Skyrmir

joined 2 years ago
[–] Skyrmir 1 points 2 days ago (12 children)

Ok, try aluminum. Used to be super rare, rarely used. Now you can't throw a cat without hitting some. Production efficiency went through the roof, price dropped like a rock, and suddenly there's aluminum things everywhere. Efficiency created far greater demand due to the drop in cost. Energy is even more useful than aluminum, it literally makes aluminum. And yet, we're using less, as we get more efficient at making it.

[–] Skyrmir 8 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Human eggs are about the largest single cell humans produce, about 0.1mm in diameter.

But human eggs don't provide nutrients to the fetus, they grow the placenta to do that. So over all the entire process would have to change to something probably impossible. Consider the ostrich lays the largest egg now, and ostriches are larger than humans. Humans that would need a far larger egg.

The math just doesn't work for humans to have a hard shell egg.

[–] Skyrmir 8 points 2 days ago

They're counting on never being accountable again.

[–] Skyrmir -1 points 2 days ago

Google " total energy consumption" and pick your source. There's literally hundreds. It's an overall trend in most Western countries. Coal usage has dropped globally, renewable is up everywhere, which is all great and hopefully continues. Overall though, power consumption has stopped increasing 15 to 20 years ago.

[–] Skyrmir -3 points 2 days ago (14 children)

Efficiency lowers demand, which lowers prices, which should create opportunity for expansion and higher demand. Except prices have been rising, profits have been rising, and real energy investment has been flat. And you can see it across the entire western economy, not just the US. It's great that we've been moving to clean energy, the problem is that we're doing less over all as a civilization.

Think of it this way, fusion power is about to be an actual thing, making cheap clean energy on tap for the planet. And we're just going to sit and watch it glow, because no one can figure out what to do with limitless energy.

[–] Skyrmir 2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Very rarely. Most of the people like this feel repulsed by the suffering of others, not moved to empathy. That's the broken part of them that makes them right wing in the first place.

[–] Skyrmir 1 points 3 days ago

It's definitely a fun game. The chapter system gives it a good depth of game with a count down. Makes for an interesting game with an ending in a reasonable amount of time. We didn't try the campaign, hopefully next time.

[–] Skyrmir 2 points 3 days ago

Shh, he's listening to tomorrow's squirrels

[–] Skyrmir 53 points 3 days ago (5 children)

She wouldn't care, they weren't her kids.

[–] Skyrmir 63 points 3 days ago (7 children)

Turns out the guy that killed him was an asshole.

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