pumpkinseedoil

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[–] pumpkinseedoil@feddit.de 20 points 4 months ago (2 children)

China flooding the market with cheap EVs still makes the rich richer... Just different rich people in a different country.

[–] pumpkinseedoil@feddit.de 56 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Looks interesting, but I think a website would be better suited for this (so people can spontaneously play it without having to download anything). Please consider making one :)

[–] pumpkinseedoil@feddit.de 20 points 4 months ago (8 children)

What happened to notepad?

[–] pumpkinseedoil@feddit.de 1 points 4 months ago

I'm no expert so I don't know what causes more damage, but the production of photovoltaic cells also is by no means environmentally friendly. People die, ecosystems get destroyed, ...

And people argue that birds fly into wind generators and die, idk how much damage that is comparatively but probably the least. So from an environmental perspective, as a layman, I'd rank them wind > water > sun > non-renewables (nuclear > gas > coal).

But wind (and sun) always changes, so it's impossible to only have wind (and sun). You need:

  • Something stable that carries a large percentage (for example water in rivers or at the end of lakes (so basically at the start of a river)).

  • Something flexible that can quickly be increased or decreased (for example pumped hydro storage power stations, bonus points there for also being able to use energy when there's too much wind/sun; or non-renewables (burn more gas, get more electricity))

So even if we assume that wind and sun are better than water we still need either water or non-renewables. I'd say that's an easy choice.

[–] pumpkinseedoil@feddit.de 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Sadly all power generation methods come at a cost. What would you suggest?

[–] pumpkinseedoil@feddit.de 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You can argue about how green it is, considering its impact on ecosystems, but how did they end at the conclusion that it's not renewable?

[–] pumpkinseedoil@feddit.de 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

In the text about Sodom and Gomorra the way I understand it God is punishing them for wanting to rape the angel or whoever it was who's sleeping there. Not for it being a gay act when men rape a man.

[–] pumpkinseedoil@feddit.de 3 points 4 months ago

It's hard since it could theoretically also be an actual user who used that website themself.

[–] pumpkinseedoil@feddit.de 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

It's not like antisemitism prevented people from supporting the NSDAP (in many cases the opposite). Sure, when they were elected they didn't know what to do with Jews yet, but antisemitism was one of the pillars of their philosophy (if the people are unhappy you have to take responsibility or simply point at someone and say "they are responsible, it's their fault") and antisemitism has existed since forever. (Of course there were not only Jews in concentration camps but they were initially made for them).

And sadly antisemitism still exists today in many areas of the world.

[–] pumpkinseedoil@feddit.de 10 points 5 months ago (2 children)

That's fundamentally different from steel. We don't really have an alternative currently. You could use something like aluminium but that's not environmentally friendly either (in the initial production, for recycling it's great).

[–] pumpkinseedoil@feddit.de 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Coal is required for steel, electricty-based heat would only work to lower carbon emissions (especially when recycling steel since you don't need coal there), but you couldn't prevent them.

[–] pumpkinseedoil@feddit.de 2 points 5 months ago

Oh, I thought the Google camera app lost the pixel-specific fine tuning. Nice to know, thanks.

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