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DisasterTransport

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  • The bodybuilder

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  • Eh, it's a distinctive style. If you workshop it and you like the result, great. If you don't, thats fine too. They're funny and now that I know what to expect I can read the nose for what it is. I happen to like your comics quite a bit even if I have been wondering why your characters are so smug and/or content all the time. I thought it was part of the humor ;-)

    For me I think part of the problem is my brain fails to notice the nose in panels that have mouths, and therefore I expect to see a mouth but not a nose in panels woth no mouths. Idk if that helps or even makes sense

  • The bodybuilder

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  • oh fuck they're NOSES. I feel so dumb lmao

  • Oh no! What a shame!

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  • Sounds like a plan! Sure, why not? I'm there!

  • Well damn. Glad he's dead.

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  • Am I missing something or did you just quote their first sentence and then restate the second

  • Hard-right groups have expanded their influence across US government, report finds

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  • Don't forget that if you do vote you're pro-genocide, which means I don't have to think listen to you. Also if voting changed anything they'd make it illegal. What, they're trying to? See, doesn't do anything. Wasted effort. General strike or bust. Discord counts as organizing right?

  • Screwworm-infected Texas district still has no Congress member

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  • Yeah but you gotta admit theres something distinctly biblical about these tribulations, pardon the pun

  • Trump says Iran shot down US helicopter over Hormuz, vows to respond

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  • I know it's a distraction but I abhor the way the man speaks.

    "I was informed this morning by the joint chiefs of staff that at so and so time in such and such operating theater we lost communication with blahblah asset. All US service members were recovered safely with no loss of life. We are committed to peace, but if this was, as we believe it to be, a violation of the ceasefire agreement, this provocation cannot go unanswered. I am urgently seeking communications with the leadership of the IRGC and am directing our forces in the region to move to a state of enhanced readiness."

    • serious
    • sounds like something a Sorkin character would say
    • leaves diplomatic buffer in case it turns out something other than an Iranian missile caused the loss of equipment

    "Army told me IRAN shot down our very fancy helicopter in operating theater, amazing pilots safe but now im mad. I'm gonna bomb them back >:( >:( >:("

    • unserious
    • less room for backtracking
    • sounds fucking stupid

  • NYC backyard

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  • That's the american dream right there.

  • Amazon engineers in Seattle slam employer for building AI data centers while laying off 30,000 staffers

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  • Lemmy Commenter Eviscerates CNBC Over Editorial Practices

  • Screwworm-infected Texas district still has no Congress member

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  • If I was a religious type I would think God was mad at us for electing this dude

  • Jackdaw & deer

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  • What a cute crow

  • Mormons outraged after Hegseth military policy no longer counts LDS as Christian

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  • Ironically when it comes to the nature of God Muslims and Mormons couldn't be farther apart. Like Christians, Mormons believe in the divinity of Christ, i.e. that he is the Son of God (or "Heavenly Father"), but they reject the Trinity, i.e. that God is one substance in three parts*. Mormons instead believe that God is three separate beings of one purpose and will. Muslims are more like Jews in that they don't think he was the Son of God, but where Muslims think he was a prophet and the Messiah, Jews are... indifferent? Maybe they think he was some smart guy, or maybe he didn't exist. Nice story, who cares basically. Muslims reject the Divinity of Christ because they reject the Trinity because the oneness of God is a core of their beliefs.

    *the Trinity gets complicated when you start asking different denominations or even different congregations about it. it is a divine mystery, you're not actually supposed to get it. i didn't make that up, that is what a lot of christian doctrine actually teaches. but they still argue about it. religion is wild

    **i'm also not a theologian so notes will be accepted

  • Are ya?

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  • I checked with the poopsmith and while he says he can't offer you his skills hes proud of you for being number one at going number one.

  • Why do asbestos roofs have so much moss?

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  • If one shingle breaks yeah you wouldn't want to huff it, but realistically dilution would mean the tiny amount released is next to harmless. Asbestos is an extreme occupational hazard for people unlucky enough to have worked with it, but for most extant asbestos material the best practice is to leave in place.

  • Is Elon Musk's starlink based upon optical fibres ?

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  • Re: other shapes, they have to be tesselations of repeating regular polygons. I would refuse to call the one on the right a grid:

    And this one is right out:

    Edit: I have been informed that the Escher tesselation pictured is in fact a grid and am now in a foul mood.

  • Be on the look out for Roy

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  • "Why the hell do people keep letting ducks loose on my bus?"

  • I’ll check the backroom [Teddy]

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  • "the back" is a distribution center a couple towns over, because modern retail is a tightly integrated and logistics heavy industry. How don't you know this Carol? This has been the standard for like 40 years CAROL

  • TIL the cost of transporting energy around

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  • Those transmission losses don't have immediate health and environmental costs, though, and even discounting those there'll be conversion losses on both ends (e: for chemical energy carriers) if what we want to get out of it is usable electricity from renewables. Dont take my skepticism for poohpoohing btw, this kind of counterintuitive thinking is one of the more fascinating things about economics. Or maybe I just like to argue :P

    I'll look up the paper, this is an interesting topic.

  • TIL the cost of transporting energy around

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  • Pipelines are cheap because we already build a lot of them. We already use them to move multiple products. It's a somewhat generic technology (which is very impressive, dont get me wrong).

    I'd be interested to learn how the capex breaks down for the HVDC lines. Is it labor? Procurement? Those can both be optimized with scale. Expand the qualified workforce and incentivize competition among suppliers. If it's raw material cost it might be a little harder. I imagine right of way costs are also quite a bit higher owing to the large footprint. But then once you acquire the RoW it stays there in perpetuity. Still, I bet my favorite hat that once you consider the externalities and conversion losses the transmission lines are a clear winner. The electrical grid really only causes fires when its neglected, whereas gas infrastructure leaks constantly.