Onihikage

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[–] Onihikage@beehaw.org 1 points 28 minutes ago

Yep. In fact, Amazon devices can connect to other Amazon devices over their Sidewalk meshnet and get the wifi password that way. I'm never getting anything from Amazon more complicated than a screwdriver.

[–] Onihikage@beehaw.org 1 points 1 hour ago

Up in the Hardware Information section of hyfetch, on the left.

[–] Onihikage@beehaw.org 4 points 4 days ago

Webtoon is still shitty in other ways. When they adapt a property, they want it their way, regardless of the author's original vision. I've seen several stories that originated on Royal Road get Webtoon adaptations, and the adaptations always seem to change or leave out important parts of the story, making characters look stupid or just completely replacing entire sets of characters, forcing the story to diverge substantially when inevitably something they got rid of turns out to have been critically important to where the author was taking things. They turn great stories into middling slop every single time.

[–] Onihikage@beehaw.org 4 points 6 days ago (7 children)

Tweet not found, not even when I change the URL to go directly to Twitter. Was it deleted?

[–] Onihikage@beehaw.org 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That kid's going places!

[–] Onihikage@beehaw.org 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

The purpose of this plant is in fact not long-duration storage, but secondary functions as you mentioned, and it's also meant to be a proof-of-concept. Per an article from CNESA's English site when the plant's construction began in June 2023:

This project represents China's first grid-level flywheel energy storage frequency regulation power station and is a key project in Shanxi Province, serving as one of the initial pilot demonstration projects for "new energy + energy storage." The station consists of 12 flywheel energy storage arrays composed of 120 flywheel energy storage units, which will be connected to the Shanxi power grid. The project will receive dispatch instructions from the grid and perform high-frequency charge and discharge operations, providing power ancillary services such as grid active power balance.

[–] Onihikage@beehaw.org 14 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Granted.

An infinite quantity of ice cold water now exists within the exact dimensions of your water bottle.

Water has mass.

[–] Onihikage@beehaw.org 4 points 1 month ago
[–] Onihikage@beehaw.org 1 points 1 month ago
  • Crash Course Pods: The Universe, with John Green & Dr. Katie Mack. Talks about how the universe came into existence.
  • Volts, with David Roberts. Talks about electrification and the energy transition.

I don't listen to many podcasts, but those two are pretty great.

[–] Onihikage@beehaw.org 2 points 1 month ago

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/orinoco-tribune-bias-and-credibility/

Overall, we rate Orinoco Tribune as extreme left biased and questionable due to its consistent promotion of anti-imperialist, socialist, and Chavista viewpoints. We rate them low factually due to their strong ideological stance, selective sourcing, the promotion of propaganda, and conspiracy theories related to the West.

The Orinoco Tribune has a clear left-leaning bias. It consistently supports anti-imperialist and Chavista perspectives (those who supported Hugo Chavez). The publication critiques U.S. policies and mainstream media narratives about countries opposing U.S. influence. Articles frequently defend the Venezuelan government and criticize opposition movements and foreign intervention.

Articles and headlines often contain emotionally charged language opposed to the so-called far-right of Venezuela, like this Far Right Plots to Sabotage Venezuela’s Electrical System in Attempt to Disrupt the Electoral Process. The story is translated from another source and lacks hyperlinked sourcing to support its claims.

Maybe don't consider a pro-Maduro propaganda rag as a legitimate source for a conflict he's directly involved in.

Maduro is a man who ordered his country to block Signal, ordered it to block social media, and arrests, imprisons, and bans his political opposition. He has also expressed strong support for Russia's invasion of Ukraine, meanwhile the citizens of his country have been starving for years under what is literally known as The Maduro Diet, and the middle class has vanished. He has long forfeit his right to the benefit of the doubt. He is a despot who has now repeatedly falsified election results after mismanaging the country for years, and calls his opposition fascists while being fascist. That the people overwhelmingly want him gone is not some hegemonic plot by the evil West, it's the natural consequence of his actions.

[–] Onihikage@beehaw.org 19 points 1 month ago

OP is absolutely mistaken that it's somehow ableist to stick to a meeting deadline or similar "punishment" for lateness, and t3rmit3 has said why much more eloquently than I could. However, you've said something that I can't let pass without a rebuttal.

perpetual lateness means someone values their time more than they do the commitment and the time of others. period.
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perpetual lateness, though, is a statement, that individual could not give a shit what others needs and responsibilities are

This is making a moral judgment on what you believe is in someone's mind, and your judgment is based on a false premise. There exists an extremely common mental disorder (so common that some might consider it a form of neurodivergence) that when left untreated makes it much harder to do the things you want and are obligated to do. It's harder to start doing things, it's harder to stop, it's harder to focus yet too easy to focus, it's harder to remember important things, and it's harder to motivate yourself to do anything you aren't doing at any given moment, and anything you have to put effort into motivating yourself to do leaves you with less mental energy to do anything else in that category.

The one thing that can usually overcome all of these mental blocks is panic - when you're actually out of time and Consequences are approaching if you don't do something RIGHT NOW then you can finally do what you need to do and get something done - later than you wanted, worse than you wanted, more mentally drained, and with plenty of reasons to beat yourself up over it, not that it helps if you do. This is the reason behind why most people show up perpetually late. They might not let the emotional turmoil show, but if they're consistently a few minutes late for everything, I can just about promise it's not because they don't care.

People who have this disorder and receive prescription medication for it often describe the first dose as like receiving superpowers. The idea that they can decide they want to do something, and then just go do it? Without thinking about it? No buildup? No psyching yourself into it? No roundabout coping strategies? No reorganizing the entire structure of your life to make it happen? No bargaining with the goddamn monkey in your brain that almost never lets you do the rational thing? Wait, normal people don't have the monkey? They live like this every day, without any expensive pills? Impossible. It couldn't be that simple. Do they have any idea how lucky they are?

Your misplaced sense of moral superiority is unfortunately quite common, but it's not going to help these people, it's going to hurt them. If it's affecting their life, and it often is, they need treatment and training in how their brain works, not to be told they're a piece of shit who doesn't care about others and are choosing to inconvenience everyone else in their life including themselves. That's only going to put them in a worse place.

 

Innovations summarized:

  • Accurate, accessible weather forecasts to help optimize planting and harvesting in mid/low-income regions
  • Microbial fertilizers to reduce the need for nitrogen fertilizers
  • Reducing or eliminating methane from livestock, which accounts for about 20% of human greenhouse gas emissions
  • Helping farmers and communities implement better rainwater harvesting
  • Lowering the cost of digital agriculture that can help farmers use irrigation, fertilizer and pesticides most efficiently
  • Encouraging production of alternative proteins to reduce demand for livestock
  • Providing insurance and other social protections to help farmers recover from extreme weather events

I would have liked to see more focus on finding ways to avoid monocropping, and a callout to the heavy risks of the steady corporate consolidation of the agriculture industry, but breaking up corporations isn't exactly an innovation so I can see why it wouldn't get a mention. Some of these seem fairly weak as innovations go, and some sound so inexpensive that it's a wonder they aren't already done, but all of them sound like decent steps to take.

Which among this list do you think governments should focus on the most?

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