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Cocodapuf , (edited )

But we’re already past the primary period… Are we suggesting having a quick primary anyway? Who should we put in his place? I haven’t heard a single suggestion for who else to elect. Are we saying Harris should step in? Who should she run with?

Cocodapuf ,

Just changing the voting system by itself won’t get rid of the two party system

Not immediately, but it is a necessary condition. A third party really can’t exist without ranked choice voting. If allows for a third party candidate to run without pissing everybody off.

Cocodapuf ,

Well, half of those were people who ran against Biden, so that makes sense.

I remember being impressed with Klobuchar, and incredibly impressed with Buttigieg (though sadly he’d lose a lot of the religious vote, sigh). I wish I liked Booker more… But yeah there are some acceptable options there, that’s a relief.

So yeah, lightning primary?

Cocodapuf ,

Yeah, that’s a surprisingly clear red flag…

But hey, maybe she’ll be successful, the GoP is pretty into crazy these days.

Cocodapuf ,

No joke

Q: “Are we doomed?” A: “We would be, if not for the amazing developments in renewable energy.” (powering-the-planet.ghost.io)

I wasn’t aware just how good the news is on the green energy front until reading this. We still have a tough road in the short/medium term, but we are more or less irreversibly headed in the right direction.

Cocodapuf ,

Grid scale storage has come a long way. There are saltwater batteries and flow batteries in use now, those technologies are here, they’re just still being iterated on and improved. And as the renewables get increasingly affordable, the demand for storage will rise with it. Now we’re still mostly deploying expensive lithium batteries, but as more of that gets installed, the demand for cheaper storage will skyrocket. And production generally follows demand.

Cocodapuf ,

Well if there’s not enough sun, wind could be a better option. I don’t know much about the climate in slovenia, so either could make more sense.

As for these new kinds of batteries, I don’t have the hard numbers on hand, but I know the current installed capacity is really small. So as a product, they’re still really new.

Cocodapuf ,

So what’s the battery chemistry? Also, do they actually have an aircraft design, or is this just battery news?

Cocodapuf ,

I totally agree. I know a teacher who who likes to say:

“I believe there really is no such thing as a dumb question. As long as it’s an honest question (not rhetorical or sarcastic), then it’s a genuine request for more information. So even if it’s coming from a place of extreme ignorance, asking a question is an attempt to learn something, and the effort should be applauded.”

Cocodapuf ,

Very well said. I think you make your point quite effectively!

Cocodapuf ,

Yeah, I’ve got one of those too. Plex is great.

Cocodapuf ,

You know, I’ve heard this gospel before, I might still have the pamphlet…

Honestly, I haven’t really looked into jellyfin yet. I hear it’s superior in some way… But I already have Plex all set up and I have 4 friends with servers and we all share content. So it would take a lot for me to switch.

Cocodapuf ,

As a species, we aren’t going to spread out there.

Well not with that attitude!

Yeah, space is hard and yeah mistakes have been made along the way. But things are definitely changing. Reusable rockets are nearly here… Between spaceX, rocket lab and stoke aerospace, there is real potential for these rockets to work. Hell, SpaceX has already conducted a successful orbital test flight.

With reusable rockets we’ll start to see a drastic reduction in the cost to get to orbit, probably by two orders of magnitude, but possibly even more. With the cost down people will reassess the value of space and the resources available there. In other words, people will start doing more in space, and getting more from space. Resource collection, refining and specialized manufacturing are three most likely industries to start expanding into space. Once there is work to be done there it will begin to make sense for people to live there.

As a species, we aren’t going to spread out there.

Not today, no. But within my lifetime, I expect we will. Remember, change is usually slow and this would constitute the most profound change in human history.

Cocodapuf , (edited )

I don’t think we ruin everything… We’re also the best around at improving things, certainly improving our environments.

I know it’s easy to be pessimistic about these things, but humans are evolutionary badasses. We’re capable of amazing things. I wouldn’t count us out just yet.

Besides we haven’t really ruined anything. We haven’t done any damage to the earth that won’t heal eventually. The earth has seen many heating and cooling cycles and plenty of mass extinctions before and it will again (with or without humans).

Cocodapuf ,

Yeah, I think that really it wouldn’t be the “global community” that ends up saving the world in an asteroid impact scenario.

It would likely be an organization that could operate on its own without endless committees. Say, the Chinese space agency, or SpaceX, or the Indian space agency. Someone would decide to just do it, without getting the whole world’s approval for the mission. Then the whole world would complain that the effort was made without any international cooperation or oversight. And the organization that literally saved the world would get chewed out by everyone because inevitably the plan will not have worked perfectly.

But I’m not worried, because even billionaires don’t want to die. Someone would do something.

Cocodapuf ,

We aren’t even capable of caring for one another, let alone the EASIEST to maintain, most naturally human friendly habitat we would ever encounter in the cosmos as we evolved to fit it.

I would argue that having 8 billion people in the same place makes earth the hardest place to live in some ways.

One of the options that space habitats would allow for is smaller communities. What if you lived in a space station with roughly the population of a city? Your community wouldn’t necessarily need to be affiliated with other communities to make up a “country”, but it could be. Your community would have that option. And if the community is not geographically connected to the other members of its nation, there’s no reason they couldn’t change their mind, join a different country if you’re views seem better aligned. For the first time humans would have opt-in governance.

Would opt-in governance lead to a more stable society? Would not being stuck geographically near communities with opposing views lead to less violent aggression? I don’t know, but I hope so.

Cocodapuf ,

I’d trust them to try to intercept an asteroid… It’ll be harmless when they miss and achieve nothing, but in the off chance that they pull it off, yeah sure Boeing, go for it.

Cocodapuf ,

How many predators can take down prey 50 times their size? How many species can thrive in tundra, jungles, plains, forests, mountains and deserts? How many species can be found on every continent? How many species figured out how to fly despite never developing wings? How many species developed hundreds of distinct methods of communication? How many species have been to the moon?

Humans are fucking badass…

Cocodapuf , (edited )

Um, I think you’re mistaking species with kingdom.

“Birds” are not a species, “mammals” are not a species. I don’t think viruses are even described in terms of species because they don’t reproduce sexually. I think you’ll find that when you actually consider species, most of my points hold.

Various species have methods of communicating, from bees dancing to each other to whales having distinct regional dialects. Yes, humans have added some complexity to it by introducing technology, but that’s realy what it comes down to. Technology.

Yes, many species have some rudimentary way of communicating some kinds of information. But obviously bee dances don’t compare to any human language, of which there are literally hundreds. A bee for instance has no way to express appreciation or derision for the English language. My whole point here was that humans, on hundreds of distinct occasions, developed languages capable of conveying complex ideas. No other species has developed a language half as capable as any of ours.

Rather than picking the rest of that post apart, I’m just going to stop here. It’s pretty self evident that humans are impressive as hell. Denying that is… pretty dumb, and purely rhetorical.

As a side note, don’t get too excited about fusion, it’s largely a dead end. I expect it will only be really useful in niche applications (like spacecraft). It will be far more expensive than nuclear fision and not really offer any benefits besides abundance of fuel. There’s still a huge radioactive waste problem. On the other hand, the sun provides all the energy we’ll ever need, and we’re getting better at collecting it. I’m really not concerned about increasing energy demands.

Cocodapuf ,

If only… That’s the universe I want to live in.

Cocodapuf , (edited )

Google “any name Nazi” and you’ll get results. The question was what are you referring to.

Also, I can’t believe this community would down vote anyone for asking for sources, that’s disgusting. I’m disappointed Lemmy.

Cocodapuf ,

It’s hard to feel disappointed about something you don’t really care about. That is to say, the reason I feel disappointed is because I like this community and I want it to be a place for civil discourse. Conversely, I’ve given up on Reddit, so nothing that happens there can really disappoint me any more, I no longer care about it.

I’m not going to make a fuss about something that doesn’t impact me, but I will make a fuss about something I believe in, like Lemmy.

Cocodapuf ,

FFS, I’m not actually advocating for eugenics.

Perfect, then we’re on the same page. So in the future, when you don’t mean it, just don’t say it. The more civil we can keep the conversation, the more likely we are to have any kind of useful discussion and actual understanding.

Also, this part:

I’m saying those people are dumbfucks and probably spreading their dumbfuckery to their kids.

That’s still doubling down on the previous statement… It’s not really more productive.

Cocodapuf ,

How exactly do you fight a terrorist organization who uses children as both soldiers and human shields without any sort of civilian casualties?

Probably with more nuance than bombing entire neighborhoods…

Seriously, there is absolutely no possible ethical excuse for what Israel is doing. Right now the IDF is pretty indistinguishable from the SS. Genocide is genocide and Israel has come all the way from victim to perpetrator. The irony and reality of it is making the rest of the world sick, the only question is, why isn’t it doing the same to the people of Israel?

Cocodapuf ,

So babies and children and the parents caring for them are cowards? That was the dumbest thing I’ve read this month. Congratulations.

Cocodapuf ,

See the problem is, you don’t know how to do it without injuring civilians,

Fucking diplomacy.

Israel is being like a five year old… Learn to use your words, you’ll get better outcomes.

Cocodapuf ,

I’m pretty sure this is the only ass song you need.

Cocodapuf ,

As opposed to acting before you understand the effects of your actions? Neither seem like good choices.

Probably the best option would be to research harder. Make the polluter fund a much larger scale research program to understand the problem and viable solutions as quickly as possible.

Cocodapuf ,

Why would you think that?

When I fire up the grill, I don’t do calculations on how much weight in CO2 I’m putting into the air and then extrapolate that to find the total mass of CO2 that grills generate globally. I usually just make burgers.

That space engineer made sure that they were on the right side of the rocket equation and they made it to orbit (which is hard on its own).

I agree that thorough environmental studies really ought to be happening, but I’m not surprised that aspects got missed.

Cocodapuf ,

I mean, yes?

Cocodapuf ,

It probably got into the planes with rivets, cause titanium is hard to weld.

Cocodapuf ,

Yeah, that sounds about right… This fuckin country…

Cocodapuf ,

How do they even still have energy to send and receive signals? That’s one heck of a durable power source.

Nuclear power, it packs a punch!

Cocodapuf ,

How much does the plutonium battery fairphone cost these days?

Cocodapuf ,

The ping is about 180,000,000 ms

Not great for games…

Cocodapuf ,

Haha, Lemmy hates Elon so much…

Does he really have hyperloops to dream up and Mars colonies to plan, or is that just marketing drivel to appeal to certain types?

Well Mars is for sure the plan. He absolutely wants to build a city on Mars, and he absolutely has made strides in that direction with the starship. I’m not sure I’d want to live in muskberg though…

Also to his credit, the world has electric cars now. It was Tesla that made that happen, it was not inevitable. The traditional auto makers were resisting electric vehicles really hard, they did not want to build them… They only started building them to not be left behind.

I agree that he seems to have turned into a white hot ball of crazy. But his companies have had a pretty big and quite positive impact. I mean, compare Tesla and Coca-Cola, which is really doing more for the world? Compare SpaceX and Raytheon, both of those companies make rockets, but Raytheon makes them exclusively with warheads… I just look at what musk has built and I don’t see the problem that everyone else here seems to.

Cocodapuf ,

Mars colonies are a stupid fucking idea that scientifically literate people who understand basic facts about Mars know wont ever happen.

Well the person who knows the most about this topic is probably Robert Zubrin. Maybe you should read one of his books.

Is Mars habitation a possible goal? Yes, it’s definitely possible. There are certainly more worthy goals in space exploration, but there’s nothing about living on Mars that can’t be done.

Btw, your attitude is even more obnoxious than your post is valueless.

Cocodapuf ,

This is par for the course in Britain.

Cocodapuf ,

Projecting much?

Cocodapuf , (edited )

Well, I can tell you for sure they aren’t foot rests… There’s 2 reasons for that, first, the crew dragon capsule that actually carries people isn’t left to burn up in reentry, it renters, deploys parachutes and it’s recovered (preferably with astronauts). The second reason is that the dragon doesn’t use that kind of foot rest dragon capsule interior.

The pieces look to me like they’re all part of the fairing. This makes some sense because the fairing has to walk a very fine line. It’s whole job is to protect the payload and not burn up in ascent, but then it’s supposed to totally burn up on descent. In practice, it doesn’t always work out that way.

Also in the photo, look at all that gross looking black fiber coming off of it. I think that’s all partially burned carbon fiber composite. I know the fairing is made of carbon fiber, so that fits pretty well.

As for rocket launch timing, spaceX launches almost twice a week. If this is from a fairing, it could be from almost any of those launches (excluding the manned missions, because they don’t use a fairing).

Cocodapuf ,

But you do know exactly what Elon would say?

Your projecting because by injecting your own assumptions into his motivations, you’re turning Elon into the villain you want him to be. It’s a natural thing to do, people are complicated and they’re easier to imagine as black and white, good or evil, hero or villain. It’s just not real.

Cocodapuf , (edited )

So you’re doubling down? You do know what other people are thinking? Must be nice.

My entire point was that it doesn’t make sense to judge someone for something they absolutely didn’t say.

Feel free to judge them on things they have said, that’s fine. And musk has in fact said and done a bunch of awful things, which is exactly why you just don’t need to make shit up.

Edit: Hey look, I’m not expecting you to agree with me (this is the Internet, people don’t just change their minds), so I’m just going to drop it.

Cocodapuf ,

You can solve any problem with a Molotov cocktail. Any time I had a problem and I threw a Molotov cocktail, boom, right away, I had a different problem!

Cocodapuf ,

No they can’t. Do you know where fancy spring water brands get their water? The fucking tap, that’s where.

Cocodapuf ,

Ok, I’m gonna be perfectly honest, Microsoft recall, copilot, hello… I don’t know what any of these things are. And I’m pretty sure I like it that way.

I do use Windows every day, (windows 10 and 7), but I haven’t heard any reason to ever upgrade from these. All these “services” do not seem like a “value add” to me.

Cocodapuf ,

Is there anything fundamentally superior about Cuda over open CL?

Cocodapuf ,

And inmates can’t even control who sees them poop.

Cocodapuf ,

So that makes sense to use now. Rar made sense before 7z existed.

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