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Comment Re:Yay to the abolition of lithium slavery! (Score 4, Insightful) 133

On a slightly different note, if only I had a dollar for every slashdot battery story...

You'd probably be able to afford enough of an education to know batteries have improved dramatically over the decades and you'd understand they are a very important and active research focus which is why you hear a lot about the work being done with them.

Comment Re:Transphobic (Score 1) 234

That's just data on prisons.

Yes, welcome to my point. I don't seem to share my bathroom with any prisons. But keep looking through your data, eventually you will find your way to data that shows transgender people are several orders of magnitude more likely to be sexually abused or assaulted.

But no worries, we'll just fuck over 1million Americans because you are worried about a small handful. Will it help if I tell you transgender people can be women turning men? Or that gender dysphoria also affects children? Will that help tick your "omg we need to protect x" box?

Comment Re:well, that explains one reason why I don't like (Score 1) 72

You can save just as much money with a 1970s thermostat. You can save just as much money with a 1970s thermostat. Turn it down or off or up when you need to, simple as that.

Actually you can't. Physical impossibility. The 1970s thermostat for example can't modulate the boiler which would result in more gas being used to maintain the same comfort level in the room. That's before you realise that human behaviours prevent you from doing what you want to do. "Oh I'm only going out for 2 hours, I'll leave the heat on because I don't want a cold room when I get home". A smart thermostat can handle that for you without any loss of comfort, you won't, because you are a creature of comfort and can't reach your thermostat when you're 30min out from arriving home.

Ultimately you can say what you want, or pretend people do something that happens only in your head, the reality is that smart thermostats have and do save people money. That's just the fact. Anything you *could* do is irrelevant in the fact of that evidence.

Comment Re:Big Whoop (Score 1) 80

And yet who have no problem with giving your data to many different irrelevant accounts in this case. And also being forced to. Why is that the case? Why would you not tick the box? Why would you praise that it is optional? Especially when you don't seem to care about literally that kind of personal data traversal here in this case.

I don't have a Playstation. Why the fuck would I want an account for it to play a game which *clearly* did not need it.

Comment Many companies don't want to flare (Score 2) 50

The flare at typical onshore oil and gas installations are *safety features*. These companies are in the business of selling combustible products, they don't actually want to set it on fire themselves, because then you don't pay for it. But when a process isn't running perfectly smooth you are forced to send some products for disposal (i.e. to the flare) to avoid potential overpressure, disasters.

Also what is enclosed combustors? Are they talking about ground flares which have been in use for over 100 years because they can handle larger volumes without upsetting the locals? Are they talking about thermal heat recovery? Are they talking about refeeding the flare gas into the local fuel gas system for burning in furnaces? This isn't some "new technology".

Comment Re:Thanks to Germany (Score 1) 50

Germany is now buying American natural gas that was previously flared and wasted.

No it's not. Flared / vented gas is almost never sold internationally. There isn't the volume for it. It still is an expensive source, and the sale of it internationally just makes it more expensive due to the need for liquification. 100% of the gas Germany is buying from the USA is primary gas production. For the few facilities that do capture this tiny amount of what previously went up the flare, it is always used and sold locally.

Comment Re:nazi said what? (Score 1) 183

There is a whole conspiracy that the "elite" want people to eat bugs and "fake" meat so they can control the content of their food, and make them incapable of independent thought.

My favourite part about this conspiracy is that it is most often pedalled by people who buy pre-packaged processed instant food from the supermarket and have never even heard of the word "farmers market". My second favourite part about it is that regardless of how healthy you think you are, your "global elite" famers are doing all sorts of shit to your food before you get it, spraying it with chemicals, feeding it drugs, heck even watching it with chlorine, etc. etc.

If the global elite wanted to control you by tainting your food, it is already being done.

Comment Re:Who knows.. (Score 2) 183

and realized, wait and see might be better

That sounds like a good idea. One for the FDA/USDA and most definitely not something some moron politician should be involved in.

but man made food products usually end up in the "causes cancer"

There's a difference between cultured meat and coming up with new chemical compounds for fake foods.

I'm not sure I'd be the first to try this new dish.

You literally cannot be. This stuff is actively sold in some places of the world already.

Comment Re:Translation (Score 1) 183

We will save our ranchers -- and the supporting industries.

From what? You think Lab grown meat which is expected to have an absolute minimum at scale price of *checks notes* $10-20 / lb is going to be a threat to your ranchers currently selling meat wholesale at $3 / lb?

Comment Re:nazi said what? (Score 1) 183

Was it the part where a Florida Governor was looking to protect Florida citizens health

In what way? Be specific now. And try to stay on topic, god knows why you even brought up the things you did in the rest of your post. Are you his personal press secretary? Gunning for a job at Fox and Friends?

Comment Re: Don't say don't say don't say don't say gay (Score 2) 234

When people open loopholes to accommodate their mental illness with no regard to society or the implications, they put children and woman in danger.

Yep, we all know making sure the correct label on a bathroom door solves rape, assault and paedophilia. We did it guys. On to the next issue! /s

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