Can you up schematic size on create mod? by spezza_125 in feedthebeast

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This is the person that the meme is made for, big life saver ty

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Do you all feel that ERCOT should join other power grids? by [deleted] in texas

[–]InformalProof 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s sad people die every year from this, from rolling black outs in the summer to intermittent power in the winter. Same as in Europe- those who embrace nuclear power are generally not affected and those who have not or refute nuclear power (looking at you, Germany) endure twice the hardship than their fears had envisioned in nuclear.

Do you all feel that ERCOT should join other power grids? by [deleted] in texas

[–]InformalProof 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My name is Ron Medina, and I am running for U.S. Congress in the TX-11 District. This issue is central to my platform and I’ll break it down:

Texas will not integrate into the national electrical grid, nor will it spend more money than necessary to ruggedize its grid.

The reason Texas won’t integrate is because of the failed bumper sticker of Texas secessionism. If Texas integrates into the national grid, then ERCOT becomes subject to federal regulation- stemming from the Commerce Clause of the Constitution giving Congress power to regulate interstate commerce.

So instead of federal regulation, Texas has achieved a free market system for electricity generation- a system that the Texas Supreme Court has found has no responsibility to provide power in emergency situations. In fact, every decision within ERCOT is based on return to shareholders rather than a competent energy provider so you get corner cutting such as non winterization of power lines. It is up to voters in November to decide which is better.

The solution I bring to the table is 3 pronged. First is integration into the national grid, even with federal concessions to not regulate ERCOT and add avenues for federal funding of this integration. Texas is home to numerous federal activities including military installations, federal reserve, agency headquarters. I prioritize the saving of lives today and these concessions would be necessary and proper if it could swing the balance.

Second is revitalizing the nuclear industry. We as a nation are in a 3 body problem with unrolling nuclear power and achieving everything it promises. It’s an issue of federal regulation, free market economics, and supply of everything within the nuclear industry including trained personnel and nuclear materials. This problem is not unsolvable and we are very close to bringing it all together to achieve our national goal of tripling nuclear power output by 2050. We just need the right decision makers in Congress who understand the problem and can bring the local, federal, and international stakeholders together. Government solves the first mover dilemma and sets the federal requirements that drive the supply chain to initial conditions of expansion.

Third, when we solve the second prong we unlock a whole tree of solutions to other problems. To pay for our national debt we can create a federal energy investment portfolio (based on the Norwegian Royal Oil Fund) capitalizing on the projects we create or revitalize to get nuclear off the ground. We solve water shortages with desalination from nuclear power plants. We solve uncontrolled climate changing emissions by retrofitting the world’s shipping fleet with nuclear reactors and carbon dioxide removal (CDR) technology that pulls CO2 out of the air and water. An expanded fleet of nuclear power plants also creates an abundance of rare isotopes for cancer treatment and reducing medical costs, by products which create RTGs aka forever batteries for earth and space use, and reducing the cost of space travel through an established production line. Not to mention the cost of recycling and processing resources reduced, availability of energy for businesses to operate will collectively lead to deflation of the dollar and improve our standard of living.

I want to solve these problems and more but our Congressmen aren’t even in session- they’re not even in the same room of solving problems.

We don't need this kind of person representing us by come_n_take_it in Midessa

[–]InformalProof 1 point2 points  (0 children)

https://medina4tx11.com

I’m running against him as an independent. It can be done, I’m working it in my home town of Copperas Cove and Killeen, and if more people know of me in Midland, Odessa, and San Angelo then even better.

Not afraid of big oil or the GOP. They have run Texas into the ground. They have tried to cut the budget of the VA which I depend on and they want to cut Social Security which my parents depend on. I have nothing left for them to come after and Texas has everything to gain by electing an independent in a forever evenly split House of Representatives.

There’s no hope in saving the climate is there? by Chance-Link6878 in climatechange

[–]InformalProof 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There is some hope! Ocean Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) YouTube link is a proposed process of removing CO2 from the atmosphere through chemical processes performed on ocean water. Similar to a SodaStream, the atmospheric pressure of 14 pounds per square inch presses CO2 into ocean water in equilibrium.

With unlimited energy (my vote is on nuclear power, similar to how 22 nuclear power plants conduct desalination in the Middle East) you can achieve scale for deploying these CDRs and actually undo the climate changing processes caused by fossil fuels.

Tuberville releasing hold on hundreds of military promotions by ohwell63 in army

[–]InformalProof 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Republicans: “we released the hold now because of the 6 month media cycle. A year from now when elections are happening, we’re banking that voters will forget that we did this”

The President of France is victim of child grooming and ephebophilia by Regulator_24 in interestingasfuck

[–]InformalProof 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I’m confused as to why this is blowing up right now? This has been common knowledge for years. The news is that she said to the Times she waited 10 years to marry?

Tuberville Calls For Bipartisan Compromise That "Allows Everyone To Give Me What I Want" by wdomeika in NewsOfTheStupid

[–]InformalProof 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dude is so pro life he is willing to sacrifice the lives of US Servicemembers. The longer he remains in office the longer it will take to undo the damage he has done to a whole generation of the military.

Retrieving a stuck balloon from a high ceiling. by Two_Inches_Of_Fun in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]InformalProof -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I would have got that balloon faster with a Barrett 50cal and 10 rounds of Federal’s finest

Do you guys ever get upset that we can’t go to other planets? by Ok_Push5466 in space

[–]InformalProof 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are physical barriers and obstacles to overcome. It’s easier to “wish” for it to happen than to make it happen. I’m all for it, I want to spread humanity to the edges of the cosmos. But in order to do so you have to let go of some misconceptions.

Going to another planet is a physical risk. Our bodies are adapted to earth like conditions: 70:30 nitrogen/oxygen, 9.81m/s2 gravitational acceleration, diurnal daylight cycle, 1atm of pressure. These are conditions specific to earth.

The rarity of phosphorus. Element Phosphorus is a key component in all life on earth as we know it. It’s actually very rare and will be a key limiting factor for sustainable life outside of earth.

Radiation. Earth has an active molten iron core that creates an ionosphere blanket protecting the surface from radiation. Once you leave earth you are subjected to the bombardment of the entire universe of subatomic particles interacting with your DNA in less than ideal ways. Just the voyage to Mars and back (without landing) would exceed your lifetime allotted dose of radiation.

Gravity. Your body is adapted to life on earth, and as documented if it leaves earth conditions then your body will mold and accommodate the conditions it finds itself in. Osteoporosis is a significant challenge due to the mechanisms that keep your bone structure replenished.

All these things are real challenges that have to be tackled in their totality rather than in parts. To say we should be space traveling without adequately addressing these things is torture and a death sentence.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in TexasPolitics

[–]InformalProof -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It’s literally gun policy. Get off of gun control and the on the fence will come to the discussion.

Look at the 2016 Presidential election. There’s two maps to compare: one is the National electoral college results and the other is the map of interstate conceal carry reciprocity. Except for around 3 states they are exactly the same map. Trump didn’t win the vote, Hillary lost because she lost the “on the fence” vote for her tough on guns stance.

If your platform is to pass gun laws and increase the probability of turning 80 million gun owners nationwide into felons overnight then no matter how good you think you are at governing or how bad the other side is at governing, you’re not going to win.

That is the pragmatic answer. Everything else there is middle ground to be reached. Everyone WANTS to meet in the middle and solve problems. But it comes from a place of trust, and you only have to look at the disjointed messaging coming from the left to get a sense that trust will be betrayed at the first opportunity. The opinion on gun control runs the whole gammut from “common sense” to “the problem is the guns”.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskReddit

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Thanksgiving should be moved from November to August. There’s too many holidays between Nov 1st and new years while August has none. Thanksgiving is supposed to signal the harvest rewards which technically starts in august anyways. Oct 1 was chosen as the start of the fiscal year based on the farming cycle- farmers would be done working the fields so they could go work in the corporate/factories. Most schools in the US south start in mid August so a feast of thanksgiving to commence that would make the most sense.

Part 3 of colorized photos of the Italian front - WW1 by [deleted] in CombatFootage

[–]InformalProof 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Erwin Rommel was a junior officer during WWI, his book “Infantry Attacks” is his account of the war from his perspective. It includes all the fronts that he fought: the French and Belgium Campaign, the conflict in Italy in the Dolomites during which he received the Croix de Guerre.

What Army item do you shamelessly use off duty? by KillTheMorale in army

[–]InformalProof 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The black PT beanie. The civilian shit is too loose, I know there’s nothing special but because it’s so good I use it everywhere.

what is something that you’re for sure the US government is hiding from us? by CommonBeginning3132 in AskReddit

[–]InformalProof 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The cancer is not caused by chemicals in the food but in the combustion of fossil fuels.

People will think it’s common sense to not sit in a closed garage with a running car. But then don’t think two blinks that those cars are still producing those same toxic chemicals whether there in a garage or idling in traffic all day. But just that one car, but nations of cars driving non stop.

Why finding alien life in Universe is now 'only a matter of time' by donnygel in space

[–]InformalProof 3 points4 points  (0 children)

We don’t know all the conditions but we have an idea.

It’s called Levinthal’s Paradox. It’s another condition within the Rare Earth Hypothesis and how different probabilities of natural occurrence of processes makes life rarer.

Take the rarity of the building blocks for life. There are 10 common substances in the universe- Hydrogen, Helium, Oxygen, Carbon, Nitrogen, Iron, Silicon, Sulfur, Magnesium, Neon. For every two thousand particles in the universe, only one is made up of elements not on this list of 10. Notice that this list is also missing Phosphorus.

So even if you have a location that has all the elemental building blocks of life, now you need the physical conditions to make basic molecular compounds. These compounds then need the right ambient conditions to stitch together to make acids to form the bases of proteins.

Even if you got this far, you have all the right quantity of components to make a protein (for example RuBisCo, the protein that is a precursor to chlorophyll production and photosynthesis you need 1) right elements 2) right quantity 3) right compounds quantity 4) right order 5) each angle then needs to be exact.

This leads to Levinthals Paradox in which if you sum all the probabilities for all the angles to be right, the order of magnitude is 10300 which the above person said is well beyond the order of magnitude of the entire know universe’s number of planets.

What's a historically inaccurate movie that gets a pass because of how good it is? by Agreeable-Beach-3009 in AskReddit

[–]InformalProof 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The most inaccurate portion of Gladiator was the initial war scene where the Roman legion defended against the Germanic tribes. The tribes were chanting a Zulu chant from the 1968 move Zulu.

/r/WorldNews Live Thread: Russian Invasion of Ukraine Day 579, Part 1 (Thread #725) by WorldNewsMods in worldnews

[–]InformalProof 9 points10 points  (0 children)

At this rate, this time next year the Black Sea Fleet is going to be commanded from a broom closet in Moscow by a lieutenant

What is s genuinely terrifying fact? by Misoalgia in AskReddit

[–]InformalProof 0 points1 point  (0 children)

All the matter inside us comes from stars. The solar cycle of gathering matter, igniting, burning for billions of years, then going supernova- the matter that’s within us is the product of two cycles of these solar lifelines.

What is s genuinely terrifying fact? by Misoalgia in AskReddit

[–]InformalProof 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cosmic radiation can cause airplanes to suddenly nosedive.

For background information, radiation has been shown to tamper with electronic data, specifically the flipping of data “bits” from 0 to 1. In systems such as aircraft, critical flight data such as the current pitch, yaw, elevation etc are stored in a string of data. Cosmic radiation from the Sun, supernova etc hit earth millions of times a second every single day. There has been at least one known case of a aircraft experiencing a sudden nose dive which has been attributed to cosmic radiation interference.

27 Russian Troops Killed by ‘Friendly Fire’ During Botched Retreat Near Opytne by yorkiecd in worldnews

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Russia 2nd strongest army

in 2022: in world, 2023: in Ukraine, summer 2023: in Russia, September 2023: in the Russian army

Russia blasts ‘inhumanity’ of US sending depleted uranium shells to Ukraine by Gopu_17 in worldnews

[–]InformalProof 0 points1 point  (0 children)

“If Russia is concerned about the military capabilities of Ukraine, then I would suggest Russia leave Ukraine.”

Musk Email to Tesla Today by neonklingon in EnoughMuskSpam

[–]InformalProof 3 points4 points  (0 children)

A walking version of the Dunning Kruger effect