Whatever makes you sleep at night bud
All the reading beyond this point was oppositional research.
Talking points have been distributed
Oh shit is this not a joke?
agents deployed.
Hahaha Michelle Maxwell had a 4 out of 5 chance of getting the stressed word correct and completely bombed. Impressive stuff. Almost any other of those words would have been better than ‘of’.
lol yeah. I don’t think any of those words need stressing though. Works fine without it. 😄
Huh, they let Betty be a lesbian.
How can you tell from this picture?
“Wife”
Betty might have transitioned. They go to the men’s room too.
If Betty wasn’t a bot they’d be so upset right now.
I’m a trans man I’m immune to this joke
Beep Boop beep I keep hearing people complain…
Saya terus-menerus mendengar orang mengeluh…
For the damage it’s doing, fossil fuels should be several times more expensive to compensate in climate change costs and reduce demand.
There should be a carbon tax, but whoever signs it will be the least popular president in history. One of the flaws of democracy is that sometimes the thing that really needs to happen is unpopular with the moronic citizenry that can’t understand why it needs to happen.
There are countries who already do have a CO2 tax.
Yup, they’ve deferred paying the full balance on extraction, refining, and burning for a century. Why would they start now?
You ain’t wrong
The problem isn’t that prices are going up. The problem is we’re not paid anywhere near what we should be.
AKA The rich get richer while the poor get poorer.
It’s both. We’re not getting paid the full value of our labor, annual wage cuts are the default, and the only safe ways to save require buying into that same system of oppression.
The problem isn’t any of those things. The problem is that there isn’t enough affordable housing, and not enough housing period. We’re literally in a near-global housing crisis. Everything else would be fine if that wasn’t the case.
Wages are double what they used to be when gas was $2/gallon. So $4/gallon shouldn’t be a problem.
The problem is housing, followed by grocery. And in some areas, followed by energy.
Gas isn’t even on the list. It only feels as bad as it does because of everything else.
Not that it couldn’t be cheaper.
…And not like any country is selfless with their natural resources.
I don’t strongly disagree; housing is one of those safe places to invest in our own oppression.
I would like to propose a solution…
And also the system of global exploitation that gave us cheap goods because we oppressed the global south into accepting low wages (aka imperialism) has reached a point where the capitalists are extracting diminishing returns. This means they have to turn their gaze towards home and exploit us more in order to keep increasing their profit margins.
I remember this exact same post when Biden was president… oh wait, no I don’t.
Magas got mad at him for pressing the “raise gas prices” button when Russia decided to invade The Ukraine.
If “Calvin’s dadism” was a cult, I’d be in it
My bike gets like 100 miles per gallon of oatmeal
density of oatmeal (source (although this is with sugar)): 693 kg/m³ = 0.69 kg/L
nutritional value of oatmeal (source): 297 kJ/100g = 2970 kJ/kg
(oatmeal with sugar and stuff: 4600 kJ/kg, same source as the first one)
typical leisurely cycling energy expenditure (source): 80 kJ/km
bicycle oatmeal-efficiency: (2970 kJ/kg * 0.69 kg/L) / (80 kJ / km) ≈ 25.62 km/L ≈ 3.9 L/100km ≈ 60 mpg
bicycle oatmeal-efficiency with sugary oatmeal: (4600 kJ/kg * 0.69 kg/L) / (80 kJ/km) ≈ 39.68 km/L ≈ 2.5 L/100km ≈ 93 mpg
please do correct me if I’m wrong
That can’t be good for the fuel injector.
Just don’t put any additives or you will blow up the exhaust
You can brush your teeth if there’s a lot of sugar.
You need to mix it with something. Once you add water or milk its great. It usually gets stuck when you add it dry.
Nothing beats bicycle when it’s comes to efficiency.
Interestingly, it depends on how you measure efficiency.
Per unit of sunlight that hits a patch of land, solar panels capture about 20% of the sunlight that hits. Charging a vehicle battery and powering the motor might result in a 25% loss, so that we’re basically converting about 15% of the sunlight into movement.
In contrast, plants convert only about 1-2% of sunlight energy through photosynthesis. Feeding that plant biomass to be converted into stored energy in an animal, and then that animal moving its muscles to propel a vehicle, we might be talking a huge loss there, too, so that we’re looking at less than 1% of the sunlight being turned into motion.
If you want to most efficiently convert sunlight into movement, bypassing any and all biological processes is probably the most efficient thing to do.
So I should start eating solar panels then?
There was a startup that made a splash last year by claiming they had a process that could manufacture organic compounds, including edible fats resembling animal-derived butter, out of nothing but carbon dioxide, water, and energy, through a Fischer-Tropsch process.
I could see a world where people on a spaceship more efficiently use their sunlight to create synthetic edible macronutrients rather than using that same sunlight to try to grow edible plants.
Yeah but plants just like magically appear, solar panels need raw materials, a factory and all the infrastructure that comes with that. Add that mess into your equations.
I feel - apple grows on a tree in my garden, I eat apple, I power bicycle is more efficient than - I mine raw materials, I build factory, I bring all raw materials to factory, I power factory and produce solar panels, I put solar panels in field, hook them up to the power grid, and then think about charging my ebike which also took way more raw materials than a bicycle due to lack of battery and I would still need to power myself.
Add that mess into your equations.
What percentage of your calorie intake comes from industrialized agriculture, where planting, growing, and harvesting the food uses a significant amount of fossil fuels and fertilizers and other inputs that come from industrialized production?
Home grown and locally grown food is pretty good for flavor, but not particularly efficient with calories.
Similar with mine. 80km a week in cycling to work.
Herb grower eh. I use mine to get around town when Ive been uh… Growing herb…
Used to be a 20 buck can into town and 20 back. Saved hundreds on cabs, hundreds on fuel, got in better shape
Prices of USA is like in Russia, while in Europe we are paying 10dollars a gallon. Stop whining.
Remember when gas went up a little bit under Biden and these motherfuckers never shut the fuck up about it? I am sick of this shit
… whie just a few microliters of LSD can transport you across the ENTIRE UNIVERSE
They say DMT feela like loading the Universe into the cannon and shooting yourself with it.
DMT is IMO not a “recreational” drug. The few times I’ve done it, it was a shitload of mental and emotional work to keep up with. Definitely alternate realities though – LSD lets you wander into otherworldly thoughts; Psilocybin lets you visualize them vividly; DMT slams them into your sensory apparatus like a brick wrapped in lemon
I have know idea, that’s just what people say. I can see why that would not be recreational.
Has he tried HP printer ink?
I find it too metallic to be a solid drink, but the price does make me feel fancy.
Just a shot now and then, as a treat.
Still an expensive drink.
Have you ever, as a gag, ordered a single of expensive whiskey and shot it in front of the bar tender? Me either, I do that with cheap whiskey just fine.
Wow… I don’t get this guy. He never had $0.92/gal gas?
As much as it pains me to have this thought, there are adults running around today who were very small children in 2004.
How much is lsd or shrooms in comparison? Im sure he will have a hell of a long trip for the price.
Is this going to be another thread of people taking an obvious joke seriously
While it doesn’t show the whole post, nothing about this screams obvious joke.
I saw a Trump supporter in a very red area of the U.S. share this or a very similar thing sincerely. He didn’t think it was a joke.
Literally the entire thing screams obvious joke.
I think we have different definitions of obvious.
Yes. I have the correct one, you have the wrong one.
Oh, is this like the thing where “literally” can be used in additional contexts outside of its primary meaning? So, this joke is “obvious”?
No like the joke is just obvious to anyone who has eyes and reading comprehension skills and a basic understanding of humor.
Blah blah blah what’s next we are unhinged, we need to touch grass? Are we not fun at parties? Do we need to seek help? What else do you bots love to parrot.
Oh so you’re a bot.
Obviously not.
You can’t see the joke through the stink lines coming off your feet.
Lmao. Go shit yourself asshole.
I once got an F in school for pointing out the text was an obvious joke 😂 It wasn’t. Turns out people in that time period were really stupid. (Guess that also holds true for modern times. Maybe even more so.)
The same could be said of this entire timeline since 2016 and I don’t see any of us laughing.
Well it’s fucking not.
Poe’s law. It’s not extreme enough. I can easily picture a maga using this logic to justify why Trump’s middle east fuckup isn’t all that bad.
It’s not a joke it’s a bot with gop talking points.
well…
I know people who post this unironically. They are too far gone
The Tisms strike again
Dude, I’ve got the 'tism; I think this is largely a media literacy issue.
I think this is largely a media literacy issue.
I think this is largely a literacy issue.
FTFY
If that’s the case then I think Lemmy has some of the worst media literacy per user that I’ve ever seen in one space online. Minus maybe Facebook
Media literacy around the world is in shambles, not just in some dumb corner of the internet.
In this case I’m specifically referring to detection of satire and sarcasm
Satire is dead. People unironically believe some of the most bat shit things with their entire heart.
Sarcasm has always been mostly about tone of voice and difficult to tell through text.
Oh, I happen to agree.
Petrol is super cheap, because the only thing you can really do with it is burn it for energy.
That and you waste 60-90 percent of that energy potential as heat.
What if we harvest that heat for energy
That is exactly what we are doing in the upper end of that efficiency range (turbochargers, turbine generators, heater cores) - the waste heat from that is unharvestable (exhaust gas, engine core heat).
Yea, combined cycle gas turbine power plants are pushing above 60% efficiency. They use the waste heat from the turbine exhaust to generate steam and then extract energy from there. About as good as it gets.
Cars could be a lot better if emissions wasn’t a concern.
