Stoneykins [any] @ Stoneykins @mander.xyz

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I feel like you are trying to convince me but I already agreed with you when I got here

The only pilot lights I've ever seen were on massive professional restaurant ranges with big 24/7 running fumehoods so...

Yeah gas is only "safe" with a full fume hood. Even then not as safe as they used to think, but most people don't have real fume hoods in their home, or don't even crack a window when they use the gas.

We should at least use propane if we have to cook indoors with hydrocarbons

There is no constitutional right for lots of stuff

Constitution doesn't grant rights, it just defines the ones that have been made relevant. Climate change has now made the right to a stable climate relevant, and thus the proper course of action is an amendment.

I'm not dumb though, I know that shit won't budge in our current government. So what is to be done when a fucked up government and it's people disagree about what rights the people have? Something necessary but unpleasant...

"trans people exist and we want them to be safe and happy, and here are some unbiased scientific studies about how natural gas stoves and ovens affect air quality"

"STOP declaring WAR on my CULTURE!"

"profit" isn't real, it's game that wealthy people play. It is a concept of interaction of currency-backed value that all rests on people expecting it to work and exist. They are irresponsible to prioritize endless growth of profits past the point of any perceivable benefit over things like clean air and clean water. Extremely, wildly irresponsible.

You read what I said completely backwards.

I was not advocating for recycling being the solution, I was saying recycle is not and can never be good enough of a solution. Idk why you misunderstood what I was saying.

Recycling is not the solution to climate change

Nothing of what you said changes that pollution is a systemic problem and the wealthiest people have disproportionate control over systems.

We could all recycle everything and be perfect little eco-angels on an individual basis and the world would still burn unless we change how industry makes things and how much stuff industry makes.

You are correct, if it happened like you describe, people could potentially protest against it, out of personal interest. I doubt sincerely that it is even possible to change things at the pace you've described though, and it seems like a contrived situation.

Pollution is a truly a systemic problem, not a personal responsibility problem, even for the wealthiest heaviest polluters. It certainly doesn't help when people treat their surroundings like trashcans, but that will always pale in comparison to the scale of pollution produced by industry.

The reason wealthy people are still the issue is that they have an insane overabundance of control over industry, governments, and economic systems, and that control is currently being wielded irresponsibly.

The only way for non-wealthy people to truly fight climate change is collective action. The top 1% on the other hand could damn near personally begin reconstructing problematic parts of our polluting economic systems, but they simply aren't motivated to do so because that wouldn't increase their capital, at least not as much as the way they are currently behaving does. They are only motivated by increasing their wealth, apparently, based on how they behave.

Hey, people that hate raisins, I'm curious how you feel about fresh grapes. Is this an issue with the whole thing, or just dried fruit?

Raisins are delicious btw I could eat golden raisins in particular by the fistfull

That isn't what I'm saying, I agree the transphobia is just transphobia.

I'm trying to talk about why this issue confuses so many people, and why people that aren't well educated on gender often fall for the transphobes bullshit when it comes to the "fairness" in sport shit, as well as guess at a possible way to recontextualize this "debate" in a way that benefits trans people.

Skill and talent aren't cleanly split along gender lines just because that is a convenient way to split the leagues. If these transphobes are so concerned about "fairness" then we should have more leagues for all sports delineated by something besides gender, I recommend weight class. Or, if the point was for women to have a space, then it should be a space for all women, and trans women should be allowed to participate. That second option is the one I would pick.

Yeah but it's just a matter of scale of that waste. Sending power over that much air for practical air travel would be something we could think about after we have all our energy problems totally solved, but transitioning our planes to electric is a more pressing concern than that for many reasons. Solar panels are great and getting better all the time, but it isn't nothing to produce them or we would already have all we need to stop using fossil fuels.

I'm hoping for batteries power-dense enough that weight concerns aren't far from liquid fuel, and a charging time similarly on par. Only for now are our batteries so "big and heavy".

Phones are a great application for power over air, very practical. But no matter how good it gets, even if it charges in your pocket from a hidden source under your feet as you walk down the sidewalk... I bet you want it to have a pretty good battery too.

The air is a poor wire. Lots of electricity will be lost just getting it to the machines, so for high energy applications, especially over longer distances, trying to use this technology would waste huge amounts of power. Not economically viable until electricy costs almost nothing.

I don't disagree that it has many applications, but probably more low power things for a while.

Battery/energy storage technology on the other hand has a lot of potential, and is entering it's golden age of research. The advances we have already made will look like nothing compared to the advances in batteries we will have in the next 20 years. Why beam power from the ground to a plane in the air when it could have all it needs onboard, and can charge in minutes once landed?

IMO you've hit the nail on the head.

These conflicts and confusions are the consequences of gendered leagues, but because the issues come up in the context of transgender people, it makes it seem like an issue with transgender people.

Buuut then there is the issue of the representation of women in (most) popular professional sports is much lower, and would be worse without this delineation along gender lines.

So what we need is to make up our mind if we want either:

All sports to be as fair at all times as physically possible

Or

If we want to see all genders fairly represented in popular professional sports

If it is the first, we should ungender the leagues. If it is the second, we should stop worrying about it and let transgender people compete wherever they want.

The amount of research needed to make this technology work for the applications you are suggesting would be many times greater than the amount of research needed to just figure out better batteries. And. it would always be energy inefficient, so it would need an electricity surplus to be viable.

Oops, you gave it away! Turns out if you make this move you either admit:

1. That you think people who are biologically male have an advantage in mental only competition
2. That you want to punish transgender people for transitioning by taking away what they've earned and preventing them from participating in the future.

How completely and utterly shocking, that the trans people in sports "fairness" debate was just a badly put together costume for sexism and transphobia. I tell you, I'm more shocked about this than anything. Definitely.

Damnit democrats all I want from you is voting reform and then we can move onto better parties.

Although I guess this is them realizing that and not wanting to let go.

So it seems like Linus is a self-centered, unempathetic kinda boss, who doesn't have even a correct understanding of how to be a better employer.

On the other hand, that is how 90% of all owner/bosses of all business I've ever interacted with are.

There isn't a point to this observation I'm just sad about it :(

What purpose do achievements serve even? Are there rewards you are after?

Achievements have only ever been annoying pop-up from my perspective.

What is the appeal?

Yeah obviously.

But the day before he got convicted? 2 days after that, or hell, years ago, no complicated feelings at all.

I would feel like he somehow died to get out of being convicted lmao