I was so confused by this title because I kept reading it as pro hate towards Israel lol

Yeah, I like the message and totally agree with it but I don’t trust that stat at all lol

Yeah, I like the message but I think that stat is misleading by design. It doesn’t make sense to power a home for a year with solar.

Does that mean it’s the cost of solar power itself, or is it some weird way to talk about installing solar capacity?

It should just be how many homes can be permanently powered by investing that much in solar capacity, which is probably a much lower number…

This isn’t minimal publicity, minimal publicity is what they got when they directly targeted fossil fuels by blocking the supply lines.

https://wagingnonviolence.org/2023/12/the-method-behind-just-stop-oil-annoying-madness/

They do it because the stuff you’re asking for doesn’t work that well, but this does (that said they do still engage in those actions as far as I’m aware). Activism is about making noise, there aren’t many tools beyond that and they’ve worked for all sorts of issues in the past.

The point is that JSO doesn’t exist in a vacuum.

https://wagingnonviolence.org/2023/12/the-method-behind-just-stop-oil-annoying-madness/

If I don’t have a bottle of water next to me, I won’t drink water. If I do have a bottle of water next to me, I’ll get distracted by it constantly and drink so much that I’m going to the bathroom every 5 minutes

Damn I just spoon peanut butter into my mouth lol

Yes, it was completely peaceful as it has been for the past 30 something weeks that these rallies have been held.

If you’ve ever been to a demonstration you’d understand that all the police do is show up and cause violence. No one needed protecting from us, we walked down a goddamn street. Last time I checked that wasn’t exactly a violent act. But people sure needed protecting from the police…

Eh, we can do the exact same thing with swappable batteries, this isn’t a unique selling point.

I know it’ll never happen because no one wants to put the work into build the infrastructure, but the appeal of hydrogen to me is the larger energy density compared to batteries. That’s ignoring all the other downsides of hydrogen of course, but imo a lot of those are due to lack of commercial interest, there’s just not as much money in improving them compared to batteries.

Ideally we just end up with super amazing batteries and never have to worry about storing pressurised gas that loves to escape basically any container.

I was at a peaceful rally a week ago, police showed up and acted as intimidating as possible. We stood around and listened to some very powerful speeches from Palestinians, the police left momentarily so that they could come and assualt the crowd from the side.

They pepper sprayed children. Fuck every cop who ever did their job.

Yes. Almost no one smokes in Australia because of them

I can highly recommend symfonium as a front end for a jellyfin music library on android, it’s super clean and has tons of nice features.

Well, they are doing both

Depends on the size of the black hole.

Really big ones can let you live for a surprisingly long time. (Not going to quote any numbers because I’m not completely sure of them any more)

Bigger black holes become more and more gentle.

No, that’s not the case at all.

If you fall into a black hole, you can do no experiment to detect the horizon, it’s a completely unremarkable region of space to you. Infinite gravity is only really a thing at the singularity, but that’s almost definitely just because our theoretical models breakdown and stop giving accurate descriptions of reality there.

The stretching is just because of tidal forces, which means that gravity gets so much stronger closer to the black hole that your feet are pulled harder than your head, you experience the same thing standing on earth, it’s just that the change in gravity is basically negligible here.

Source: Was a black hole physicist for a while

Small edit: Tidal forces stretch you in the exact same way that they stretch the ocean, thus creating ocean tides.

Literally just had one of these 10 minutes ago

Not all of us get downvotes, I see them pretty much daily…

I like to think of it as a big list of extremely complicated instructions that you can follow to see how different types of particles interact in the standard model.

There’s a lot of different phenomena that you can derive from it, but my favourite is that if you know what you’re doing, you can just read possible interactions off of it.

It’s also unnecessarily complicated, I’ve never seen someone have to use the full thing, you can get rid of a lot of it when you only care about specific particles. Part of the complication is that it’s some insanely dense notation, it’s actually far larger than it appears and contains lots of really complicated mathematical objects with some wild properties.

(And to the pendants, yes this is an equation for quantum fields and not particles exactly, but that’s never easy to explain)

Eepy goth punk tomboy, I can’t stop napping today…

We have similar drains in Australia, I don’t think it’s particularly common but I have seen them get completely clogged in a big storm. Nearly flooded our friends house because they lived at the bottom of a hill.