Same, especially because I’m a frequent sky-looker but have to prepare any ride-along that all we’re going to see by eye is pale fuzzy blobs. All my camera is going to show you tonight is pale sprindly clouds. I think it’s neat as hell I can use some $150 binoculars to find interstellar objects, but many people are bored by the lack of Hubble-quality sights on tap. Like… Yes, and then sent a telescope to space in order to get those images.

That being said, I once had the opportunity to see the Orion nebula through a ~30" reflector at an Observatory, and damn. I got to eyeball about what my camera can do in a single frame with perfect tracking and settings.

“I, too, live in my house” is what I say to friends who start feeling embarrassed about their conditions. There is a bar for what I can tolerate, but it’s mostly about hygiene. Lots of animal fur? Well just let me have a seat that isn’t covered in fur. If it’s a sheet over the couch, so be it. But my bar is somewhere above “smells like cat piss and there’s dried puke on the carpet”. Having cats for 30 years, I get it, it’s a hassle, but I don’t want to be there. Food containers are another thing that can bug me. Empty? Throw it out. Still has food that should have been refrigerated yesterday? Definitely clear garbage at this point. I’ll take a greasy, crumby stove over that, easily. Last spot, really, is the bathroom. Sticky or discolored surfaces are a problem.

But cluttered areas? Stacks of mail? Bad organization? No organization? Whatever. With any of this, I liked you as a friend before, and I’ll like you as a friend after. Maybe I don’t want to come over, but it’s not like I’m going to use your living situation as judgement on who I thought you were outside.

OK, so you don’t have fossil-fuel-free solutions, either, and you don’t have a reasonable plan to handle night time energy needs. You specifically said that utilizing fossil fuels at all was an issue, including for production of renewable, with the claim about not being able to source a turbine without fossil fuel use. It sounds like you don’t understand that “night” happens during normal human waking hours, that there are actual activities and demand for energy specifically at night, and that there is no direct path to a fossil-fuel-free energy solution. I have no idea how subsidizing alternates erases fossil fuels for your idea.

Its the winter solstice in the northern hemisphere and I have 8.5 hours of daylight today. That’s about 4 hours of decent solar production without clouds, since the sun is so low. I guess I’ll just try sleeping, without electric heat (since CNG is a fossil and solar is dormant), for 14 hours tonight from dusk to dawn (5pm-7am). Wait, solar panels are still using fossil fuels for production, so those are out. Is a wood stove OK? It’s renewable, but it’s a major CO2 burden, much worse than CNG. Can’t mine lithium or nuclear material with the existing industry, all runs on petroleum. I’m not sure if life is worth living, as every waking hour has been spent at work, using the small time frame to try to support myself financially.

This also means no activity can occur at night. No manufacturing? Triple the facility sizes to allow the “night time” morning shift and the “night time” late night shift to operate with the daytime shift. Can’t go anywhere, can’t entertain myself, can’t eat, can’t enjoy anything other than lying in the dark, waiting for the sun to come back. That’s weird, putting all the overnight demand in the daytime is causing brownouts because we couldn’t triple our energy production. But hey, the burden is being shared and we’re all miserable for 5 straight months. But the summer will be rad with only demanding 8 hours of dormancy.

Look at the project. It’s not a continuous production of CO2. It says this one contains 2,000 tonnes of CO2 and produces 200MWh/day. A CNG power plant is somewhere in the range of 0.5kg CO2/kWh. That’s 10,000kg CO2 from CNG for 20MWh, or 10 tonnes. In just 200 days, a CNG plant of the same capacity will produce as much CO2 as this entire facility contains.

Bashing innovative projects like this for being anything less than a time machine to go pure nuclear actively hurts progress. Is that your goal? To maintain the status quo?

What’s your plan that doesn’t utilize the existing fossil fuel industry at all to go cold turkey on oil and full throttle on renewable?

Also, per the article, the danger zone in a burst is only claimed to be 70m until cleared and the CO2 release still pales in comparison to a regular coal plant - “equivalent to 15 round trips between New York and London on a Boeing 777”

A thread here about some recent comments from Hillary Clinton a couple weeks ago led to people saying they don’t want to hear from her after losing to a fascist. Someone said we wouldn’t be here if she could give a half decent blowjob.

I said “stop blaming women for aging”

Bunch of people (for lemmy’s scale) took it as me being a social justice warrior (I guess?) that genuinely meant she got older.

No, I was making a joke about Bill’s preference for children. I thought it’d land without extra context. Oh well, at least I sleep at night knowing my name still isn’t in the epstein files

Ah. Thanks for the explanation. How unfortunate

I give “gluten free” a pass because it’s not always obvious. Some people do have very severe reactions and some products do, unsuspectingly, contain gluten in the form of filler content or for some other mechanical use. Sausage is specifically known to use wheat product as filler and binder. Same for deli meats and veggie burgers. Some places will even throw breadcrumbs into their ground beef for burgers to fake it’s tenderness, so it crumbles like a meatloaf would.

Then there’s seasonings. Potato chips are made from potatoes, right? But not all chips are potato chips. You’d hope a gluten-issue person would be able to identify pita chips or bagged crackers from the chips selection would have gluten, but it turns out, despite being a corn chip, Dorito dust can affect gluten sensitivities. Soy sauce and malt vinegar are issues, and seasoning mixes use flour to help distribution

Does it just mean “sharpened to the point you can use your regular re-sharpening device”?

I do love GM’s “Supercruise” moniker. Accurate, and my introduction was during a CTS Blackwing commercial, so it was a great pairing.

Still disable it on rentals though.

I feel like your comment is a little sarcastic. I have actually had a non-microwave safe plastic plate (that predated the omnipresence of the microwave) actually explode. It boiled faster than the food heated and made pressure pockets inside.

Cholesterol-free is such a bullshit label anyway because dietary cholesterol doesn’t do anything special to your own cholesterol. You are not a chicken and the egg yolk will not go directly to your bloodstream. Your blood has human cholesterol that you made yourself from the rest of the sugars and fats you ate, digested, converted, stored, and reeconverted.

• as compared to one standard economy roll last produced in 1967

F Save The World (paid early access) was July 2017. FN Battle Royale was September 2017. And, for reference, PUBG launched the beta in March 2017, full release Dec 2017

Not sure what theme, style, or use you’re looking for. I don’t have suggestions that would hit in a fun powerful way like the soundtrack to American Horror Story: Coven (but I guess that playlist is a recommendation). I’m into metal and I’m imagining higher feminine vocals that may not be entirely understandable, so that’s what I have. Generally, the top tracks on Spotify are representative of the sound I associate with each.

Chelsea Wolfe comes to mind first. She drifts between metal and folk (sort of?), but the lyrical content is largely consistent. Hiss Spun (2017) is the album I like most, followed by She Reaches Out To She Reaches Out To She (2024) if the other is too metal. She also put some work into the X/MaXine/?? horror movie trilogy score with Tyler Bates

I lied, some more upbeat bands would be Cellar Darling (hard rock, fantasy themes, cello hurdy-gurdy solos) or Castle Rat (if you needed Iron Maiden to beseige a castle).

Not exactly jams or bangers, but my autumn work/build grind playlist consisted of Heriot, Faetooth, Author & Punisher, Conjurer, and King Yosef. This is some heavy background score material to give me that fay metal mood without too much focus on the music itself. They’re what built my 7ft tall deer reaper for Halloween. Discovered this genre(?) from a goth burlesque/freak show performance.

I couldn’t believe it’d been out for ten years, so I checked. It’s been out for ~10 years, but not 10 years, originally releasing mid 2017

My roku has an internal rechargeable battery and lasts months. But what’s infuriating is I read up further and found it doesn’t actually use my wifi network. It’s direct to the TV. So why wouldn’t it work without internet? Insane.

I didn’t connect my free Roku TV to the new wifi, and suddenly the remote works like shit. Turns out, it’s a wifi remote that would rather not use infrared and the infrared receiver has been slightly blocked this whole time.

The way to set it up without connecting it to wifi is very hidden. I had to look it up after because I couldn’t figure it out. I fucking hate smart tvs.

One time I found the most circular rock I’d ever seen. About 2.5" wide, 1/2" thick, smoothly worn by the ocean. It was a pale gray rock with dark speckled pits. It was like a cartoon moon. I took it from the beach, intending to keep it as a souvenir of the trip. It never made it. It was accidentally thrown out in the chaos of leaving a hotel.

I stole that rock from it’s ocean view home and sent it to a landfill. It was just a rock and it tears me up unnecessarily.

I’d happily take your input, but it sounds like you’re just disengaging