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  • the explanation i see at the old place is as follows: navy seals were afraid of irrelevance when war moved to sandbox, so they changed their skillset (why tf does navy make a raid 1000km inland?) and loosened recruitment selection in the process. this allowed shitheads to join and over time they made navy seals deeply entrenched culture the festering ulcer it is today, which brings in more shitheads and criminals and what have you. rangers or delta force or whatever other SOF unit do not have this kind of problem including book deals. there was an incident where green beret was killed by seals because he found out about seals' money laundering. similar problems appear in canadian paras

  • He is known for claiming to kill Osama bin Laden, but this narrows it down less than you might think

  • it seems like Navy SEALs specifically don't for whatever weird fucking reason, and that's how you end up with conspiracy believing dolts who want to eat twinks

  • Hand grenades are vastly superior fighters compared to Navy SEALs. When hand grenades complete their mission, they simply cease to exist, but Navy SEALs get book deals, shit takes on twitter and a podcast

  • Electoral college is fucking weird

    That you disallow prisoners to vote, but a felon can run as a candidate

    That you end up in situation where there are hours long lines and you don't have one station per, say, 1000 people at most

    Registering to vote is weird, but that is i understand mostly a consequence of not having countrywide ID standard. In my country you're automatically registered where you live, and IDs are free of charge and mandatory to have (not driving license or passport. there are fees for these)

    Election isn't on weekend, there's zero reason why it couldn't be or it could be made national holiday. There was even free public transit for election day in my city, but that one was paid by the city

    That some of people (republicans) seem to be into politics in the same way ultras seem to be into football, it's still fucked up but i've seen it in other places so it's not that weird by now

  • this is less of a problem when you don't use it for energy, but instead as a feedstock like in synthesis of ammonia or steelmaking. you can make ammonia in many places, but it's not the case for steel

  • you're probably talking about direct reduced iron and it's really a problem that can be dealt with easily, just chuck a piece of coke when it's molten for the second time in electric arc furnace (and maybe electrodes introduce enough carbon). substituting coke with hydrogen works also on "ingredient step" if you mean by that fuel needed to reduce iron ore to iron

    maybe there's a way to make electrowinning iron economical, and it'd be pretty green too, but i don't know if it is workable

    e: you can also avoid need for met coal if you use methane or syngas for direct reduced iron process

  • no we can't make hydrogen everywhere, there will be regions with large excess of renewable energy compared to population. these places could export hydrogen. you also don't need a lot of transport if crude is extracted near place where it's used, like for example heavy crude from alberta

  • coal can be substituted to some degree with processes like direct reduction. hydrogen works but syngas from biomass or trash also works

    file styrofoam under plastics

  • not now, but if hydrogen were to be used as an energy source/storage, then it'd be used plenty. same with batteries

  • We did it not because it was easy, but because we thought it will be easy

  • ikr, but that tweet implies that all of oil/gas/coal ships would be unnecessary

  • this is arguably fine, because this way ships make clouds of sulfate aerosols, which have slight cooling effect and no one is bothered by it when it's released over sea

  • Some of these ships would carry green hydrogen and new lithium batteries and old lithium batteries (to be recycled) and whatnot. Also at least some oil would be still needed for fine chemicals like meds or (idk what's proper english term for that) large scale organic synthesis like plastics, or even straight distillates like hexane (for edible oil extraction) or lubricants. Some of usual non-energy uses of oil can be easily substituted with enough energy like with nitrogen fertilizers but some can't

  • "a major pay-for-win garbage science laundromat" you mean

  • where are brain worms when you need them to finish the job

  • societies in turmoil find it easier to acquire both lunatics and explosives

    i'd just want to notice it's much easier when you can just pick them up from field and melt them in a kettle