solidstate

solidstate , 1 month ago to asklemmy in What is YOUR top 10 list of all time best video games?

YES for Sacrifice. This game is a piece of art. I don’t get how it was never remade or it never got a sequel. Such a loss…

solidstate , 6 months ago to memes in Honestly

I am also from Germany. Political and cultural developments that happen in the US will in some form arrive in Europe with a delay of about 10 years, at least that is how I often felt.

solidstate , 8 months ago to memes in What is this? Wrong answers only.

Bass Player here, I am pretty confident this is a flute.

solidstate , 10 months ago to nostupidquestions in why isn't the use of the bidet more widespread?

Thanks for the explanation and I hate muck ony hands so that analogy also helps.

solidstate , 10 months ago to nostupidquestions in why isn't the use of the bidet more widespread?

Serious question: you use it instead of wiping, not in addition to? I have a hard time imagining the bidet would be more sanitary without the use of mechanical force (wiping) and/or soap. Is it really just a jet of water that is supposed to remove any residue, regardless of consistency?

solidstate , 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago) to lemmyshitpost in Good neighborship

Please have a look for statistics that are adjusted for purchasing power, first of all. Then please compare the LCoE of nuclear power to for example wind energy - it’s only comparable (and comparably low) because decommissioning and waste disposal is not factored in - you pay for that via taxes. Also, at least in Germany there is the Merit-Order system im place, which artificially creates a price for electricity with the explicit goal to make it more independent of the costs of each individual source. While you are correct that prices have been high (also after adjustment for pp, but not as much), the price shock in recent years was due to gas, for instance, and would have been high even if many nuclear power plants were still on the grid.

I am just saying that things are not as simple as some comments on this thread make them out to be. The statement that nuclear is cheap (it is only if you ignore the expensive part of the costs) because my electricity bill is small is just not reasonable.

I just realized I engage in a discussion on a shitposting community. I guess I am kind of new here.

solidstate , 11 months ago to lemmyshitpost in What more need be said about it?

Yeah I got that impression from the other comments. I might go back to just that part for the hell of it. Seems to be kind of a meme.

solidstate , 11 months ago to lemmyshitpost in What more need be said about it?

Yeah I don’t know, I remember something about extra super steel in the beginning, where it was kind of like “assertive entrepreneur makes eggheads do the impossible”. That is just not how anything in engineering works at all. Was kind of a turn-off for me also.

But I am glad that this stuff made it into a cool train story for you. I like your sentiment.

solidstate , 11 months ago to lemmyshitpost in Good neighborship

Levelized costs of electricity are different from the spot price. Market price doesn’t tell you anything about cost efficiency of nuclear (or any other source).

solidstate , 11 months ago to lemmyshitpost in What more need be said about it?

Started reading Atlas a couple of months ago and put it aside after a third or so. I am used to reading “conventionally boring” stuff but this was such a slog. Super sterile, the characters are stereotypical, the message Rand wants to bring across seems awfully clear very early on. It may be the historical context that makes it more interesting, I didn’t see it, though. Just couldn’t do it.

Reading your comments on this thread is a relief, maybe there is nothing wrong with me after all.

solidstate , 1 year ago to programmerhumor in Incel vs Excel

I laughed hard enough to realize I lost too much life time to Excel.