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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

Followed by a hyperlink to the page for cunt

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

I don't know, if I were surprised by a panther I think I would also be shocked and say holy shit, haha. How should I react to not get hirt?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (12 children)

Ellipses... definitely.

Sentences ending a full stop. Somewhat.

Very context dependent though

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I as pro-EV as the best of them. A cradle to grave emissions drop of 40% is a great step forward on reducing transport emissions (public transport and active transportation are a whole other aspect of this we'll avoid here). However, characterizing the energy gap for EV charging as a non-issue is disingenuous.

You've correctly pointed out that peak hours are when the grid is most strained and vulnerable. Well, if most everyone who drives to work starts charging their EV when they get home from work, that is at the highest peak of the day: around 5-7pm. It's the addition to the peak curve that's the real concern. In most places, that means triggering on fossil fuel burning facilities to meet that peak demand. It also means increased peak loads on the transmission infrastructure that could overwhelm it.

That being said, there are some simple solutions: e.g. charge EVs on off-peak hours, smoothing out the demand on the grid. Where I live there is already an incentive to charge overnight in the form of ultra low overnight rates. I'm sure we'll find the solutions, but please don't pretend it's not a problem.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago

The answer to why is billions of dollars of subsidies to the animal meat industry.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yes it affects parts too, at least batteries. Stifling electric car production isn't enough, ebikes get caught in the crossfire too.

https://arstechnica.com/?p=2026997

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Reminder to remove the ?si= and everything after in your youtube links. It's a tracker uniquely tied to you and your watch history and the links work fine without it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Just a heads up, the ?si=... part of the youtube url is a tracker linked to you and your youtube history. Youtube will recommend people who click your link other things you watch. The ? and everything afterward can be safely removed and the link will still work.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Luo Ji isn't even introduced until book 2. Season 1 is only book 1. I hate D&D for what they did go GOT as much as anyone else, but find something real to critique.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Where is this the case? Unimaginable here in Canada.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

As with most sci-fi the author gets loopier in the later books. That being said:

  • Dune: masterpiece of philosophy, one of the best books ever put to print
  • Dune Messiah: a worthy sequel and must read after the first book; completes Paul's arc
  • Children of Dune: more plot driven than the first, but still thematically rich and entertaining.
  • God Emperor of Dune: the most divisive of the books: you love it or you hate it. I am in the love it camp, the book is unhinged and the themes are marvelous. This is where I'd stop a read of the series.
  • Chapterhouse and the other (Heretics?): forgettable in my opinion, simply because I've forgotten them. Later book fan opinions welcome.
  • anything Brian Herbert: not terrible but not awfully good either. Makes for decent light reading I guess, and there's good lore building in some of the books despite some unforgivable retcons (Agemmemnon, sigh)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

I have definitely had this experience in KSP and never really thought about until this comment. Neat!

However, there is a practical reason the Apollo mission orbited on its side like this. The side of the spacecraft facing the sun would get very hot while the side facing away would get very cold. So the spacecraft would roll slowly as it travelled for passive thermal control. They literally callrd it the barbecue roll.

Orbiting a planet along it's equator means orienting north/south (normal/antinormal) for a natural roll axis. Neat stuff!

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xkcd #2878: Supernova (imgs.xkcd.com)
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They're a little cagey about exactly where the crossover point lies relative to the likelihood of devastating effects on the planet.

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