Carl [he/him] @ Carl @hexbear.net

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I posted a video about this tech a couple of months ago. NASA's X-59 is in the active testing stage, with its first flight planned for this year.

The main American competitor to this Chinese company right now is Boom Supersonic, whose XB-1 test plane has already flown. Their first full scale plane, the Boom Overture, is in development.

idk how it works but it does. I've been using Rite in the Rain for years but there are others too if you search it up.

Plus pressurized pens are useful in more than just zero-g. I used to use one along with a waterproof note pad for note taking in the field. They're also not prohibitively expensive, although the ones from Fisher itself carry a pretty huge brand name markup, other companies sell them for a couple bucks each.

None at all. They originally filmed the scene with an actor in a big fur coat, but they cut it out because it's kind of redundant - we don't learn anything about Han that the earlier scene with Greedo doesn't teach us in a more interesting way. Then they decided that Jabba would be a giant slug man some time in between 1977 and 1983.

I don't like how the outside and inside don't match. Give me rustic or give me modern, not rustic on the outside and modern on the inside.

I wouldn't go that far. China makes something like 80% of the intermediate products used in "American" manufacturing, so I'd still expect price increases across the board.

This guy is right but for completely the wrong reasons. This article is an anti-green energy hit piece.

The West is de-industrialising itself in the quest for Net Zero.

government-forced energy transition race to net zero.

Germany, where a rapid deindustrialisation in the pursuit of net zero has been underway for several years now

What fucking planet is this man living on where Western governments are taking climate change so seriously that they're sabotaging their economies over it?

No buddy, I don't think the drive to net zero is responsible for any of these closures, even if the company in question happened to be talking about some greenwashing initiative when the closure occurred.

So, where will the steel-making capacity be made up? Why, in China, of course. The furnaces there won’t be fired by clean, green electricity or hydrogen, but by coal. Because, well, coal is the most energy-efficient, cheapest way to fire the blast furnaces needed to make the steel. Physics still matters.

The implication here is that China doesn't care about green energy and that that gives them an advantage. This despite the fact that China has been investing more into a green energy transition than every other country combined - yes they still use coal, but it's part of a centrally planned, carefully carried out transition that they have been executing for over a decade now, a plan that has been so successful that in that time they went from having some of the worst air quality in the world to some of the best, and that now sees them making the overwhelming majority of all green-energy related tech from panels to windmills to batteries.

Another recent headline out of the UK reads, “United Kingdom closes its last coal-fired power plant.” That September 30 header came from CBS News, and again is descriptive of the story itself: The last coal power plant in the UK was shuttered at the end of September, bringing an end to an era as the UK government strives to meet its carbon reduction goals.

Or it could be that large scale solar and wind generation have gotten cheaper per MWh than coal. Hell, they're currently cheaper in Europe than coal was ten years ago. While the changes are rolling out too late/slowly to stop the worst of what climate change will bring, we have objectively reached the point where the green energy transition (at least for grid power) is inevitable due to market forces.

The magic sauce here isn't disregarding the atmosphere as the writer wants it to be, it's centralized, thorough and long term planning in a society where Capital is under the thumb of the dictatorship of the proletariat. This man imagines that if only the Western governments would deny climate change more and become even more destructive towards their environments, that they would become competitive with a socialist economic system - but he doesn't see the simple and obvious truth that that would only further accelerate our self-destruction.

[redacted] critical electrical infrastructure, flee to the [redacted] mountains.

It's no accident that tons of cis women have also been hurt by the rise in anti-trans attitudes. Part of the project is to bully any woman with any presentation perceived as not femme enough to change themselves to better fit inside the box.

I've lived in tropical/mediterranean climates my whole life (until about a year ago), so I'd say I'm the most comfortable in summer but I have a lot of fun with and I've always loved to visit places with snow.

Hate living with it though. I had to shovel my car out of the snow for the first time this year and that suuuuuuucked.

Germany is arresting and deporting its political enemies. who are predominantly Jewish

nothing is new under the sun