It’s a bit of a reductionist and humorous argument here but they weighed “Stopping the Industrial Revolution” against “Certain Death”, and decided that maybe the people of the future would be wiser than they were and invent a solution to the problem, similar to how they invented the steam engine to solve the issue of manual and animal labor.
Obviously that didn’t really work out, because the people of the future did in fact, invent a solution, but it was completely ignored in lieu of profit-seeking.
Somehow the problem invented was technological, spanned into the natural, but the solution pending was sociopolitical.
I know you’re going to be downvoted, but you really underestimate how good hot dogs are at a barbecue.
Serving people salads at a grill outing is a way to lose friends, giving them vegan hot dogs without telling them is a way for them to consider eating less meat. C:
Weird. Marijuana has an iconic, skunk-like / rotten bologna smell to me. I can smell someone smoking up to maybe 500 feet away, sometimes from the inside of my car. It’s a deeply repugnant smell.
The strange thing being, I’ve smelled the actual flowers and the plant up close, and it just smells like grass. It only smells like shit when it’s burning, oddly enough.
No idea why. Everything about the “natural smell” up close screams “this is a plant and can’t harm you in any way shape or form”. That specific experience made me in favor of decriminalization.
Samuel Vimes is personally responsible for my pair of good boots and he isn’t even real.
I went mountain climbing on Saturday and the good boots saved my life. Sometimes it isn’t about feeling the cobbles beneath your feet in the streets of Ankh-Morpor, but about the god damned sharp rocks climbing Mt. Erebus, and the fact that one slip means certain death.
Oh, and speaking of death, he loves mountain climbers. He doesn’t even have to do his job.
TLDR: It’s a great concept but it’s about 100× more exhausting than you imagine.
I absolutely love stuff like this, and I also love cycling.
However, there is a big caveat here: I’ve been cycling for years and know my own power output:
Output – Time Window – Heart Rate
1400 W* | 60 seconds | 208 bpm
385 W | 20 minutes | 162 bpm
148 W | 6 hours | 110 bpm
*(yes, I know. My thighs are larger than some people’s torsos and it scares me too)
That means that on average, around 13 and ½ hours of pedalling to charge this thing. (2 KWh is also worth $0.68¢ where I live at standard residential rates).
Pedal power is amazing for things like charging phones or powering small devices and computers though, or for something completely meta: Charging up a eBike or electric scooter (120W), to then use without pedalling later.
Which then begs the question – if our “human/person power output” is like 150 watts constant … and the sun provides 1.4 kW/m² of energy – why not just lay down a 150W photovoltaic solar panel ($89) in the sun and sip on some unsweetened iced tea instead?
It’s a really good business idea that I’ve had more than once – a self sustaining “green gym”.
Members would leave their electronic devices in special hardened lockers, plug them in, and then go to work out, and the power from central battery bank would then charge everything that’s in the lockers.
I also had an idea for credit system where the more power you generated the cheaper your monthly bill/subscription would be for the gym (only a few bucks here and there), or some kind of perks, like a free t-shirt once a year if you generated over 1 MWh (1000 kWh) or whatever.
The power generated by such a place would probably be negligible but it would give people the same emotional high as other pro-social tasks.
Haha, I wish – they call it the hour record for a reason!
I’ve got explosive short-term speed, but it doesn’t last, and I get dropped within 20 minutes, as my power output dips below the optimized pros who can do 400W constantly for entire Tour stages.
I remember some interview with Warren where they were talking about the idea for the game and it was like “What if it was every single conspiracy theory, but they were all true?”
Well it turns out that makes for a pretty compelling story but also far too many of those ended up coming true, lol
Now there's no point in ever leaving (lemmy.world)
The science was never the problem (lemmy.world)
Vegan hotdogs // Veggie "Completo Italiano" (aggregatet.org)
Although it does not mention any vegan variation, there is a wikipedia article about the “completos”.
1-bit LLMs Could Solve AI’s Energy Demands (spectrum.ieee.org)
Keep it up Two Scoops! That report will be a doozy! (lemm.ee)
How to find great Chinese food (lemmy.world)
Ant smell (mander.xyz)
Believe what you see, not what you’re told (sh.itjust.works)
Very real, debilitating symptoms absolutely caused by an electric car (sh.itjust.works)
You can tell it’s true by, uh, some of the facts...
Most people are only half-listening (lemmy.world)
Psspspspsps (lemmy.world)
Louisiana becomes 1st state to require the Ten Commandments be posted in classrooms (www.nola.com)
Winamp has announced that it is opening up its source code to enable collaborative development of its legendary player for Windows (about.winamp.com)
Thinking about getting into helldivers- what should I expect
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Are We Really Going to Let Trump Come Back to Fail Again? (www.nytimes.com)
For many millions of Americans, time seemed to move differently under President Donald Trump....
Exercise bike that can store 2KWh of electricity (mastodon.social)
This is an industrial designed exercise bike from Lithuania that can store 2KWh of electricity generated by your own exercise.
Chilling (mander.xyz)
Sam Altman says instead of Universal Basic Income, there should be Universal Basic Compute, where everybody gets a slice of GPT-7's compute (nitter.poast.org)
Thank you sir, I didn’t know the way to fix ailing welfare states was to make ChatGPT available to all....
It'll never happen (lemmy.world)
Northern lights dazzle over UK, Europe and across the hemisphere (www.theguardian.com)
Aurora borealis sightings further south than usual from Ireland and Britain to Czech Republic and Germany as solar storm hits Earth’s atmosphere
Houseplants (lemmy.world)
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