The porn industry is one of the most abusive ones around, that’s well known. It’s a bit comparable to the cattle industry, i’d say, people are literally treated like cattle, moved around with sticks and pokes, without dignity, it’s gross.

stick to non-commercialized amateur porn. it’s 10000% better.

my take is that 1. you don’t need equal supply year-through because big consumers should be able to sleep and reduce their energy intake in the winter. yes i know that is complicated, but sleep is also complicated in nature and evolution still pulled through with it because it does pay off in the long term.

secondly, storage can also be renewable biomass. i have some napkin math sitting around somewhere on my disk that says that about 5% of the yearly energy demand can be covered with basically non-cost “waste” biomass that’s basically being burned to get rid of it today. I actually wanted to write a longer post about it in the !bathtubthoughts@discuss.tchncs.de community, i just couldn’t figure out how to properly present my calculations yet.

That’s also why Lemmy has almost stagnated in user numbers for a long time (around 30K).

It’s only now that people are seeking alternatives to US big tech so now we have the alternative that people seek, and people could make fine use of it.

Resistance Replacement Infrastructure

I use the new one as a temporary one.

I do that too. Do you know anything about microplastics concerns? Like, do the bottles give off some substances over time? Should/can one refill them?

Technically, there’s only two sources of energy in the universe: nuclear energy and the expansion of the cosmos.

Like, solar is fusion, ofc, the light coming from the sun. So is wind and water and bioenergy (indirectly). Geothermal is fission (heat comes from radioactive decay inside Earth).

But then there’s another source of energy that nobody ever talks about: tidal power It works by converting the rise and fall of water with the tides into electrical energy. This energy ultimately comes from the moon orbiting around Earth, more precisely, its mechanical energy: The fact that the moon is distant from Earth is only because the universe expanded after the big bang. Had it not done this, the moon and earth would be located at the same location, and there would be no “orbiting” to extract energy out of :P

I just made a post about this here

Scientist: “Scientific discoveries are meaningless when taken out of context.”

Newspaper: “Scientist confirms that scientific discoveries are meaningless.”

This diagram shows the LCOE (levelized cost of electricity) for various technologies - i.e. how much does one kWh of electricity cost if you divide the total number of generated kWh by the total cost of the power plant.

“utility-scale solar” means large-scale flat-area solar parks

But will Fusion ever be cheaper than solar?

I doubt it; It’s not only about technology costs but also about advantages like decentralization. If you can generate your own electricity in your own back-yard, you’re much more independent than if you’re dependent on large-scale fusion power. Because that will necessarily be very large-scale and centralized because nobody can set up a fusion reactor in their own back yard.

It’s for when you can’t find the right other place to post it :)

Like, there’s no big community willing to absorb your thoughts already.

you are the beginning of something great :3

i don’t get the joke. :( can we still be friends?

I did it: !bathtubthoughts@discuss.tchncs.de

i mean if it doesn’t exist yet, i’m glad to be the first to write a paper about it and have it be named after me or sth ;-)

Thank you. I feel like we need a community for random knowledge like this.

You feel like shit so you don’t go around and infect others, but instead stay home.

The thing with taking responsibility is that it isn’t actually about punishing a potential maldoer.

It’s to ensure that a safe outcome is guaranteed (as much as realistically possible). If you have a fire-proof door that automatically seals itself air-tight in case of a fire and stops the fire that way, that door is considered responsible too. Even though it doesn’t have a single living cell in it.

By the way, granting AI personhood would not mean it gets special privileges or extra protection or sth.

Companies are legally speaking persons too. That doesn’t mean that people recognize them as “alive and sentient”. It merely means that companies are able to possess property, enter contracts, file lawsuits, and such. Not more, not less.

humans are a virus and the earth has a fever

now one might be tempted to say that that’s a bad thing, but in my experience you can also catch a fever when you’re really positively excited about something. and virus … well, let’s say, to me it’s not an all-negative term either. knowledge is a virus (i wish i could link to an earlier blog post of mine about this, but unfortunately i never wrote down my ideas about this). basically, knowledge spreads just like a virus, it’s immaterial, consists of information, and has the typical replication patterns of viruses, including being subject to mutation and selection.