PeriodicallyPedantic

PeriodicallyPedantic , vor 5 Tagen

Who do you want running the country? The litch or the revenant?

PeriodicallyPedantic , vor 6 Tagen

Sideshow Bob is way too smart to be compared to trump

PeriodicallyPedantic , vor 8 Tagen

I agree it's safe but idk it's the best we currently have, I think that probably depends on locale.

Solar and wind (and maybe tidal?), with pumped hydro energy storage is probably cheaper, safer, and cleaner... But it requires access to a fair bit more water than a nuclear plant requires, at least initially.

But nuclear is still far better than using fossil fuels for baseline demand.

PeriodicallyPedantic , vor 8 Tagen

The USA specifically has so much useless land with minimal ecological value, that if an energy project could actually be done at a federal level we could probably not have to worry about it.

There is a whole bunch of land in central USA that is not especially unique or teaming with life, slap down a big renewable energy farm.

PeriodicallyPedantic , vor 8 Tagen

That's why they mentioned "pumped hydro"

PeriodicallyPedantic , vor 8 Tagen

You haven't heard of any advancements in energy storage at all?

Not that we need them, the best energy storage is old AF and excellent

PeriodicallyPedantic , vor 8 Tagen

That's fair.
But lesser of evils, yanno.

PeriodicallyPedantic , vor 8 Tagen

I agree it absolutely has problems and I hope we come up with a better solution in the near future.

But it's currently the lesser evil. Even though nuclear plants don't need a lot of fuel, getting that fuel is still typically more damaging than creating a water reservoir, or using an existing natural reservoir.

PeriodicallyPedantic , vor 8 Tagen

Are you displacing whole ecosystems, though?
How much do wind farms affect grasslands and prairies, etc? They'll have an impact for sure, but it's not like the whole place gets paved over.
And solar can get placed on roofs of existing structures. Or distributed so it doesn't affect any one area too much.

I have to admit idk much about sourcing the materials involved in building solar panels and windmills. Idk if they require destructive mining operations.
I imagine that a nuclear reactor would require more concrete, metal, and rate earth magnets that a solar/wind farm, but idk. I likewise don't know the details about mining and refining the various fissile material and nuclear poisons.

The other advantage of renewables is that it's distributed so it's naturally redundant. If it needs to get shut down (repairs, or a problem with the grid) it wont have a big impact.

I like nuclear, and it's certainly the better choice for some locations, but many locations seems better suited for renewable

PeriodicallyPedantic , vor 8 Tagen

Right, like I've said it's not the best solution everywhere. But where it's an option (which is many places) it's a better one. Not solar in the case of grasslands, probably wind. But you get the idea.

PeriodicallyPedantic , vor 7 Tagen

I agree it's not the ideal solution, but it's better than most solutions we have, depending on location.

Rooftop solar doesn't only need to be on residential buildings, it can also be on industrial and commercial buildings, which take a significant land area.

One last benefit of most renewable energy that is related to its distributed nature: it's easy to slowly roll out update and replacements. If a new tech emerges you can quickly change your rollout plan to use the new tech, and replace the old tech a little bit at a time, without any energy disruption.
With mega-projects like nuclear reactors, you can't really change direction mid-construction, and you can't just replace the reactors as new tech comes online, because each reactor is a huge part of the energy supply and each one costs a fortune.

Also, according to the doc you shared of land-use, in-store wind power is nearly the same as nuclear, since the ecology between the windmills isn't destroyed.

So while I agree that nuclear absolutely has a place, and that renewables have some undesirable ecological repercussions, they're still generally an excellent solution.

The elephant in the room, though, is that all the renewable solutions I mentioned will require energy storage, to handle demand variation and production variation. The most reliable and economically feasible energy storage is pumped hydro, which will have a similar land usage to hydro power. On the upside, although it has a significant impact, it does not make the land ecological unviable, it just changes what ecosystem will thrive there - so sites must be chosen with care.

PeriodicallyPedantic , vor 16 Tagen

I'm coming for that boatussy, fr.

PeriodicallyPedantic , vor 25 Tagen

Ceiling light is best light.

All these fucking mood lighting I see people talk about make you look like some kind of underlit villain, or like you're telling goosebumps stories around the world's mildest campfire.

Why am I the only neurodivergent person who finds floor lights fucking disgusting ???

PeriodicallyPedantic , vor 25 Tagen

I'm not talking about descriptions, I'm talking about pictures and videos.
And I'm not talking about lighting set into the floor, I mean like floor lamps and shit.

They put these laps on shelves and desks and standing on the floor, but they're almost always below eye level when standing, so everyone looks like a b-movie villain as they move about the room. It drives me crazy.

Give me an overhead area light. Soft shadows from light cast downward onto my face.

PeriodicallyPedantic , vor 25 Tagen

You're right wrt personal preference. It's just strange to me how seemingly all the neurodivergents but me hate overhead lighting 😭

Floor lamps that are above head height are... Ok I guess, but that's still mostly head-on. Light that is clearly cast down is so much more satisfying. Personal preference, of course.
And to be clear I don't have anything against mood lighting or accent lights, I like them... Just not only them.

The impression I have (mainly from social media like tiktok and Lemmy) is that the desired lighting is head high and below which just... Puts me in a tailspin lol. Idk how people can live like that 🤣

In my ideal room, there would be indirect overhead lighting that illuminated most of the ceiling to provide an indirect overhead area light, with a near-head level accent lights. I've looked into if I could use a short-throw projector onto the ceiling to provide some kind of crazy configurable overhead lighting, but they're simply not meant for that kind of application

PeriodicallyPedantic , vor 24 Tagen

I prefer not to be lit like a b-movie villain, when I'm walking around in my own home, but you do you.

PeriodicallyPedantic , vor einem Monat

What are they gonna do if you refuse to sign? Fire you?

If this guy voluntarily left, then he wasn't getting a severance package that they could withhold (and on that note, this is a good reason to include involuntary severence in your employment contract, if you can negotiate it).

PeriodicallyPedantic , vor einem Monat

A wonderful product or a wonderful community?
It sounds like you're describing the people who were on it and not the platform itself.

PeriodicallyPedantic , vor einem Monat

But they're not gonna offer severence to someone who quits, right?

The wording made it sound like he quit rather than got laid off.

PeriodicallyPedantic , vor einem Monat

Laws will differ in different places, but I'm familiar with 3 categories of terminations:

1. With cause (firing)
2. Without cause (layoff)
3. Voluntary (quitting)

When someone is terminated with cause or quits, they are not entitled to severance and they do not collect unemployment insurance. When someone is laid off, the employer is obligated to pay a severence package.

The Amazon focus and pivot program is interesting. That definitely looks like they're bribing low performers to quit, and I smell an ulterior motive. Maybe it's to get them to sign an NDA but I feel like it's to avoid wrongful dismissed lawsuits. Although I suppose why not both?

PeriodicallyPedantic , vor einem Monat

I have to admit I mostly only used it for testing purposes. I worked on a product that integrated with it, and I remember it being frustrating to work with. I forget the details of what frustrated me about it, though.

PeriodicallyPedantic , vor einem Monat

I kind of agree. I'm not a pro but I've been using gimp to do little bits of editing (mostly to make slack emojis and memes) for a few years, and I constantly encounter little things that seem like they should be simple and intuitive, but are not.

I haven't used Photoshop in over a decade, but I feel like I rarely felt the same frustration regarding basic tasks.

PeriodicallyPedantic , vor einem Monat

I mean... The account exists if you log into it or not. You still need to keep track of it so that you're paying into the correct account, and so that you know how much to pay.

Only you now have to talk to a person if you need to check or change anything.

PeriodicallyPedantic , vor einem Monat

I assumed this was in the context of paying recurring bills rather than shopping. Agree with you about stuff like groceries.

PeriodicallyPedantic , vor einem Monat

My VPN sometimes sends me reminders and special offers when my contact is almost up, for example. Mobile phone data usage reminders and warnings. Even just reminders that they're going to be charging your card on payment day.

But mainly I don't wanna leave home so paperless has already won for me lol

PeriodicallyPedantic , vor 2 Monaten

Gonna administer this yiffing

PeriodicallyPedantic , vor 2 Monaten

Now that takes me back

PeriodicallyPedantic , vor 2 Monaten

Humans do work that way. In the wake of disaster, and tragedy, and scarcity, we see people sharing resources and helping each other.

It's the sociopaths who seek power that don't work that way. The biggest success of capitalism is that the sociopaths have normalized their behavior and cast kindness as a flaw or disorder.

PeriodicallyPedantic , vor 2 Monaten (Bearbeitet vor 2 Monaten)

That is exactly the sociopathic propaganda I mentioned, that simply isn't backed by evidence, but casts people with empathy as ignorant.

PeriodicallyPedantic , vor 2 Monaten

It's not propaganda to acknowledge they exist.

It's propaganda to normalize sociopathic behavior as the appropriate response to sociopathy.

PeriodicallyPedantic OP , vor 5 Monaten

Ah, I should have said "can I get you anything else"
Right now it sounds like Bill is excited about being eaten.

PeriodicallyPedantic , vor 6 Monaten

Managing people is absolutely NOT good for my career.
MAYBE it'll be good for my salary (but I doubt it at my current company).

PeriodicallyPedantic , vor 8 Monaten

Tbf in this scenario, google reports you to the police. You get arrested in either scenario.

PeriodicallyPedantic , vor 8 Monaten

We will never consumer our way of of a problem capitalism created.
And public transit is nearly always a better solution to spending on car infrastructure.

... but...
If you're gonna buy a new car anyway, they have the potential to cause less climate impact (although they're still environmentally devastating in other ways). As power generation becomes cleaner, so too do the cars. ICE cars are already about as environmentally friendly as they're gonna get, but EVs still have a lot of potential improvement (both in emissions and in things like material mining).

Although the tire microplastics is gonna get worse.

PeriodicallyPedantic , vor 8 Monaten

My issue with typical hybrids is that they got all the complexity of an ICE powertrain, in addition to all the complexity of an EV powertrain, plus the complexity of merging the two.

Slightly less efficient, but I think I'm more in support of EVs with gas range extenders. Maybe it's just a question of semantics. But more than that (if we're gonna keep cars) we need to invest in charging infrastructure. Idk why it sucks so bad, and why gas stations aren't installing charging stations.

PeriodicallyPedantic , vor 9 Monaten

It's not that I don't believe Zuck would do that.
It's that I don't believe that Musk wouldn't come up with something just as depraved.

PeriodicallyPedantic , vor 10 Monaten

Some of the workers may be managerial.
But the managerial workers don't own a disproportionate amount of the company, and they're not considered the "superior" of any other workers.

PeriodicallyPedantic , vor 11 Monaten

What are you doing, step baby daddy??? 😳