For those that haven't yet discovered them, reusable cable ties exist. They make keeping cables properly coiled a lot easier. No more rat kings!
So far, at least in the UK.
Old.reddit.com still lets you bypass that.
There are 3 use cases I've seen.
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Making fossil fuel power stations "clean".
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CO2 recovery for long term storage.
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CO2 for industrial use.
It's no good for the first, due to energy consumption. This is the main use I've seen it talked up for, as something that can be retrofitted to power plants.
It's poor for the second, since the result is a gas (hard to store long term). We would want it as a solid or liquid product, which this doesn't do.
The last has limited requirements. We only need so much CO2.
The only large scale use case I can see for this is as part of a carbon capture system. Capture and then react to solidify the carbon. However, plants are already extremely good at this, and can do it directly from atmospheric air, using sunlight.
Just checked the numbers, for those interested.
A gas power plant produces around. 200-300kWh per tonne of CO2.
Capture costs 300-900kWh per tonne captured.
So this is basically non viable using fossil fuel as the power. If you aren't, then storage of that power is likely a lot better.
It's also worth noting that it is still CO2 gas. Long term containment of a gas is far harder than a liquid or solid.
The difference between a joke and bullying is entirely down to the victim. They are allowed to be as sensitive as they want. "Its just a joke" tries to turn it back on them. The only reasonable response is along the lines of "I intended it as a joke, but obviously screwed up. I'm sorry. "
The only grey area are those who are happy to dish it out, but not receive. You should expect people to wind you up to the same level you wind them/others to.
It's context dependent. Some fields are inherently batch work. E.g. TV. In these cases, unions can allow contractors to set pay baselines etc, without a race to the bottom. Otherwise big companies can try and play us off against each other.
E.g. BECTU (uk tv union) organised a strike against a company last year, after they changed their invoice pay time to 3 months.
We got stuck in a weird halfway point between imperial and metric. We are mostly metric, with a few holdovers. Road speeds being the biggest one.
That makes me nervous as well. Hopefully, there are enough people involved to know not to kill the golden goose for a quick buck.
Ultimately it's a slow and steady strategy. There goal is long term profitability, not short term gains. In the long term, the best strategy is not to piss off your customers.
The advantage of this is that it can snowball to impressive levels. At least until a exec with more education than brains does a pump and run on it. A mistake steam seems to know to avoid.
For those who haven't tried it. Gingerbread houses are both a lot easier to make, and great fun. My 4 year old and I had a wonderful evening together baking, building and decorating ours.
Has anyone else tried making one this year?
All hail the lemming of Lemmy!
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Nope.
It's down to you to either read the room correctly or apologise for getting it wrong. You just don't get judged too harshly for the first offence.