OwenEverbinde @ OwenEverbinde @lemmy.myserv.one

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Ahhh... okay, yeah. That also makes sense.

... and maybe that's why it was "previously active"?

The only way I can make sense of Lurker's comment is:

maybe Lurker didn't realize my edits to the post came after some people's comments (my edits definitely came after your comment, derf). Lurker may have assumed you were dismissing the practicality of the Asia-Australia Power Link, mentioned in my edit but not in the original post.

Assuming the above, this is a miscommunication.

Assuming anything else, Lurker's comment doesn't make that much sense.

So we heavily incentivize industrial sites to shift operation to hours during which power production exceeds demand?

That said, R.J. Gumby was able to give a fantastic link about the storage technology currently in use.

I believe the article is arguing that we need to scale them up. Although: it mentions that the Tennessee Valley Authority already uses pumped hydroelectric storage at the foot of Raccoon Mountain (side-note, I know nothing about Tennessee, but somehow naming a mountain "Raccoon Mountain" confirms all of my stereotypes about the state), to supplement its grid during low-production hours.

Yeah, the 450 mile one -- the North Sea Link -- is the "longest subsea interconnector in the world."

I think over land, you can manage longer distances (China's transmission projects go thousands of miles), but even those aren't going the full 3310 miles it would take to cross the Atlantic.

that indecisiveness would be taken into account in a professional screening

These words have been helpful to me. I kind of stopped worrying about it after reading this, and just started focusing on getting myself a referral and appointment. It's ridiculously slow getting any kind of appointment through my healthcare provider (and I still haven't seen them yet) but I appreciate not having to worry about "should I be preparing for this?" in the interim.

Which is, I'm assuming, the reason that hydrogen use and production are expected to vastly increase in the next 30 years.

Oh thanks for the link! This is a good one. According to the article we're already using:

• Pumped hydroelectric
• Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES)
• Flywheels
• Supercapacitors
• And just plain batteries

And the article ends with,

"The price of storage is coming down. The price of solving the problems in other ways is going up. Pretty soon, these prices are going to cross," notes Boyes, suggesting cost could spur the addition of storage to the grid.

Australia too, according to a video I found.

Wait! Never mind. I should have done a simple web search before posting this question.

I found a video on it.

England already has two oversea electric cables that connect it to France on the one side and Scandinavia on the other. They have more than paid for themselves already, indicating that this a solution already being implemented in parts of the world... At least for short distances.

This is the only acceptable measurement of time.

Even the babies have evil in their hearts.

in Dread Pirate Roberts voice

You have a dizzying intellect.

I can take a guess at what it tells us.

We're lonely. We get no physical contact. No touch. No warmth. And it's not really socially acceptable for us to seek those things, because men are scolded for emotions and vulnerability. We are scolded for anything that would enable intimacy.

And it's to such an extent that most men are so repressed they don't even realize they crave intimacy. They don't even have the vocabulary to describe their need for intimacy.

Now introduce, to such a man, a "sister."

Heavy emphasis on the quotes.

The "story" of the porn, using their family ties as a shortcut, quickly establishes that she lives with him. She bonds with him. It's socially acceptable for him to hug her, to wrestle with her, maybe even to cuddle her. And she will always be there, because her connection to him runs deeper than most "romantic" relationships can (we're still assuming this man can't articulate his own need for intimacy), so he doesn't need to worry about her abandoning him.

Naturally, this emotionally repressed man is going to look at this fictional family member, this figment of his suspension of disbelief, and say, "well I want to 🦆 her!" (I always find my keyboard's lack of profanity amusing. I refuse to teach such an innocent piece of software how to cuss.)

What he really means is that he appreciates that intimacy. And cannot really get turned on in its absence. But he can't say that. He can't admit that or even know that. Because this man is not only starved of all of the above: he can't even articulate this starvation.

Daughters? Sisters? Mothers? They all serve the same purpose as a shortcut -- "here's a person who is intimate and trusting with you by default." The familial bond is a fast, easy way to establish prebuilt trust and affection without spending 20-30 minutes on storytelling or 20-30 hours of therapy trying to convince a repressed audience that it's okay to have a deep, intimate, trusting connection with this consenting woman.

In other words, what it tells us about society isn't good.

It sounds like you were distressed and left because you didn't know what to do or how to help.

That's empathy. Feeling uncomfortable when you see people in pain is empathy. And it's normal. It's normal for you to feel distressed around her as you hear her account. It's normal to want to leave. It's normal to feel guilty about leaving. It's normal to wonder if you could have done more to help catch the bastard.

This is awful. What you just saw is awful. What you just experienced is legitimately uncomfortable.

And it's hard for people to wrap their heads around, because how could your pain be valid when it's a response to seeing someone in "real" pain? How could your pain be important when it's nothing more than the faint echo of the pain you're witnessing someone else go through?

But it hurts. As selfish as it feels to hurt at a time like this, it still hurts.

Wow. That's Linus Torvalds levels of screaming, "ARE YOU FUCKING STUPID?!"

People got really worked up back in 2008.

I wish to also shill:

The Greatest Estate Developer is about a civil engineer who gets Isekai'd into a novel (as one does in a webcomic) and is granted some magic powers (as often happens in webcomics).

He pretty quickly declares that his goal is to build enough modern amenities (and swindle enough of his neighbors) so that he can retire and relax for the rest of his life.

But, you know, there's giant monsters (because it's a webcomic) and rival dukedoms, and imperial intrigue, and he keeps finding himself in the middle of it all.

There's a lot of comedy, and a ridiculous bromance between him and the novel's main character.

But I'll look into Terror Island and Pixel.

Oh no, if I think someone's name is Joe and it turns out being Jeff, I feel atrocious.