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I'm just this guy, you know?

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Just in time for us to fight antibiotic resistant bacteria

MIT engineers create an energy-storing supercapacitor from cement, water, and carbon black (news.mit.edu)

MIT engineers created a carbon-cement supercapacitor that can store large amounts of energy. Made of just cement, water, and carbon black, the device could form the basis for inexpensive systems that store intermittently renewable energy, such as solar or wind energy.

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The original paper says you'd need 45 cubic meters of this stuff to store the daily energy for one house, which is about 60 yards of concrete. But even a relatively thick 5" pad that's 1500 square feet only has 23 yards of concrete in it.

So they'd have to improve the energy density by 3x before this is commercially viable.

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If you’re gonna use concrete anyway, this is definitely more useful. But if you’re going to use it as your only battery you’re better off with other technologies.

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Right? OP said you can't drink water, but they didn't say anything about eating it

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An even quicker option is to find a cliff and chase the herd off it. Have some of your folks run the herd toward a cliff, and the rest of them at the bottom with rocks to finish off the animals. The oldest blueprints ever found were of structures that would funnel animals to a pit or cliff so they'd be easier to kill.

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I’m still amazed so many of my anti-imperialists don’t recognize that Russia is being imperialist here. It seems so obvious.

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One disadvantage to digital distribution is that companies can't bury every copy of a game in the desert if it's really bad.

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Germans have the McRib year round because pork prices are low.

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"Yes, this is an actual PC game screenshot!"

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Then combine that with the blatant gerrymandering

While the electoral college does give less populous states and outside influence, but you can't gerrymander presidential elections without changing the borders of states.

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Remember the old memes? Those were the days...

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If they wanted to reduce the amount of useless receipts to curb consumption, just put a tax on receipt paper at the point of manufacturing. Increase the price there, and the market will automatically use less of it. And the tax can then be used to mitigate the effects of what receipt paper is produced.

It's far, far easier to regulate a dozen (or fewer) paper companies than it is to regulate millions of retail points of sale. The same goes for plastic: If the price of a gram of plastic included mitigating the effects of producing it, the price would be higher and therefore there would be less of it. And that which exists will be less likely to be wasted.

Externalities are one place where free market theory breaks down and needs regulation. Taxing at the source puts a price on this externality as soon as it enters the market, so the market can adapt to it.

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If it doesn't make a neat noise when I flip it open like a Star Trek communicator I'm not interested.

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Pee Wee's Playhouse Christmas Special still airs right before Die Hard at my house every Christmas Eve, followed by as much of the Star Wars Christmas Special as I can take.

Why, yes, I was born in the 1980s. Why do you ask?

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I still have a huge crush on Janeane Garofalo from that movie.

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Those charges were later dropped.

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If that’s a sci fi drink then so is a gin and tonic, or jynnan tonyx, or gee-N'N-T'N-ix, or jinond-o-nicks, or chinanto/mnigs, or tzjin-anthony-ks.

The BBC on Mastodon: experimenting with distributed and decentralised social media (www.bbc.co.uk)

“As the social media landscape ebbs and flows, the team at BBC Research & Development are researching social technologies and exploring possibilities for the BBC. One part of our work is to establish a BBC presence in the distributed collection of social networks known as the Fediverse, a collection of social media...

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Relying on a third party for your social media presence is a bad idea. Imagine if Elon got a bug up his ass and banned all BBC accounts; they’d be left in a lurch. Or if, as we saw, someone else got a blue checkmark and pretended to be the BBC.

But by running their own site they have control over who posts what, while still able to interact with users on other instances.

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I really doubt that environmental regulations more than doubled the price. Especially when they knew about those regulations when they were planning it.

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Right, but unless nuclear energy regulations have changed significantly since they started planning it wouldn't have increased the cost.

Or maybe it costs $15 billion to drag some hippies out of the way, I don't know.

We should stop saying "The customer is always right" because it's not true

In the grand scheme of things, the customer may have slightly more pull than the cashier ringing up their order, but it’s the CEO and the board of directors that control the narrative. That’s why we’re getting bigger and less fuel efficient vehicles, bigger and more fattening meal portions in restaurants, and bigger less...

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Blackstone’s end goal is to make everyone a renter.

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Ten years on Reddit and over a million karma and I stopped on July 1 and haven’t looked back. Kbin/the fediverse is so much better.

When I read stories about what they’re doing now it’s like watching my ex fuck up their life and it’s quite fun.

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I like guns and tanks and planes for the same reason I like cars. But that doesn’t mean I want war. Just because I like cars doesn’t mean I want to drive everywhere.

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It’s like how my parents don’t understand streaming: “How do you know what to watch?”

“You just pick something, ma”

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I’m not tech-savvy or all that smart when it comes to a lot things tech based, but I keep trying, and I’ve always had a healthy curiosity to want to know enough to at least try to follow along

This is worth so much more than knowledge any day.

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Beavis & Butthead Do America is hilarious from start to finish

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The new one is good but not as good as the first

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And Deep Rock Galactic

ROCK AND STONE!

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A rhythm game with supply chain management would be bomb. Different rhythms at different parts of the line generate different products, and accuracy can control the purity of the final product. The levels could end up making a whole song, and eventually you can get steam engines and digital things to add different sounds. Ooo, and make the savegames MIDI files.

Guess I'm a six foot tall dwarf. Well, I do have over 1600 hours on Factorio, which is pretty dwarfish

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What sorta charcoal you using? Any wood chips?

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[Reddit spokesman Tim] Rathschmidt added that Reddit's Moderator Code of Conduct "isn't just about what mods can and cannot do; it's also about protecting our users' right to assemble and discuss topics they're passionate about."

You do not have a right to assemble on a privately owned platform, regardless of what the mods do.

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The replies to their other posts asking for mods are pretty hilarious.

I am glad to see someone knowledgeable is likely to take over /r/canning. People can get sick or die if things are preserved incorrectly.

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I lived in a hundred-year-old row home and I feel your pain. I had to rent a hammer drill to run Ethernet to my office, which was draped along the outside of my house.

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Incredible!!! NYC cop saves company Christmas party from terrorists. Barefoot!!!

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I read this in Fire Marshall Bill’s voice and then joined

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I'm glad Boomers will beta test this stuff. By the time I need it you'll get it over the counter with minimal side effects

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With the experimental nature of the drugs they'll have three eyes or something. Maybe be turned back into actual infants.

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Tinfoil hat time: Posadas was right that aliens want to bring us luxury gay space communism, but the military keeps shooting them down to stop it.

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I'll keep my French press, thanks. The only waste is coffee grounds which I use for compost.

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Maybe people have four seconds to make their coffee

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"Hi, I totally don't have beef with you. Could you please be at this location at this time? Thanks bunches"

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It would be great to be able to merge communities and filter duplicates. Kind of like multireddit.

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I'm really excited for the potential for truly massive deep space probes, even though my favorite propulsion system is solar-thermal

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The problem is that while consumers may like Prime it uses its market dominance to control retailers and producers. That's exactly what anti-trust was designed to do since Carnegie.

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