ephemeral_gibbon

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[–] ephemeral_gibbon@aussie.zone 20 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (2 children)

They're little sea puppies that are perfectly happy to cruise around while you swim with them. At least that's the grey nurse sharks we get in aus. The ones you're describing sound more like wobbegongs or similar. The grey nurses need to be in highly oxygenated water.

Grey nurses also used to have a rep as "man eaters" but that was just because of how they looked,not any actual attacks

That's often the point of riding two abreast. If you are riding one at a time and on the edge of the lane then cars will often try and overtake you without leaving the lane, or at least a minimal amount. That leads to very dangerous close passes.

If you ride side by side or in the middle of the lane if alone, then generally the times you get passed by cars are much safer as if going fully into the other lane already they tend to give you enough space.

This would depend on the drivers in your area, but with the shitty Sydney drivers I learnt quickly to hold the lane unless it was a safe place for them to pass.

Also, because traffic is a thing it's very rare that I don't end up right behind whatever car passed me at the next traffic light, safer passes don't really cost much time for the driver once traffic is accounted for

[–] ephemeral_gibbon@aussie.zone 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm assuming for large scale commercial solar

[–] ephemeral_gibbon@aussie.zone 2 points 3 weeks ago

It's also better than v and much much better than 2042. It's a pretty fun arcadey shooter, with a very non toxic player base

[–] ephemeral_gibbon@aussie.zone 13 points 1 month ago

Yeah I'm kinda with you. If you're becoming filthy rich off selling access to content others made then you're fair game. If you're just doing it for yourself / not profiting it's a very different ball game though

[–] ephemeral_gibbon@aussie.zone -1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think the current thing is quite likely an organic uprising. Things have been very very broken in Venezuela for a while now and the people there aren't happy. Lots of people have been fleeing to Colombia for a while now and there are solid signs the election results were made up.

[–] ephemeral_gibbon@aussie.zone 7 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Over the past 5 years the monthly road deaths here in aus have been going up, because of the prevalence of those massive cars

[–] ephemeral_gibbon@aussie.zone 1 points 3 months ago

Not mostly, mostly consumer preferences. You wouldn't be able to sell them and it'd just be wasteful

[–] ephemeral_gibbon@aussie.zone 1 points 3 months ago

Nuclear is a terrible fit for that though, it can't scale up and down generation quickly, which is what would be useful with renewable. Honestly we're better off for now trying to get to 95% renewables as quickly as possible for cheap, and filling the 5% with quickly scaling gas, and solve the last few percent a little more slowly but in a way that's economic (and therefore will realistically happen). Nuclear is just way too slow, and if you sunk the cost that it'd take to build out the nuclear we could easily have a 100% renewable grid a lot sooner than the 20+ years it'll take with nuclear

[–] ephemeral_gibbon@aussie.zone 1 points 3 months ago

Or the gas companies he wants to bridge the gap...

[–] ephemeral_gibbon@aussie.zone 1 points 3 months ago

The cost of the commissioning and decommissioning (+of course running and wast management) is enough to make it more expensive than renewables with enough storage and transmission though. Nuclear was a great idea 30 years ago. In Australia where we have incredibly good renewable resources it's a terrible idea today.

I think a lot of the pushing for nuclear now is just as a distraction to keep fossil fuels in the mix for as long as possible, so those politicians can get their cosy board positions on fossil fuel companies after they quit politics

[–] ephemeral_gibbon@aussie.zone 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

In this case it's because if you raised them no-one would want to buy them. The egg laying breeds are a lot tougher and have a lot less meet than the ones bred for meat. They also cost more per amount of meat in the end.

The simple fact is that people don't want to buy that, so it'd just be wasteful to grow them out.

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