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  • Them being in space really is the only comparison. I wouldn’t expect to see something like Let That Be Your Last Battlefield to feel like a good Star Wars story in the same way that I wouldn’t expect Riker and Picard to fight each other with laser swords atop planetary Mt Doom while screaming their feelings at each other after 2 movies of building up their relationship.




  • Yeah, I suppose when I try to address all of OP’s bot bait lines like I did, it sounds like a disjointed AI generation. I suppose we’re in a day and age where AI generation really is that nearly indistinguishable from real people to the average person. I’m sure there’s plenty of times I’ve been duped by AI generated text.

    Still if it was a bot, it probably would have been an immediate response instead of something that showed up an hour after OP posted. And this comment wouldn’t have been posted almost 30 min after your response to me.


  • Apologies that leftists aren’t too much of cowards to hide behind talking heads promoting stochastic terrorism. I mean it’s not like leftists lying about what operations are being performed at hospitals led to bomb threats being called in or riling people up calling for trial by combat and needing to fight like he’ll moments before people violently entered the capitol building. Or constantly threaten to run over protesters, and many times actually do.

    I could spend more time looking up and pointing out all the right wing violence, but asymmetric bullshit principle and all that. Fuck off, progressive and left leaning people are tired of the double standard when it comes to political violence.


  • blackbelt352@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldHold on!
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    19 hours ago

    Every social media is a vehicle for propaganda.

    As much as I want to agree, not really, straight up racism and sexism drove racist and sexisf rural white voters to the polls and a failure to adequately address the genocide in Gaza dissuaded more progressive voters from turning out.

    Authoritarian governments are never good

    Again authoritarian governments are never good.

    Once again, authoritarian governments are never good.






  • blackbelt352@lemmy.worldtoxkcd@lemmy.worldxkcd #3038: Uncanceled Units
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    4 days ago

    It definitely does provide information as my 50 watt lightbulb will run for an absurd number of years when hooked up to a nuclear generator and will be completely vaporized by the nuclear bomb.

    Also keep in mind your average person likely doesn’t remember their physics classes and how joules, time, and watts all relate to each other and that introducing new names to something just creates more confusion and headache and dumbasses phoning into their electric companies about how “my lightbulbs don’t take joules they take watts and why am I paying for joules when I want watts.”

    kWh conveys the relevant information without introducing other names that can create confusion among the stupidest and most karen-like people you know.


  • The important thing is that leaving units uncanceled is a valid way to communicate the relevant factors of what a number represents.

    Yes technically kWh cancels down to joules, but that doesn’t communicate the relevant info of how a device uses that energy during a period of time. In other words Work (Watts) multiplied by Time (hours).

    Uranium has 2x10¹³ joules of energy stored. You can use all that energy at once in a bomb and explode a city in a second, a lot of Work done very quickly, ooooor you could put it into a reactor and power a city and do a lot of Work during a much longer time period.



  • blackbelt352@lemmy.worldtoxkcd@lemmy.worldxkcd #3038: Uncanceled Units
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    5 days ago

    Glad to see reading comprehension is at an all time high and I definitely didn’t explain how total joules doesn’t actually mean anything for something drawing power in relation to the time its drawing power. And I didn’t make any comparison about how a 2lb lump of uranium contains the same energy whether it’s detonated in a bomb or slowly released in a reactor.


  • Reagan purposefully let an epidemic kill Americans because he didn’t like gay people existing and was courting the religious right wing.

    He knew it was killing American citizens, and withheld any kind of relief to the affected or funding into research the better understand it. But it was killing gay people more than straight people anyway, why stop it if it’s going to rally the religious people, who cares if some other non-gay people get caught in the epidemic? Thats just the price for making america great again. and yes that was a Ronald Reagan slogan first.



  • blackbelt352@lemmy.worldtoxkcd@lemmy.worldxkcd #3038: Uncanceled Units
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    6 days ago

    Because the power draw of appliances is measured in watts, so a 60 watt light bulb when lit draws 60 watts of power over the course of one hour. So if I have roughly 100 lightbulbs at 60 watts hooked up to my house, then I’ll be using 6 kW of power each hour.

    It tells us more information about the rate of use of that energy. It’s like the difference between a 2 lb sphere of uranium being exploded in a fraction of a second vs 2 lb lf uranium fuel in a reactor operating for however long that much fuel lasts for. Both contain the same amount of joules of energy at the end of the process, one just uses all of those joules in one go and the other slowly releases that energy over a longer period of time.