[-] PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

Dams are extremely ecologically disruptive and generally shouldn't be considered part of "green" infrastructure. Not that small scale dams don't have a place in good environmental stewardship, but a good way to tell if someone advocating for "green energy" is full of shit, is their position on hydro-power. That said even ignoring the downstream international impact of this dam, the consequences of "the largest dam" in the world cannot be ignored if you want to pretend to care about the climate, which includes river ecology.

[-] PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago

Breaking news the Capitalist party (D) still using racism to protect capitalism. Next up, the Capitalist party (R) says a bunch of racist shit.

[-] PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml 80 points 10 months ago

This is only a problem if you think the purpose of the pier was to provide aid to Gaza. If you understand that everything the US military does is simply to provide public money to private interests, then this is a completely unremarkable event.

[-] PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml 101 points 11 months ago

Sounds like the problem here is the "government scrutiny" not steam.

[-] PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml 83 points 1 year ago

The topography explains it all. https://geology.com/articles/east-africa-rift.shtml

tl;dr The people of that area in East Africa naturally live close to sea level, however there are easily accessible elevations changes that distance runners have trained on for probably centuries. It turns out that training at high altitudes and recovering at low altitudes provides a tangible and demonstrable advantage compared to just single elevation training.

[-] PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml 121 points 1 year ago

I doubt the US is trying to overthrow Netanyahu, but if they were, I'm glad of it.

[-] PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml 94 points 1 year ago

What a garbage article. Elon sucks, the cyber truck sucks, but an article about tweets is less than worthless. Perhaps the article instead of assuming elon just "didn't have time to run tesla properly", should dig a bit deeper and demonstrate that tesla was successful despite elon, not because of elon. Same with Space-X or Star-link.

Now as far as why the cyber truck is getting stuck in snow, tires is the low-effort answer, but maybe look at the weight of the truck versus the contact area. Maybe look at how the traction control system works? How about whether the car is front wheel bias vs rear-wheel biased. Does it make assumptions about which wheels have contact to the ground? Does it have a differential or are all 4 wheels independently controlled? (I don't know the answer to any of these by the way, but if I were concerned about a vehicle getting stuck in the snow, I'd certainly want an analysis that addresses all of the above.)

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A pretty standard pro-environmental piece, however I do appreciate how it calls out the "German Green Party," which is obviously just an astro-turfed political party funded by the coal industry.

And of course the criticism of about the farce of Carbon Capture is spot-on.

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A growing number of Senate Democrats appear open to making it harder for migrants to seek asylum in order to secure Republican support for aiding Ukraine and Israel.

This is what the democrats stand for. Unlimited funding for the MIC and border-control, but social issues are not a priority.

Stop voting for the parties of Capital.

[-] PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml 82 points 1 year ago

Good. Only ~215 countries to go. No one should have normal interactions with Israel or anyone who supports Israel.

[-] PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml 93 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Perhaps if Europe claims to care about human rights so much, they should simply stop funding, supporting or otherwise enabling a genocidal state?

[-] PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml 142 points 2 years ago

It's just too expensive to save the planet. I'm glad that our governments were making the tough Choices, to continue burning coal and other fossil fuels because the economy just couldn't handle the burden of not growing by another 5% every year.

[-] PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml 98 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

CO2 "offsets" have always been bullshit green washing. The only way to regulate emissions is by directly regulating emissions. Not coming up with elaborate loopholes.

[-] PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml 96 points 2 years ago

This is a bad chart with lots of data issues. It apparently consists of two points, 1995 and 2017. The source is some data aggregator that isn't clear, and of course the differentiation between the categories is non-existent. what is the difference between "church," "friends," or "neighbors?" What is the difference between "school" and "college."

That said obviously there are more "online" couples between 1995 where the only options were AOL or IRC chatrooms and 2017 where actual dating apps existed that were easily accessible via your phone.

My Take: I agree the internet has changed society in the past 22 years. Thanks shitty chart from reddit. I now have a greater awareness of the significance of the internet.

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