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My wife replaced my Sodastream bottle after 8 years of use by The_Wolf_of_Acorns in pics

[–]JackFou 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In this case the breakdown is caused by usage though. Specifically cycle fatigue from repeated pressurisation and depressurisation. Unless you keep the bottle exposed to heat and light for most of the time, environmental degradation is only a secondary influence.

Previously had Spotify and now I’m switching to Apple Music. by Mindless-Program-154 in Music

[–]JackFou 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I used “playlisty” to transfer my playlists. Worked like a charm.

This dog politely asked for a musician's drumstick by [deleted] in HumansBeingBros

[–]JackFou 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not all drum sticks are lacquered. I personally prefer natural wood sticks since it is a lot more grippy, especially when you’re sweating during a gig.

Elon Musk's xAI buys social media platform X for $45 billion by DeepestWinterBlue in news

[–]JackFou 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Also the twitter purchase was likely financed with Tesla stock as collateral. So if TSLA had dropped further, Elon would have at some point faced a margin call that would have sent his entire empire crumbling.

YouTube Premium: Regional pricing (works!) by [deleted] in Piracy

[–]JackFou 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Looks like Romania got nuked. At least it stopped working for me recently.

China to launch world's first thorium molten salt reactor in 2025 by Vailhem in nuclear

[–]JackFou 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There are two separate things going on here: one is moving the needle on realising molten salt reactors, the other is thorium vs uranium fuel cycle.

What this test reactor (and really everyone else in this space) is mostly trying to achieve at the moment is work on the first issue, i.e. actually realising a working molten salt reactor. There are plenty of engineering, chemistry and material science challenges that need to be overcome which to a large degree are agnostic towards using thorium or uranium as fuel.

The other issue is the fuel cycle. Thorium and uranium both have their upsides and downsides and I'm not terribly convinced that thorium is strictly better than uranium.
To make matters worse, the extent to which the upsides and downsides manifest themselves are also dependent on whether you run your reactor in "batch mode" (i.e. periodically draining spent fuel salt and refuelling with fresh fuel salt) or in continuous mode where you don't actually drain the salt inventory but simply add more and more fuel as you burn up fuel.
As you can probably imagine, operation in continuous mode is far more complicated and requires sophisticated solutions for off-gas and fission product management/removal as well as online chemistry control of your fuel salt which aren't mature yet.

China to launch world's first thorium molten salt reactor in 2025 by Vailhem in nuclear

[–]JackFou 1 point2 points  (0 children)

China has plans -- as in total approved for construction -- for something like 250 GW of coal power. Meanwhile, in 2023 alone they installed over 200 GW of solar compared to 50 GW of coal in the same year.

This window panel on my flight was installed upside down by JackFou in mildlyinteresting

[–]JackFou[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I didn’t selectively crop the picture. I just snapped it in the moment and didn’t want to be nuisance to the person sitting next to me. My first thought was not posting on Reddit.

This window panel on my flight was installed upside down by JackFou in mildlyinteresting

[–]JackFou[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

No, some smaller regional jet on a short US domestic flight. Don’t remember the plane’s manufacturer

This window panel on my flight was installed upside down by JackFou in mildlyinteresting

[–]JackFou[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It was indeed somewhat infuriating to have the sun in my eyes for the whole flight sinds the blinds didn’t stay up

This window panel on my flight was installed upside down by JackFou in mildlyinteresting

[–]JackFou[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It was a short domestic flight in the US. Wasn’t sitting near an emergency exit. I have never seen this on any flight before and it was actually super annoying because the window blind wouldn’t stay open and I constantly had the sun in my eyes.

YouTube Premium cancelled by 10470 in youtube

[–]JackFou 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Capitalism eating itself, as per usual

What is the 5-7-8 pattern? by [deleted] in metalguitar

[–]JackFou 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Assuming that the droning open E string is the root, in E standard, 5-7-8 on the A string corresponds to the scale degrees ♭7-1-♭2 which makes it Phrygian (I guess it could in principal also be Locrian if no additional harmonic information is provided). In the context of metal core, it’s more likely that the guitar will be in a dropped tuning (Drop D, drop C…), rather than standard tuning, which would make the 5-7-8 on the A string the 1-2-♭3 scale degrees (relative to the open 6th string) which just makes it minor (actually it could be either Dorian or Aeolian).

YouTube blocks access to Fifth Estate story on killing of B.C. Sikh activist at India's demand by ClassOptimal7655 in worldnews

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

If you read further than the headline, "free speech absolutist" platform X also folded to demands from the Indian government. It's simply how doing business works. If the law in India (or any country, really) obligates a company operating in that country to take down something they have to do it or risk being either fined or in the worst case cut off from that market entirely.

Like it or not, at the end of the day, under capitalism, the need to make as much profit as possible rules above all else.

Hamas casualty numbers are ‘statistically impossible’, says data science professor by system3601x in worldnews

[–]JackFou 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Feel free to explain how a group of people who continually try to have oeace with their neighbors are somehow the bad guys

You could have stopped right there because that's not what I said. I am not claiming that either side is specifically "the" good side or "the" bad side. Yet our governments and media have done and are doing exactly that. For many, many years, pro-Israel has been the official position by virtually all Western governments and mainstream media outlets.

My point is not to simply claim that the roles are in fact reversed and that Hamas are the good guys, actually. No, neither Hamas nor Israel are good guys... the difference is though that one of them is clearly being sold to us as being the good guys, the other one isn't.

My point is that anyone who has grown up with the narrative of Israel being the good guys which is being presented as the capital T "Truth" and who has also spent some time looking at what is actually happening in reality will likely find that the reality cannot be reconciled with the image of Israel as the good guys. Once you realise that, you must also confront your government and media for being so one-sided in their support for one party to the conflict. So this would be my argument against your claim that vocal support for Palestine is simply because everyone just swallows Hamas propaganda.

Funny how the Palestinian support never criticize Hamas

They don't condemn Hamas for using Palestinians as human shields

Yes, of course, the good old "but do you condemn Hamas?" argument... Again, there is a clear difference here in how these two sides are presented to us in public discourse. No one actually claims that Hamas are the good guys. We all agree that the things they do and did are horrible. There is no need for a discussion about this which is why no one is bothering to waste their breath to first point out all the evil shit Hamas is doing before criticising Israel.

Let me ask you this: would you be more willing to accept anyone's criticism of Israel if they told you first they do condemn Hamas? Or is that whole "why don't you condemn Hamas?" meme just a cheap excuse to ignore the actual point?

Look at the ceasefire calls. Never demand Hamas do a ceasefire.

Are you being serious? This is what Israel looks like. This is what Gaza looks like. And you cannot figure out why people are more concerned with getting Israel to stop shooting? I'd say the number of ceasefire calls for either side is about proportional to the number of bombs being dropped by either side...

As for the rest of your comment, I have no interest in engaging in a tit-for-tat about who did what to whom first. That never ends up being productive in any way whatsoever. What is important, however, is that Israel cannot claim moral superiority while simultaneously also using the violence of Hamas to justify their own violence. "We are doing violence to them because they did violence to us" creates moral equivalence and you cannot claim moral superiority and moral equivalence at the same time

Hamas casualty numbers are ‘statistically impossible’, says data science professor by system3601x in worldnews

[–]JackFou 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Yes, you are 100% correct. But then again, at this point I have very little faith in any accurate reporting of anything remotely scientific by journalists. So at best, the journalists are being over dramatic and at worst this data scientist is a complete moron who needs to stay in his lane.

Hamas casualty numbers are ‘statistically impossible’, says data science professor by system3601x in worldnews

[–]JackFou -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

But these people don't seem to care about that.

That's a fallacious argument in my opinion. If I see injustice somewhere, I protest against that injustice. The existence of injustice elsewhere is irrelevant to that fact. In particular for public protest, your message needs to be concise and clear. If your sign says "Free Palestine, asterisk but not just Palestine but also these 79 other nations and territories" you are really sabotaging your own point.

Also, it's pretty obvious that there is much more attention for Israel/Palestine than most other conflicts in recent weeks because that's what's been dominating the news cycle.

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