The wind farm (singular) they’re tearing down have been abandoned for 4 years now because the company that owned them went bust; bad placement was apparently to blame for these specific windmills being useless, doesn’t mean they’re 100% switching back to coal.
Also, I think they’d move the windmills if it is at all possible to not scrap them.
“Please don’t.” looks lovingly but fearfully at her two year old daughter “He’ll… He won’t like it.”
Sorry to anyone who may have PTSD related to abuse, my point is this…
@rivalary SAY THAT AGAIN, YOU SON OF A BASTARD, I FUCKING DARE ANYONE TO SAY YOU AREN’T AN ENTITLED ASSHOLE WHO HAS THE MONEY AND CONNECTIONS TO JUST UP AND LEAVE IF YOUR RELATIVELY FREE COUNTRY STARTS TO ACTUALLY TAX YOU! TRY LEAVING NORTH KOREA AS A NORTH KOREAN PEASANT AND SEE HOW EASY IT IS TO “jUsT fUcKiNg LeAvE”!
Ideally. Unfortunately, the people doing the buybacks now are no different than 19th century industrial barons; once they have a household name due to sheer wealth, they stop pretending (if they even bothered to in the first place) that they’re in any way good people.
Ah. Okay, that ruins the coolness but if that’s the case I’m not going to try and bet on a dead horse.
More like “no measurement without action” and “action = modification” but I get the reference, yes.
Sadly, IIRC, measuring an entangled particle on one end changes the result on that end, despite the other end trying to be the one that changes it.
I mean, it’s a Yin-Yang symbol. That’s some spooky coincidence right there. That, or someone in Asia once had a very weird dream/drug trip like when DNA was discovered to be a double-helix.
It would be, except it’s apparently been calculated that quantum entanglement doesn’t work that way.
Yeah, the theme is “Don’t underestimate Neanderthals, they’re pretty much the granddaddy of Homo sapiens”. Or in short, “primitive, not unintelligent”.
The OpenTTD community does sometimes. Not that it matters much.
I’m going to go the devil’s advocate route and say most managers are less effective at THEIR job in WFH situations.
Of course, it could just be that middle management is obsolete but that doesn’t explain why the CEOs aren’t just laying off firing a bunch of middle management.
Then go join a Lemmy community that’s focused on activism. I get it, I’m absolutely furious at these numbers and how many kids are suffering, and that a democraticly-elected leader is targeting a specific ethnic group is even worse, it’s just that no one tapped or clicked this topic to find anything that wasn’t related to space travel.
Please, for the sake of succeeding in your cause, go post somewhere that is designed for activism like Change.org
Absolutely. My dad plays the flight simulator X-Plane, he says that if these pilots can even make it to being airlines certified, they are most definitely experts in their field.
Also, FAA records are a big log to go through; they store everything, so you can see reports as far back as the beginning of civil aviation. 1948 was 75 years ago, aerospace is no computer science but it’s a distant second followed by a much more distant third. Imagine the difference between the deHavilland Comet and the Boeing 787 in terms of how many deaths occurred aboard the plane models and you have the magnitude of improvement gained by learning very, VERY well from every crash ever.
I honestly don’t get why my brother has aerophobia, I am far more terrified of passing on a two-way road and cloverleaf interchanges than an aircraft losing a major system, because unless that system is a wing or part of the tail, engineered redundancies make that kind of crash landing more survivable on average than the kind of black ice followed by post-crash blizzard bullshit I experienced in 2020.
Sorry, just a complaint about waiting an hour and a half for the ambulance when one of us accidentally undid her seatbelt in her sleep (pressure from her bag pressed the release button) and woke up with her jacket on top of her and her spine damaged by being slammed into the center panel.
My point is, cars are fucking terrifying compared to planes.
Then why not just kill yourself now? Rhetorical question, my point is fight to live or give up now
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No, seeing something that is damn well known to never have happened before causing massive damage while walking from home to my brother’s workplace is what gave me that impression.
My hometown flooded in 2017 and then 2018 and again this year. My current city of residence hasn’t seen a summer this cold since it was founded not in spite of but because the cities of Kelowna and Yellowknife are on-fucking-fire and the smoke is temporarily shielding this city from record-high heat waves. This isn’t normal, and the global average temperature, despite the common misconception, has never been this warm since the beginning of life on Earth.
My childhood wasn’t a conservative one, I’m not fearing this because it’s new. I fear it because it’s deadly.
Give them access to only two things: Amazon Kindle and/or Libby (no audiobooks) for learning how to read, and a Nintendo Switch or Steam Deck.
The game console should be loaded up with puzzle games like Crossniq+ or Tetris or Pokémon Shuffle, platformers like Super Mario Odyssey or Super Lucky’s Tale, and text-heavy and child-friendly RPGs like Pokémon or Squid Odyssey.
If you get a Nintendo Switch, subscribe to Nintendo Switch Online so your child can play emulated games from older consoles. The parental controls work with the emulation library IIRC and old RPGs will encourage your kid to learn to read them.
If you get a Steam Deck, it’s more complicated and there’s no parental control integration, but you can pirate the old console games and hand-pick which games are loaded onto the console in the first place.
I know you probably think this is just more screen time, but video games are far more mentally stimulating than purely passive TV/Movie content, healthier than YouTube for the 1-7 year old age group, and a hell of a lot healthier than TikTok.
Speaking of which, last piece of advice; If TikTok or a service similar to - or more addictive than - it still exists when your kid gets old enough for that kind of thing, don’t let them use it. It’s debatable how much dopamine addiction is a real thing, but TikTok is a seriously bad influence. You know the “boyfriend with a motorcycle and intentions that are most definitely not honorable” trope? TikTok is set up so that idiots who almost get themselves killed doing stupid things are given the biggest audiences by the sensationalist algorithm, and I know the peer pressure argument is iffy, but I can’t exactly trust idiot teenagers to not kill themselves trying to swallow a spoonful of cinnamon powder in a single gulp (yes, that could actually cause them to choke and suffocate) and I definitely don’t trust a platform that acts as a digital version of that one dumbass “friend” you had in high school who kept getting you into trouble by daring you to be a total yahoo in public.
Hopefully this helps, there’s no instruction manual for raising kids but don’t limit their experiences purely based on feelings. You’re right about video content but games and books (even comic books) are not at all the same in their effects on kid’s development.
Depends on the grayness of the orcish regime. My point being, if even America couldn’t nuke a country and get away with taking no responsibility (they took very little, but my point still stands regardless) then what makes you think Ukraine is going to enslave or kill the “orcs”? Warning, wall of text below.
Tl;dr: The orcs aren’t meant to be a metaphor for a race, they’re a metaphor for Victorian-era aristechnocratic factory and railway owners (Sauron) and their Pinkerton-style union-busting goons (tree-hating orcs).
Also tl;dr: The elves, on the other hand, are just because Tolkien made them to speak his con-lang pet project of a “High Elvish” language, go figure. Admittedly, my online persona is the main character in all three of my writing projects, so I definitely have no right to complain about putting in the work to make a world for a favored creation to interact with.
Rant begins now, feel free to ignore! If the foe who is about to conquer your country just blew up two cities and they’re offering near-equality, then you have “fantasy subversion” orcs or America just before the end of WWII, and I would certainly be relieved (at least with the advantage of hindsight) in that case about allying rather than everyone I care about dying by gun or by A-bomb. If they’re hellbent on overthrowing a democracy to ensure their own prosperity, you get orcs ruled as raiding parties who only care about freedom applying to themselves, or America’s various nasty CIA operations for the sake of protecting corporations and the power of the wealthiest people in the world, in which case Gondor better call for aid. If the orcs are being led by a charismatic yet clearly evil ruler with an ego the size of a skyscraper tower and a [redacted] small enough for a ring, and the orcs are dumb enough to believe in this monster…
Of course, apply this to any situation or nation as needed, no country is perfect but few modern sovereign states are as close to fubar as North Korea or Somalia, and probably not even them, that the people would - even upon being injured and backed into a corner - disrespect an offer of some level of mercy from a would-be victim who turned the tables.
It would be going too far to do more than help determine a new government to replace the Russian oligarchy, and the fact that Ukraine’s military are getting called out by it’s government, it’s own people and by the global press for drafting people by threat of violence is hopefully a sign that no, the orcs outside AND inside the gates of our communities are just trying to live and no longer believe it when told by the tribal leaders to risk their lives just to destroy someone else’s lives.
Refuse? Maybe. Insult? Nobody is going to insult an honest truce put in writing, because the average person - if nothing else - does not approve of a complete stranger with a fancy office looking a gift horse in the mouth while the other hand of the horseman is holding a loaded pistol is in the mouth of the general public. Not that many leaders still have the public in unbroken chains by the point that becomes a “choice” that needs to be made.
I’m not saying war is ever not horrible, only that if black-white or even monochrome morality wasn’t relative, the world wouldn’t have survived long enough to have democratic ideals to strive toward and never quite reach, socialist interstate highways that fund capitalist organizations (truck stops, auto mechanics, tire manufacturing plants, tow truck companies, etc.), and capitalist organizations that would collapse like everything else if they didn’t at least try to help keep humanity from blowing ourselves up or otherwise destroy modern civilization… not that climate crisis is looking avoidable anymore…
The world is a mixed bag and taking over the world is like trying to herd cats because nobody likes being bullied and there’s always someone who doesn’t enjoy seeing people suffer to disagree with the orcs, or tell the elves to stop being holier than thou and actually get involved in the Atlantic blockades before more people die, Roosevelt …or (thanks to the internet, may it continue to exist) otherwise call out who the real bad guys are (especially if it’s both sides, in which case someone will try to keep track of who committed which war crimes) to the world’s third parties. It’s not perfect, but war is worse than hell already and being able to restrict it at all, let alone be even remotely potent in doing so, is as much a miracle to, say, 135 years ago (1893, as it’s 2023 as of this writing) as blowing up a major city instantly, putting robots on Mars before any human would ever go there, or sending a short message to someone in South Africa, Japan or Colombia with augmented reality iGlasses (“Apple Vision Pro” is just… un-toyetic) from the $150 seat of a commuter jet to the nearest metropolis.
Sorry for the rant, it’s more than aggravating as a writer to hear people starting on the orc argument. It’s like one person saying “this fictional concept is racist because I need a scapegoat!” and the other saying “But because it’s only loosely based on reality, none of the things these characters do actually matter irl even if they’re 100% applicable to real life situations!” followed by a bunch of “Nuh-uh!” and “Uh-huh!” noises over what actually amounts to “No, there’s no realism to the elf-orc always alignment stupid monochrome morality, but people need a reference for what they might want to strive for and what they should avoid resorting to in pursuit of their goals” because that’s what writers aimed for before every single show had to be artificially diverse. If you have to shove it down people’s throats, you shouldn’t be writing a story because you promised entertainment along with enlightenment.
Don’t be like Ayn Rand, Chris-Chan or Adolf Hitler, write a world and write people into it, don’t be like this reply and write a goddamn manifesto because unlike on Lemmy, if someone is choosing to read your book then they probably paid you money for it. I say this because I had to learn to try to avoid making anyone in my fictional stories, even and especially my author surrogate character, subject to the same world as everyone else in the story and for that world to be fun or interesting before it is a morality tale or political drama.
If you didn’t like reading all this, please do better than the bare minimum when you sell a luxury good you produced. “Made by an independent artist”, myself and my work included, does not automatically equal “Made by an experienced artist”.
Are they legal in the US?