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cat botherer posted:IDK about turbines specifically, but higher-end, precision Chinese manufacturing has the best quality control on the planet at this point. that's impossible, they just copy everyone (sent from my beautiful designed in cupertino apple iphone)
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Jul 1, 2023 16:23
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i honestly believe that most people assume that the exponential increases seen in consumer electronics and computing power are not a quirk of that area but sort of an innate way that technology works when we want it to they think that when push comes to shove, we'll get doubling of every renewable energy source every year, carbon capture will become viable, cheap electric cars, etc the idea that there are physical constraints on how any given technology area can perform is not widely held. if computers can go from being the size of a car to the size of a tic tac in my life, we'll be able to engineer our way out of any problem once things get bad also if there isnt a solution the really bad times wont happen for fifty years anyway so nbd
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Jul 1, 2023 16:23
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celadon posted:i honestly believe that most people assume that the exponential increases seen in consumer electronics and computing power are not a quirk of that area but sort of an innate way that technology works when we want it to so ten years from now got it
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Jul 1, 2023 16:24
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gotta buy organic, avoid those pesticides oh, they cover everything in plastic to keep bugs out then plow the plastic into the soil used for the next batch of crops? then the PFOS and poo poo becomes part of the 'organic' crops? poo poo
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Jul 1, 2023 16:27
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JAY ZERO SUM GAME posted:so ten years from now got it Tomorrow
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Jul 1, 2023 16:33
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Lmao we will have a solid 20 year window where the poor and the global south will be told by the west to just die quietly, even when we will have internal displacements that will eventually either fracture federalism or empower an authoritarianism we won't be able to shake off for decades more? God wills it, or some other reactionary slogan copped from a video game.
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Jul 1, 2023 16:36
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celadon posted:i honestly believe that most people assume that the exponential increases seen in consumer electronics and computing power are not a quirk of that area but sort of an innate way that technology works when we want it to oh yeah, that is 1000% what most people believe, and it's the line that most "tech" people will sell and that most politicians will back People really view all of history as a kind of narrative with intentional plot development. You can see it in the way that a lot of people talk about evolution as something that's progressing towards an endpoint instead of an essentially random process that routinely dead-ends. There's definitely a very common belief that human progress is like a 4X tech tree, with each new step solving some problem and that the world, somehow, always presents us with problems that we can address via the next step on the tree. No one wants to accept that our technological progress hasn't really solved anything and that there's no real precedent for the human race facing a global existential crisis and overcoming it. We mostly just blindly feel around and do things that feel good, and it ends up looking vaguely like progress.
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Jul 1, 2023 16:37
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Paradoxish posted:oh yeah, that is 1000% what most people believe, and it's the line that most "tech" people will sell and that most politicians will back this mfer hasn't heard of electric cars 
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Jul 1, 2023 16:39
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it's smoky out today
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Jul 1, 2023 16:45
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A Bad King posted:Lmao we will have a solid 20 year window where the poor and the global south will be told by the west to just die quietly, even when we will have internal displacements that will eventually either fracture federalism or empower an authoritarianism we won't be able to shake off for decades more? https://twitter.com/cobbo3/status/1674766543182241795?s=20
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Jul 1, 2023 16:46
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I tried to fix my portable air conditioner but they were literally not designed to be repairable so I guess you are supposed to throw it in a dumpster and buy a new one every year
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Jul 1, 2023 16:46
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I like my lungs like I like my salmon Smoked And full of plastic
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Jul 1, 2023 16:47
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Rectal Death Adept posted:I tried to fix my portable air conditioner but they were literally not designed to be repairable so I guess you are supposed to throw it in a dumpster and buy a new one every year That's why it's portable! So you can take it to the dump
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Jul 1, 2023 16:48
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Rectal Death Adept posted:I tried to fix my portable air conditioner but they were literally not designed to be repairable so I guess you are supposed to throw it in a dumpster and buy a new one every year Depends on the model and what's wrong with it, but I've fixed these things before so it's doable. If you were trying to get like an HVAC contractor or something to do it then yeah, they're probably going to tell you that you're SOL because most of them won't bother getting out of bed for small repairs anyway.
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Jul 1, 2023 16:50
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Paradoxish posted:Depends on the model and what's wrong with it, but I've fixed these things before so it's doable. If you were trying to get like an HVAC contractor or something to do it then yeah, they're probably going to tell you that you're SOL because most of them won't bother getting out of bed for small repairs anyway. The thing where we can't reduce and reuse because you can't make a living darning socks when a machine can make a new pair faster until the lights go out. Lol. Lmao.
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Jul 1, 2023 16:52
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celadon posted:i honestly believe that most people assume that the exponential increases seen in consumer electronics and computing power are not a quirk of that area but sort of an innate way that technology works when we want it to People literally equate die shrinking in lithography for computer chips with the macroscale stuff that no modern tech has made orders of magnitude easier or more efficient. I hear this from my engineer dad where he'll point at my (not his, he refuses to have one) smartphone as a "see that? Don't tell me there's no way" thought terminating point to argue we can, y'know, just skirt around thermodynamics. But then he did also propose a giant straw going to space to deal with sea level rise, so... Paradoxish posted:Depends on the model and what's wrong with it, but I've fixed these things before so it's doable. If you were trying to get like an HVAC contractor or something to do it then yeah, they're probably going to tell you that you're SOL because most of them won't bother getting out of bed for small repairs anyway. They're also inefficient as gently caress. I have one, but I modified it to work outside by taping the ducting tube to the cold air outlet and pushing that air in through the window while the unit is outside along with all the hot air it ejects and the heat exchanger itself. It's one of those self-evaporating units too, so unless outside is literally on fire (lol) it should be able to cool itself. The advantage is that this makes it more effective in cooling because it's pumping only cold, dry air in and so keeping my tiny house at positive pressure, as opposed to the normal route of dragging hot air in as it sucks causes a pressure imbalance. Unless you have a dual hose one, not that you have, because they seem to be like hen teeth in rarity and much more expensive. I, uh, also bought an umbrella to tape to it should it rain because I hear water and nominally indoor electricals don't mix. Skaffen-Amtiskaw has issued a correction as of 17:06 on Jul 1, 2023 |
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Jul 1, 2023 17:00
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Fried Watermelon posted:it's smoky out today The forms of weather the last while have been bone dry hot, muggy hot, pouring rain, like 1 normal day. Unless it's pouring rain it instead is smoke.
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Jul 1, 2023 17:05
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 rofl lmao hit the turbo button, the simulation is going too fast
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Jul 1, 2023 17:08
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it's been a rough day for rime
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Jul 1, 2023 17:12
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Paradoxish posted:Depends on the model and what's wrong with it, but I've fixed these things before so it's doable. If you were trying to get like an HVAC contractor or something to do it then yeah, they're probably going to tell you that you're SOL because most of them won't bother getting out of bed for small repairs anyway. gently caress no they don't, my dad was paying like 100 bucks a month for some service were they'll come out if the furnace breaks. Well because he refuses to listen to their explanations about how the thing works & thinks he can turn it way down at night and way up in the morning it sometimes overheats in winter and cuts off. He figured out a way to force it to turn back on and it tripped the emergency off: the one where it won't turn on until the internal temp drops below 40°f. Because it thinks it's on fire. He called multiple times and they didn't come out so then he called around until some dude came the next day, charged him $300 for like 20 minutes, and told him to cut that poo poo out. He keeps doing it and was livid nobody came out at 11pm to instantly fix his poo poo. Aren't natural gas prices artificially suppressed? Lol when it's like 10x the cost so he tries to game it even harder and actually burns the loving house down. He does the same poo poo with air conditioning except in reverse. Luckily it's just an insane waste and probably won't blow the house up.
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Jul 1, 2023 17:19
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Bob Ross Nuke Test posted:Trying to think of another group which is very obsessed with warped accusations of pedophilia against people they don't like, in the current moment we're living in. lol
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Jul 1, 2023 17:32
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Microplastics posted:That's why it's portable! So you can take it to the dump
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Jul 1, 2023 17:33
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SKULL.GIF posted:simply eat vegetarian to avoid the poisons in everything There's forever chemicals in the rain now, it doesn't matter what I do
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Jul 1, 2023 17:35
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Lacrosse posted:There's forever chemicals in the rain now, it doesn't matter what I do My next door neighbors are very nice "in this house we believe" people growing their own kale along the wooden fence I'll be eventually required to upkeep with even more horrible chemicals. I wonder if I should send them this. Print the article and put it in their mailbox
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Jul 1, 2023 17:37
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Tony Tone posted:In a way I can kind of understand the process of having your brain terminally broken after years of working in a field, that for the longest time has been propped up to be one of the cornerstone sectors of preserving the climate - being grossly mismanaged, undermined and borderline sabotaged by your usual run of the mill capitalism and then also by Chinese-type capitalism exerting itself beyond its own borders. I can get the built-up resentment. Dunno about the anime poo poo because I have never watched it (not even the "good" ones) but it's probably connected to having your entire view of the world turned upside down by reality breaking your brain and completely loving up your perception of whats morale, good optics, or whatever. lol so this guy being a pedo racist is ok because you like his posts christ what a saddo
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Jul 1, 2023 17:41
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Doc avalanche! Rime's dead! Dead serious about going to ecofascist land
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Jul 1, 2023 17:47
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quote:The event was organised by the Coalition of Nationalists, an umbrella group formed in 2017 for those on the far-right including the Finns Party, the now-banned Nordic Resistance Movement militia, and the Soldiers of Odin vigilante movement.  Lacrosse posted:There's forever chemicals in the rain now, it doesn't matter what I do there's microplastics in meconium
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Jul 1, 2023 17:47
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cat botherer posted:IDK about turbines specifically, but higher-end, precision Chinese manufacturing has the best quality control on the planet at this point. I'm curious about your experience with that, because I've spent time in Chinese aircraft factories and seen some real  poo poo compared to other places.
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Jul 1, 2023 17:48
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Doktor Avalanche posted:lol so this guy being a pedo racist is ok because you like his posts it fits with the (bad) philosophy of "as long as climate change is happening, nothing i can do is bad and morality is meaningless"
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Jul 1, 2023 17:48
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Still not going to watch that anime but it's incredibly obvious that it's just a rhetorical cudgel and a completely unnecessary one He was right about that
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Jul 1, 2023 17:49
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How likely is plastic to form a geologically-detectable layer? I know there were some cases where it's agglomerating sand into a new kind of mineral, but I wonder if it'll be able to be noticed like the dinosaur asteroid.
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Jul 1, 2023 17:50
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It's already happened and you described how it happened that stuff's not going away that's the stuff you're asking for
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Jul 1, 2023 17:52
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No I mean will it be obviously noticeable to future geologists who may not have plastic technology? Just because there are some areas like Hawaii & dead sea turtle island where it's clumping into deposits, I don't think it's guaranteed to form a super notable layer that anyone might pick up on. Iirc the thinner the layer the faster it was deposited, but this poo poo is already forming boulders and whatever, so I wonder what the interpretation may end up being
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Jul 1, 2023 17:56
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flat earth is mostly dead as a fringe theory, i'm going to replace it with one that says fossil fuel products are the geologically processed plastic waste from earlier cycles of human civilization
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Jul 1, 2023 17:57
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SniperWoreConverse posted:No I mean will it be obviously noticeable to future geologists who may not have plastic technology? i mean this sincerely, are we sure there are going to be "future geologists"?
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Jul 1, 2023 17:58
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SniperWoreConverse posted:No I mean will it be obviously noticeable to future geologists who may not have plastic technology? in the same way that we were able to link an abnormal level of iridium in a layer of rock to the dinosaur killing meteor, so too shall the crow-people of 50 million years from now find our microplastic layer and realize with shuddering horror what must have happened
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Jul 1, 2023 18:00
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Zodium posted:lmfao that people were doggedly defending this guy I don't know I think you loving suck but your still here
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Jul 1, 2023 18:05
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JAY ZERO SUM GAME posted:so ten years from now got it We have 5, 5 years, 5 years, do we have 3, 3, 3 years... RC Cola posted:Tomorrow SOLD! Can I go back and change my poll answers? Feeling a bit more doomer the last couple of days for some reason. Good news while outside touching grass is that the wild salmonberry crop is phenomenal this summer. Bad news is that so is the stinkbug population. So many berries getting walked on.  Microplastics posted:I like my lungs like I like my salmon Listening to an interview with someone writing about the 2016 Fort Macmurray fire. Sounds like it broke a lot of firefighter's brains. The modern house has a lot of plastic in its construction, never mind the contents. A wildfire like the one that hit Fort Mac has a wall of heat pushed in front of it that's around 500oF/260oC. This vapourizes vinyl siding, window frames, housewrap, asphalt shingles, and whatnot into a petrochemical cloud that ignites explosively when the flame front hits it. The structure goes from house to charred hole in the ground in 5 minutes. It took the firefighters 20 minutes to set up so they started counting houses and set up at every 5th house so they had it soaked down and ready when the flame front arrived. What wonders we have wrought.
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Jul 1, 2023 18:06
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cash crab posted:i mean this sincerely, are we sure there are going to be "future geologists"? The bird people or maybe humans or maybe ufo who knows celadon posted:in the same way that we were able to link an abnormal level of iridium in a layer of rock to the dinosaur killing meteor, so too shall the crow-people of 50 million years from now find our microplastic layer and realize with shuddering horror what must have happened Yeah but will they be able to actually realize this weird mineral is synthetic, or will they notice holy poo poo the entire planet changed radically right when these big brain mutants appeared and all the fossils changed
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Rectal Death Adept posted:I tried to fix my portable air conditioner but they were literally not designed to be repairable so I guess you are supposed to throw it in a dumpster and buy a new one every year It can be a pain to find parts or do soldering. What's the issue? Some places can fix them up but they sometimes charge as much as a new one.
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