msprout @ msprout @lemmy.world

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That makes sense. If I understood everyone clearly, it's not the idea to use a fresnel that's new here, it's the fact that we just haven't yet had anything capable of withstanding those temperatures and still allowing for the piezoelectric effect to happen.

I am not a scientist so please correct me if I am off base, but did it really take them this long to attempt to focus light onto PV cells using a fresnel lens?

My hobby as a 15 year old was buying broken projectors to harvest the fresnel lenses in the lamp on top. They could focus sunlight so powerfully that you could burn shit. I didn't do that, surprisingly. I was like Marge Simpson, I just thought they were neat.

That is not necessarily true.

A giant part of the engine that powers the Great Wheel of Conspiracy Theories is the intoxicating allure that anyone who follows along will be 'in the know', and once all is revealed, everyone will come crawling back them begging for forgiveness and fawning praise on them for being so ahead of the game and in-the-know.

The desperate attempts at convincing everyone around them are an early sign of Conspiracy Brain, and is what then leads to the further effects of Conspiracy Brain, which is everyone around them getting annoyed, yelling at them or pushing back with an attempt at a serious debate, and then self-isolating and choosing to only associate with a clade of similarly-online weirdos who self-reinforce one another and enable a greater separation from the plot that the rest of us are following along to. The overwhelming majority of these people are not grifters, they are rubes. They are believers, not the cynical, power-obsessed, fascist element that is using them to put a bridle on federal power.

I know I asked the question originally, but I only asked because it has been such a present thing in my (meatspace) life. I've seen friends and family disappear down the same hole, all the same way, and all the same end up here, at 'crazy asshole filling every square inch of his 1989 dodge hooptie with magic marker writing' all the same. I don't get why it happens this way.

My best guess is that this is the last way possible for people who have been deeply isolated by anger and rage to communicate their dumb theories to people they haven't exhausted yet. Perhaps the effect of utterly exhausting everyone around you is the common cause of it all.

What makes people do this, in particular? Writing little screeds on every square inch of their car?

I swear I have seen this exact psychosis develop and present in the exact same way dozens of times over my life so far, and it has been convincing to exactly 0 people in that time. I don't know that for sure, but I mean, look at them. Who, besides other cranks, is that really speaking to?

Yes. There is no Merlin in a tower exacting immaculate designs through an orb on a table here — it's just a bunch of people who were raised on the dark liquor of grievance culture who were given power. They're all taking out their grievances. That's gonna be the entire story of the next however long. Measure your place in that paradigm and plan accordingly.

I am so sad that people I know (not you, OP) are using the phrase 'vibe coding' seriously now, like it's some new discipline of coding. It's a facetious term! The joke is that it's not real coding! Stop!!!!!

If Iranian hackers were so elite, they would have done something cool like erased student loan debt. Instead, they're busy toppling Minecraft servers and trying to find anything they can use other than cell phones or pagers. Terribly un1337 of you, Ayatollah.

Y'all know why there aren't any more Robber Barons right? ✊👷

It's been a long way down for one of Reddit's top powermods.

(I don't care if it's debunked, it's simply a conspiracy theory I choose to believe. It's too perfect.)

Taco

Well this shit is gonna trigger a recession

Ah, I appreciate the correction. I'm not an engineer but the youngest cousin of a clan of them, so I just got the highlights of the true evil genius shit. :p

Most countries give up when they are only one gun away from total peace.

This is basically how a rail cannon coil gun works, just with electromagnets that can reverse their polarity.

It's a powerful way to accelerate anything — I think it's most famously used in those types of metal roller coasters that start you at a flat-with-the-ground angle, and then just fuckin launch you up a ramp to 45° with electromagnets. The issue is that you need a fuckton of energy to do that.

What we need for true perpetual energy is to just capture that guy Blanka from Street Fighter.

Young lady, in this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics!

"Most of us aren't armed"? Homie US citizens own 120 guns per 100 people. The fucking answer to absolutely every problem here, left or right, has been to arm themselves. We have literally never had more left-wing people carrying pistols.

Like Jesus Christ, someone got shot and killed at the 'No Kings' rally in Idaho, and all three parties involved were left-wing. I am not sure what planet you're on, but it ain't Earth.

I respect that, but at the same time, if you don't make time for leisure, 30 years will disappear down the drain in a blink of an eye. Nobody is going to make that space for you; you have to advocate for yourself.

This is going to be especially interesting once Republicans of retirement age realize that 'no Medicare' means them, too.

Oh yeah, that aughta do it.

I am honestly suicidal over how blithely these ghouls are playing with our health and safety. Every day, I read a new article about how some white dipshit from the fringes of InfoWars and Christian grifting thinks that he knows better than my fucking doctor. I should just start treating my congresspeople like doctors and start mailing samples of my piss and shit to their offices. After all, they're the ones making my medical decisions.