acosmichippo

acosmichippo , 7 hours ago (edited 7 hours ago) to worldnews in How the automobile industry turned us into SUV drivers

yes, the force applied to THE ROCK will be much higher, but the car’s mass is not relevant to the driver’s reference inside the car.

acosmichippo , 9 hours ago (edited 7 hours ago) to worldnews in How the automobile industry turned us into SUV drivers

Not if they crash into stationary objects like rocks, etc. In that case the amount of force the driver will experience will be 2-3 times higher compared to the amount of force a driver of a normal sedan will experience if he had the same accident.

this is not true, the deceleration (g force) imparted to passengers should be the same in either case. (all other things being equal, initial speed, crumple zones, etc). adding more mass to the car is irrelevant to the driver if you’re hitting a truly immovable object.

acosmichippo , 1 day ago to worldnews in How the automobile industry turned us into SUV drivers

because they’re safer for the drivers

acosmichippo , 1 day ago to worldnews in How the automobile industry turned us into SUV drivers

also SUVs became the new minivan because minivans aren’t cool. with an suv you can cosplay as an off-roader who goes mountaineering on the weekends and drives uphill through snow both ways to work and back.

acosmichippo , 2 days ago to videos in Neil deGrasse Tyson reads his peer review of Terrence Howard's mathematics theories

he has had some dickish moments but when you’re constantly talking publicly that’s pretty inevitable unless you’re a saint.

acosmichippo , 2 days ago to videos in Neil deGrasse Tyson reads his peer review of Terrence Howard's mathematics theories

does he even have shows any more? why bother if they weren’t going to use him again anyway?

acosmichippo , 3 days ago to technology in X will soon limit the ability to livestream to Premium subscribers

what about that good ole “free” speech elon?

acosmichippo , 4 days ago to worldnews in Dell said return to the office or else—nearly half of workers chose “or else”

I’m pretty sure some companies are also using it to encourage people to quit before layoffs and needing to pay out severance. Happened to me earlier this year. In December they announced we’d go from optionally fully remote, to mandatory 3-days in office in February. Then at the end of march they laid off a bunch of people.

So watch the timing at Dell, I wonder if we’ll see some layoffs there in a couple months.

acosmichippo , 6 days ago to worldnews in Electricity prices in France turn negative as renewable energy floods the grid

You said:

We shut down reactors of which no one knows how functional they are because no one checked that because they were scheduled to be shut down anyways.

If they weren’t scheduled to be shut down in the first place people would have known they worked.

acosmichippo , 6 days ago to worldnews in Electricity prices in France turn negative as renewable energy floods the grid

I don’t know about Europe as a whole but in Germany we did not shut down functional reactors. We shut down reactors of which no one knows how functional they are because no one checked that because they were scheduled to be shut down anyways.

That’s functionally the same thing. And it does matter to discuss. Even if you believe the ship has sailed in Germany, it hasn’t elsewhere, and Germany’s experience can be useful to learn from.

acosmichippo , 6 days ago to worldnews in Electricity prices in France turn negative as renewable energy floods the grid

watch us be repeating the same excuse in another 50 years. yes, nuclear takes a long time to build but that doesn’t mean we should just not do it.

also at the bare minimum we should not be shutting down functional reactors which is happening in europe.

acosmichippo , 6 days ago to worldnews in Electricity prices in France turn negative as renewable energy floods the grid

this is why we still need nuclear, to replace the fossil fuel baseline.

acosmichippo , 6 days ago to videos in Jon Stewart Debunks GOP’s City Crime Narrative | The Daily Show

well there sure aren’t any left wing republicans.

acosmichippo , 8 days ago to datahoarder in How are data storage prices going to change in the next couple years?

I have been hoarding for a while now and to me storage prices really seem to have plateaued in the last few years, and it doesn’t seem to be picking up as we get back to normal after the pandemic. So I don’t think waiting for a couple years is going to save you much. Personally I’d just keep an eye out for good deals like Best Buy WD Easystore sales, or Black Friday in general, and pull the trigger then.

acosmichippo , 8 days ago to games in This is a game about a guy leaning to sing in to a retro microphone, right?

yeah, Rob Thomas.