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9point6

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  • Oooh the beaver is half submerged, that took longer than I'd have hoped

  • Time travel

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  • Dino-mo

  • Time travel

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  • Oh don't get me wrong, our intrepid adventurers are going to have to spend a good chunk of time on this with no guarantee they live long enough.

    However assuming knowledge isn't a gap (given they already built a time machine), iron ore is fairly abundant in many areas of the world, and it's relatively straightforward to build a kiln that would reach the appropriate temperatures to smelt the iron into bloom (that can be hammered into workable iron)

    It'll take many, many years, but assuming they can avoid ending up as food, it doesn't seem impossible

  • Time travel

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  • Assuming Dr. Stone is some kind of MacGyver regen:

    Two obvious approaches to me that I'll run through in high level: build a wind/watermill generators or potato/lemon batteries

    First thing you'll need to figure out for both is how to make some wire. That's going to require finding some metal ore and a hot furnace, and creating a few tools out of stone to work with it.

    The biggest difficulty with the former two is going to be finding some ferrous metal to turn into magnets. You can make a magnet without electricity by smashing the shit out of some iron as it's aligned with the earth's magnetic field, and it'll become a weak magnet. From there with enough wire, you can build a generator. With the sails of the mill, you can build that out of wood and foliage.

    For potato or lemon batteries, you're going to need a shitload, as they give you about a volt and a pretty tiny current, but theoretically you could figure something out that way with enough. I imagine some things may want to eat your batteries though

  • Do you block accounts that post with very high frequency?

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  • There's a fair few high volume posters who are definitely not bots, just terminally online (said with love!)

    That's not to say there aren't bots that show up, but it's definitely not all the high volume accounts

    I think the only ones I've blocked are mostly just obviously malicious, I think there's a one or two on there from ages ago I just found kinda unfunny, it's not really tied to the volume of posts.

    There's not an endless amount of content here anyway, so I'm not gonna block someone just for contributing a lot, there needs to be some negative aspect to the posting for me to block

  • Lute Hero

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  • Does anyone else have it where they see an image of the guitar hero neck and instantly get the intro to "through the fire and flames" in their head

    I played so many songs on that game, why not some variety, brain!

  • Are there natural fertilizers that do not come from animal poop?

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  • Not gonna pretend I'm an expert or anything, but

    What about compost?

    I think I've read that seaweed can be good too, but I'm not sure if that's more of an addition rather than a replacement

    I'm pretty sure most fertilisers you get come from either animal waste or petrochemicals

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    Publicly funded BBC invites borderline fascist from a rival news organisation to guest panel a news programme...

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  • BBC in recent years has (arguably maliciously when you look at some of the backgrounds of the recent show runners of things like question time) been presenting two views as equivalently valid when one is from a genuinely respected expert in whatever field is being discussed and another is from racist Barry from the pub who drove a leaded petrol car for a few too many years.

    Presenting two sides as equal is not impartial, it gives extremists a platform to amplify their platform.

    The paradox of tolerance follows that we should actively avoid platforming bad-faith extremists. Let alone presenting their views as reasonable.

  • PlayStation will no longer be offering games on disc

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  • A 128GB blu ray should be sufficient for basically any game

    Up to 256GB over two disks should be more than enough

  • E Jean Carroll asks judge to order Donald Trump to pay $5m he owes her

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  • Hahahaha, that last part is new on me and incredible! Thanks for sharing

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    Donald Trump is alive and taking a flight to North Dakota today on his newly unveiled bribe plane

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  • Remember they gave the plane to him, not the government.

    What's the betting he doesn't get the paint job changed after he's dragged out of office

  • Some say tech peaked in 2013 in terms of pre-enshitification. What year do you think it peaked and why?

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  • 2013 is too late, the machinations of the Cambridge Analytica scandal had already begun at that point.

    I think about 2010 was when big tech peaked at being at least viewed as a predominantly utopian force (if not necessarily actually being one). Social media was still mostly social, rather than a side effect of an advertising business. Recommendation algorithms were relatively rudimentary, where they existed at all. Smartphones apps were not dopamine factories designed to be psychologically addictive.

    After that was roughly the beginning of "disruptive" tech and a big expansion of surveillance tech.

  • Sony Deletes 551 Movies PlayStation Owners Paid For

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  • Saying this as someone with several digital libraries of different kinds of media, some with around 2 decades of far too much impulsive purchasing:

    If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't theft.

    Any company that pulls this kind of shit, guarantees I never spend a penny with them going forward. I support anyone pirating from Sony as a morally justified action.

  • Scammers Sell Seeds for Exotic AI-Generated Flowers That Don’t Exist

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  • I don't think the product actually existing is something scammers are typically concerned about

  • What's one book everyone should read at least once in their lifetime?

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  • Oh I've never actually read that one, thanks for the rec, I've not read 1984 in a good decade or so now, so that seems a good way refresh my mind

  • What's one book everyone should read at least once in their lifetime?

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  • Feels pretty cliche to say them, but

    1984, the handmaid's tale and brave new world

    Should probably be on anyone's list that hasn't managed to get to them yet

  • Google kills Tenor GIF API, forcing changes at X, Discord, and more

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  • I mean, you're kinda describing what they actually did

    Google music was less killed, more rebranded as YouTube Music (but they did launch new app UIs at the same time that were missing various features from the old ones,). I've still got the same library of music I uploaded in Google Music that doesn't exist in their standard library, and you can still upload today.

    Being able to have my hundreds of playlists from over the years complete with all the obscure remixes and unreleased bootlegs on them, is pretty much the only reason I still use it over something like Spotify

  • Calm down, Pepto

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  • "in a lab", or "in nature"

    This distinction is meaningless for the purpose of this conversation

    They said octahedral molecules, those are common enough that I think you find several kinds of them in mineral water.

    compound

    Compounds are not molecules

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  • Pick something relatively easy to grow (tomatoes are pretty straightforward in many places), and just try to get produce from it.

    Once you have a result, then you can look at improving your approach.

    No point running before you can walk, you're only going to be able to learn so much without actually trying stuff. Plus, if you already have soil to put stuff in, you're starting out better than I did. My stuff is growing in pots.

    You're getting a bit late in the year to maximise most crops (if northern hemisphere) but that doesn't mean there's no point, so just throw shit at the wall to see what sticks. Seeds are cheap, and failed plants can still make compost as well as provide a learning opportunity