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[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago

That's a lot of lightning symbols

The secret to good writing in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I love that movie! It got bad ratings?

Mockery online as slurring Trump steamrolls Musk 'sounding like Sylvester the Cat' in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Technically still a touch!

The secret to good writing in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (7 children)

You succeeded at XKCD 2184

Edit: wait, it has to have come out after 2000. You almost succeeded at XKCD 2184.

Are there any "famous" Lemmy users? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

I also get annoyed at lightning fast responses. And I agree 100%

It takes no time or energy to come up with one answer to a question. I'm fact, I think most humans' brains are built for snap decisions like that.

But to weigh multiple answers against each other, poking holes in the answers you are most inclined to believe? That takes thought. And if someone is not doing that for you, then odds are, their brain is simply letting them take the discussion less seriously than your brain (or your morality) allows.

So I think you have every right to feel frustrated at such behavior.

Did conservative folks just liquidate a bunch of their holdings? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

I think if you're a right winger in the stock market who still has money (hasn't lost it all yet), you've proven yourself capable of at least enough double-think for your WORDS to say "the market is in shambles! The economy is trash! Biden is destroying America!" while your ACTIONS express confidence in all of the things supposedly doomed by our supposed dictator Biden.

The Crooked Media Union Walked Off the Job in Strike for Fair Contract in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Dragged, kicking and screaming, to unprecedented wealth.

What a strange world we live in.

Remind me again which party wants to protect the children? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Well that's an awful trend.

Remind me again which party wants to protect the children? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I would have expected the reported sexual abuse cases to be lower in conservative states. You know, because victims would feel more shame and danger so fewer of them would come forward and fewer would file police reports? Is the first graph measuring estimated abuse or reported abuse?

The Crooked Media Union Walked Off the Job in Strike for Fair Contract in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I feel like if I ran a company, I would have folded my hand after Kellogg's and the Big Three automakers lost their respective labor disputes.

"Oh, these are your demands? Done. Better than selling my customers the media equivalent to glue-frosted pop tarts for the next two months because I can't admit I need my own workers."

I know there wouldn't be any billionaires if people thought that way. It just seems so much more sane and well adjusted.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

You're welcome. I'm glad I was able to help.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

A lot of people are offering explanations, but I think I'm going to give one too.

Think of recoil in a gun. If you don't have a mental image of it, watch a few youtube videos of people firing handguns. Look for videos of big, high-recoil handguns, like the Desert Eagle or the Magnum (or the Super Ruger Redhawk according to chat-GPT).

You need to get a good look at handguns pushed backwards as they are fired.

Now think about this: those bullets aren't pushing against an atmosphere. They are pushing only against the inside of a gun.

But when this tiny, tiny bullet pushes super-fast against the gun, using the gun to accelerate to incredibly high speeds very quickly... it pushes the gun really hard in the other direction.

Get that mental image into your head. Small object can push large object with a lot of force by kicking off of large object with insane speed.

Now: Take away the person holding the gun. Take away the planet. Take away the atmosphere. Put that gun in space and pull the trigger again. (Just make sure to use a gun that has modern ammunition that doesn't require oxygen to fire).

What happens to all that recoil? What does the recoil do to the gun now? The bullet still goes flying out of the chamber. Still does this by pushing against the gun.

Hopefully it should now be easy to imagine that the gun will start moving.

Rocket fuel is basically a tank full of bullets.

The main function of rocket fuel is "heavy stuff that is shoved out of the spaceship to make it move."

The reason we use highly explosive fuel is because "shoving heavy stuff away from you at the speed of a bullet" is going to move you more than "shoving heavy stuff away from you at normal speed."

Does this make any sense?

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Immediately after your death, you hear, "focus tester #503, thank you for participating in Earth. Remember: your feedback will likely be incorporated into future updates." (lemmy.myserv.one)
 

From an AskLemmy question by @[email protected]

Link to Lemmy World Post

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What are some promising solutions to solar power's lack of night time availability? Is "transoceanic power transportation" on the list? (lemmy.myserv.one)
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EDIT: Submarine power transportation is indeed on the list

Not transoceanic, but there are two projects currently proposed that will -- when constructed -- break the current record for the "longest undersea power transmission cable" (a record currently held by the North Sea Link at 720 km, or 450 miles.)

One of these projects is the Xlinks Morocco-UK Power Project which aims to lay 3,800 km (2,400 miles) of cable and sell Morocco's solar power to England.

There is, as of yet, not enough cable in the world to even begin this project. The company proposing the project is building factories to produce this cable.

The other is the Australia-Asia Power Link, which aims to provide Australian solar power to Singapore using a 4,500 km (2,800 miles) undersea cable.

Where the Xlinks project ran into a "not enough cable in the world" problem, Sun Cable's AAPL has apparently been running into a "not enough money in the world" problem, as it has repeatedly gotten into trouble with its investors.

EDIT: But also, storage is scaling up

@[email protected] provided a fantastic link to a lot of energy storage mediums that are already in use in various grids across the world. These include (and the link the professor provided gives an excellent short summary on each)

  • Pumped hydroelectric
  • Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES)
  • Flywheels
  • Supercapacitors
  • And just plain batteries

Also, this wasn't in the Gumby's answer, but Finland's Vatajankoski power plant uses a hot sand battery during its high-demand, low-production hours.

Hydrogen is projected to grow

@[email protected] noted that hydrogen has advantages no other energy storage medium possesses: duration of storage and ease of piping/shipping. This is probably why numerous governments are investing in hydrogen production, and why Wood Mackenzie projects what looks like a 200-fold increase in production by the year 2050. (It's a graph. I'm looking at a graph, so I am only estimating.)

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Is this significant? (www.npr.org)
 

I have questions about this event.

First of all,

Democratically Elected

As the first-ever democratically elected leader of the UAW, Fain, a long-time union member himself, has taken a more confrontational approach to negotiations than his predecessors — including filming himself throwing Big Three automaker proposals in the trash.

What was the process before? Was it worse?

Has UAW been a sleeping giant this whole time on account of its leadership selection process?

Stand Up Strikes

But the strike won't involve all of the nearly 150,000 union members who work at the three automakers walking off their jobs en masse.

Instead, workers at three Midwest auto plants — a General Motors assembly plant in Wentzville, Missouri, a Stellantis assembly plant in Toledo, Ohio, and part of a Ford plant in Wayne, Mich. -- were the first to walk off the job under UAW president Shawn Fain's "stand up strike" strategy.

Are stand up strikes common? Do they win concessions?

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Official diagnostic tests? (lemmy.myserv.one)
 

I want get myself an official diagnosis on ADHD and an answer regarding whether I'm autistic.

Typically, a "10 minute test" takes me several hours. I spend a great deal of time contemplating the questions, filled with indecision. So I want to fill out the test before I even get to the psychologist's office.

Which is why I plugged "official ADHD test" into a search engine, and got overwhelmed by the choices. And my main questions are:

  • do some websites offer a test they inaccurately describe as the official test? (If so, do those show up high on search results?)
  • do some websites offer the official test... and also augment the test with extra resources that help a cripplingly indecisive person answer more efficiently? (That would save me time.)
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You have recently noticed that your friends will do everything you tell them. Is it a prank? A superpower? Doesn't matter. You won't let this opportunity go to waste. (lemmy.myserv.one)
 

From an AskLemmy post [link here] by @[email protected]

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When an elderly person went to their local mall, they had no idea they'd wind up saving the world. (blog.reedsy.com)
 

Another prompt from the reedsy list. From September 21st, 2018.

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"I'd like to buy a plane ticket to your furthest destination today," you told the airline employee. (blog.reedsy.com)
 

From blog.reedsy.com, September 21st, 2018.

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[Meta] How do you folks feel about pulling prompts from writing prompt lists online? (lemmy.myserv.one)
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One of the prompts on this list here is

"Describe an everyday item as if it's magic."

is vaguely similar to my cyberpunk prompt.

Which makes me feel like I'm kinda reinventing the wheel here.

Plus, the lists I am talking about are enormous! It would take years for us to run out of prompts from them. Definitely a good way to keep the community's pulse going until the prompt posting process starts to happen more organically.

I'll be sure to hyperlink the source of the prompt in the body, (or in the case of reedsy, possibly the URL field.)

So what do you say? Shall we borrow prompts until we've gathered some steam?

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It's our world, (and the events can be ordinary and boring), but the narration and main character's internal monologue are in the tone of a cyberpunk dystopia. (lemmy.myserv.one)
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Example:

Darren operated the mouse and keyboard, aware of them only as mundane extensions of himself, told his computer's web browser to establish a connection with the address called "Amazon." As if an online "marketplace" (powered by an ever evolving, manipulative artificial intelligence) bore any resemblance to the wilderness that used to cover the earth.

Especially when said stretch of wilderness was already a fraction of itself, eaten up for strip farming or land speculation by dozens of corporations driven by the same profit-seeking mindset that motivated Amazon itself: infinite growth.

Millions of microscopic lights flashed to show images of "products you might be interested in." Darren, like any other person, had to constantly relearn how to push past and ignore the suggestions. A subtle arms race between humans and the AI built by the rich to control the poor.

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In the cultivation genre, pushing past limits (and neglecting rest) strengthens one's body, mind, and psychic powers. Recently, someone with anxiety and insomnia got isekai'd into such a world. (lemmy.myserv.one)
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Spells require lifespan: more time lost generally yields more power. There's also skill. Anyway, some rich/noble fool just destroyed all the reasons one spell-caster might care about the first part. (lemmy.myserv.one)
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Fringe right and fringe left both make this conversation difficult (lemmy.myserv.one)
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An 8-panel Phoebe Teaching Joey meme.

The first panel is Phoebe from Friends saying "Russia".

The second panel is Joey from the same show replying with "Russia".

The third panel is Phoebe saying "has invaded".

The fourth panel is Joey repeating back "has invaded".

The fifth panel is Phoebe saying "Ukraine".

The sixth panel is Joey repeating back "Ukraine".

The seventh panel is Phoebe saying the completed phrase "Russia has invaded Ukraine".

The final panel shows Joey proudly proclaiming "NATO just started a proxy war".

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