GiorgioBoymoder [none/use name] @ GiorgioBoymoder @hexbear.net

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When the entire plot depends on the (usually affluent liberal) POV characters being incredibly passive, naive, and dedicated to politeness over their own well-being. recent example is Speak No Evil.

EDIT: From the article:

According to analysis by the Carbon Tracker Initiative, “the land required for solar panels alone to provide all global energy is … less than the current land footprint of fossil fuel infrastructure”.

I don't love the effect of solar (panel) farms on local ecology, since they take up so much space. But anything is better than fossil fuels since they give off the gas that kills everything.

photovoltaics are nice but Solar thermal farms and solar updraft towers really tickle my brain.

christ this is bleak. you bulldozed the thornscrub for this? couldn't even make them singlestory?

FAA put up a 1 month flight restriction over picatinny arsenal about the same time these reports started. it specifically calls out unmanned ariel systems (UAS) but I'm not practiced in reading these so I can't really interpret. https://tfr.faa.gov/save_pages/detail_4_8833.html

don't need doctors to tell me what I already know.

the sooner this piece of shit dies the better.

I'd gently but firmly state that discussion of crimes should be kept offline and out official meetings. I'd make this statement "to the room" as it were.

OpSec is important even for perfectly legal antifascist organizing. Feds are not the only infiltrators to be cautious of.   There's no way your org is mature enough to be operate as a recognizedly criminal organization. At this stage, to remain operating openly and legally, members who wish to engage in illegal acts must do secretly so as to not implicate the broader org & its membership.

This is partly why I like Matrix. a self-hosted (by the org), unfederated server provides an official private means of communication for the organization, but messages are only visible to the participants of the conversations, and the metadata of who's talking to who never leaves the server. It would be totally normal for members to have private conversations, why would we assume they're discussing crimes???

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explosive_cyclogenesis

entropate, deentropate.

that would be a prefix but yeah.

maybe entrope, entropate, entropize

A parallel sentiment I've noticed is DSA members in labor-organizing focused spaces stating their goal is to "help labor." We are labor! We're not apart from it, we're trying to help ourselves!

It will be hilarious if China builds the Space-Shuttle-That-Should-Have-Been, rather than the abomination that NASA was forced to build. Scale it up & put this on top of a reusable booster and you have a fully reusable system like SpaceX is currently testing.

EDIT: Ah I see this is small in scale, like X-37. Would love to see it reach the size of Dreamchaser or bigger.

it's really fucking with me that neither axis follows a progressive ordering so I'm going to post a fixed (debugged) version. EDIT: lmao this is the most fucked up, inconsistent alignment chart I've seen. here it is fixed:

everything -> sometimes -> nothing

know -> not sure -> don't know

the reverse (i'm using mathematical inverse here) of "Pull Pot" is "Push Plate"

you're exactly right, it is measurable.

pedestrian deaths: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0001457503000150

deaths of despair: https://web.gc.cuny.edu/sites/default/files/2021-07/Saving-Light%2C-Losing-Lives-How-Daylight-Saving.pdf

this is a good point, but the abrupt change twice per year is harmful regardless of which ends up being the permanent time.

1 / (Pol Pot) = Push Plate

yeah this happened to me too, but at least i busted

that's totally reasonable. thinking about philosophy helped me grow a lot as a person as I unlearned YEC and learned the true history of the world so it's stuck with me

Sincerely, unironically, I love that for you.

religion had a big impact on my life without my consent so I have strong feelings about it. fortunately it doesn't come up much so I can also just vibe and not care most of the time.