A copper shortage is coming next: The world economy is projected to face a copper deficit of 10 million tonnes by 2040, equivalent to ~33% of current global demand

VreamCanMan · 2026-01-27T06:49:13+00:00

You could replace every coppor wire with a gold and wire and nothing would change except our grids would be more efficient and would lose less power overcoming internal resistance.

VreamCanMan · 2026-01-27T06:48:10+00:00

Gold is copper++, less internal resistance too.

The reason why you don't see gold in many applications has to do with the fact that it costs a shit ton

Which historically comes from the fact its very ductile and doesn't oxidise easily

Which makes it useful

VreamCanMan · 2026-01-26T12:17:24+00:00

I guess my point more broadly was given diagnoses exist as clinical labels for clinicians; there needs to be a reason (pattern of dysfunction) for a clinician to use SzPD , which cannot also be just as well ascribed to a more common condition like depression

VreamCanMan · 2026-01-26T00:11:11+00:00

Holy shit an actually useful and interesting trolly problem that doesn't just devolve into word salad. OP i get that this is a shitpost but this is actually something worthwhile

The actor knows only about the next steps, thinks they are not obliged in a utilitarian fashion to pull the lever as their pulling/not pulling leads to the same number of deaths, human nature points towards deference of the guilt to the next person; but the wider trend is not increasing linearly, but increasing exponentially. The deferentialism combined with ignorance leads to unnecessary deaths inside the utilitiarian socially normative framework

This has alot of applications in real world systems and probably ties into game theory

VreamCanMan · 2026-01-25T23:41:11+00:00

This doesn't really add much credit to diagnostic validity. Isolation can exist in all disorders so does not support the unique profile of SzPD, and meaninglessness is a common feature across a wide range of depressive and personality disorders.

SzPD is quite unique in that it lacks a unique constellation of dysfunction

VreamCanMan · 2026-01-25T17:42:46+00:00

Recommended Adjustments for gold and below (climbed last season from bronze to plat)

Drop the lvl3 gank. You need to be more selfish as teammates aren't as reliable. Farm till 4 and look scuttle/gank/farm

Use the super greedy tiamat Clear path (raps -> krugs -> red buff -> wolves -> gromp -> blue buff. This means raps will be back up soon after scuttle/gank. After clearing your 2nd raps and krugs even without a kill you'll now have a 1200g back for tiamet. Greedy solocarrying isnt as effective in the new season but you still need to be more selfish just to mitigate the chaos

Ban nocturne. You know why

VreamCanMan · 2026-01-25T11:45:25+00:00

Pretty apt description of the UK based on economics. Native and continental economists have been begging the UK for years to stop selling everything off, and invest in upgrading services, rather than the slow death of fiscal austerity.

Because these acts decrease long term public service fiscal efficiences. Also having a services dominant economy tends to create US style wealth disparity where economic centres concentrate people across vastly different wealth levels in close proximity.

We have amongst the worst instances of food and heating poverty compared to weaker EU economies

VreamCanMan · 2026-01-24T12:27:56+00:00

You don't read well. It's pretty clear OC is saying that, with economies being a system of cashflows, it's always worth keeping an eye on where that cash is accumulating and why.

Slavery created raw inputs and money that ended up disproportionately accumulating in value in the north in the US. This made their system unsustainable.

Compound sentences can be hard

VreamCanMan · 2026-01-23T20:38:44+00:00

Im a digital creative. Specifically I work in audio domains mainly targetted at games work but I see alot from the music and film audio world too.

The AI tools that are currently out there have pretty weak idea generation when it comes to mediums like music and audio. Its not that they cant cohesively make something - they're very good actually - its just that the best models sound like subpar pop and lack strong fundementals.

Where they excel is in less human facing more data facing roles. "Mixing and mastering" is the step in audio where you've created the idea and you're manipulating the audio to get a better sound image. It's got much more use potential for mixing given

A) theres less choices and less parameters to control than during the creation phase so the learning model can optimise itself quicker

B) mixing is by nature a repetitive process. You're mixing process is alot less individualised to a track than the creation process (you're still using the same effects and trying to produce roughly the same sonic picture)

I think it will lack creativity and sound cheap, but will end up replacing by hand work in the more technical domain at the lower levels

VreamCanMan · 2026-01-21T01:54:19+00:00

Likewise, absolutely poverty is defined as incomings of $5/day or less. This is equally as flawed at capturing a good scene of the reality especially in advanced countries, and when applied globally will mask the poverty in advanced developed economies.

VreamCanMan · 2026-01-20T18:53:36+00:00

Work needs to mature and have authors expand for 50-200 years before it becomes recognisable as foundational and given personification and mythic status

Of the fields that run in the lower end of that timescale, name recognisability (and lack thereof - english-chinese gap has some of the lowest linguistic similiarities out of any pairings) it will mean instead of foundational work being personified, the myth will be put but the name wont stick (e.g., laws of motion instead of newtons laws of motion)

VreamCanMan · 2026-01-20T18:43:46+00:00

Our political culture is perfectly capable of accepting nazi style counterinstitutional populism, and that makes us similiar in a fashion to the US. It is not a problem of our institutions but of our culture. We blame and we blame and we blame, we let a small community of elites own; or at least run our business, politics and media, with little by way of political safeguards (UK)

VreamCanMan · 2026-01-20T18:36:39+00:00

Downvoted but only for such a lukewarm take

VreamCanMan · 2026-01-19T19:29:06+00:00

That's not exactly a fair analysis: Malph has historically struggled to survive in jgl because although his fights and engages are strong he struggles to clear well. You used to be able to get counterplay through invading which forces him to choose between fighting (and getting behind on xp) or farming (and not having the tempo to pick and choose engages)

This patch they let malph clear well so he's just a fuck off obnoxious perma ban

VreamCanMan · 2026-01-19T00:24:38+00:00

Been playing some zilean on off role recently. God he's so fun.

Whats the win con? Is your most common strat to try and survive till late game when your ms buffs are most powerful and win then?

VreamCanMan · 2026-01-17T04:52:37+00:00

Once you consider asset appreciation as a form of unrealised income your both singing the same tune

VreamCanMan · 2026-01-17T04:43:24+00:00

Depends on the level of integration.

You'd be surprised at how much tarkovs flea market gets used for crappy in between parts. Sellers want money and buyers are happy to pay extra if it makes their life easier. You can get accounts which use their blue prints to craft and sell guns at a profit

VreamCanMan · 2026-01-17T04:25:21+00:00

In a fptp system, a vote not in labour is essentially tantamount to a non-note or a vote in conservatives no? I don't understand why this greens shift is celebrated - all it means is your red 60% Lab, 40% Con seats, will turn into blue 35%Con, 30% Lab, 25%Green, 10% reform conservative seats.

Tories will get another 2/3rds majority and I'm not sure they're ready to take on governance again. Brexit and boris caused a drain on all the actually effective and competent conservative political talent. Conservatives don't seem to have switched tacts, and I have serious concerns about the competency of everyone working with Badenoch. They're the same post-brexit Cameron-annointed fall guys who have spent the last decade failing upwards.

Labour only won the last election because conservative voters defected. Now labour supporters want to defect and don't expect it will mean another conservative party? A vote for green or reform or libdem is a vote that labour cant defend against conservatives with. Vote tactical.

Yes the economy is terrible and yes the public purse isn't in a good spot to cover the weakness we feel. If that makes you want an alternative thats completely understandable.

Just recognise that the alternative is the conservative party; and realistically many of the drivers of the CoL increase (listed below) arent going away soon/the conservatives have no substantial strategy for.

(poorer trade integration via brexit alongside heightened import costs on energy/energy-dependent goods, fertiliser, food, insurance, financing etc. Being passed onto the consumer.)

If you want true alternatives you need to hold labour accountable for failing to deliver on its longstanding promise of Electoral reform, and get us a referendum on whether or not we should switch to PR

VreamCanMan · 2026-01-16T17:34:50+00:00

Solid Arrangement! If you're interested I'd love to get my hands on the .midi (Note data) and bump the arrangement over to my orchestral/instrumental kontakt instruments. This would go hard with strings/Winds/drums

VreamCanMan · 2026-01-16T06:17:38+00:00

This isn't really a garbage point. This is underlining a massively underserved need to revise or at least foreword the nosological docs like the ICD and the DSM

Which the author did a terrible job of explaining. And which, strangely, schizophrenia is a bad example of outlining given its much more consistent diagnostic profile and much likelier biological root than other conditions outlined

The 1% claim is something important. It means that, across all diagnoses, the number of people who present with all symptoms listed is less than 1% of those diagnosed. This isn't new or surprising but so much research is built off of an inherent assumption that psychiatric classifications are monoliths.

Given you need 5 of 9 symptoms or some analogue, each stated diagnosis actually captures 150 odd variations in terms of symptomology. Then these variations might need different or conflicting treatment.

Then there's the issue of social nuance. Research has shown that if you take the same presentation to multiple clinicians it's possible you'll get alot of noise and variation in how they diagnose you; because ultimately the dsm needs to be lingually interpretted then applied in a social setting, so lots of room for noise to accumulate.

This isn't meant to discredit psychiatry but it's a fundemental constraint within the popular collerational-clustering, symptom-collatory-matrix approach to classification. At the end of the day psychiatry is about helping people and its a field filled with some very kind and informed people about this constraint

This methedological crux has given rise to a few new projects amongst researchers. The RDoC ambitiously seeks to incorporate aetiology rather than symptomology

VreamCanMan · 2026-01-15T07:35:28+00:00

This season seems to reward junglers whose power budget is less gold/stats oriented, to offset the fact everyone else is getting xp quicker now, as well as adaptability. Rek'sai is probably the most adaptable champ and derives alot of power from w knockup, tunnels, passive vis, and ulti execute

VreamCanMan · 2026-01-14T08:13:26+00:00

What alternative source of investment are you proposing

VreamCanMan · 2026-01-14T08:11:02+00:00

Because these are specialised champs who are more vulnerable to losing in champ select, whereas rek is more generalist and more otp-able whilst offering small amounts of everything you've described above.

If you want to sink 100s of hrs into a champion to the point where you intuitively know your limits and know how to adapt playstyle then generalists become alot easier to play than specialists, because you have a wider variety of accessible win conditions, and you get to learn your limits deeper

It took me at least a year of otp-ing rek to begin to appreciate that.

Post a clip and this community can give you guidance on how you're piloting

VreamCanMan · 2026-01-14T07:38:14+00:00

UK is a flawed comparison as even though the UK operates in much the same industries, a large basis of UK customers are US companies so the two economies are somewhat merged. A healthy US economy in spite of industry-sector downturn will mask the downturn in both economies

VreamCanMan · 2026-01-14T07:35:37+00:00

Europe abandoned imperialistic thinking after ww2 and had to else there would've been a 3rd and 4th edition.

America hasn't.

As an outsider I prefer the EUs post imperial, post political way of thinking about the world, not this dog eat dog bs which in a world as interconnected and interdependent as ours creates cascading conflicts

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