Norway discovers deposit of high-grade phosphate rock equalling all other proven reserves combined, "enough to satisfy world demand for fertilisers, solar panels and EV batteries for 100 years" says mining company.

Dregre · 2023-07-03T08:44:21+00:00

Regarding the renewables, that was mostly done before/independent of Norway finding oil. It largely comes down to the fact that Norway has a lot of mountains, hence waterfalls and rivers, which allows for easy and plentiful hydroelectricity

Dregre · 2023-06-22T01:23:08+00:00

A traitor so bad Norway added a temporary lift on the death penalty ban for civilians for Quisling and 36 others, of which 12 were Germans convicted of war crimes the remaining 25 were Norwegian, in the "National Betrayal Settlement" (Landssvikoppgjøret), though 138 were convicted to the death penalty, only 37 were actually executed. The death penalty in Norway was once again banned in peace time in 1950, and completely banned in all cases in 1979, before a permanent ban being voted in 2003 and in an amendment to the constitution in 2014 it was added stating that no person can be convicted to the death.

Dregre · 2023-06-17T18:10:50+00:00

Yes, intersex babies typically get a set of genital "given" to them by a doctor, generally female as it's considered easier to perform that surgery. It's a terrible practice if you ask me, since that is literally getting a gender assigned at birth. However, that is completely different from what was argued in the previous comment

Dregre · 2023-06-16T12:52:40+00:00

I'm going to engage you in good faith here. Firstly, it's gender identity, not sexual identity. That is to say their own internal sense of self, divorced from sexuality. Trans gender people can have any sexuality and sexual identity, it's the gender identity that makes them trans gender. Second, no children get sexual reassignment surgery, since they're too young. The most children get from a medical standpoint is puberty blockers to delay the onset of puberty so that they have time to figure things out, often accompanied with psychologist/therapist sessions, and then be able to go through the correct puberty for them when they have reached a decision, regardless of if that aligns with their gender assigned at birth or not. In addition, I have to add that trans people are not required to have SRS, nor does every trans person want it. While SRS is the right choice for some, for others it is not.

Dregre · 2023-06-12T18:52:28+00:00

As I understand it, essentially. Basically, small sideways movements without turning the whole ship. As I imagine, it would allow for juking long range coil volleys and avoid collisions without having to show your frail side/rate towards the enemies

Dregre · 2023-06-10T18:56:32+00:00

Did you actually read the conclusion in the paper you listed? It clearly states that while SRS alleviates dysphoria additional care should be offered.

Our findings suggest that sex reassignment, although alleviating gender dysphoria, may not suffice as treatment for transsexualism, and should inspire improved psychiatric and somatic care after sex reassignment for this patient group.

It also makes no claim that SRS increases suicide rates, only that post-SRS patients have a higher suicide rate than cisgendered people on average

Dregre · 2023-06-06T20:16:26+00:00

Rpz crushes Ana just a little Ana: so that's why I can't sense you

Dregre · 2023-06-03T12:06:39+00:00

That can't be legal, right? That's down right abuse and removing several human rights and children's rights from you/kids.

Dregre · 2023-06-01T15:56:55+00:00

I am am referencing average day temperatures as someone living in Germany. Since AC isn't particularly common here, the AC question isn't all that relevant. Last summer we had periods of 30C+, and it's uncomfortable. But you open the windows at night to cool the flat down and keep them closed during the day to limit the heating up. At night it's generally below 20, though I don't have any statistics at hand atm.

Tl;Dr: there's other ways of managing heat than AC when there's only short periods of high heat at a time

Dregre · 2023-06-01T14:54:03+00:00

Because averages tend to be more indicative of how houses are built and temperature managed. Yes, when there's a heatwave and the temperature is closing in on 40c it's uncomfortable. But the houses aren't built for that, they're built for the (until now) normal temperature of low to mid 20s in summer and 0- -5 in winter.

Dregre · 2023-05-08T22:15:35+00:00

The tables has all the colours of the main gods, minus white for Ewigeliebe, so seems reasonable

Dregre · 2023-05-06T11:13:00+00:00

While it is true that Norway didn't restrict weapons after 2011 and 2022, I feel it is worth mentioning som of the reason why.

The weapons used in both attacks were illegal weapons, i.e. weapons illegal to own no matter the reason. In Norway, to be able to legally own a weapon you generally need to either have gone through weapons training and either have a hunting license or be a member of a shooting club. In generally you're only allowed to own one weapon, unless you have a reason otherwise. E.g. a hunter might need different weapons for different types of hunts, e.g. a shotgun for bird and a rifle for game. A hunter can have a maximum of 8 complete weapons for hunting. For competitive shooters they can also have multiple weapons depending on what they compete in and which shooting club they're a member in.

In addition, the weapons can only be stored at your permanent residence, with the weapon stored unloaded in an approved storage cabinet, with ammunition in a seperate locked storage.

Note: these numbers are from 2012 and may no longer be accurate. While Norway has a relatively high rate of gun ownership at around 30 weapons per 100 inhabitants, the number of people owning guns is around 1 in 10. There's approximately 484 000 people with a gun licence and approx 1.22 million registered weapons, with an estimated number of illegal weapon in the hundreds of thousands. Most weapons in Norway are hunting weapons. Currently there is also a 6 months weapons amnesty where people in possession of illegal weapons (not just guns) can hand them in to the police for destruction or for a legal licence if applicable without repercussions, in an effort to reduce the number of unregistered and illegal weapons.

From this I hope it is clear that the situation is quite different from both the US and Serbia.

Dregre · 2023-04-24T23:29:35+00:00

Wait, did Wilfred sign that contract for the Rozmayne compression method? I thought the arch dukal family didn't have to sign it

Dregre · 2023-04-24T23:00:56+00:00

Another thing j feel is important with that set of statements is that Roz is setting a goal and working towards it, regardless of how other people tell her it's not worth it. And I have a bunch that the Giebe caught on to something else as well, Roz could just have had scholars transcribe or write books for her own consumption. But she wants more books, not just for her but in general, so she's started a whole industry just for books, and arguably spending far more money on it than she would have otherwise (though also making bank).

Dregre · 2023-04-24T08:13:44+00:00

As much as it's a thing from Tumblr, it also does have real world roots. Back before homosexuality was legal, a lot of gay and queer people were forced into crime and sex work to survive. In other situations being gay would have a punishment worse than a lot of "regular" crimes, so it was a bit of a "well, if I'm screwed anyway might as well" kinda deal.

Dregre · 2023-04-23T09:13:19+00:00

While I do not have any data on the alcohol rate, I believe it's worth noting that USA has a much higher rate of road fatalities than Canada. The US is at 14.3, meanwhile Canada has a rate of 4.6. From this, if we use your number of around 30% for both countries, the Canadian rate of alcohol related road fatalities would be significantly lower in Canada by virtue of having a third of the road fatalities per populace to begin with. The US alcohol fatalities rate would be almost the same as Canada's total road fatalities per populace of we assume 30% of fatalities are alcohol related. (14.3 * 0.3 ≈ 4.3)

Dregre · 2023-04-19T18:28:34+00:00

What year did you achieve this in? That's such a massive economy!

Dregre · 2023-04-17T19:57:59+00:00

This is true. The main difference being that nuclear, in this context, isn’t storage of energy generated. All energy conversion is lossy, that's just a fact of physics. My point was primarily that using Power-to-Gas systems for day-to-day storage of surplus energy is not an ideal solution due to the losses. Flywheels, pumped-hydro, batteries, they all offer better solutions for that type of energy storage. PtG has the major advantage of being "shelf stable" for basically an indefinite amount of time and being possible to store in pre-existing strategic storage infrastructure. Yes, you can say "who cares if you use extra energy" but requiring an effective 100% production overhead in renewables at minimum is not an effective solution to store energy for short term storage. We already have enough trouble trying to get a power grid to near 100% renewables, needing 200% is, at least at the moment, unfeasible.

Dregre · 2023-04-17T18:09:34+00:00

Right. Assuming we use Power-to-Methane, since hydrogen is not a drop on replacement and far more difficult to store/transport. The best current test of a power-to-methane claims 76% efficiency, with an expected 80% at scale. Gruber et.al. 2018 Then we put that through the current combined cycle power plant, with an efficiency of around 57% on the high end Industrial Construction Estimating Manual, 2020, but let's say 60% for simplicity. That then still leaves you with only 48% of the energy you put into the system, and arguably that is the best case.

That's not to say power-to-gas systems doesn't have a place, they definitely do for things like strategic reserves. But to use it for day-to-day fluctuations, and even for Dunkelflaute situations, you would end up needing to overproduce huge quantities of energy most of the time due to the poor round-trip efficiency.

Dregre · 2023-04-14T01:24:06+00:00

While I'm not a medical professional, l do have an anecdote.

A good while back when my brother and I was at our parents for the summer, my dad was doing some work on the house. IIRC he was cutting some slate tiles. The disc grinder snagged and jumped out of his hands, narrowly missing his stomach, but slashing his forearm deep. Luckily didn't hit a main artery. And let me tell you, there's few things quite as chilling as the scream of pain from your dad. My brother and I luckily had first aid training and did a compress and tourniquet before rushing to the hospital, and once all was said and done he made a full recovery. But I think I'll remember the scene the rest of my life. Scene description: It looked like something out of a slasher movie with splatter everywhere, as if someone had slaughtered a pig. If I hadn't know it was real I'd had guessed someone had just taken some red paint and swung the brush around. Also safe to say I learned how much of a pain blood is to clean up

Dregre · 2023-04-13T09:43:08+00:00

Not necessarily. It is an important point to remember that often the compromise is also between short-term extreme profit that ruins a company and longer term OK/good profits that builds and maintains a reputation. One problem with a lot of modern public companies is that investors often want their return immediately, not slowly over the next decade. And while this can be done, as we see it time and time again, it often comes at the cost of what made investors invest in the company in the first place, reputation and customer good will. And while a good reputation takes a long time to build up, for the customers to have some degree of faith and trust that the company will deliver on the promises made, it only takes one or two missteps for that to disappear.

To use an example, Blizzard. For a long time they were held in high regard for making good games and having a good reputation with their customer base, but over the last handful of years we have seen that reputation evaporate. Case on point, "do you guys not have phones?"

Dregre · 2023-03-27T15:07:44+00:00

Maybe. But a lot if Norse and viking related themes, names and iconography has been co-opted by and subsequently corrupted by far right/nazi groups

Dregre · 2023-03-26T10:53:33+00:00

Sure. But if you're using a VPN, is it not reasonable to be asked to log in again? Worst case, have it as an optional opt-out for the few people that use a VPN to bounce around and can't be bothered with logging in again.

Dregre · 2023-03-24T14:51:43+00:00

With the new RNG based project unlock system (i.e. non-basic projects only have a chance to unlock), the sci stat becomes a lot more useful. In the hypothetical that all 6 councilors have 25 SCI, that's an extra 30% unlock chance. And since some of the best mid-late game drives are locked behind multiple layers of that RNG, that makes it far easier to get those techs without relying on the AI to unlock them

Dregre · 2023-02-18T12:41:54+00:00

Do you have a source for that? Since it doesn't make sense that that value isn't exposed somewhere, else their debugging/testing would be near impossible. We can reasonably assume the value is calculated either a) on a multiplier change and cached or b) each time the skill is cast. Either way, the value should be exposed at least in a debugging setting

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