We'll find out in a few years at least. The government funding behind the "unicorn riot" antifa group vanished: they went from 3+million in 2020 to a few hundred k in 2022 according to their tax filings.
By 2027 we'll know if there was another peak this year or not. I suspect the green brigade got all the money after the IRA, and they're more about using the money to build themselves a "passivhaus" than buying riot weapons.
SteveAgain
38m ago
That was the age I read it with my mom. Although I think we'd listened to the BBC audio drama first. That was brilliant.
My really vague understanding is that long incubation times give the immune system more time to catch the infection early, which doesn't matter as much when it's very new and nobody has antibodies.
In theory long incubation + 100% mortality rate seems like it would take out a good chunk of the population in the first wave, but in practice people would just Madagascar through it.
SteveAgain
1d ago
I am seriously debating buying a used Tesla, possibly after joining the retards drawing swastikas on them to lower the price.
Anyone have any experience with them? It's not my type of car, I just want something cheap and electric for local use that I can use excess noon solar on.
SteveAgain
1d ago
the net effect of stuff like "not funding abortions" is dramatically outweighed by the net increase in deaths caused by droughts, floods, famines, and famine-related-instability.
I don't understand. Is this a real argument? There's no mechanism even gestured at, it's just words.
SteveAgain
1d ago
Seems common with Mitsubishi products. Everyone says their mini splits are better because of the fancy tech, but most of it is that their heat exchangers are massively over-spec for their rating. Just vastly more copper than a Midea unit. (They can only do that because their compressors have such good turndown ratios, admittedly)
SteveAgain
1d ago
https://youtube.com/watch?v=bzUeYf5R4zo
It's pleasing to read the comments and see people aren't buying the apologies. 1500 downvotes so far.
Yeah, a lot of it is learning which traits are genetic vs government and how they combine (pollution when only some races on the planet are toxic tolerant, etc.)
SteveAgain
2d ago
So I played master of Orion 2 for the first time last night, because my brain was too fried to do anything productive.
It's pretty funny going "oh, so this is what endless space, starsector, Stellaris, and all those other games were copying. Like reading Larry Niven for the first time when you only knew the Pratchett parodies.
It turns out I was copying its leader system for a management game I'm working on without even knowing it.
It's honestly a better game than most of the modern ones. The graphics still look great, interface just needs a bit of work: dealing with the horrors of racial integration is even worse when there's no way to tell which race gets + and - what on different planet types without shipping them there and testing.
SteveAgain
3d ago
You mean like "removing and punishing the spread of Russian-like malinformation"? We're familiar with that strategy already thanks.
SteveAgain
3d ago
My god the gen 5 designs look awful, and they're even worse in the Steven universe Tumblr style they used for the 2d versions. The ride ending was a mercy.
SteveAgain
3d ago
That's actually really cool. I always figured it'd be cheaper to have networked sensors everywhere, but maybe a pipe-climbing trouble-checking robot would be more cost effective in some situations
He's assuming batteries at 10c/Wh, which is... Remarkably optimistic because the support infrastructure (chargers, wiring, BMS, disconnects, inverters, housing, etc.) is going to quadruple it after all's said and done. You need a climate controlled environment for batteries with costs closer to a data center than a warehouse: lots of power electronics active during the day means a lot of cooling, especially in the desert!
I've gotten cells and a BMS alone for 8c/W, but only due to a pricing error.
Lots of very naive napkin math from someone who needs to get a few micro solar projects under his belt before planning macrogigamega-projects.
You don't even need to keep desal running 24/7, it's not that capital intensive. Although he hasn't covered pumping costs either, which is tremendous when you're going both ways (and pumping brine all the way back to the ocean apparently? Why not just do the desal on the coast? It's a hell of a lot easier to ship electricity than water.)
All in all storm water recovery and more reservoirs is going to be a hell of a lot cheaper.
TL;Dr I think this guy might be retarded
Desal has gotten both more energy efficient and more capital-intensive. So if you want the advantages of the new tech it's no longer a simple dump load you can afford to only run 3 hours a day in summer.
That's the problem with a lot of suggested uses for excess solar and (especially) wind power, really.
If you used the cheaper kinds of thermal desal, it's possible you could run it on solar-electric during the day and waste heat from gas turbines during the evening. Dilutes the capital costs of a plant that would otherwise spend a lot of time sitting idle. Makes use of the idle gas plant's electrical infrastructure during low demand hours too, nice bonus.
Thermal's out of favor, but RO has a lower efficiency advantage for treating seawater, which is like 5-10x worse than the worst brackish groundwater. Gets to the point where you may as well just evap the stuff.
If you had plenty of nuclear or coal in the mix you could use the cheap nighttime power to run it too. And if you get the utilization up that much you could afford a proper modern membrane system running 24/7
SteveAgain
4d ago
You're going to have to link me those robot dogs being used for anything practical. I haven't seen any use for them other than toys yet. What could they do that a cartbot couldn't do better?
SteveAgain
4d ago
Isn't that exactly what the federalists did with the sedition act, like the second they got hold of power?
SteveAgain
6d ago
What's the application? Augmented reality overlay
Edit: ah, just saw your other post. That's really neat. I'm still looking for low profile glasses with a decent HUD, maybe those are worth a try?
SteveAgain
7d ago
In modern times we just spray the whole thing with roundup and trust that monsanto will know his own.
SteveAgain
7d ago
What part of "I'm here to harvest downvotes lmao" isn't trolling? It's the literal fucking definition of it.
SteveAgain
7d ago
Letting obvious trolling go on this long is a bad look, but the mods are such easy marks for it.
SteveAgain
7d ago
I spent some time reading up on it, and I had no idea Ireland had been so successful at that! Thanks
Overtime pay tax cut could be anywhere from .25 trillion to 3 trillion? Sounds like they just wanted to throw a few extra trillion in there.
I'm upset he wants to expand salt deductions though. Reducing those last time was a huge coup. Guess tech bending the knee means he needs to give something back.
I've always thought reciprocal carbon taxes on imports would be an amazing scissor-wrench to throw in the works.
Get the free traders arguing with the greens about why you can import silicon made with coal in China at 0% tax, but silicon made with coal in the US gets taxed and regulated to death.
SteveAgain
7d ago
I mean, do you not count tariffs as taxes? If you eliminate the 25% tax on the profits of China-to-Amazon Inc, but instead charge them 25% on everything they bring from china, are you cutting taxes? Or just shifting the tax burden?
We're in the exact same situation. My '92 Ford really wants to die, but I haven't given it permission yet
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