit is not the solution to all long-distance travel. So why flat-out reject a theoretical improvement, on the basis that it's not a literally perfect solution?

For sure...don't get me wrong, I'm 100% pro-renewables. I was super hyped about that guy that was making road "tiles" out recycled glass that had solar panels, heating elements, and LEDs incorporated. Would have been a neat multi-purpose solution. It's a shame it turned out sucking.

Partly an economy of scale problem. It's much more expensive to install 100 x 1,000 W systems, vs installing 1 x 100,000 W system. And easier to manage, repair, store energy, what have you. Also power companies don't like residential solar because (besides cutting into their profits) the power companies are responsible for maintaining the grid voltage, and they don't have control over residential solar, so it introduces a lot of mess for them.

And even then, there was a federal study that concluded covering all residential roofs in the US would provide roughly ≈40% of the required power. So still much more needed.

I mean, they do make nuclear power plants on lakes/rivers.