It was noted that Farage is seen as โvulgarโ by the people who inhabit the Tory back rooms, and my response was, โ I mean, come on. Looking at him you just KNOW heโs walking around in 1970s nylon y-fronts that he only changes once every 4 days.
The guy is basically every Sid James character from Carry On, but unironically.โ
Me: reading article โblah blah blah Lawrence Livermore blah
Me: This is nuclear bomb research. Nothing to see here. Also solar panels literally exist. Move along.
I swear, โfusion power stationsโ are the global death industrial complexโs fig leaf for bomb research just as โhydrogen carsโ are the global death industrial complexโs fig leaf for digging oil out of the ground.
โLook at me pretending to develop fusion power for A HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS PER KILOWATT HOUR! Muhahahaha! Nobody suspects me of getting round non-proliferation treaties, which I literally admit to doing on my website!โ
Solar panels: โAm I a literal fucking joke to you?โ
America and France: Hi! We have world-leading programmes to develop and study high temperature deuterium-tritium plasmas, and also space programmes which use solid rocket boosters which you could hypothetically launch into a sub orbital trajectory with a payload of a few tonnes at very short notice. These are unrelated and very highly civilian normal things we are doing. Also, STAR TREK!
@Adam @Alisdair Calder McGregor You're replying to Alisdair, but in my thread, so I'm gonna assume "you" means me.
The answer, in general, unfortunately is "no". Posts that I can reasonably expect are only going to DFRN or ActivityPub type places support abstract (which gets converted to content warnings for ActivityPub), but unless I specifically restrict distribution, posts go to other places which handle them very poorly.
I love the idea of getting vaccine boosters, but understand that in some places itโs basically not possible. Consider the UK, for example, which is literally throwing Covid booster doses away rather than give them to people not in their โat riskโ groups who want them.
I wasn't eligible this winter. I went to the pharmacy to get a flu jab and I was asked "Do you want the COVID one as well?" I said I wasn't eligible and they said didn't matter, I could still have it. I threw myself onto the needle as fast as I could. TL;DR you may not be eligible, but pharmacists can be reasonable.
@Alexis Bushnell @Sarah Brown I'm relieved for myself that I'll be able to get a booster, but angry that people in far greater need than me won't be able to afford it.
@gz @Bรญch-Mรขy Nguyแป n :verified: in dual resident in the UK and Portugal and neither is going to give me a measles booster if I just rock up and ask for one. Theyโll just tell me to fuck off.
โSo youโve found this website because your ADHD is flaring up to the point where deciding to boil an egg because itโs nearly midnight and you have known for the last six hours that you need to eat, might as well be designing the logistics for a manned mission to fucking Pluto. Hereโs a simple 87 point plan for getting yourself out of this funk. Point 1: have you tried not having ADHD?โ
Just got a three day ban from Reddit for the sentence โTERFs hate each other more than they hate trans womenโ. Apparently it was reviewed by a human
If you use a laptop with a trackpad which you can scroll with two fingers, and you donโt have a pinkie related disability, does your little finger do this?
Honestly, I think this is a wakeup call for the fediverse. This time it was mostly harmless spam images.
Eventually though, someone is gonna use the same trick to send seriously nasty stuff to our servers, and our timelines. The sort of stuff that you need therapy to try and unsee.
We, collectively, need to try and stop that before it happens.
The patriarch of a right-wing Canadian family of 11 had had just about enough of gay people in his country. โWe didn't feel safe for our children there in the future anymore,โ father Arend Feenstra told Russian media. โThere's a lot of left-wing...
@godzero It'll probably cost you another 100 euros to get from whatever random airport they fly to to your actual destination, but sometimes it works out ๐
@gz @Ghost of Hope back rows first is actually terrible. Thereโs a video about this somewhere.
The best way to do it without assigning everyone a unique birding number is to just go, โplaneโs here. Get onโ, which is basically what Ryanair does, only they use both doors simultaneously.
@gz @Ghost of Hope it creates congestion because everyone is trying to reach the same rows at the same time. Itโs better to introduce a bit of randomness because the gaps that develop stop things bunching up.
Ryanair planes all have air stairs, which they deploy before the ground staff even get there. My record from fan stop/seatbelt lights going off to divining away in my car, via passport control at Faro is 4 minutes.
@gz @Ghost of Hope last time I came through there a few weeks ago I was first off the plane. As I passed the gate area for the return flight on my way to passport control, I heard, โRyanair is now starting boarding of flight FR-whatever to London Stansted. Please have your passports and boarding passes ready for inspectionโ
More than half the incoming passengers were still on the plane. Theyโre that fast.
@gz @Ghost of Hope All their planes have airstairs. They use both front and rear entrances (with ground steps for the rear one), and they only have two classes of boarding: priority (where you get to use the overhead bins) and non priority (where you do not, unless youโre in an exit row). You wanna use an overhead bin, you have to pay extra.
There are white sauce, brown sauce, and orange sauce. The last one only just counts because itโs really named for the fruit not the colour. But ANYWAY can fedi think of any other sauces named for their colour?
'scuse the thread drift, but I really miss Lancashire sauce. It's a vegan alternative to Worcestershire sauce, which is aka English Garum (fermented fish sauce). I must see if I can get some Lancashire sauce smuggled.
@sesquipedality @karohemd this made me laugh, because as kids we used "pink flavour" to describe sweets which were pink in colour and vaguely fruity but you couldn't tell if they were supposed to be raspberry or strawberry or something else.
There are a few weird differences between opposite-sex marriage, same-sex marriage, and civil partnerships. In particular, in the grounds on which the partnerships can be annulled on the application of one partner.
The first is that same-sex marriages aren't voidable for reasons of non-consummation; basically it used to mean "PIV sex" and Parliament didn't fancy trying to define consummation for same-sex couples in legislation.
The stranger one is that only marriage is voidable for reasons of venereal disease.
Thing I don’t get is people believing that hydrogen is going to be a useful automotive fuel. Are they all oil company shills?
Hydrogen is an objectively terrible fuel for pretty much any use with the possible exception of aviation.
It has abysmal energy density for a given volume, even if you liquify it (compare Falcon heavy to Delta IV heavy: similar lift capacities but the latter is fucking enormous because hydrogen takes up stupid amounts of space and the former runs on kerosene).
It doesn’t stay where you put it, ever. It’s literally impossible to keep hydrogen in a container. A hydrogen molecule is so small that it will fuck off through the gaps in soils iron. You cannot store it long term.
To get ANY kind of sensible energy density from it, you have to liquify it (where it’s still shit compared to pretty much any other energy source in the same volume), and that’s cold. Seriously, seriously, mind bendingly cold. It makes liquid nitrogen look like lava.
Oil companies like it because atom for atom, crude oil is mostly
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Thing I donโt get is people believing that hydrogen is going to be a useful automotive fuel. Are they all oil company shills?
Hydrogen is an objectively terrible fuel for pretty much any use with the possible exception of aviation.
It has abysmal energy density for a given volume, even if you liquify it (compare Falcon heavy to Delta IV heavy: similar lift capacities but the latter is fucking enormous because hydrogen takes up stupid amounts of space and the former runs on kerosene).
It doesnโt stay where you put it, ever. Itโs literally impossible to keep hydrogen in a container. A hydrogen molecule is so small that it will fuck off through the gaps in soils iron. You cannot store it long term.
To get ANY kind of sensible energy density from it, you have to liquify it (where itโs still shit compared to pretty much any other energy source in the same volume), and thatโs cold. Seriously, seriously, mind bendingly cold. It makes liquid nitrogen look like lava.
Oil companies like it because atom for atom, crude oil is mostly hydrogen. Go figure.
But itโs an objectively dreadful fuel. Stop trying to make hydrogen a thing. Itโs never going to be (again, planes maybe excepted).
Even some of the high temperature industries that 5 years ago I was guessing would want hydrogen have tuned to electricity. There have been electric furnaces for steel recycling for years and recently smelting furnaces have gone into production.
Michael Liebreich's hydrogen ladder makes a nice graphic and even that keeps shifting (away from widespread hydrogen use) and is now on version 5.
look, it was late and I did say I didn't put any thought into it.
I was thinking of the ass end of Australia, but you are, rather cruelly using my own argument against me that electrons are easier to move than explody gas
I'll go back to my previous position of "I'm open to ideas, but cant' think of any" and this time not offer half ass, clearly not thought through ones ๐
You won't find much intelligence on Diaspora either, like the kind that knows that hydrazine has been in TERRESTRIAL use both in water and in rocketry. Ta ta.
@argv minus one That upper limit is orders of magnitude more than humankind's entire energy use of all forms put together.
We don't need fusion power on earth, and probably never will, and of the people experimenting with it, the only ones making significant process are just using as a cover for thermonuclear weapons research (National Ignition Facility).
Because it is the only facility that can create the conditions that are relevant to understanding the operation of modern nuclear weapons, NIF is a crucial element of the National Nuclear Security Administrationโs science-based Stockpile Stewardship Program.
NIF can repeatedly simulate those conditions inside the Target Chamberโs controlled environment, giving dedicated teams of scientists and researchers the ability to reconstitute and improve upon the capabilities of underground testing.
NIFโs high energy density and inertial confinement fusion experiments, coupled with the increasingly sophisticated simulations available from some of the worldโs most powerful supercomputers, increase our understanding of weapon physics, including the properties and survivability of weapons-relevant materials.
@argv minus one BTW, the Space Shuttle and its stupid obscenely eye waveringly expensive bastard child, the alleged "space launch system" was/is also, in a very large part, nuclear weapons programmes. There's a reason that government "space" programmes use solid rocket boosters and commercial space programmes don't: it gives their ICBM engineers something to do.
All sorts of people have tried to palm off doing real work on ChatGPT and friends. Has any legislature yet considered or passed legislation suspected of being autogenerated?
Bonus marks for working out how the rules of statutory interpretation apply to robotically created legislation
Thinking about UK Labour and the US Democrats, and their ideological clones across Europe.
Progressive parties seem have decided they donโt need to provide HOPE any more.
Literally the only people offering hope and the possibility for change for the better in the future are fascists.
And theyโre liars, but if the only other option on the menu is โwe will keep things exactly the same and stuff will slowly get worse. Fuck you, and be greyโ, then I can understand the temptation to vote for ANYONE offering something different.
Itโs notable that none of the various articles on the far-right co-opting farmers seem to notice this - if the fascists are the only people offering hope to <any group>, while regular pols donโt give a toss, donโt be surprised at the outcome.
Nothing stopping Rutte or VdL saying โfarmers need to be paid to apply their skills as the spearhead of better environmental management, forestry, river and flood management, etc etc โ, for example.
@Alexandra Lanes @BashStKid They literally had "things can only get better" as their campaign song.
And now the attitude is like, "we must not make any improvements to anything ever. All the shit that the Tories did, that you're voting them out for? Not gonna change any of it. Tough titty."
@ajlanes @BashStKid Aye. I recall the scene at quarter to 10pm on 1 May 1997 My mate: I've spoilt my ballot paper. You don't actually think Tony Blair's left wing, do you? Me: I know exactly what I've voted for. One night of excellent television. Let us now get a taxi to my flat and watch it.
Like the facist press will savage them no matter what so fuck them and be bold and honest
Racist Uncle will vote Nazi^wReform no matter what so fuck him with a .303 and be bold and honest
And I understand that putting hard numbers on things is daft but for the love of god you can sell net zero as "yes, it's a bit up front, but you get *free* 'leccy for 6 months of the year and it fucks the Saudis and Putin with a wirebrush dipped in battery acid"
"This term makes no sense to me. Does anyone know the history and why it is used? Don't explain why you think it makes sense"
Me: "This is the history. Its common and established usage across many fields. Why don't you think it makes sense?"
"I mean it when I said don't explain why you think it makes sense"
So I told them that I answered their question, but had no time for miserable cunts, and blocked and eradicated all trace of them from my own server's database, because I can do that.
Fucksake though. Some of the stereotypes here are true.
"There are legitimate ways to conceptualise power dynamics which do not centre whatever US-specific racial category Americans have decided you belong to"
As Tom Lehrer said, they still go for peanuts when coated with cyanide...
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