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Cake day: October 20th, 2023

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  • Rhetorical: Omg again? With same exact picture? In not really political comm?

    (Disclaimer: not US citizen)

    Go and vote in primaries for candidates you want, so maybe you get someone decent (so “no matter who” part is eliminated), apply pressure to them right now. Until you have enough power and support to create new party from scratch (and have it catch third of population instantly somehow, including republicans) or overthrow current system altogether, you have to work within it.

    Also: in famous thought experiment, named Trolley problem, do you call yourself murderer (genocider) if you decide to push the lever?

    I myself had different and conflicted opinions during those years, arguments for voting blue and third party (or abstaining) both look quite convincing, at least for not well versed in politics me. Ugh.

    Looking forward to mod award on this post.




  • Maybe, if for some reason we stop manufacturing things with complex shapes via injection molding (which is, like, super cheap on big scale) or similar processes, and come back to “constructing them from a lot of generic parts, preferably easily recycleable”. Also semiconductor components (actual microcontrollers, or displays, and in some cases whole boards if they are tiny enough, because of how many effort they require) are not really repairable, you just replace broken components.

    Edit: Also whole economy of scale go against this. Repairing stuff (now) is usually about individual products, hard to automate, and requires skill, also means complex logistics. Manufacturing tons of the same stuff cheapens over time, required less skill for each individual part or product and in general is highly automated.






  • As much as I’d like to shit on him, I believe he talks about building energy generation capacity (aka GW or TW) in a certain time period (i.e. one year). Like building 1000 100MW power stations every year, but in space.

    Can’t tell if it makes any sense economically though, getting anything in scale to space is still kinda very expensive.

    And if you try to make whatever you need to get to space light, compact and efficient, it usually quickly becomes very expensive itself.

    So “solve other parts of equation” probably means “give me money”.

    Later edit: if you ever played Factorio, this is equivalent of amount of solar panels crafted and delivered to space platform per hour.