Something typically ignored in these conversations is the recyclability of EV batteries. Once there is a critical mass of them in circulation and then aging out, the need for mining is expected to significantly decrease.
— Bret Hautamaki (@bhautama) October 10, 2022
Ayup. Only have to do that mining once until saturation is reached. The metals in EV batteries are 95% recoverable/recyclable.
If you ever worry about being good at your job, remember that someone was paid actual money to write this article. https://t.co/EQX4st1npd
— Harry Braviner (@harrybraviner) October 11, 2022
This makes me laugh every time I see it.
How stressed are the hospital ICUs in your state?
Remember, there’s people screaming on Twitter and then there’s reality. Two very different things.
My sisters lied about being SAed.
Well, now we know how women act when they get rejected. Ok, they’re young, but it’s weird to pretend that only men do crazy shit when they get rejected. It’s just that women aren’t on that side of things nearly as often.
Admittedly, women do different crazy shit than men, but they still do it. I’ve seen it myself.
Russia loses a militarily critical bridge it bragged was impregnably defended, petulantly lashes out with a missile strike against a purely civilian glass bridge in Kyiv… and fails to destroy it.
If this happened in a TV show you'd say the writers were hacks.
— Dmitry Grozoubinski (@DmitryOpines) October 10, 2022
That is pretty hilarious. As funny as anything can be in a brutal war, I guess.
Russiaโs unilateral viciousness is a Ukrainian advantage. It has made of Ukrainians implacable supporters of fighting on, while Russians mostly see their lives upended by their own government (eg by conscription), and are not so viscerally drawn to fight Ukraine to a bitter end. https://t.co/NabYlszpSZ
— Steve Randy Waldman (@interfluidity) October 10, 2022
Yep. Huge fuck-up on Russia’s part, even apart from the moral consideration. All this does is guarantee that Ukraine will fight on until Russia is hobbled. There’s now no chance Ukraine will ever surrender, not even if Russia pulls a Grozny.
And indeed, it’ll be a disaster for both countries. But in this case, Russia brought it on themselves no matter what idiot tankies claim.
people should live in windowless bedrooms with a toilet in them, for housing affordability. not me tho
— high fantasy football (@lyta_gold) October 9, 2022
Told y’all they were going to start trying to put us into the pods. Has been obvious for a while now.
Keeps ’em lean and mean, according to Ian Welsh. Because you win wars with starving, demorailized, equipment-less troops. Sure thing.
I havenโt admitted anyone seriously ill due to (rather than with) COVID-19 to intensive care in many, many months. I say this phenomenonologically. Itโs simply true.
— Dr. Ron Daniels BEM (@SepsisUK) October 7, 2022
But all the HOSPITALS ARE FULL! THEY HAVE PEOPLE ON THE ROOF!!!!!
The reality is that if you look at the admissions numbers anywhere outside of certain parts of Canada (for some reason), most are back to pretty much pre-pandemic normal.
I drive an EV in Ohio and so I hear plenty of unsolicited opinions, and the extent to which urbanist folks on here parrot the same bogus anti-EV talking points as batshit right wing conspiracy theorists has consistently shocked me.
— I aint got no towtruck dumbass (@thefrog1394) October 8, 2022
There’s a lot of reasons for that. Many of those types are obsessed with banning cars and have an unnatural fixation with taking away things from others, so “EVs bad” no how much better they are than ICE autos.
Meanwhile, the reality:
โWe found that battery electric cars generate half the emissions of the average comparable gasoline car, even when pollution from battery manufacturing is accounted for.โ
This is seven years old. The benefits have only grown and will continue to https://t.co/TPX0VtI2Rr
— Angie Schmitt🚶♀️ (@schmangee) October 8, 2022
I keep getting comments asking how NASA could possibly 'forget' the process for going to the moon and I dunno how did we 'forget' how to light a movie? https://t.co/fQbF74uuFn
— The 21st Century. Oh Dear. (@KyleKallgren) October 9, 2022
Part is loss of skill. Part is most things are shot on digital now, which has a worse contrast ratio than film. And it’s less forgiving in low light in other ways. The new movie, Halloween Ends, was shot on Arri Alexa Mini digital cameras.
However, the original 1978 Halloween was filmed with Panavision Panaflex cameras and Panavision C-Series anamorphic lenses, but I wasn’t able to find the film stock used other than it was shot on 35mm. Those Panavisions, though, are probably the best movie cameras ever made despite the advantages of digital.
I think cilantro tastes like soap and I still like it quite a lot.
I am the chaotic evil.
Remember 3 years ago when @keccers suggested that maybe industrially processes liquid with sugar and seed oils wasnโt especially healthy and thousands of people freaked out over it. That was weird. Anyway. Guess people are coming around https://t.co/YtLopS0F4E
โ Joe Weisenthal (@TheStalwart) October 9, 2022
Oat milk, despite not being very healthy, is at least not as vile as almond milk. No, oat milk merely tastes like if you soak oatmeal in water, strain out the oatmeal and then drink the oaty water. It’s just very bland and pointless rather than actively a gustatory apocalypse like almond milk.
If you can’t drink milk, soy milk is superior to all of the modern variants. I use whole milk because I am very lactose tolerant and because it actually tastes like something.
Great for John Clauser. We grad students from that time at Columbia all remember how his interest in testing quantum mechanics entanglement was strongly discouraged by faculty.
โ Emanuel Derman (@EmanuelDerman) October 4, 2022
This was when “shut up and calculate” was still the dominant paradigm, and when physicists (as they still mostly do today) tried to pretend that the universe is 100% deterministic. Most still profess determinism, but they know they are lying I think — but just don’t care. They wish the universe were a completely predictable machine. But Bohmian “hidden variable” determinism appears not to be true and that makes many people wildly angry.
In fact, I’ve seen several articles after this Nobel Prize win still asserting that the Bohmian determinism-preserving interpretation of QM could still (somehow) be true even though Clauser et al.’s experiments showed that the Bell’s inequalities were unequivocally violated in this universe (the only one we appear to have access to).
Thus went locality and determinism. Many physicists still hate this today, though it’s true. Here’s a good fairly-technical history and summary of the work that won the Nobel Prize.
The best one-sentence summary of what this means was by John Conway who said, “To be more precise, what we shall show is that the particlesโ response to a certain type of experiment is not determined by the entire previous history of that part of the universe accessible to them.”
As I said before, thus went locality and determinism. So when someone tells you that this universe is fully deterministic, you can now cite the Nobel Prize-winning physicists who showed it absolutely is not.
So let me get this straight: russia has blown up more residential buildings and civilian infrastructure than any terrorist organisation in the world in 8 months, but tankies are calling Ukrainians terrorists because of allegedly bombing a bridge that was a weapon supply line?
— Magda (ใใฐใ) 🇺🇦🏳️🌈🇬🇪 (@MishimaMD) October 9, 2022
Tankies — and Ian Welsh is one of them for some fucking reason — are terrible. Always have been and always will be.