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Memento Mori. Most people in history community will know, but it means “remember your death”, and it was allegedly something Roman emperors or generals made sure to have someone whisper into his ear during the celebrations of him.

A lot of things that look absurd in history are just a mortal man who had done great things being mortal. In the end we’re all going to die, it’s the great equalizer.

In the end, then, the question stops being about trying to achieve literally mortality by being great, and instead making sure that the life that you lead is great and that the thing that you leave behind is great. Because as we’ve seen, great kings can die from a bad swim, mighty emperors can fall to a single bullet, men who conquered the known world died to some bad booze, and feats alone don’t stop those things.

Ya got me.

I registered a domain 23 years ago, maintained the site in various ways, set up a threadiverse instance with the least used federated link aggregator back around 2021, Expressed opinions that got me defederated by tons of instances and pissed off most of the remainder, and stayed following this community for years, all so that I could use a bot to respond to a post.

I don’t even know why I needed a bot at that point, since apparently I’m friggin Xanatos the chess master.

Feels like a category error to say that Trump is necessarily against renewable energy rather than just against specific types of renewable energy.

A lot of greenies are against hydroelectric because even though it provides base load power for decades or even centuries, the building of reservoir and the damning of a river typically has major environmental impacts that they feel override the benefits.

If there’s concern about offshore wind because of the potential – the actualized potential by the way in a limited number of cases – then that would explain why there would be the pushback against offshore wind.

The problem with water is that unlike land which tends to be fairly localized, just a little bit of pollution can affect an absurd amount of water. That’s why they tell people not to dump their motor oil in the ground, because one drop of motor oil can pollute thousands of gallons of water.

I tend to be less interested in solar because empirically speaking it seems to drive up electricity costs for actual consumers regardless of the cost of a specific kilowatt hour of electricity at peak production, and less interested in wind because sometimes it is bright or cold and the wind doesn’t blow, the Germans already have a word for this because it is relatively common.

That being said, there’s no reason to be against good technology that actually does what it’s supposed to do, and that can mean hydroelectric, it can mean well regulated nuclear, it can mean geothermal, but just because something is marketed as green doesn’t mean that it is actually good for the environment. Everything at an industrial scale is a out trade-offs. Different people will look at things through different lenses and find different trade-offs more example and other trade-offs less acceptable.

Let them eat cake, n’est pas?

“Your proposal is acceptable.”

git isn’t part of your powershell path.

I was actually thinking of exactly that today. People try to rehabilitate it by saying it’s better than stuff that’s even worse, but that doesn’t make it good.

George was trying to write a bunch of things he’s not good at writing, even if he was earnest about it.

That story is a reminder to us all that even people who are highly competent make mistakes.

This guy was literally the posterboy of the airline, tons of experience, trained others, horrible outcome due to a massive collapse in judgement regardless.

Apparently the chainsaw was invented by doctors.

Terrifying. I bet chainsaws were invented before good anesthetics.

The famous TV show said that space is the final frontier, but the truth is there are limitless frontiers. The world is so infinitely complex, a square foot of soil from your back yard is like a tiny mostly invisible universe.

It was the minoans all along?

I feel like it’s important to remember that a lot of these countries still have a lot of these territories. You’ll be looking at a map out in the middle of nowhere and it’s like “Oh, yeah, this island is france” what? “Yeah, france. get wrecked.”

Yeah, but it’s one of those shows where the further you get from the original, the more you wish you’d just watched the first season and left it there.

Verily.

Maybe it’s just because it hit me the right way at the right time, but besides the deau meme, rozen maiden’s first season hit me so hard I’m surprised it wasn’t way more popular

“Some of the best anime of a given era is better than average anime of today”

No shit? Let’s call Scotland yard and give them this amazing clue!

Now that’s a method the tiger moms need to pick up. “My daughter called lawyer, my son called doctor.”

interesting piece of trivia: In 2003ish, there was a major power outage across the northwestern US and much of eastern Canada. One major issue was that the grid became desynchronized so resynchronizing was a major problem they had to solve to bring the grid back up. The province of Quebec uses high voltage DC lines (and also massive amounts of hydroelectric power, but that’s a conversation for another day) so they didn’t have that same problem and had returned their power to normal long before the rest of the region.

I really like this post, it gets down to nitty gritty brass tacks and brings some data.

That’s usually the thing that gets me grumpy about such conversations, people don’t bother discussing the realities of actually doing the thing, they just trade feel good articles about how everything is fine.

One thing about the paper is, the cost of high voltage DC lines is likely assuming you’re on land. Bringing the energy in from sea could be even more expensive, since you need much more expensive equipment, the environment is brutal, repairs involve sending people and material into that environment, and I have a feeling but I don’t know, I think that the movement of the offshore wind turbines could be mechanically stressful on cables that are relatively safe up in the air only dealing with wind (and they still can cut right through insulators swinging in the wind and vibrating at 60hz)

Showing where my brain’s at, I didn’t realize it was a gaming post and was like “What are those guys at rust doing now and how badly is it going to break all the code?”