194 nautical miles isn’t terribly far, though. For port to port, sure. For oceanic shipping, I don’t think 194 is going to cut it. I think we will probably have to do SMRs or efuels to really cut cargo ship and cruise ship emissions when crossing the Pacific or Atlantic. Though I don’t know where nuclear powered shipping (in non-military applications) is in terms of progress.
I agree. Onion article (below) about this made me laugh but also gives an aftertaste of dread if people stay home, and we end up with a dictator for a day who overstays his welcome by a decade or two.
Pick and choose your battles, but don’t be a single issue voter or you bone everyone- left and right. A lot of rural communities depend on the social safetynet programs that urban places put in place, even if the rural places tend to try and curtail them. This election will be one of the most important since the civil war; We get to decide whether or not we still want the privilege of being a republic.
Probably for spare parts and then used as dummy aircraft after that, all for Ukraine. For less than 20k per plane, that’s pretty damn good. And Ukraine could certainly use the parts. Though I hope we also donate a considerable amount of our aging out planes and tanks. They’d serve Ukraine well and get second, well-deserved life overseas.
So our neighbors have been a growing problem for a few months now. They seem to be a flop house for six or seven people, most of them look high all day. They go out and Rev a Harley at 3am, they burn plastic been our houses in a fire pit, they have a new dog every two weeks because they keep getting out and getting hit by...
Chill HOAs for stuff like rusted wrecks on the front lawn, totally understandable. But the HOAs around here have $500-$1,000 a month fees, which seems excessive to say the least.
No idea, a very mid looking condo, lol. It’s not apparent what the funds are going towards as the condos were small and built in 2007. No parks or other amenities to maintain.
A Louisiana man has been sentenced to decades in prison and physical castration after pleading guilty to raping a teenager, according to a news release from the region’s district attorney....
Look, this guy is obviously a monster, but castrating someone doesn’t undo the harm. That’s just barbaric. Hard labor making license plates all day? Sure. Long sentence? I could see that.
We gotta have some moral minimums, though. Stuff like execution and castration is too far. What if they have the wrong guy? Even if it was him, mutilating their bodies is not what we should be doing on this continent.
I think Nintendo will probably try to hit a great pricepoint for parents instead of high performance. The last powerful Nintendo console that I’m aware of was the Gamecube.
We played 1,000 hours of Elite Dangerous together during the duration of the pandemic. Turns out he’s a great skier and a hell of a good cook, too. We are in the process of getting engaged after dating for two years :)
Hiringa, with partners fuel supplier Waitomo Group and Australasia’s largest heavy vehicle fleet owner TR Group, on Tuesday opened three green hydrogen stations, with a fourth under way, within the North Island’s economic “golden triangle” of freight movement.
German teenagers and young adults find themselves increasingly unsatisfied and likely to vote for the far right, according to a survey. Fears about prosperity are highlighted as a possible cause....
After living in left and right states for many years, there is a stupid amount of common ground over stuff like solar, right to repair, rent control and housing, railway infrastructure, healthcare costs, quality careers and compensation, education costs and more.
We might see something like solar for different reasons (climate change vs. energy independence), but there’s ways of rephrasing a solution to have it both ways.
The only thing that really seems to get in the way are petty online disagreements that then snowball into stuff like accusing people of shitting in litterboxes, hypothesising that gender diverse people started an international war or accusing people of genocide because their underwear was just revealed to be made in a super repressive country. That’s the noise that prevents us from getting shit like bullet trains in or healthcare costs drawn down.
Glad they are doing this. I don’t mind seasons too much, but I start to feel kinda exhausted if the station or maps are just completely overwhelmed by seasonal changes and not just the base game stuff.
I do hope they add more mission types eventually. Would like to see kinda…L4D2-style “Get from PT A to B safehouse” before completing a major objective deeper in with limited supplies. Deep dives feel too much like standard missions in this regard, to me. I’d like to see more variety, at least.
Underground lakes, rivers, and water sounds that affect navigation or gameplay could be interesting, too. Pondskater enemies, diving sections, etc.
We had to choose 12 [overgrown bike paths] just as a good round number, I reckon there’s probably 15 to 20 that you could probably make into really decent routes today.”
Exactly how many more bike lanes lie dormant under grass verges is unknown, but by comparing various accounts, Reid has concluded that around 500 miles (805km) of bicycle tracks were built. So far, he has found 190 miles (306km), partly by checking satellite imagery on 1930s-era roads, and partly by delving into newspaper records and highways meeting minutes. One road at a time, he is uncovering this network of cycle tracks.
This is super cool!! I hope they uncover all of them.
This reminds me a lot of Seattle’s old streetcar network from the early 1910s which can still be seen today by a number of oddly wide roads. If your city has strangely wide, gently curving roads, there’s a decent chance it used to be part of an old trolley system. Many of those rails are still there, buried under decades of asphalt and concrete.
Ironically, some are just now beginning to have streetcars again or a mix of protected bike lanes and streetcars (and cars, unfortunately).
Work is set to begin Monday on a $12 billion high-speed passenger rail line between Las Vegas and the Los Angeles area, with officials projecting millions of ticket-buyers will be boarding trains by 2028....
At this point, we need to start somewhere. Boring under the city would be insanely expensive. Especially since this is a private company. Someday, we will have a politician with the balls to lay out a vast plan like the highway network of the 50s or the space program of the 60s. However, even babysteps like this are good.
Gotta take the W where you can and prove that HSR is a completely viable option in this country, just like literally everywhere else, haha.
Selling the power to other regions is alright, but what I’d really like to see is pumped storage. Even just two grey water reservoirs- massive, probably underground. “Spend” all that free electricity during the solar day. Release that energy as hydropower during the mornings and evenings to reduce surge pricing and demand on the grid. Sell additional power as needed, but don’t let solar go to waste.
Batteries are…okay… but lithium ion cells will last 10 or 15 years before needing to be replaced, which seems wasteful when we have perfectly reusable options like pumped storage, which involves a few pumps, a hydroelectric turbine, and two cement or dirt reservoirs, one higher than the other.
I’m sure whatever we do, it will fix itself in time. I just hope CA doesn’t permanently cut incentives over this “problem”, haha.
Why do mobile games suck nowadays?
In the last 5-7 years I’ve noticed that mobile games have devolved info always online p2w shit...
China launches world’s largest electric container ship with 50 MWh battery (thedriven.io)
Don't make perfection the enemy of progress (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
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US buys 81 Soviet-era combat aircraft from Russia's ally costing on average less than $20,000 each, report says (www.businessinsider.com)
The US has purchased 81 Soviet-era combat aircraft from Kazakhstan, the Kyiv Post reports....
How do you get rid of bad neighbors?
So our neighbors have been a growing problem for a few months now. They seem to be a flop house for six or seven people, most of them look high all day. They go out and Rev a Harley at 3am, they burn plastic been our houses in a fire pit, they have a new dog every two weeks because they keep getting out and getting hit by...
Just for counting? For speed also? (lemmy.world)
Yeah I know these are used for counting vehicles but can they also be used for detecting vehicle speed?...
Louisiana man sentenced to 50 years in prison, physical castration for raping teen (www.cbsnews.com)
A Louisiana man has been sentenced to decades in prison and physical castration after pleading guilty to raping a teenager, according to a news release from the region’s district attorney....
Nintendo Switch 2 Will Be A "Conservative Hardware Evolution"; To Feature Full Backward Compatibility, 1080p Screen (wccftech.com)
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ByteDance won't sell TikTok, would rather pull it from the US (www.androidauthority.com)
[Trailer] "The Glassworker" : Pakistan's First-Ever 2D Animated Film (youtu.be)
New Biden rule would make 4 million white-collar workers eligible for overtime pay (www.usatoday.com)
The Biden administration on Tuesday announced a new rule that would make millions of white-collar workers newly eligible for overtime pay....
Hydrogen trucks are coming (www.nzherald.co.nz)
Hiringa, with partners fuel supplier Waitomo Group and Australasia’s largest heavy vehicle fleet owner TR Group, on Tuesday opened three green hydrogen stations, with a fourth under way, within the North Island’s economic “golden triangle” of freight movement.
You can now buy a flame-throwing robot dog for under $10,000 (arstechnica.com)
Pessimistic young Germans turning to far right, says study (www.dw.com)
German teenagers and young adults find themselves increasingly unsatisfied and likely to vote for the far right, according to a survey. Fears about prosperity are highlighted as a possible cause....
Deep Rock Galactic is rolling out a feature to let you play old seasons (www.pcgamer.com)
How bike lanes sidelined cyclists: unearthing 190 miles of 1930s cycle lanes (www.globalcyclingnetwork.com)
hmmm (lemmy.world)
Gotta keep your head on a swivel (sh.itjust.works)
From Sin City to the City of Angels, building starts on high-speed rail line (apnews.com)
Work is set to begin Monday on a $12 billion high-speed passenger rail line between Las Vegas and the Los Angeles area, with officials projecting millions of ticket-buyers will be boarding trains by 2028....
Rooftop solar panels are flooding California’s grid. That’s a problem. As electricity prices go negative, the Golden State is struggling to offload a glut of solar power (wapo.st)
I’ll note that right now, this is a seasonal issue, associated with moderate springtime temperatures when there is a lot of sunshine available.