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JohnDClay

@ JohnDClay @sh.itjust.works

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  • Why should someone join the Fediverse?

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  • If you use Reddit, but don't like the direction it's going, (more extractive, less user control) Lemmy is a good alternative. Same thing for Instagram or Twitter, pixelfed or mastodon are good alternatives for those. And they have the advantage that it's harder to make them universally worse in the future, since the infrastructure is more distributed.

  • Google Chrome disables uBlock Origin for some in Manifest v3 rollout

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  • I haven't actually found anything that doesn't work on Firefox on my personal computer. At work we also use Firefox, and some things don't work on it, but some things don't work on chrome or edge either, it's a hodge poge.

  • What's your go-to long form Youtuber?

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  • For long form,

    Bobby Broccoli, ~1hr videos on science scandals https://youtube.com/@bobbybroccoli

    Defunctland, 30m to 1h45m videos on defunct theme parks and rides https://youtube.com/@defunctland

    Your dinosaurs are wrong, 15m to 1h45m videos on comparing toy dinosaurs to the most up to date research https://youtube.com/@yourdinosaursarewrong

    2nd on Drachinifel, 7m to 1h45m videos on naval History https://youtube.com/@drachinifel

    Perun, 1h videos on defense economics https://youtube.com/@perunau

    Diplo Strats, 2h to 6h videos on diplomacy the board game, like risk on massive steroids https://youtube.com/@diplostrats

  • What's your go-to long form Youtuber?

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  • Not exactly long from, but I agree they're great!

  • who got rich with gov't money??

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  • Looks like state subsidies, not federal?

    On a smaller scale, SpaceX, Musk’s rocket company, cut a deal for about $20 million in economic development subsidies from Texas to construct a launch facility there.

    Included in the local subsidies is a 15-year property tax break from the local school district worth $3.1 million to SpaceX. O

  • who got rich with gov't money??

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  • who got rich with gov't money??

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  • Which SpaceX subsidies are you referring to? Just the contracts they're fulfilling for NASA and the DOD?

  • who got rich with gov't money??

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  • So would only Tesla not be able to get ev tax credits? The other big manufacturers also have huge pull in government. Though I agree having Elon making decisions is a disaster and extremely prone to abuse.

  • who got rich with gov't money??

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  • They do. That's what these subsidies are. But it does mean Tesla can change more.

  • who got rich with gov't money??

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  • Sure, but that doesn't change whether subsidies should be granted or not.

  • who got rich with gov't money??

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  • Cutting EV subsidies would lead to more gas cars, which isn't good. Investing in public transit would be better, but encouraging EVs is also good.

  • Entropy? Never heard of it.

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  • Yeah, but then you need to cut them down and burry them so that decomposition doesn't release the co2 again. And it takes a lot of land, which can be prohibitive on the scale we'll need.

    Another interesting option is fertilizing parts of the ocean for algie to grow. Cody'sLab has an interesting video on a possible way to do that with intentionally crashing astroids into the ocean. https://youtu.be/z7u_IqzkJzE https://youtu.be/2zQb_OitsaY/?t=13m40s

    All of these, plus mechanical direct air carbon capture are methods of carbon capture. The right answer will likely be some mix of all of them.

  • Entropy? Never heard of it.

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  • Even if we went to zero emissions soon, we'd still want to decrease CO2 over time to reverse the effects of climate change. Capturing co2 is always going to be much more energy intensive than not emitting it in the first place, but sometimes you don't have another choice.

  • Clickbait asteroid

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  • There's a great video by Scott Manly on the subject if you want to learn more. It'd smaller than some nukes we've tested, and would land somewhere around the equator between the Atlantic and China if it does hit. It looks surprisingly feasible to deflect, but it'd be a time crunch to put a mission together in only a couple of months. Plus it might deflect it into hitting a different country.

    https://youtu.be/kK5IXX4p2d0

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  • MIT builds swarms of tiny robotic insect drones that can fly 100 times longer than previous designs

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  • Looks like they hovered for 1000 seconds. It was previously stress limited such that the joints would break after just a few seconds. I think they might still be tethered for a power source, I haven't seen any of these micro flapping bots include a battery yet, and they didn't mention that they did.

    https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scirobotics.adp4256

  • If scientists could make you immortal but could only do it by transferring your consciousness into a single video game for ever, which game would you choose?

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  • Immortality can be scary. Eternity is an unfathomably long time. SCP-7179

  • If scientists could make you immortal but could only do it by transferring your consciousness into a single video game for ever, which game would you choose?

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  • Minecraft really has the most creative potential of any game I can think of, especially when you include mods.

  • Failure

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  • Isn't training till failure a really bad plan? It'll cause damage that's really hard to heal from.