Recently had a couple of emails asking me to allow the senders to render a 'WEBGL context' My answer is NO, because they are not telling me what it is! Is it just another identifying cookie or is it something more or less sinister?
Those who keep complaining that wind turbines do not work when the winds are not blowing, just realized that oil does not work when the Hormuz Strait is not open.
I saw someone yesterday say that solar and wind are just as “vulnerable” because so much of it is also shipped through the narrow straits of Malacca(?)…. Ignoring, or ignorant, of the fact that because the energy for renewables actually comes from the sun, only new or replacement solar/wind capacity would potentially be disrupted by this kind of shut down….
The sun would still shine and the wind would still blow, the rivers, magma, and tides would still flow, all no matter how many wars some idiot starts.
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@chris Also ignoring there's an entire ocean of alternatives to the Straits of Malacca - somewhat longer, but quite viable, unlike the Persian Gulf with only one way out.
@chris Oil and natural gas provide feed stocks for much more than just diesel and petrol.
sour crude extracted in the region is a primary source of sulfur. sulfur is a feed stock for sulfuric acid. Sulfuric acid is a chemical that’s used to extract and refine copper, nickel, cobalt, and lithium. Oil is an input to a lot of products.
Natural gas and sulfur are also feed stocks for fertilizer.
@GhostOnTheHalfShell yes. “Non energy use” of oil is about 15% of the total 100 million barrels a day. It’s 12% of NG use. But the reason it is a global tool of blackmail and war is the other 85% which can be replaced by renewables and different ways of doing things.
Let’s stay focused on the main problem here. Which is the burning of fossil fuels.
@jachym That is, of course, nonsense and a lie. Cars continue to drive, planes continue to fly, plastics continue to be produced...and donkeys continue to bray.
And long after most of us are drowned from CO2 pollution the winds will still be blowing.
Life -> CO2 Sequestering -> Amazing and Beautiful Life and Diversity -> Industrial Revolution -> Human Growth -> Greed -> Scrabbling Control -> Planetary Corrections
@martenbjorklund I assume they're engineered to work within the middle hump of the distribution of windspeeds? You could probably make one that worked in a hurricane, and made a tremendous amount of power, but the economics don't favour one that would be doing nothing 11 months in the year.
people should be thinking induction cooking and EVs. That is electrify everything. Not that hard to duct down to IKEA pick up a hob. #electricfyeverything
Wind, solar, hydro, batteries, tend to be a bit more spread out and usually provide a bit of redundancy because they are a bit more decentralised. Which is handy if another country starts blowing your stuff up.
X: The wind is not always blowing. Me: The wind is always blowing somewhere. X: Yes, but if we need the energy here then we need to transport this energy. Me: So? X: It is expensive to transport energy, it is inefficient, and it makes you dependent on the cooperation of other countries. Me: And where is the oil from the gas station coming from? X: Eh…. Me: And how much energy is used to transport all this oil? X: Eh…
If only there were energy storage technologies to take one day's excess-generation and make it available for days where there's a generation-shortfall.
@attoparsec I don’t think this is a very good take. Primarily because the people making that argument are being disingenuous to start with, so pointing out the contradiction is a waste of energy and plays into their rhetorical tactics, but also because, at least in the US, their obvious reply is “that’s why we need to drill more domestically”.
Yes that's right. How are you doing? Have you been able to keep up with things in the party? A lot of discussion is happening on whatsapp, which I think you said you do not use. Meetings have been online since the first meeting, using Zoom. Do you use zoom?
Hope to see you at the next Zoom meeting then. There is not a lot via email. I expect you had emails for the meeting dates and for litter picking and the survey happening today.
I hope to be at the next Zoom meeting, can't see emails for meeting dates! Was hoping to attend the litter pick but we have Grandson and great Grandson this weekend!
I have received an Apple MacBook Air (2020) from my daughter, and I wonder if it is possible to install Linux on it, preferably not dual boot? Pointer to how to do it would also be appreciated!
@experimentmapass I have downloaded Tromjaro, but I cannot use the keyboard or the touchpad. Can you point me to some advice to get them working? #UserNotTechie #Linux #TROMjaro #AppleMacBookAir
As age-verification bullshit becomes more common, I am determined to simply not participate in any service or video game that requires it. The day I see the prompt, I simply leave.
Maybe the government’s hope is that I stop participating in society, but I assure you that I will not. I’ll find or build alternatives, and refuse to comply with bad law.
I hope you will, too.
And as a silver lining, maybe the weird internet we end up creating as a result will suck less than the current one.
It may be inadvisable to put this in writing, but I’m serious about this: if I am ever required to put up an age-gate, I intend to defy that law.
You’re going to have to break into my house and physically remove the server, when it comes down to it.
And it’s not that I doubt they can. I don’t have the same kind of resources that the state does. It’s more that I intend to make them do so publicly, in the sunlight.
I solemnly swear to be the biggest pain in the ass for fascists possible.
At this point, I believe there’s more value in being loud and public about resistance.
The legal system already does not function, specifically for me. I have no reason to believe that the Constitution will protect me, or that plausible deniability will keep me out of jail. At this point, if the fash wants to put me there, they will reverse engineer a reason to do so, or even do so illegally.
But if others see me making noise, they might decide to push back, too. Corporations certainly aren’t!
All I know is that the internet is absolutely the most important thing humanity has ever created, and is maybe the only tool that we have today which is capable of equalizing the absolutely insane wealth, information, and power inequalities in my country.
Our ability to communicate freely, to exchange ideas, and to organize terrifies all of the right people. Good. It should.
I will not participate in destroying my own home— and yes, I do consider the Internet my home. I’m corny like that.
I understand that my own corner of the internet is not particularly important, but I only have to be one brick in the wall.
And I can even become a *couple* of bricks by extending those principles to the other sites and tools that I use, and refusing to participate in ones that cave to pressure to erode our civil rights.
No one will notice that I’m not using Floop or Glorm or whatever. It’s true that I won’t cause the owners to change their behavior. But neither will I help them build power.
Admittedly the absolutely insane wealth, information and power inequalities in the world only skyrocketed once the Internet was created. But is it correlation, causation or coincidence? The Internet enabled Google, Amazon, Facebook, but really those guys were using the same techniques that worked to screw up brick and mortar business in the 1800's. We just had laws to prevent it, and for some reason people started lying that didn't apply when you couldn't walk into the store. And got away with it, every time. Plus wealth monstrosities created by SpaceX, and indeed "brick and mortar" superstores weren't aided by the Internet. And the vast majority of rich fucks these days come from two scams: rental properties (especially hotels) and private equity. Internet doesn't help either of those schemes.
(I'd add speculation to the schemes, but that money doesn't exist; people are just lying that it does.)
So I'd say the Internet is... probably... a good thing. But its timing is terrible, coinciding with the constant, total failure of anyone opposing rich fucks and the unstoppab
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Admittedly the absolutely insane wealth, information and power inequalities in the world only skyrocketed once the Internet was created. But is it correlation, causation or coincidence? The Internet enabled Google, Amazon, Facebook, but really those guys were using the same techniques that worked to screw up brick and mortar business in the 1800's. We just had laws to prevent it, and for some reason people started lying that didn't apply when you couldn't walk into the store. And got away with it, every time. Plus wealth monstrosities created by SpaceX, and indeed "brick and mortar" superstores weren't aided by the Internet. And the vast majority of rich fucks these days come from two scams: rental properties (especially hotels) and private equity. Internet doesn't help either of those schemes.
(I'd add speculation to the schemes, but that money doesn't exist; people are just lying that it does.)
So I'd say the Internet is... probably... a good thing. But its timing is terrible, coinciding with the constant, total failure of anyone opposing rich fucks and the unstoppable enslavement of every man, woman and child while the planet burns. Sometimes I just wish I could talk to my neighbors, and do something to protect ourselves against this global wave of tyranny.
A previous generation of rich people hated the crossbow because a man who could devote himself to training with it could kill an armored rich landowner.
The Samurai really didn't like muskets for the same reason. Now an uppity peasant hiding at a turn in the road could kill them.
All tech since the steam engine has empowered the rich. At least the Internet does occasionally threaten them. Encryption and copying capability, for example.
Hardly any rich people operated a steam engine at all!
Just nitpicking, but technically the reason every technology since the steam engine has benefited only the rich is purely political. As in, it's legal for them to benefit, and not legal for anyone else. That's all that's causing it: people, police, laws. It's that way because people have decided to make and keep it that way.
@cy It's also true that steam engines (and power plants are steam engines; this has not changed) have major economies of scale. If you wanted to generate your own electricity you had to hire someone to shovel the coal.
Liberating technologies are those that allow large numbers of ordinary people to defeat small numbers of rich people.
The crossbow, the musket with bayonet, the stirrup for horses, gunpowder for siege warfare.
Steam engines at scale require large numbers of ordinary people to operate. If those large numbers of people give the middle finger to the small numbers of rich people, what are they going to do? Pay with the money that isn't worth anything, since they can't gatekeep access to the machines?
The answer is they get the military to go kill you all, until you submit to slavery. That really is all that it is. The day the large numbers of ordinary people in the military give the rich the middle finger is the day that the rich lose absolutely everything.
They won't have to break into your house, they'll just have your ISP block your access. Considering most people are using one of only a handful of megacorp ISPs in the US, I'm surprised they haven't already started to try and shut down critics at the ISP level.
@benroyce wow I hate so many things about the way they’ve phrased that.
1. Age appropriate according to whom? What are you, my mom?
2. Just give us this data real quick, it’ll be so easy. Don’t think about it too much, definitely do it without thinking please. Also we’re holding your account hostage
@Bobblegagger @benroyce Hm. On the bright side, those do seem mostly like services that would know it directly from you as opposed to having bought it from someone.
I’d still prefer not getting the email, but it’s something.
It's a flag that says cease participation with such rubbish. Also a flag that it's time to get back to more community and land based work for those who can.
I feel like mesh networking (Reticulum, MeshCore, Meshtastic, LoRa, HaLow, etc.) is going to provide us with the replacement of the Internet in the long run. Since it has no infrastructure requirements beyond electricity, corporations can be easily locked out. :3
I used to be one of those techy people that liked trying new platforms and so created a bunch of accounts (of which are all closed now). But took a page from partner. They would move on from any site that required an account, just wasn't worth it for them.
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Still less fake than Dems “fighting for” the vulnerable (including the increasingly-teetering 99%) and against being barbaric warlord monsters, though. 😉
I didn't mention the Reps because they're the "heel" in the script, and their role is that they don't pretend to care. They're both employed by the same sociopathic war-and-climate-disaster-profiteering billionaires, and letting either color of corporate media tell you one is Evil while the other is Good but keeps getting "fooled" or "thwarted"… completely misses the reality of the situation.
and if midwits like yourself continue attacking dems while the GOP literally drives us to fascism, you're only helping MAGA and too much of a moron to understand how
Keep on believing the Dems will do the right thing if only they win the next election, no matter how many times they utterly refuse to do so while in power. Someone has to.
Me, I'm sick of the fact I've been watching them pull this same shtick for decades on end and things ONLY GET WORSE.
It must be nice, living in a simple world where one side is Good but willfully inept, and the other side is the only true source of Evil. I prefer the world where we can't count on either of them, no matter how many childish insults are heaped on me for doing so.
As long as the billionaires keep us divided, we're going to keep careening toward disaster. Our only chance will be when the 99%ers of good will turn off their color-coded hate cults and work together, like our ancestors did.
And if you can't see that you're in a hate cult too, not just the Evils who you so despise and imagine to be lurking in even the slightest criticism of your Holy Democrats… well, you're not alone. The Reds feel the exact same way.
Heads up, oh wise We Must Vote For Dems No Matter How Many Times They Deliberately Fail To Stop Reps (Or Even Actively Help Them)… the Dems are doing nothing meaningful to stop them, and they never will.
Some days the city just hands you a high five. A sleepy cat the size of an apartment. A wall that turns into a joke. A drain that sprouts tentacles. Here are 12 pieces of street magic that can rescue a bad mood in seconds. More: Made Me Smile Instantly (8 Photos) 🦛 Wall Hippo — Cape Town, South Africa 🇿🇦 Plot twist: the wall has a hippo. It’s painted so clean it looks like it’s leaning over the edge, casually people-watching with the mountains behind it. Simple gag. […]
Some days the city just hands you a high five. A sleepy cat the size of an apartment. A wall that turns into a joke. A drain that sprouts tentacles. Here are 12 pieces of street magic that can rescue a bad mood in seconds.
Plot twist: the wall has a hippo. It’s painted so clean it looks like it’s leaning over the ed
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Some days the city just hands you a high five. A sleepy cat the size of an apartment. A wall that turns into a joke. A drain that sprouts tentacles. Here are 12 pieces of street magic that can rescue a bad mood in seconds.
Plot twist: the wall has a hippo. It’s painted so clean it looks like it’s leaning over the edge, casually people-watching with the mountains behind it. Simple gag. Perfect execution.
Nothing projects calm quite like a sleeping cat. Jack Lack painted this gigantic feline resting peacefully across an entire apartment building. Looking up at this massive, cozy beast on your way to work has to lower your blood pressure.
Meet the most relaxed giant in town: a fisherman perched on the roofline, rod hanging out over the street. The scale is ridiculous, and that’s the point — you can’t not look up.
🐱 Lamp Post Cats — Woskerski in Larne, Northern Ireland 🇬🇧
Two ginger cats. One street lamp. Instant chaos. Their paws line up with the real pole so well it feels like the wall is mid-pounce. Street meets mural — clean, funny, and impossible to ignore.
🐹 Tiny Breakthrough — David Zinn in Michigan, USA 🇺🇸
A crack in the pavement becomes a tiny stage. Out pops a little character, arms up like it just won something. That’s David Zinn’s superpower: turning boring sidewalk damage into a quick laugh.
🤐 Unzipped Building — Alex Chinneck in Milan, Italy 🇮🇹
Alex Chinneck is a master of architectural illusions. He took a historic stone building in Milan and attached a giant zipper to it, making it look like the facade was being casually unzipped to reveal glowing light inside. Pure genius.
Tom Bob refuses to let urban hardware be boring. He transformed a series of clunky gas meters and pipes into a lively trombone player. The way he sees musical instruments in industrial clutter is absolutely unmatched.
🦆 Silo Platypus — Jimmy Dvate in Rochester, Australia 🇦🇺
Jimmy Dvate specializes in painting Australia’s threatened species on a colossal scale. This platypus wrapping around a massive grain silo is not just visually stunning; it’s a giant, friendly reminder of the local wildlife.
This storm drain got promoted to creature feature. Big eyes up top, then red tentacles spilling out of the grate like it’s trying to escape the curb. Low effort to spot. High reward.
🌳 Legend about Giants — Natalia Rak in Bialystok, Poland 🇵🇱
Natalia Rak created a piece so perfect it looks like a scene from a fairy tale. A massive, brightly painted girl uses a watering can to nourish an actual, physical tree growing on the sidewalk below. The interaction with the real world is flawless.
☀️ Summer Light — Antonino Perrotta in Belsito, Italy 🇮🇹
Antonino Perrotta captures the absolute joy of a warm summer evening with this beautiful mural. A child on a swing is painted perfectly against the stone wall, blending the artwork with the real environment. It is a piece that instantly brings back memories of carefree days.
🐊 Sidewalk Gator Ride — David Zinn in Michigan, USA 🇺🇸
David Zinn spotted a crack in the pavement and turned it into a little green gator… complete with a tiny rider hanging on for dear life. It’s the kind of blink-and-you-miss-it street magic that makes walking feel like a treasure hunt.
Life is better when you have a reason to giggle. These 8 pieces of art show that a little imagination can turn a boring sidewalk into a playground.
Street art does not always need to be deep or serious. Sometimes the best art is the kind that makes you stop and smile. We have collected 8 funny and creative artworks that prove the world is full of surprises if you just look down.
🦖 1. Mailbox Monster — Damon Belanger in California
Even the mail deserves a spooky shadow. This blue mailbox looks like it is ready to eat your bills with its big jagged teeth. It is a great way to make a trip to the post office a bit more exciting. More: Funny Fake Shadows! (20 Photos)
Crossing the street is much more fun with a floating ghost. Oakoak turned these white stripes into a group of worried faces. One stripe has escaped and is floating away. This was made for the festival Les petits bonheurs in Auchel. More: Lovely by Oakoak (10 Photos)
Why fly to England when you can see Stonehenge on the curb? Someone used loose bricks to build a tiny ancient wonder on a broken sidewalk. It even has a traffic cone for safety. It is a small masterpiece in a messy world.
🤝 5. Joining the Family
This kid found some new friends to play with. He is holding hands with a bronze statue and leaning back. It looks like the metal family is taking him for a walk. Statues are much more fun when you interact with them. More!: Playing With Statues (21 Photos)
🐊 6. Crocodile in the Parking Lot — Tom Bob
Tom Bob turned a boring concrete block into a happy green crocodile. He added legs and a tail on the ground to complete the look. Watch your step when you park your car. This reptile only eats tires. More: 33 Artworks by Creative Genius Tom Bob (That Will Make You Smile)
This is the easiest street performance ever. You do not even have to show up. Just bring a pair of flip-flops and a funny sign. People are actually giving him money. He must be very good at staying still.
🐭 8. Due to a lack of opponents, Maude soon found that she had become a collector of snowballs — David Zinn
Maude the mouse is ready for a snowball fight in her little blue coat. Since nobody else showed up to play, she has become a collector instead. This chalk art makes the cold winter feel a lot warmer. More: This Is Amazing Art By David Zinn! (11 Photos)
Before we get too self-congratulatory about two high profile arrests linked to the Epstein Files (in contrast to the lack of action in the USA) we might reflect on the hopelessness of the 'investigation' into the accusations (and evidence) of both sexual abuse & trafficking that have been directed at the late Mohamed Al Fayed.
Like Epstein in the wake of his death there have been revelations & documentaries but little action against his collaborators.
we might reflect not on "the hopelessnes of the investigation". We must start to asking question "WTF why there were NO investigations". Because what we see were no investigations, just evidence gathering for keeping victims silent and papers were meant to go to the deepest cellar.
All we see in tip of the TrumpFiles, released by the single person: MTG, tells us that once "theory" about deep conspiracy of the pervert elites now has irrefutable proof. Now the smoke screens erected on both sidesof the aisle lead crowds to the cliff. They go there chanting "impeachment", 25th.
What I want is to see every FBI director since the first report indicted. Then every field office brass too. Then every politician who was silent. Then. Were they not complicit, we would still have a democracy.
PS. In my dusty memory of the ancient paper press I can find a similar murderous pedophile ring, just boys oriented, protected by the Henry Kissinger. IIRC it was Chicago, late sixties/early seventies. (I Need to dig for it while I can recall the scraps).
For those of you would like to read Hannah Spencer's *entire* address to the Press Conference after her win in the Gorton & Denton by-election (rather than badly recorded edited high-lights as seen on the news), here is the transcript.
My wife passed me her phone asking me to put in on charge. I replied, taking the phone and plugging it in, that she would have to learn to do it for herself, as I can't keep doing everything for her!
Pratchett’s 33rd Discworld novel, Going Postal, tells of the creation of an internet-like system of communication towers called “the clacks”. When John Dearheart, the son of its inventor, is murdered, a piece of code is written called “GNU John Dearheart” to echo his name up and down the lines. “G” means that the message must be passed on, “N” means “not logged”, and “U” means the message should be turned around at the end of a line. (This was also a realworld tech joke: GNU is a free operating system, and its name stands, with recursive geek humour, for “GNU’s not Unix”.) The code causes Dearheart’s name to be repeated indefinitely throughout the system, because: “A man is not dead while his name is still spoken.”
What better way to remember the beloved inventor of this fictional system, then, than “GNU Terry Pratc
Pratchett’s 33rd Discworld novel, Going Postal, tells of the creation of an internet-like system of communication towers called “the clacks”. When John Dearheart, the son of its inventor, is murdered, a piece of code is written called “GNU John Dearheart” to echo his name up and down the lines. “G” means that the message must be passed on, “N” means “not logged”, and “U” means the message should be turned around at the end of a line. (This was also a realworld tech joke: GNU is a free operating system, and its name stands, with recursive geek humour, for “GNU’s not Unix”.) The code causes Dearheart’s name to be repeated indefinitely throughout the system, because: “A man is not dead while his name is still spoken.”
What better way to remember the beloved inventor of this fictional system, then, than “GNU Terry Pratchett”?
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Does anyone here know of good *UK/English* resources to share with middle aged/class white English men about racism towards Gypsy, Traveller, Roma communities for them to 'educate themselves'.
Including what that racism looks like, why it's wrong and how to consider if a thing is GRT-racism...
It’s a thousand years of the English language, compressed into a single blog post.
"... as his post goes on, his language gets older. A hundred years older with each jump. The spelling changes. The grammar changes. Words you know are replaced by unfamiliar words, and his attitude gets older too, as the blogger’s voice is replaced by that of a Georgian diarist, an Elizabethan pamphleteer, a medieval chronicler."
Hard test! I'm reminded of this idea to warn people in 10,000 years, when our language has been lost, where we dumped nuclear waste.
“They proposed we genetically engineer a species of cat that changes color in the presence of radiation. We release it into the wild to act as living Geiger counters. Then we create folklore and write songs and tell stories about these 'ray cats', the moral being that when you see these cats change colors, run far, far away.”
In 1990, the federal government invited a group of geologists, linguists, astrophysicists, architects, artists, and writers to the New Mexico desert, to visit the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant. They would be there on assignment.
English is a pidgin confounded by and comprised of the languages of the many peoples that occupied that fertile green and pleasant land and many pedant scholars that tried to "improve" it. Once you get that it all, sort of, makes sense.
Really amusing. I can experience the same with Italian, since it forked off from ancient Latin, and it has remained incomprehensible in the tens of dialects spoken today, unless you're a native speaker of one of them, that is.
Interestingly, as a German, I can understand quite a lot of the very old texts. But my mother had a PHD in English and French and knew a lot about old Germanic sagas and medieval German literature. So, that is nothing foreign to me.
If you read anything from Walther von der Vogelweide, you will clearly see the similarities to the oldest texts. Words and grammar are recognizable, and if you can read one, you can read the other.
But even in Shakespeare's time, you will find a lot of those common roots of our languages, and if you get used to the different spelling, the sound of it rings familiar. And as late as in Jane Austen's times, even the number format was still the same as in German, for instance, four-and-twenty and not twenty-four.
After all, with all the lost grammar and words, modern English is just a watered-down version of old German.
I understood what was going on as far as 1300, got most of 1200, got the gist of 1100 but definitely missed some of it, and was fully guessing at what was going on in 1000 (it turned out i guessed at least a bit of it right so there was a shadow of comprehension).
1900: I wish the author had leaned less obviously on Clement Clarke Moore and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. They spoke (or wrote) a stylized English consciously, and our traveller would not.
1700: The letter "ſ", the "long s", is typographical, not linguistic. Readers at the time would read "congress" as readily as "congreſs".
1600: Again, this is mostly typographical variation. Spoken, one would understand it easily. The weird "thouing" want seen until some fifty years later.
1500: Spoken, this would present no trouble to a modern listener.
1400: Typographical again, wiþ only minor variations in þe ſpelling used. Nat harde to reade, alþouȝ again the letter ſubstitution can be rouȝ.
1300: I don't see "ſchaltou" that far back, bit I didn't dig hard. I imagine spoken, one would realize it's two words mashed together. A Germanic "en" seems to show up randomly. "Rewþe" made me smile.
1200 and earlier: I feel like the vocabulary is starting to c
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Fun, but I have a some comments and criticisms.
1900: I wish the author had leaned less obviously on Clement Clarke Moore and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. They spoke (or wrote) a stylized English consciously, and our traveller would not.
1700: The letter "ſ", the "long s", is typographical, not linguistic. Readers at the time would read "congress" as readily as "congreſs".
1600: Again, this is mostly typographical variation. Spoken, one would understand it easily. The weird "thouing" want seen until some fifty years later.
1500: Spoken, this would present no trouble to a modern listener.
1400: Typographical again, wiþ only minor variations in þe ſpelling used. Nat harde to reade, alþouȝ again the letter ſubstitution can be rouȝ.
1300: I don't see "ſchaltou" that far back, bit I didn't dig hard. I imagine spoken, one would realize it's two words mashed together. A Germanic "en" seems to show up randomly. "Rewþe" made me smile.
1200 and earlier: I feel like the vocabulary is starting to change here to the point where my unfamiliarity with the typographical anachronisms becomes an impediment. Hearing it spoken would help, and I'm interested enough to want to substitute modern characters for the archaic to see if that gets me further.
About 1100 then it becomes an exercise in decoding. Surprisingly can pull some meaning from it though. Though difficult to follow what is actually happening from those fragments.
"Þe sayde Maiſter, what that hee apperid bifore me, was verely a Deuill, or so me þouȝte" the said maister, what that he appeared before me, was verely a devil, or so me thought
so far im finding it really cool how much of this change is like spelling. like one could translate it literally and not feel like much meaning is lost
being aware of things like the v sound being represented by the letter u, as well as the letter þ helped, though I mostly lost track of what was happening by around 1500.
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in reply to DamonHD • • •Wind turbines don’t cause massive environmental damage if and when they do catch fire.
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in reply to Randahl Fink • • •I saw someone yesterday say that solar and wind are just as “vulnerable” because so much of it is also shipped through the narrow straits of Malacca(?)…. Ignoring, or ignorant, of the fact that because the energy for renewables actually comes from the sun, only new or replacement solar/wind capacity would potentially be disrupted by this kind of shut down….
The sun would still shine and the wind would still blow, the rivers, magma, and tides would still flow, all no matter how many wars some idiot starts.
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Like saying the Iran war will cause a shortage of jerrycans...
Its amazing to me how many people confuse the energy with the generator.
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Oil and natural gas provide feed stocks for much more than just diesel and petrol.
sour crude extracted in the region is a primary source of sulfur. sulfur is a feed stock for sulfuric acid. Sulfuric acid is a chemical that’s used to extract and refine copper, nickel, cobalt, and lithium. Oil is an input to a lot of products.
Natural gas and sulfur are also feed stocks for fertilizer.
The global supply chain is the risk
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in reply to GhostOnTheHalfShell • • •@GhostOnTheHalfShell yes. “Non energy use” of oil is about 15% of the total 100 million barrels a day. It’s 12% of NG use. But the reason it is a global tool of blackmail and war is the other 85% which can be replaced by renewables and different ways of doing things.
Let’s stay focused on the main problem here. Which is the burning of fossil fuels.
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If you don’t have feed stocks, eg sulfur or methane, you don’t have the global economy.
alternatives cost a lot more. After 20 or so iterations, 90% recycling you’re down to 10% of that resource.
We burn fossil fuels in order to destroy the planet. Swapping to renewables is still destroying the planet.
The different way of doing things is to re-localize economies and stop destroying the planet with a global economy
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in reply to Randahl Fink • • •if only we had ways to produce energy that don't rely on oil.
If only...
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That's just crazy. Why, you would need some sort of super fusion reactor safely placed about 90 million miles away for that.
Oh.
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in reply to Randahl Fink • • •ourworldindata.org/2024-living…
And long after most of us are drowned from CO2 pollution the winds will still be blowing.
Life -> CO2 Sequestering -> Amazing and Beautiful Life and Diversity -> Industrial Revolution -> Human Growth -> Greed -> Scrabbling Control -> Planetary Corrections
The 2024 Living Planet Index reports a 73% average decline in wildlife populations — what’s changed since the last report?
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in reply to Randahl Fink • • •What if... we plugged the turbines into the wall? They'd turn all the time then.
That's my VC pitch, please leave your briefcases of cash at my feet and any gold bars can go in my Honda.
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in reply to Randahl Fink • • •To be fair, wind turbines doesn't work when the winds are blowing too hard either.
They need "goldilocks-winds" 🙂
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in reply to Mårten Björklund 🇸🇪 • • •I assume they're engineered to work within the middle hump of the distribution of windspeeds? You could probably make one that worked in a hurricane, and made a tremendous amount of power, but the economics don't favour one that would be doing nothing 11 months in the year.
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