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[Moriath]

The cinemas now hiring out their screens to gamers

With cinemas badly hit by Covid-19 restrictions they are looking for new revenue streams.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Scouse]

Smart motorways: Highways England referred to CPS over M1 death

A coroner asks the CPS to consider whether Highways England should face manslaughter charges.

www.bbc.co.uk

Previous hearings into Ms Begum's death in 2018 have heard that 16 minutes elapsed between her Nissan breaking down near Woodall Services and the crash.
It took a further six minutes before warning signs were activated.

Six minutes to turn the signs on after the crash. Not just "she's broken down, we'll turn the signs on". Wow.

 

[Moriath]

View: https://www.reddit.com/r/ofcoursethatsathing/comments/le2cyw/febreeze/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf

 

[Moriath]

Spoiler: Nsfw ish

View: https://www.reddit.com/r/ANormalDayInJapan/comments/j5zzxw/i_would_love_to_find_a_blu_ray_copy_of_this_show/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf

 

[Ormorof]

Bitcoin being framed as techs Chernobyl moment The Crypto-Chernobyl

 

[Wij]

Spoiler: Nsfw ish

View: https://www.reddit.com/r/ANormalDayInJapan/comments/j5zzxw/i_would_love_to_find_a_blu_ray_copy_of_this_show/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf

Totally fappable.

 

[Scouse]

Bitcoin being framed as techs Chernobyl moment The Crypto-Chernobyl

Yeah, people who don't like it only have one argument and discount what crypto can potentially replace:

Yes, a real currency like the Euro and by proxy the Eurozone absolutely emits more CO2 than bitcoin

Increased energy use isn't in absolute terms a bad thing - it's a necessary thing to advance mankind. The Kardashev scale is a measurement of the advancement of society based on the amounts of energy it is able to use. So the argument is that, until we come up with a better way of producing energy than coal, we should be careful about what we use increasing amounts of energy for, rather than that we should limit absolute energy use.

The how we produce energy, and what for is the important thing. Shitloads of energy produced constructing throwaway consumable plastic toys for kids? The fashion industry? Meh, we can argue about what for till we're blue in the face. But cryptocurrencies (of which many are extremely energy efficient) are potentially transformative to society.

Right now they're nascent technologies - so yes, people see waste but not a lot of use. (Oil was the same, post-discovery we had to invent reasons to use it and whole industries sprung up off the back of it). Use will come. Societally-transformative use.

Hands up - yep. It's energy intensive and that is indeed a "bad thing". I'm not defending that - but 75% of crypto mining apparently runs on renewable energy (large swathes of it geothermal - these huge warehouses are often sited next to the cheapest renewable sources of power available because there's an economic driver to doing so - energy use hits profitability). And virtualising mediums of exchange has the potential to remove the damage that the physical causes.

So yeah. It's not great from a "uses the same amount of energy as 45 million people" (in a 7.5 billion people world). But I reject most of these people's arguments because I think, ultimately, it comes from a place of bitterness that they feel they've lost out, or missed the train and energy use is the only weak point they've got left to rage at. (And yes, it's a weak point).

He sums it up like this:

We were angry at the financial status quo and instead of finding the answers and strength of purpose within ourselves to build a more fair, democratic and just society we instead decided to put our faith in an anarchist technical fantasy that solved nothing

To which I say - shut up you whiny little bitch. Hundreds of thousands of people have found the answers and strength of purpose to build that more fair, democratic and just society because they realised that no freedom or justice could be obtained unless we gained more freedom from slave-inducing financial systems which are really just mechanisms that concentrate power into the hands of a few. Cryptocurrency is a technological solution - a real solution - to help right that imbalance. And dissing it as "anarchist fantasy" is just a rage in favour of autocratic status-quo. Arnarchy is the absence of a central controlling power - which is an absolute reality with cryptocurrencies, not a fantasy.

That's worth spending the energy on. So people like him can get fucked

 

[Ormorof]

I think my main gripe is it doesn't really seem to do anything

Thus expending limited resources on it seems wasteful. Things like smart contracts, transparent ownership records for things that traditionally have issues with this like diamonds, real estate are all being explored with other similar tech, but bitcoin is so expensive now it will not be used for these things, but purely pushed to make money for a small group of people without really contributing much to the world

 

[Scouse]

I think my main gripe is it doesn't really seem to do anything

Thus expending limited resources on it seems wasteful. Things like smart contracts, transparent ownership records for things that traditionally have issues with this like diamonds, real estate are all being explored with other similar tech, but bitcoin is so expensive now it will not be used for these things, but purely pushed to make money for a small group of people without really contributing much to the world

I think it will. (Or one of the cryptos will). And as a store of value that has intrinsic use in itself (there's a reason tesla sunk 1.5bn dollars in it - it's use-case won't just be profit making). Bitcoin absolutely can be seen as gold that you can transfer easily that doesn't come with strip mining. Other crypto's will be useful for other things.

It's the point I made about oil - we had to invent things to use it. And we did that. But I bet a shitload of people in the world were looking at oil at the time and going "so the fuck what? Does it take me places like my horse does? I'm going to invest more in horses..."

The limited resource expending -that's the point I made about the "what" (plastic toys).

 

[Deebs]

Let's also remember that not all crypto is PoW but many are PoS which is extremely power efficient.

Eth is moving from PoW to PoS but has a way to go yet.

 

[Bodhi]

BTC is old now anyway.

Buy Doge.

Much profit. Such wow.

 

[Scouse]

'Hedge trimmer' fish facing global extinction

 

[Bodhi]

'Hedge trimmer' fish facing global extinction

But is being protected by those evil bastions of capitalism, the US and Australia.

 

[BloodOmen]

 

[BloodOmen]

 

[Lamp]

The average life expectancy of a wild porcupine is 5 to 6 years.

 

[Lamp]

I was super bored today
So I made a 3ft long slingshot
Been firing hazelnuts at things in the garden.
The range is awesome, but I need to work on accuracy
I've hidden it in case the Mrs throws it out. Binmen tomorrow.

 

[Moriath]

I was super bored today
So I made a 3ft long slingshot
Been firing hazelnuts at things in the garden.
The range is awesome, but I need to work on accuracy
I've hidden it in case the Mrs throws it out. Binmen tomorrow.

What from and pics

 

[Lamp]

 

[Lamp]

A branch from a dead tree
Two eye-hole screws
6 strong rubber bands
strong triple folded bit of cotton sheeting

I couldn't find anything Y-shaped, so I improvised.

 

[Gwadien]

High-altitude birds evolved thicker 'jackets'

Himalayan songbirds in colder, more elevated environments have feathers with more fluffy down.

www.bbc.co.uk

Nature is amazing.

 

[Scouse]

Nature is amazing.

Merino wool for pretty much everything base layery to keep you warm. I can wear the same merino wool base-layer for a whole week of cycling and camping and it doesnt stink.

If I wear a synthetic base layer for a day it fucking mings. A lot of enthusiasts say that synthetics dry more quickly - which is true. But wet wool is still warm, and wet synthetics are fucking freezing.

Add into that when bits of fluff fall off in use or the wash it's just that - wool fluff. Synthetics degrade into microplastic pollution.


I have to say though - I can still smell the sheep on this new arran cardigan I'm wearing.

 

[Embattle]

Interesting read:

The EU Is Much Less Wonderful Than It Thinks

Europe can no longer shine on the global stage by virtue of contrast with wicked Donald Trump and blundering Boris Johnson.

www.bloomberg.com

Although I'm fairly sure Boris has some more blunders in him.

 

[Wij]

Interesting read:

The EU Is Much Less Wonderful Than It Thinks

Europe can no longer shine on the global stage by virtue of contrast with wicked Donald Trump and blundering Boris Johnson.

www.bloomberg.com

Although I'm fairly sure Boris has some more blunders in him.

An argument for reforming the EU rather than erecting massive trade barriers with it I would have thought.

 

[Hawkwind]

Merino wool for pretty much everything base layery to keep you warm. I can wear the same merino wool base-layer for a whole week of cycling and camping and it doesnt stink.

If I wear a synthetic base layer for a day it fucking mings. A lot of enthusiasts say that synthetics dry more quickly - which is true. But wet wool is still warm, and wet synthetics are fucking freezing.

Add into that when bits of fluff fall off in use or the wash it's just that - wool fluff. Synthetics degrade into microplastic pollution.


I have to say though - I can still smell the sheep on this new arran cardigan I'm wearing.

If you need to get rid of any smells on the synthetics put them in a bowl of water with a Milton's tablet or solution. Works a treat.

Personally I use a cotton base layer then a thin synthetic layer, usually a half zip or something like that.

 

[Yoni]

Today I soloed lvl 8 twisting corridors alone on my disc priest - it took a while but now it is done... and I do not have to walk around the Maw anymore.

 

[Embattle]

Today I soloed lvl 8 twisting corridors alone on my disc priest

I've done a few with my meathead (Warrior).

 

[Yoni]

did you finish all 8?

 

[Lamp]

My aim is getting better. Managed to hit next door's garden gnome with a hazelnut from an upstairs window
That was a one-off tho.
And I got a chimney on the roof.
Eventually.
I could see the pigeons on a nearby roof watching me - they were eating popcorn and smoking, laughing their asses off at my feeble slingshot skills. Bastards

 

[Moriath]

Today I soloed lvl 8 twisting corridors alone on my disc priest - it took a while but now it is done... and I do not have to walk around the Maw anymore.

No idea what you are doing in WoW but it sounds like an achievement so gratz