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  • Maybe I'll give it a try again. Glide typing seems to be proprietary tho

  • I rely on the glide typing to much, and all I've tried don't feel as smooth. But I'm on GrapheneOS and disallowed internet access to GBoard, so while not great, it's fine for now

  • Can't believe no one said "this post" yet

  • Roughly 2000 steps, unless you take steps as long as you are tall

  • Der wirkt etwas verstört

  • Besides the fact that you're using Blockchain to mean Crypto Currency, this is unrealistic and counterproductive in a number of ways.

    What if people could earn money by generating solar energy and selling directly to vehicles, instead of the grid?

    How? How do you get your rooftop power to a buyer across town, or the other side of the country? Corporations or municipalities still control the grid

    Then there is the distribution issue. Energy must be transported to the points of consumption, the charging stations. But due to the decentralized nature, this could actually result surprisingly cheap, as instead of transporting large distances, more charging stations in neighborhoods could reduce those distances. But still, this would require upfront charging stations and distribution investments.

    You caught it yourself. Are you proposing an alternative grid? Good luck with that. Putting a charging station on your own property and renting that out via crypto? That's a massive waste of space, since you'll now need an additional parking spot for every home

    Generators would be rewarded with a blockchain token for the energy generated, while consumers would pay for the energy in those tokens. Therefore speculation would be curbed as the tokens are for a real thing, energy, which on top is a stable unit - kWh.

    How do you get tokens, if you consume more than you produce? You buy them with money. So saying it curbs speculation rings hollow. Besides, who rewards these tokens? Contrary to Bitcoin etc. you need physical hardware to confirm the proper amount of energy was transferred, and hardware can be tampered with.

    What we need are communal, shared infrastructure and an end to growth. Not more electric cars, and certainly not more individualistic, crypto-capitalist tech fetishism. I don't mean this as an affront to you, but this whole suggestion runs contrary to all that Solarpunk is about

  • The initial comment claimed

    We have front facing eyes so most animals immediately will register us as a threat.

    Which goalposts are being moved? Also, I'm happy to be disproven by a source

  • I am not doubting that eye placement is a strong, but not decisive, indicator where the animal falls on the predator/prey divide. That is a very basic fact of zoology. I am doubting the claim that prey animals categorize non-native, and therefore unknown, species as a threat by this eye placement.

  • "The cavalry's not coming, it's just us.

    It's just us."

  • Correct!

  • Neopronouns rule

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  • Bit of a stretch to call a medium opinion piece You wrote scientific context, tbh

  • Thanks c:

    I get that posting online can be an outlet when it seems like nothing else can be done, but your safety should always come first. And by design, ActivityPub is very bad about privacy, so it's doubly important to not share anything that can be used to identify you on the same account as something that can get you in trouble. Stay safe!

  • For your own safety, please don't go into more detail (and maybe remove the comment above). You've provided more than enough information for a determined adversary to identify you

  • Senses

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  • nothing is real do what you want

    This is what they take away from it? Discussing qualia is fascinating, and natural philosophy of the mind in general is an amazing field, but if your takeaway is that nothing exists, your understanding is about as deep as a puddle

  • This was near the Azerbaijan border, thousands of kilometers away from the front lines

  • Luna

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  • Due to tidal effects the moon is slowly getting further away from the earth, so we're living at just the right time to see such spectacular eclipses