The_Countess
The_Countess t1_jdzt8x8 wrote
Reply to comment by Scruffy42 in TIL that the EU forces soda makers to introduce tethered caps to make sure they are being recycled. by memeiel
The old style cap design already left a ring behind of the same plastic as the cap. as they seem to have handled that, keeping the cap itself attached seems like it would be a minor change.
The_Countess t1_jdqov6g wrote
Reply to comment by bidensniffer_2020 in Mindfulness has positive effects on body image, sexual self-esteem, and reduces sexual shame and anxiety by ludwig_scientist
Turns out there is a women who had XY chromosomes. She was completely immune to testosterone so her body remained female.
And hermaphrodites also exist.
Nature is NEVER black and white. Any futile attempted by humans to make it fit into black and white definitions will ALWAYS fail. Litterally everything in nature is a (inserve or double) bell curve of some sorts. THAT is science.
Also, sir, this is a wendy's.
The_Countess t1_j3gb64r wrote
Reply to comment by dontrackonme in Farmland bird populations bounce back when farms devote 10% of their land to nature-friendly measures. Ten-year study measured changes in the abundance of farmland birds on land managed under bird-focused schemes, as well as land no bird-friendly farming initiatives. by Wagamaga
>The magnitude of mortality they cause in mainland areas remains speculative
>Un-owned cats, as opposed to owned pets, cause the majority of this mortality.
Also, mainland birds evolved to deal with predatory losses, their problem is loss of habitat. It's normal for billions of birds to die every year, it's not normal for them to not find places to breed and forage.
The_Countess t1_j1wnwf3 wrote
Reply to comment by Josette22 in My girlfriend and I have a long running game going with my parents where we pick up filthy fridge magnets and hide them in each other's homes. This one has made it through since the 24th undetected. by Finsceal
>when Jesus Christ returns.
You guys have been saying that for 2000 years now. Any report on his progress?
The_Countess t1_j1nsk3r wrote
Reply to comment by Odd_Imagination_6617 in My African parents couldn't find a dark-skinned virgin Mary, so they they put Mary in blackface by rhapsodygreen
No, that's actually exactly how religion works.
European mary is white because most Christians there are white.
Ethiopian mary is black because most of the Christians there are black.
Korean's have a Korean Jesus, and I'm assuming their mary similarly looks Korean.
In reality, if she ever existed, she would have look middle eastern.
The only time you see a disconnect there is when a religion was brought to a area by a outside influence (like European powers to much of Africa)
The_Countess t1_j1nrrt2 wrote
Reply to comment by Taleya in My African parents couldn't find a dark-skinned virgin Mary, so they they put Mary in blackface by rhapsodygreen
They did significantly overcompensate into the other direction though.
The_Countess t1_j1kahph wrote
Reply to comment by quettil in The Lastpass hack was worse than the company first reported by glawgii
They have a 12 character minimum length for the masterpassword, and i already mentioned a password being vulnerable to rainbow table attacks.
The_Countess t1_j1gbu5t wrote
Despite the headline, the hackers still can't access any passwords. lastpass doesn't have any users master passwords to leak, so even if they made off with your encrypted password data, they are still encrypted with 256-bit AES encryption, with a key unique to and known only by each user. (and it is designed this way for exactly this eventuality)
The hackers would need to brute force each user individually to get at any passwords, and 256bit AES would take until the heat death of the universe crack that way. for one user.
Unless you are very interesting and have a master password that's vulnerable to rainbow table attacks, you probably still have very little if anything to worry about.
And as all cloud based password manager work roughly the same way switching password manager might not gain you much either.
The_Countess t1_j1gaaex wrote
Reply to comment by colonel_beeeees in The Lastpass hack was worse than the company first reported by glawgii
The hackers don't actually have access to any passwords though.
Each account is still encrypted with a unique key that lastpass doesn't even know so can't expose when getting hacked. The hackers would still need to brute force each account individually to get at the passwords.
Unless you are extremely interesting, or your master key is vulnerable to rainbow table attacks (meaning it consists mostly of words, making it much easier to guess), you probably still have nothing to worry about.
The_Countess t1_j11wwl0 wrote
Reply to comment by Midori_Schaaf in New battery is cheaper than lithium-ion with four times the capacity by Ssider69
We already have pretty good ways of taking any voltage input and returning a steady voltage. As long as the power requirements don't exceed the maximum Amp the battery will allow at the lower voltages that shouldn't be a insurmountable problem.
The_Countess t1_j11wo8q wrote
Reply to comment by MikeGreat1 in New battery is cheaper than lithium-ion with four times the capacity by Ssider69
The sodium and sulfer this battery uses should be pretty easy to separate though, and aren't nearly as reactive as lithium.
The_Countess t1_j11w00g wrote
Reply to comment by rhussia in New battery is cheaper than lithium-ion with four times the capacity by Ssider69
The main ingredients are Sodium (one half of normal table salt) and sulfer, that we already have piles and piles of ever since we started removing it from our fuels.
The_Countess t1_iyaf5c8 wrote
Reply to comment by Concerned_Asuran in A bit odd for the back of a school bus by Type31
most of these competing economic theories, like MMT pushed by Kelton here, just look like people arguing over which part of the feedback loop is most important.
They are all important.
If you pick one and push on that too much, then before long it becomes more efficient to push on the other.
The_Countess t1_iy84y64 wrote
Reply to comment by CuriousCanuk in A bit odd for the back of a school bus by Type31
Central banking is what keeps a financial crisis from turning into another great depression.
The_Countess t1_iy84ra1 wrote
Reply to A bit odd for the back of a school bus by Type31
Government don't need to pay off debt (or write it off), they just need to service it, and wait for inflation and economic growth to make it basically irrelevant.
US world war 2 debt for example was never repaid, but at 285 billion, today, with the US economy reaching 23 trillion, it would represent just 1.2% of the economy.
Government debt isn't like household debt.
The_Countess t1_ixw9yvx wrote
Reply to comment by Canadian_Infidel in Electric-vehicle charging stations could use as much power as a small town by 2035 — and the grid isn't ready by Sorin61
>You lose half of the energy between the power plant and the end user in the electrical grid.
Who told you these figure... and maybe more importantly why on earth did you believe them? They are off by a whole order of magnitude.
>In more developed countries, losses were lower: While the United States experienced 6% losses in 2016, 5% was reported for Germany and Singapore reached 2%.
I've also looked at other sources and between 5 to 6% is the consensus for the US.
And before we were just talking tank-to-wheel efficiency for ICE.
If we're going to take a broader view then we'll need to include the cost to refine the oil into gasoline. That's another 15-20% of the energy gone before it even gets to your tank. And we haven't even added in the energy costs of distributing the fuel.
The_Countess t1_ixrq08d wrote
Reply to comment by Choice_Marzipan5322 in Electric-vehicle charging stations could use as much power as a small town by 2035 — and the grid isn't ready by Sorin61
No matter the fuel, a electric car will always be able to go more miles on the same amount of initial fuel. power plants are just much more efficient then a gas powered ICE car could ever hope to be.
So which numbers are you talking about?
The_Countess t1_ixqv8fj wrote
Reply to comment by Choice_Marzipan5322 in Electric-vehicle charging stations could use as much power as a small town by 2035 — and the grid isn't ready by Sorin61
The ones that can be converted far more efficiency into electricity then a ICE car can convert them into motion?
And are substituted by renewable energy when available?
The_Countess t1_ix8c7ut wrote
Reply to comment by HertogJan1 in Egypt inked deals on renewable energy, green hydrogen worth $119 bln by Wagamaga
They went with red, because its the heat that separates the oxygen from the hydrogen.
The_Countess t1_ix64cm9 wrote
Reply to comment by HodorFirstOfHisHodor in Egypt inked deals on renewable energy, green hydrogen worth $119 bln by Wagamaga
or red, which is a 'new' flavour they are developing in japan where its generated by heat from a nuclear reactor.
(A reactor that can't melt down because among other things, it doesn't use water for cooling, and can withstand temps up to 1800 degrees C. They have a test reactor up already, and they let it melt down deliberately, and nothing happened. The reaction stopped on its own.)
So far that's one of the few climate neutral large scale hydrogen generation techniques that has looked at all feasible to me. For everything else the efficiency just isn't there. For example if you use renewable electricity to create hydrogen to fuel a car (even a fuelcell powered one (60% efficiency), not ICE (25% at best), a battery car would go 2.5 to 3 times as far on the same amount of renewable energy.
efficiencies like that would always relegate it specific parts of the market were batteries are just too heavy (aviation) or near instant refueling is a requirement.
The_Countess t1_iu3oxeg wrote
Reply to comment by iPlayWithWords13 in EU approves effective ban on new fossil fuel cars from 2035 by Wagamaga
That's already a solved problem by warming up the battery before use.
The_Countess t1_iu3oap8 wrote
Reply to comment by defcon_penguin in EU approves effective ban on new fossil fuel cars from 2035 by Wagamaga
I don't think it will go that fast. there will be a few challenges around charging at home or work being easier for some then others, and some niche cases were being able to refuel quickly is a significant advantage.
And some of the materials needed for batteries are also going up in price, offsetting some of the gains in battery tech.
Having said that yes, the transition is already starting and will be well under way before we hit 2035. But this legislation puts a dot on the horizon that the relevant industries can work towards (mainly the car industry, the grid and charging infrastructure builders)
The_Countess t1_iu3o0w0 wrote
Reply to comment by AyBruhBee in EU approves effective ban on new fossil fuel cars from 2035 by Wagamaga
Even if the EU grid was 100% coal fired that would STILL be less polluting then ICE cars. That's how inefficient ICE cars are.
The_Countess t1_iu3npom wrote
Reply to comment by ClammyHandedFreak in EU approves effective ban on new fossil fuel cars from 2035 by Wagamaga
While its true that methane is a much stronger greenhouse gas then CO2, it also breaks down in our atmosphere within 20 years so there is no accumulative effect.
The CO2 you emit during your groceries shopping trip in contrast stays in the carbon cycle for hundreds or even thousands of years, contributing to climate change that whole time.
Also, many people drive a lot more then 8 miles every 2 weeks. And if you're just driving 8 miles every 2 weeks anyway just keep your old gas car. This isn't a outright ban.
The bottom line however is that we need to do all the things. complaining one measure doesn't fix everything is a BS distraction.
The_Countess t1_jdztfrn wrote
Reply to comment by slawsy in TIL that the EU forces soda makers to introduce tethered caps to make sure they are being recycled. by memeiel
>Also my kids (7+9) struggled to get them closed properly.
Press it down and then if its not flat rotate the cap the wrong way round until it clicks.