Liz

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[–] Liz@midwest.social 8 points 1 month ago

Yeah, but your fridge doesn't break every six years. I'm totally on team repair (FrameWork will be my next laptop when this one can't go on any further, my shoes can be resoled, I just touched up my jacket, etc) but a 10x premium doesn't exactly make sense, even when you factor in that repairability is unfortunately a niche feature these days.

[–] Liz@midwest.social 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

CF being short for what, in this case?

[–] Liz@midwest.social 7 points 1 month ago (3 children)

So I looked them up, and the cheapest home-style refrigerator they sell costs $10,000. Am I missing something or are they really just that expensive?

[–] Liz@midwest.social 19 points 1 month ago

That's not what a fail-safe is. A fail-safe is just what it says: the device fails into a safe configuration. In this case, someone has to press a button to quench the magnet, which is not really a failure mode of the machine.

A typical fail-safe is something like a solenoid valve. The valve has a default position when no power is given to the solenoid, and you should design your machine so that the default position is safe (whether that be open or closed). The most likely failure mode is a power loss, so the configuration is said to be fail-safe.

[–] Liz@midwest.social 2 points 1 month ago

Yeah, what is it, 70% energy lost to heat in an ICE?

[–] Liz@midwest.social 8 points 1 month ago

Your usage rate is like literally a hundred times that of the stats listed (assuming they're true). The vast, vast majority of truck owners would be better off with a regular car and renting a truck from Home Depot, Uhaul, or whatever local business does that sort of thing.

[–] Liz@midwest.social 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Even if we assume all the electricity is coming from carbon sources (there's no need for any of it to be carbon sources) it's still more efficient because power plants are way better at turning that chemical energy into electricity. Even with the losses in the lines, charging, and in your motors, electric cars are still significantly more efficient on a mile per kg CO2 basis than gas cars. Throw some solar panels on your roof and they become essentially carbonless.

[–] Liz@midwest.social 2 points 1 month ago

I'd happily hang out in a sealed room with a nuclear reactor.

[–] Liz@midwest.social 23 points 1 month ago

We got constitutional carry in Ohio. Just practice shooting the locks off.

[–] Liz@midwest.social 55 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Who fucking reports comments made outside of work to HR? Learn how to handle uncomfortable social situations on your own you little tattler.

[–] Liz@midwest.social 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Nope. I meant for running elections. You need multiple winners in the same election for SPAV to be different from just straight Approval (vote for one or more, most votes wins). With my suggestion of 5 members per district, the candidates all run for legislator of the district, and then 5 winners are chosen using SPAV. Any semi-proportional method will work, but SPAV is arguably the way to go for a whole pile of reasons.

Anyway, so if you're a voter in that district, you will have 5 representatives you can go talk to. With a 2-party system, usually 2 or 3 of them will be from your party. The legislature as a whole would be made up of some number of these districts, each with 5 officials. They all participate in the legislature like normal, there's no difference between the 1st awarded seat or the last.

The reason you do this is because the people in each district will be much much more likely to have at least 1 legislator that actually represents them and their district. The legislature as a whole will also approximate the voting population as a whole in terms of votes per party vs seats per party. It makes it functionally impossible to gerrymander because if you try cracking and packing you'll really just be moving around who wins the last couple seats in any given district, but you'll have a hard time actually changing the overall makeup of the legislature.

[–] Liz@midwest.social 14 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Should have gone with multi-member proportional districts using something like Sequential Proportional Approval Voting so that gerrymandering would be near-impossible. Five members is generally considered the minimum needed to make gerrymandering pointless to even attempt.

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