hissingmeerkat

joined 10 months ago
[–] hissingmeerkat@sh.itjust.works 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

You're not going to believe this but Ball made all of the mirror ... except the mirror itself.

We're gonna look like bots

[–] hissingmeerkat@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Women are so cute and cute and cute and cute and cute and cute and cute and cute and cute and cute and cute and cute and cute and cute and cute and cute and cute and cute and cute and cute and cute and cute and cute and cute and cute and cute and cute and cute and cute and cute and cute and cute and cute and cute and...

[–] hissingmeerkat@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Dogs love pumpkin. Dogs love cinnamon.

10s of thousands of nothing. Hundreds of thousands isn't even enough that "economic growth" at the expense of increased costs and greater inequity would be a net benefit.

A complete Greenland slide-off would be an average sea level rise of about 7m, and is possible in our lifetimes as an extreme event (something like a fraction of a percent chance before 2100). If it happened it would be multiple events really, spread out across years or decades. Antarctic ice moving so its weight is no longer supported by the continent was too unlikely to include in models a few years ago, but the West Antarctic has been so active that I'd expect it to start showing up in estimates.

[–] hissingmeerkat@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 months ago

That's because you're the victim of a crime: extortion

[–] hissingmeerkat@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Those numbers are colossally lower than what NYC and London came up with for transit buses ages ago (about $1.2 million/£1.7 million). I haven't looked at the article yet but it's probably due to the lower use and lower population density.

[–] hissingmeerkat@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm new to magic in this millennia.

Oh, I thought Outlaws of Thunder Junction was the rotation. I was a bit confused because the crime/etc themes seemed to go with the other current sets and mechanics, and expected a larger reset of mechanics for a new standard. I will definitely "Jump In!" then.

 

Should I wait for the rotation and outlaw junction to spend my gold or do a few "Jump In!"s now to get more cards?

[–] hissingmeerkat@sh.itjust.works 5 points 5 months ago

No. This is the alternate history of energy. We could have been building primarily molten salt solar plants for the last 40 years. They had similar costs to coal, fuel plants, could be built with no semiconductor manufacturing bottlenecks, provided more consistent base generation than wind, had no fuel dependencies, combustion emissions. Now photovoltaics and battery storage are cheaper, more efficient, don't require water and cooling, and work with wind as well as solar, and aren't really bottlenecked by manufacturing.

[–] hissingmeerkat@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago

Silly. The limit should be 0. You can take no gas that you don't pay for. You can vent/leak no methane except for emergencies, some tiny fraction of leak/well or pipe distance. If you flare gas you have to pay for both the gas you took and the lost utility of the gas to other users.

And that's not even getting to addressing climate issues.

 

The last couple days I've finally been able to work on some of the big projects I care about and have wanted to do for months. But wanting to do all the things I want to do and having lots of ideas is painful, like before I got anxiety, ADHD treatment (which my doctor interpreted as being more of an anxiety thing) but also stopped doing the big things.

It's so tempting to ignore the things I really want and go burry myself in a video game or something.

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