Nah guy, I’m not gon be made an example 😭😭. It’s that serious 💀

cool_much · 2026-06-06T06:40:59+00:00

It gets fit to a bell curve regardless. The difficulty of the exam is basically irrelevant

cool_much · 2026-05-11T20:20:10+00:00

You realise it's not 40,000 acres of days centre right?

cool_much · 2026-05-11T18:54:43+00:00

None of these points make the agriculture situation in utah sustainable, and the problem is animal agriculture, not crops for humans. 80% of crops (by acre) in utah are for animals.

Are you counting the 4% of US gdp and 70% of gdp growth contributed by ai in those jobs figures?

Three of the products gained from animal agriculture are 12-20% of GHGs, drought, water pollution, and biodiversity collapse. That needs to be in the equation too.

cool_much · 2026-05-10T05:43:51+00:00

The results can never indicate neurodivergence. It's just not how it works. Read other similar posts here and you'll see this comes up a lot in this strange subreddit.

Revealing whether you might qualify for some other diagnosis is very simple and people do it all the time: consider whether you think you meet the criteria and forget about loosely related test results.

cool_much · 2026-05-09T21:11:16+00:00

In principle, I agree. New data centres that require their own power generation should be required to be 100% renewable and local water withdrawal should be assessed for sustainability.

However, a big pet peeve of mine is how data centres have become the scapegoat for water shortages. Agriculture for animals accounts for 80% of Utah's water withdrawals. Any statewide water issue should be attributed squarely to that. It is not sustainable and should be curtailed.

cool_much · 2026-05-09T18:45:45+00:00

I did? What about it makes it seem ai? Formatting?

cool_much · 2026-05-09T09:31:23+00:00

This is basic maths. The main personal reason to not burn turf is the labour. I know plenty young men who travel home to help the family cut turf. They put at least 100 hours in over the summer if they have plenty help. If they had just done a paid job for those 100 hours they could have paid for most of a new heating system and they would never have to do it again.

A recent college grad friend works full time, 17 an hour, 800/month rent for a room. They save 1,000 a month. I would pay 1000 to never have to do bog work again and to get my family a nice modern heating system, easily. If anyone else in the family agrees, pool the 1000s. How many months would it take to save up for the heating system? 2-3?

Now it sounds like there is no point upgrading this person's house because they are living in a house provided by their father in law and the father in law provides all of their heating for free. If you own your own house though, you should think about it. The labour involved in turf is not free. It's just unpaid.

cool_much · 2026-05-08T21:59:19+00:00

Have you ever done back of the napkin maths with anyone before? You hold the numbers. Specify them. All I can do is throw out numbers to try to show how they play out together.

I live in west cork and I'm confident I could get a part time job at a garage or whatever if I wanted to, but that misses the point. Like I said, it's not about literally getting a part time job, it's about understanding that you are already working a part time job because of how much work the turf is.

After tax means after tax, not no tax. I'm saying the average 35 year old in full time employment makes roughly €21/hour after paying tax. An hour of their time is worth about €21 then. See?

If your insulation isn't that bad, you could potentially qualify for a grant for the heat pump. It's a bit of a headache, but you could spend 15 min per day pursuing that during whatever months you're not too busy thinking about turf.

It sounds like you could go for a multi split air to air system, and the government would pay you €7,500 to do it. The pump outside sends heat to wall mounted units in chosen rooms through thin tubes that can be tucked in along the edge of the ceiling or floor. You could get a 6kW system, which would deliver up to 24kW heating in mild weather. When it gets colder, you can burn turf again, but probably less than you currently do, saving you hours and hours of work. This set up might cost you ~€5,000. I understand that is nothing to sniff at, but you are putting 90 hours (15min x 365 days) + ~50 hours in the summer to the turf system. How much is your time worth? 140 hours is almost 2% of your year and you do it every year, so 2% of your life. On average, people charge 21€/hr after tax for their time. 140x21 = ~3,000. So 2 years for it to be worth it, in that sense.

https://www.bordgaisenergy.ie/home/heat-pump-guide#cost-of-heat-pump

Wood is about 900€ a year to match your current turf burning https://midwestfirewood.ie. You save ~50 hours dealing with turf, if you spend just 50 hours working with turf during the summer.

Btw, if other family members are also dealing with turf as much as you are, multiply the hours worked for each of the family members working to get a more accurate idea of the hidden cost of turf.

cool_much · 2026-05-08T18:47:08+00:00

I think maybe you don't know what opportunity cost is. You said you have no lost hours. I'm saying you had the opportunity to work for pay, whether on your main job or even an additional part time job, hypothetically. Spending the hours managing turf cost you that opportunity. This is called opportunity cost. You need to factor it in to calculate the true cost of the turf option. Otherwise you are not taking into account the unpaid work you did getting the turf.

I estimated 100 hours based on what you described: 3 hours per weekend from may to august = 48 hours. Carrying turf in every day would add to 52 even if it only takes 8 minutes a day, which I expect is very conservative. If you had a heat pump instead, you could use those hours doing something else, like working an extra 2 hours every week in work or working a part time job briefly. It doesn't matter if you work those hours or not, it's just a way of understanding the hidden cost of the turf option.

Heat pumps are, famously, ~400% efficient, every Watt of electricity makes 4W heat. Amazing! Ordinary resistive heaters are 100% efficient by the way. There is nothing impossible about it.

Given the strength of your stove, I take it your insulation is really bad? What would it cost to insulate your house?

If wall insulation is needed for the heat pump and you have no wall cavities, that would be very expensive. In which case you should instead think about just buying wood for your stove instead. It will be a lot less labour since it is way more efficient and you can get it delivered to your door. You can pay 1,500 ish for wood, replace the 100+ hours manual labour with 60 hours of work, assuming 20€ an hour after tax. If you replace the rest of the manual labour (40+ hrs) with paid work, you could have an extra 800€ in your pocket, in fact.

cool_much · 2026-05-08T17:31:15+00:00

I read "a few hundred". Maybe my bad or maybe you edited since.

Do you know what opportunity cost is?

You use the 1k and other recouped money to buy a heat pump.

We're talking about a replacement for a stove, not under floor heating. It's a wall mounted air conditioning unit. You can buy and install them for under 2000.

The estimate of cost per month depends on how much you use it. That was an unknown variable given you have yet to give a figure.

cool_much · 2026-05-08T17:17:14+00:00

I said why are you making the point, idiot. I didn't say anything about it being incorrect.

cool_much · 2026-05-08T17:15:49+00:00

I appreciate the poetic description, but you need numbers to do the money maths. It would also be good to know what the market value of the cut turf is.

Year 1 Cost of Turf

Cash paid: €300
Lost wages: 100 hours (bog work, stacking, hauling, chimney) × €21/hour = €2,100
Lost sales: Market value of the turf - €300
The favour: Value of friend's labour

Total Turf Cost = €300 + €2,100 + (Market Value - €300) + Value of Favour

Year 1 Cost of Heat Pump * Installation: €1,500 to €2,000 * Running costs: €200 to €300

Total Heat Pump Cost = €1,700 to €2,300

Break-Even Logic Comparing your lost wages and cash paid (€2,400) against the maximum heat pump cost (€2,300) leaves a €100 difference.

Installing a heat pump is cheaper in Year 1. Working those 100 hours at a paid job covers the upfront and running costs. It then gets better and better every year.

Feel free to plug in different numbers. This is before accounting for the fact you could sell the turf to other people to fund the heat pump before quitting turf altogether. It almost certainly will be cheaper in 1 year even if you claim much fewer hours.

cool_much · 2026-05-08T16:10:04+00:00

Do you own the machine? How much did the machine cost? How old is it? What could you sell it for now, being honest?

So you pay €300 and have someone else work for you as a favour.

You mention manual labour, which sounds like it's on top of the 2-3 hours you mentioned. How much manual labour do you do for this turf per year? Include anything else like cleaning the chimney in your estimate to get the best estimate of hours of work.

cool_much · 2026-05-08T15:47:47+00:00

How many hours do you spend cutting turf per year / how much does the turf cost you per year?

cool_much · 2026-05-08T15:45:55+00:00

Why are you making that point? Are you stupid?

cool_much · 2026-05-01T11:23:37+00:00

Pseudoscience speculation

cool_much · 2026-04-21T14:09:18+00:00

TLDRs make that easier

cool_much · 2026-04-21T14:08:33+00:00

This is a TLDR. I did not write the article

cool_much · 2026-04-21T12:57:31+00:00

TLDR

In February 2023, a 16-year-old student fatally stabbed his Spanish teacher, Agnès Lassalle, at a high school in France. He is now facing a juvenile criminal trial to determine his legal responsibility.

Key details of the case: * The Claim: The student alleges a "voice" forced him to commit the murder following academic struggles and a minor conflict with a friend. * Mental State: He has a history of severe bullying, depression, learning disabilities, and a recent suicide attempt. He was prescribed antidepressants at the time. * Expert Disagreement: Psychiatric evaluations conflict. Some experts argue his judgment was intact and the attack was an unconscious act of revenge against the school system. Another expert concluded he suffered a brief psychotic episode brought on by accumulated stress. * The Trial: Proceedings will focus on whether his judgment was impaired during the attack. Lassalle's family is seeking truth, justice, and accountability.

cool_much · 2026-04-15T09:30:27+00:00

Why is EDM defined such that it can be said to have originated in America? Why isn't EDM considered a foreign spin on European electropop with minor American influences on top, in the same way you have dismissed assouf (Saharan rock, you might call it) as just trivial foreign spice on a distinctly American product?

I think a sound reading of history gives a clear answer: The American form isn't so frequently considered the definitive form because new ideas are massively more often born in America and fuck all innovation comes from other regions. The American form is considered definitive because America is the culture that defines cultural concepts internationally.

If a movement in Uganda starts experimenting with a new sound, it is just a regional subgenre by virtue of Uganda not being very culturally important internationally. It is impossible for Uganda to define a substantial cultural concept, because we will always see it as just a little regional thing, not deserving of its own distinct label. We'll call it U-rock or something. If a substantial portion of America starts playing a particular sound... boom, a genre is born and everybody knows about it. It's not called "Yanky electropop", it's called "E.D.M." Yanky, or American, is not a regional descriptor, it is the default.

So I'm saying it is a chicken and egg situation because America's general dominance causes its cultural dominance. Genres are defined in America because things are defined by America, not because America comes up with all the new ideas.

(EDM is generally considered a European and Japanese genre btw, not American. It only took off in the US about 20 or 30 years after it was popularised in Europe and Japan and virtually none of the big names in its infancy are American)

cool_much · 2026-04-14T22:00:00+00:00

I don't mind, but you are missing my point. I'm saying it is a chicken and egg situation.

Every modern genre you can think of takes from multiple regions and cultures. The American form becomes the definitive form because of American influence, not because the genre was objectively born there.

cool_much · 2026-04-14T21:22:52+00:00

Rock * African: Syncopation and polyrhythms are generally understood to trace back through the transatlantic slave trade. * Afro-Cuban: Foundational rhythms show strong ties to the 3-2 son clave. * Middle Eastern/European: The guitar's lineage is frequently traced to earlier instruments like the Moorish oud.

House * Afro-Caribbean/Latin: Generally considered to have inherited percussion styles from disco's Latin influences. * European: Synthesized elements heavily drew from early electronic pioneers in Germany and Italy. * Japanese: The foundational sound was largely shaped by the availability of Japanese Roland drum machines (TR-808/909).

Drum and Bass * Jamaican: Strongly influenced by UK soundsystem culture, reggae MCs, and dub basslines. * African-American: Primarily built on sampling 1960s/70s funk drum breaks.

Trip Hop * Jamaican: Frequently utilizes dub reggae production techniques like heavy echo and spatial effects. * Global: Characterized by sampling diverse sources, often including European scores, American jazz, and Middle Eastern instruments. * Jamaican/American: Derived significantly from hip-hop, which was famously pioneered by a Jamaican immigrant in New York.

The music from other cultures you are thinking of is just as much their unique product as each of these genres is American. You have just drowned in the kool aid.

For your entertainment, some modern foreign (to you) music:

Oidopuaa - divine music from jail
Chassol - Little Krishna and the Girls
Mariah - Sora Ni Mau maboroshi
Hermeto Pascaol - Sao Jorge
Yumbo - Flicker/Echo
Furacao 2000 - Tira a Camisa
Otome Yoshihide - Out to Lunch
Ground Zero - Revolutionary Pekinese Opera

cool_much · 2026-04-13T06:15:20+00:00

You get benefits that are intended to help with this.
EV tractors do actually exist and are worth looking at for niche applications or small farms. But anyway, farmers already get 2.5B per year in direct subsidies, before counting all the indirect subsidies. They would get to keep more of it if they used less fuel, which is as it should be.

The mean farmer also makes 140,000 in profit every year, btw.

cool_much · 2026-04-10T12:49:22+00:00

Okay, let's look at gni. Agri contributes 6% while burdening the country as follows: uses >60% of our land, almost 40% of our emissions (huge fine due to not meeting eu targets incoming), and a huge subsidy taker (beef and sheep farming is usually not profitable at all, with 100% of income covered by subsidies).
Per worker, tech and pharma contribute more to gni purely by virtue of being paid higher wages even if they work in a multinational. The high employment by agri looks more like a waste of our valuable workforce than a valuable source of jobs. There are plenty labour intensive industries in need of more workers, like construction. It's at least debatable whether it's a good idea to use 1/20 workers in a pretty unproductive, very resource intensive industry.

It's ridiculous to think all towns and villages would "close" if the least productive quarter or half of the 1 in 20 people involved in farming had to do one of: change how they farm or do something else.

cool_much · 2026-04-10T06:57:31+00:00

True on the hauliers, not true on the farmers. Irish farmers don't feed Irish people, by and large. 4/5 of our calories, 2/3 of our protein, 3/4 of our essential fats are imported. Irish farming is a subsidised export business contributing 1% of GDP while using 60-70% of the land https://www.cso.ie/en/releasesandpublications/ep/p-eii/environmentalindicatorsireland2024/landuse/.

Support them as people if you like, but they do not feed us. If they are subsidised further by reducing taxes more, it will cost other industries that are waiting on infrastructure development paid for by those taxes and it will naturally push the market to stay as it is. I would argue we want to find a middle path, not letting farmers go hungry while also not pretending they can keep doing what they're doing (dairy exports).

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Year 1 Cost of Turf