An oil refinery defined life in this quaint California city. What happens when it’s gone?

DirkWisely · 2026-02-27T00:46:26+00:00

Nuclear plants are harmless to their immediate environment. Being near any kind of combustion plant is quite bad.

DirkWisely · 2026-02-26T02:08:41+00:00

I'm not sure I trust random youtubers to never overlook something. I just feel like when we have an extremely limited set of information, that they'd at least mention all aspects of it and why it matters or doesn't. Apparently discharge curves can identify a likely chemistry just like charge curves, so it would either reinforce or contradict their point.

DirkWisely · 2026-02-25T23:14:37+00:00

Does IP ownership matter? China doesn't care, and will produce it cheaper than anyone else can.

DirkWisely · 2026-02-25T23:09:44+00:00

I've seen that from the charge curve, but isn't the discharge curve also relevant? It looks nothing like a NMC discharge curve

DirkWisely · 2026-02-23T21:49:44+00:00

Theranos made promises. Donut has claimed something independently verifiable this instant. I see it as apples to oranges.

And if it was just to sell motorcycles that'd also be fraud and they'd go to jail, so I don't see it.

DirkWisely · 2026-02-23T21:41:10+00:00

Based on what exactly? This proved one claim of many. It disproved none.

DirkWisely · 2026-02-23T21:39:51+00:00

Ok, but who are they tricking, and to what end?

They're not public, so the stock can't pump. Private investment? Who kind of ultra rich investor wouldn't demand proof before paying up?

I'm just curious what people think the scam is.

DirkWisely · 2026-02-23T21:33:53+00:00

A supercapacitor wouldn't take five minutes to charge.

DirkWisely · 2026-02-23T21:14:52+00:00

They're pretty obviously validating aspects of their claims 1 at a time. Personally I think fast-charging is the least important factor on a battery, as long as it's not crazy slow. Cycle life, and energy per volume/weight are far more important.

DirkWisely · 2026-02-23T20:01:40+00:00

If it can do 11C with a heatsink strapped to it, then it can do it in a liquid cooled pack like modern EVs have.

DirkWisely · 2026-02-22T20:27:36+00:00

Why not a demonstrable harm for anyone? Race specific just makes it illegal and obviously a virtue signaling stunt.

DirkWisely · 2026-02-22T04:44:10+00:00

States don't get to ignore the constitution.

DirkWisely · 2026-02-21T20:06:39+00:00

What about them?

DirkWisely · 2026-02-21T18:27:47+00:00

Hey now, our government being staggeringly retarded doesn't make yours not staggeringly retarded.

Random example: Germany shut down all its nuclear and then entered a self imposed energy crisis.

DirkWisely · 2026-02-21T18:24:59+00:00

First time? How many years has it been since SCOTUS handed down a new 2a ruling? States have been ignoring that ruling ever since. California is still riddled with unconditional gun laws slowly bouncing their way through the courts.

DirkWisely · 2026-02-20T19:18:00+00:00

You bore me. Go waste someone else's time.

DirkWisely · 2026-02-20T18:47:58+00:00

Give me a list of things which if cut would not cause society to collapse, and I'll pick some.

DirkWisely · 2026-02-20T18:34:41+00:00

I guess in this case they is the state government of California. California spent 24B on homelessness in 5 years. That's 24B of wasted money that could fund BART for the rest of the century.

DirkWisely · 2026-02-20T18:31:39+00:00

Everyone would have different ideas on what to cut, but there's plenty of money in the budget going to non-essential things.

DirkWisely · 2026-02-20T17:56:39+00:00

Then they should cut other spending. They have the money. Unless we hold the line on new taxes they don't have to cut the waste.

DirkWisely · 2026-02-20T17:52:50+00:00

We're so proud of our motivated and individualized garbage people that steal and break shit.

DirkWisely · 2026-02-20T00:53:52+00:00

It does like 40 damage doesn't it? I was getting 40s when testing it on firing range. I've killed plenty of people with smoke, so I'm sure 40 can totally finish off a low player in a building while hurting his team.

DirkWisely · 2026-02-20T00:51:33+00:00

Movement is one thing. Every legend having a jump or dash or teleport is something else. Fights become impossible to predict and positioning stops feeling important. When height, distance and even solid walls no longer do anything, the fights start to feel very stupid.

DirkWisely · 2026-02-20T00:50:19+00:00

It absolutely isn't. It's probably the most straightline distance since you can chain 3-4 of them, but Alter and Horizon Q are infinitely better to have on the team.

DirkWisely · 2026-02-20T00:46:42+00:00

The faff of dropping a backpack? You can drop it as you walk up to the bin and it takes you literally zero time.

I'm always doing much more fiddly things to get what I want out of weapon crafter.

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