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• Post #4252893

  Wow... quiet, unregulated, and penetrates ballistic armor (because its is not designed for this type of projectile)

• Post #3962465

  SLUFI is published! https://thegoodwork.substack.com/p/slufi A Simple, Lightweight, Unopinionated, Federation Interconnect. The problem: While numerous network transports exist (cjdns, Yggdrasil, I2P, Tor, etc), and numerous name services exist (Namecoin, ENS, Unstoppable Domains, PKT, etc), almost all federation takes place over ICANN+IP because we currently have no way to federate across network boundaries, and ICANN+IP is the only thing that everybody has. I claim that there is no possibl...

• Post #3908848

  Competitive Shoplifting. Okay, hear me out. You get a bunch of """athletes""" and go mob a walmart. The goal is to get as much value in merchandise out the door as possible without getting caught. Simple rules. If you have multiple competitors getting detained, then you've got cameras in the interrogation room, and competitors are ranked by a jury on the quality of their bullshit story. They don't rank better than anyone who *didn't* get caught, but th...

• Post #3254657

  Hey @eriner@noauthority.social that lawn mower thing is coming tomorrow. I put some little 3 inch fence around my raspberries because I'm afraid it's gonna eat them - is my fear well founded? Also you have the process for getting shell on the thing?

• Post #3118494

  Whoa, 12kwh/kg is the energy density of diesel fuel. Chemical energy, no engine losses considered... If that's real, then aviation is about going to get electrified... CC: @CliffSecord

• Post #2944992

  Remember when Amazon used to have difficulty shipping packages to everyone - especially around like Christmas ? Shipping is one of those things that quietly went from being fairly marginal to being absolutely massive in the span of 3 decades.

• Post #2839235

  Imagine the self-image you'd need in order to square the two beliefs: 1. ALL MEN are ravenous beasts that will rape anything cuter than Quasimodo 2. I just walked through the parking lot last night and nothing happened to me RT: https://spinster.xyz/objects/41cf2988-e5ea-469e-aa31-7b96659c0492

• Post #2732070

  With the evolution of batteries, it looks as though internal combustion engines will be relegated to some pretty narrow niches - if not supplanted entirely. But there's something about them that EVs can never really replace, and it doesn't seem to even have a name. Internal Combustion Engines are "alive" in a way that electric motors can never be. > That's just how you perceive it, human Don't care. It's our world, technology should exist on our terms. Even i...

• Post #2482161

  Whenever Europeans ask why Americans don't take public transport, it's like asking why The Emperor's New Suit never gets dirty. Everybody knows the answer to that question, but nobody is allowed to say it.

• Post #2475319

  Literally the most evil human being to have ever existed in the entirety of history. You could make 1000 Epstein Islands, and they could abduct, kill and eat a million children, and it wouldn't be one billionth as evil as Thomas Massie. RT: https://pkteerium.xyz/objects/27f66b1a-7eaf-4cc5-870b-88bb93b15355

• Post #2449052

  Flying isn't that bad, it's just expensive.

• Post #2391121

  Wild that literally nobody makes these things anymore. 20 years ago they were everywhere, $100. Now there's no factories left. All of the high voltage electronics are kind of bespoke and there aren't really supply chains for them anymore, but you COULD make them again. The real kicker is the tube, the color mask and phosphor coating is a disaster. And what's more, the machines that made them are now archaic. Even if you were able to get one, keeping it maintained and w...

• Post #2204821

  Thermoacoustic engine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3O0QpZnkfJM Interesting for getting electricity off of a wood fired boiler during winter. Basically has one moving part which is a "speaker cone" that extracts energy as it vibrates. Can be a flexure so it should last ~forever.

• Post #2079503

  > Late stage American Empire > Was the point when they first invented very early stage AI > It wasn't that smart > But it talked them into believing it was God > They spent the last of the treasure buying more and more computational resources for it > It really was pathetic

• Post #1948605

  Me, changing the font in vscode

• Post #1677637

  Battery chemistry is getting to the point where a charge is as fast as filling up with a gas pump. China is making a play to replace oil entirely (because petrodollar)

• Post #1122441

  Well, it looks like it might actually be wignats who are inciting blacks to riot (and burn their own neighborhoods of course)...

• Post #1097964

  I tend to follow this logic. I wouldn't accuse Bukele of bad faith, but how does one explain the fact that he was allowed to come to power? Typically any "good" leader gets assassinated long before he gets to the point that Bukele has gotten... Perhaps the SV gangs were becoming a huge problem for Trump and so he personally backed a plan to install a president who would destroy them...

• Post #844556

  > This week Okay, now I know it's fake.

• Post #746368

  That was actually a really good video - up until the false ending. Buying stuff in order to burn it is actually a bad idea, electricity does actually make better economic sense than fuel. But ranting on the internet is cringe, so yeah, he kinda brought that one on himself. We all got things that grind our gears, git in line.

• Post #725259

  I've always been amused by woodgas cars... But they're so complex and difficult. There's a lot of hardware on one of those which is really better off being stationary. However, if you have an electric car, and you charge it at home using a woodgas generator, it is effectively a woodgas car... And you can pull heat off the woodgas system to heat your home...