chaosCruiser

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[–] chaosCruiser 2 points 4 months ago

Wow, that really is listed as an element. I’m learning so much!

[–] chaosCruiser 11 points 4 months ago (16 children)

Voom sounds like a fun place to visit.

[–] chaosCruiser 4 points 4 months ago

Because 99% is still less than “all of Europe”, so…

[–] chaosCruiser 24 points 4 months ago (1 children)

If an artist is using their grant money on booze and art supplies, the government will get a fair bit of the money back through taxes. If the artist does drugs instead, the government is missing out. The obvious choice would be to start taxing all narcotics and intoxicants.

[–] chaosCruiser 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I think I’m already seeing signs of pre-war polarization.

USA is pushing certain countries away, and they will naturally form new relationships. Maybe in the future we’ll have USA and Russia as one of the rogue states in the axis of oppression. EU will obviously see themselves as one of the good guys who bring democracy and peace to the world.

However, having a civil war in USA looks highly likely as well. Have you considered pulling off a coup d’état yet?

[–] chaosCruiser 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Only as many as I need for grouping my subscribed communities neatly. As there are no “multireddits” on Lemmy, your subscribed feed will be dominated by the popular communities, while all the small ones will be buried and forgotten. In order to solve that issue, I need a few accounts. If Lemmy grows, my need for accounts also grows. Maybe one day I’ll b have ten accounts.

[–] chaosCruiser 19 points 4 months ago

Or maybe you said something she didn’t like, and now she’s out there to get you. Maybe we’re all on some black list now.

[–] chaosCruiser 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Looking forward to those cheap batteries. It might take a few years to ramp up production, but once that happens, it’s going to be even wilder than it currently is with Li-ion batteries.

Nowadays, we have batteries in a bunch of weird things like earbuds, bluetooth speakers, vacuum cleaners, mice, kitchen scales, and even disposable vapes. When Na-ion batteries get really cheap, we could have even more batteries in everything. This means that all the things that currently don’t use electricity at all, might do so in the future.

[–] chaosCruiser 2 points 4 months ago

That’s just it. Swappable batteries sound really cool and appealing, and I guess that’s why NIO is trying them out. Building that sort of infrastructure is incredibly expensive, and it comes with high financial risks. Finding that kind of money from investors appears to be happening, but I don’t know if they actually have enough runway to make it viable. To me, that sounds like an infrastructure project only a government could do.

[–] chaosCruiser 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The way I see it, sodium ion batteries look really promising in many applications where size and weight aren’t a huge concern. Obviously, mobile phones aren’t ideal, but bikes and city cars should be fine. Maybe even grid energy storage.

[–] chaosCruiser 1 points 4 months ago

Hasn’t Apple seriously considered the ad business in the past? I think I saw a video about it years ago. Most likely, they will switch their strategy as soon as it makes financial sense to do so.

[–] chaosCruiser 16 points 4 months ago

If you make a bird trivia quiz, you can sneak that answer in and people will pick anything other than the correct answer.

When an owl is injured, the bruise will:

  1. heal within 4.5 hours
  2. look green
  3. smell like lavender
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