Dippy

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[–] Dippy@beehaw.org 3 points 4 days ago

You would likely start from the center of your galaxy, then pick a culturally relevant star near the outskirts, in our case Sol, and call that, well, something (Solbound?) Then work your right angles from there. You could pick other cultural stars in the other directions too.

Most galaxies are pretty flat, so you'd probably have to reference a conveniently positioned other galaxy for your up and down.

[–] Dippy@beehaw.org 1 points 1 week ago

I wear a baseball style cap every day to protect my long hair during my day job in the HVAC industry. I stuff it up in there

[–] Dippy@beehaw.org 9 points 1 month ago

Idk, words are tools as well. Right now it's being used to wake people up to the fact that republican policies are very invasive, harmful, and unpopular. I get being uncomfortable, but this is just language being language. And it's overall going to be beneficial.

[–] Dippy@beehaw.org 8 points 2 months ago

Hell yeah. A nice easy W all around

[–] Dippy@beehaw.org 1 points 2 months ago

There are 2 types of real carbon credits, easy credits and hard credits. The easy ones are cheap things like planting trees and efficiency programs, the hard credits are expensive, carbon capture tech that we haven't perfected and will always be costly.

Poor countries are attracted to the idea of selling their cheaply attained credits for money today. And why wouldn't they? They are indebted and struggling. But it's going to fuck them over in the future when they need credits for their own carbon accounting and they're out of easy credits to make.

No hate or judgment here, it's just the next steps in how global imperialism will continue to fuck over these countries

[–] Dippy@beehaw.org 1 points 2 months ago

Puerto Rico has to be one of the worst victims of the industry with also the least recourse due to a lack of statehood

[–] Dippy@beehaw.org 4 points 2 months ago

Did Ted Cruz go to cancun?

[–] Dippy@beehaw.org 3 points 2 months ago

Well anyway

[–] Dippy@beehaw.org 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Probably realized he could cut server overhead by 40% this way

[–] Dippy@beehaw.org 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Just because our side isn't as popular as you'd like doesn't mean we don't have democracy. Now what we do have is a flawed system with lots of mechanisms for a minority party to grind the gears to a halt, and incredibly low voter turnout especially among the far left.

The only way out is to vote in a supermajority of reps who want to fix the system. So vote blue this year, and start building an electable coalition for next cycle. Don't just stand there, do something

[–] Dippy@beehaw.org 3 points 3 months ago

It would be incredibly stupid to switch out Biden now. Who would we replace him with thar we're so sure would beat Trump with this little time left until the election? If the plan was ever going to be to replace Biden, he would have had to step down at least 5 months ago.

[–] Dippy@beehaw.org 6 points 3 months ago

What a weird and almost certainly incomplete perspective you have

 

Electric vehicles that can take off and land vertically, but then fly like a plane, are already being sold and used by hospitals and shipping companies. Equipped to move up to 6 passengers or 2 pilots and 3 pallets, its a small yet versatile tool. These vehicles have 5 batteries that give it a range of over 350 miles using current battery technology, though the batteries are intended to be swapped over the life of the aircraft, much like the engine of a traditional aircraft, however, future batteries could feature improvements, meaning the vehicle gets better over time. The redundancy that Electric motors allow more easily than mechanical motors means this aircraft is far safer than anything else in the air.

 

Electric vehicles that can take off and land vertically, but then fly like a plane, are already being sold and used by hospitals and shipping companies. These vehicles have 5 batteries that give it a range of over 350 miles using current battery technology, though the batteries are intended to be swapped over the life of the aircraft, much like the engine of a traditional aircraft, however, future batteries could feature improvements, meaning the vehicle gets better over time. The redundancy that Electric motors allow more easily than mechanical motors means this aircraft is far safer than anything else in the air.

 

This boston company has developed a new process to manufacture steel using zero carbon dioxide and a whole lot of electricity

 

This boston company has developed a new process to manufacture steel using zero carbon dioxide and a whole lot of electricity

 

The energy system we have today does not match the solarpunk future we dream of. If we work towards the right energy system today, we may just have a solarpunk tomorrow

 

The take that struck me the most came towards the end. And it's that when you electrify, not only are you not burning fossil fuels to work your stove, but you're also not burning fossil fuels to power the drilling equipment, to ship the crude oil, to refine it, to pump it to your stove.

A large portion of our critical energy demand is just getting fossil fuel energy to its point of use, so small amounts of electrification and efficiency improvements at point of use have large impacts on the upstream emissions

 

I don't want any lemmy.nsfw posts on my All tab. And there are so many instances

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