nxdefiant

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[–] nxdefiant@startrek.website 6 points 7 months ago

Always has been. He's just trying to make his own gas station bathroom version of the extant MLM with his face all over it.

[–] nxdefiant@startrek.website 11 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

If it was GM or Chrysler, I would also assume the stupid decision to glue a flat piece of metal to another flat piece of metal that people are going to stomp on was because glue is cheap.

This, unfortunately, is a Musk run company, so the real reason was likely hubris. Someone's over engineered solution getting axed for cost is the least likely reason. It's more likely that the man child in charge (or a hand picked manchildlett crony) thought welding / mechanical fasteners were beneath them and that the glue was actually a sufficient and elegant solution to maintain clean design or some other form over function reason.

[–] nxdefiant@startrek.website 8 points 7 months ago

I'm not saying I want to see an all-GOP cast do a live action reenactment of Lord of the Flies, but can trump be piggy? He even gets to do a speech!

[–] nxdefiant@startrek.website 10 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Fuck, you reminded me that Trump was so bad he made Bush2 look good.

For any youngins out there:

https://youtu.be/TxNprnas7i8?feature=shared

Al-Zaidi said Bush's "bloodless and soulless smile" and his joking banter provoked him. I don't know what accomplishments he was talking about. The accomplishments I could see were the more than 1 million martyrs and a sea of blood. There are more than 5 million Iraqi orphans because of the occupation.... More than a million widows and more than 3 million displaced because of the occupation." al-Zaidi said.

The world hated Bush2. This journalist snapped out of rage and bush is telling jokes because he doesn't understand the cultural context surrounding the insult of someone throwing unclean shoes at you.

[–] nxdefiant@startrek.website 12 points 7 months ago

Their marks are going to print out stock certificates and put them in a gun safe.

[–] nxdefiant@startrek.website 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I think sartor is the old male version of seamstress, but nowadays it'd probably just be "garment maker".

I vow for the old British "haberdasher".

[–] nxdefiant@startrek.website 12 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Time is an illusion, lunch time doubly so.

[–] nxdefiant@startrek.website 3 points 7 months ago

Then there's Alaska, which people forget

It's because practically no one lives there.

[–] nxdefiant@startrek.website 2 points 7 months ago

The Canadians get it. There's only three dots in that Texas route because there's only three places along the route worth being, the start, San Antonio (tacos), and the end.

[–] nxdefiant@startrek.website 7 points 7 months ago

One major point this article overlooks is that CO2 is a byproduct of the iron ore -> steel process. It uses carbon to bind the oxygen molecules in the iron ore (which is mostly Iron Oxide) to produce pure iron and CO2.

It IS possible to create new iron in an induction or electric arc furnace, but you still need to add carbon to drive the chemical reaction that actually purifies the ore.

That said, there are other elements (such as hydrogen which is mentioned once) that can be used to bind with the oxygen instead of carbon, it's just that most of them do so violently. Engineering around that volatility isn't trivial, and sourcing them introduces new logistical problems.

Ultimately, I think forcing carbon capture as part of the process is probably the easiest way to solve the problem. It's not like taking CO2 out of regular air: it is being produced in a controlled environment as part of an industrial system, so engineering a way to separate the carbon and oxygen before it leaves that system should be very feasible.

[–] nxdefiant@startrek.website 5 points 7 months ago

that's amazing.

[–] nxdefiant@startrek.website 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Where's all the "solar panels and batteries are just as bad as oil" people.

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