neutronicturtle

neutronicturtle, 16 days ago

Waste from nuclear weapons is not the same as waste from commercial nuclear power plants.

neutronicturtle, 16 days ago

Cars are also not safe, especially at 200+ km/h but somehow it’s OK to drive them this fast in Germany.

Edit: What I want to say is that there is no absolute safety.

neutronicturtle, 4 months ago

Unfortunately use of fossil fuels also continues to hit record numbers year after year.

neutronicturtle, 9 months ago

I think it’s an error. It’s should likely be Nissan Quashqai. Or Hyundai ix35/Tucson.

neutronicturtle, 9 months ago

Generally for extended periods you would pedal with something like 100 - 200 W while small electric compressors seem to be in > 1 kW region (and don’t get tired as quickly :D).

So basically with pedal power you could feasibly run some led lights and portable electronics but anything beyond this is not practical.

neutronicturtle, 9 months ago

I wonder what the round up efficiency is like.

neutronicturtle, 9 months ago

Language is interesting in this way. Same words in different contexts mean different things.

“Based on true events” = “Contains traces of what actually happened”

“Plant based” = “Does not contain animal products but can contain mushrooms even though they are not plants”

neutronicturtle, 9 months ago

It all depends on what is actually trying to be communicated. With your definition most meals would be plant based so why even bother to say it. With definition where plant based means no animal products it communicates that it is fine for vegans and it’s likely less offensive for people allergic to word “vegan”.

neutronicturtle, 9 months ago

It all depends on what is actually trying to be communicated. With your definition most meals would be plant based so why even bother to say it. With definition where plant based means no animal products it communicates that it is fine for vegans and it’s likely less offensive for people allergic to word “vegan”.

neutronicturtle, 9 months ago

(Established) scientists have a long history of ignoring new theories not science itself. But that’s because at the end of the day scientists are still human.

Science is not great at working on a very short time scales. But give it enough time so more evidence is gathered and possibly some stubborn influential people (that can’t accept a new theory) die and generally we get closer and closer to truth.

neutronicturtle, 9 months ago

How far back does it count? Humans originate from Africa so everything we do can be seen as Africans doing things with stuff from all over the planet. Or perhaps even that is not far enough. What’s the origin of the first mammal… The only contestant is change and life is good at mixing things up.

neutronicturtle, 9 months ago

Homo sapiens also doesn’t originate from Europe.

neutronicturtle, 10 months ago

“It worked so far. I wonder what I’m doing wrong now. I’m probably slipping. I just need to try (to be an asshole) harder.”

neutronicturtle, 10 months ago

How replayable is it?

neutronicturtle, 10 months ago

For me it comes down to basically having more and more things to feel worried/anxious about and fewer and fewer things to feel excited about every year. Partially I guess it is normal part of aging (but I’m supposed to be in my prime year for fucks sake) but there are also objectively shitty things that make it difficult to be hopeful that my mood/feelings about the world will improve. The acceleration in enshittification of the internet doesn’t help. At least Lemmy is a breath of fresh air in this regard.

neutronicturtle, 10 months ago

Indeed. Nicely worded.

And couple this with the fact that we are actively being conditioned that it is up to us to change things: “it’s your personal footprint that matters”, “vote with your wallet”… It’s not even that I disagree that personal action is important. It’s mostly that these narratives are a way for the corporations and governments to shift the blame from systemic to personal. And then we end up with feelings of paralysis because you can only do so much and guilt about not doing enough.

neutronicturtle, 10 months ago

To me many of the culture books start really slow/on the boring side but then they pick up and get really good. I really like how they often describe the culture not directly but through interaction with others.

neutronicturtle, 10 months ago

Indeed. It takes time.

And there needs to be an actual alternative to driving. You can’t just make driving worse and expect results. I’ve found that even small positive changes in alternative methods of commuting can have disproportionately positive effect. For example at work we simply installed better and more bike racks and it seems that after a while we have maybe twice the number of people regularly cycling compared to before. Basically because cycling accommodations got nicer a few more people started cycling and then others saw that it is not only feasible but also enjoyable so they started cycling… If we could only fix few sections of the road leading to our facility… Once can dream.

But yes, change takes time.

neutronicturtle, 10 months ago

One of my first weird (culture shocky) experiences from USA (Tennessee) during my first trip there was with a drive thru.

I wanted to grab something to eat in the evening and there was a fast food place just across the street from my hotel so I decided to walk there. Once there I realized that the main part of the restaurant is closed and only drive thru was open. Then as I was there on foot they wouldn't serve me so I ended up walking to a petrol station down the road to actually buy something to eat which was quite scary as there were no sidewalks and I had to cross 6 lanes to get to the station.

neutronicturtle, 10 months ago

Two things to consider:

1. Humans need to eat. The land needed for agriculture already covers significant percentage of the habitable land. About half based on our world in data [1]. Yes most of this is due to livestock so this can be significantly reduced but still.
2. Other species also need space to live. Even if you look at it in s strictly selfish fashion and disregard the right of other species to exist - we are part of the ecosystem so if it dies we die.

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/land-use

neutronicturtle, 10 months ago

Nice. You seem to have good trade system going :)

neutronicturtle, 10 months ago

Thank you for the heads up about tabletop minis community. Looks awesome.

neutronicturtle, 10 months ago

Definitely Plants only kitchen by Gaz Oakley. Whatever we prepared from this book was amazing and many of the recipes are relatively easy. And it has nice photos of foods!

neutronicturtle, 10 months ago

The Thing: The Boardgame is a really nice game that works well with larger group (up to 8 people). You are basically playing out the move.