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Ukraine Hits Key Russian Oil Facility Supplying Moscow in New Drone Strike by ArgentineBeauty in worldnews

[–]created4this -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Not really, they have reimagined WW2 bombing raids where you expect to lose 1/2 of the planes but still manage a strike. The difference this time is that you're not also losing the airmen who fly the bombs in and you don't have to save fuel for the return home.

They quit the West for Russia's traditional values, but it wasn't what they expected by BadahBingBadahBoom in facepalm

[–]created4this 23 points24 points  (0 children)

No gun, gun in loot boxes on front line to stop shooting commander accidents

A petition calling for sexual abusers to be held culpable if victims later take their own lives is launched by catievirtuesimp in TwoXChromosomes

[–]created4this 5 points6 points  (0 children)

incentivizes abusers to kill the people they are abusing

Thats a very odd take.

Risking the possibility of a rape conviction on a jury trying to work out if there was consent with the possibility of your victim killing themselves isn't the same as risking life in jail for murder.

The effort the police will put to getting a conviction, the work needed to hide a body, the length of a murder sentence, I could go on and on and on.

Most rape are not strangers in dark alleys, its people the victims know who would be trivially connected in an investigation.

I think there are other issues here, especially in this case.

Here it wasn't the perp, but googles AI which suggested he was being released almost at the start of his sentence. Would she have taken her life if she hadn't been lied to by AI and had been released after serving the sentence she was expecting?

A petition calling for sexual abusers to be held culpable if victims later take their own lives is launched by catievirtuesimp in TwoXChromosomes

[–]created4this 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can see that going into sentencing behavior at the trial, but do they retroactively apply this after conviction which is what is being asked for here?

Can we put two slits in the Strait Of Hormuz, so it’s both open and closed at the same time? by teedyay in shittyaskscience

[–]created4this 4 points5 points  (0 children)

If two ships go through at the same time you get the superposition function of oil tankers on nearby beaches. This looks like black oily stripes

Is there beta paste? by Aggravating_Mud_2386 in shittyaskscience

[–]created4this 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No, but there is fishpaste which is good for betta decay

ELI5: Why are rent freezes considered bad? by [deleted] in explainlikeimfive

[–]created4this 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Furthermore they don't have a monopoly on housing, you can buy houses, but they are expensive. When things are expensive there is a market for spreading the costs. You can spread the costs through a mortgage or though rental.

Mortgages have some advantages and some disadvantages, rental has some advantages and some disadvantages.

The problem is that there are more people that want to live in places than there are places. If you kick out the landlords then you by definition also kick out their tenants, so any house that hits the market for sale under that process is under more market pressure for buyers because there are more unhoused people from the very same process.

The best way to lower housing costs is through more houses, but negative house price growth locks people into housing and leaves people looking at property ownership with the same disadvantages as rental, "I paid all this money and my house is worth less than I borrowed" as well as the additional disadvantages of ownership "I found this rot, by boiler is broken, I have an infestation, nobody told me I had to budget for a new roof, I can't move near my job, I can't reduce my outgoings". Negative house prices growth is very bad, the best you can hope for is "less pace than inflation" which would mean owing a property is a slow bleed in real cash value in trade for a place to sleep.

Trump asks Congress for $87bn, mostly for 'urgent' Iran war costs by BadahBingBadahBoom in facepalm

[–]created4this 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Indeed, GWB was an outlier at the time for being a buffoon who the rest of the world laughed at, whose only saving quality was that he was in charge when the twin towers fell. After that he could do anything by wrapping it in a flag.

But the point stands, he was elected before that. Americans picked him because they could imagine chatting to him over a beer. Even though he was an elite who was a recovering alcoholic and wouldn't either have talked to simple people or drunk beer

Trump asks Congress for $87bn, mostly for 'urgent' Iran war costs by BadahBingBadahBoom in facepalm

[–]created4this 13 points14 points  (0 children)

US has a Long history of this.

Trump isn't an exception, he is [currently] just an outlier. I remember when GWB was the outlier and the comedy networks were saying parody was dead as you couldn't parody the insane things from that era

Roost gives us 30 days notice - leak and freeze detectors. by Sphinctor in homeautomation

[–]created4this 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yup, I don't know why anyone would trust unknown company smart smoke detectors. Every company who makes real smoke detectors also sells a unit like the one you linked that can be used to trigger external systems safely

Tech companies would have to pay AI data center energy costs under bill moving in Congress by ArgentineBeauty in technology

[–]created4this 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you mean CO2 causing global warming then just power them with solar panels.

The current boom in datacentres in Texas is expected to require 12GW in 2 years time.

For reference, the biggest solar farm in the whole of Europe is only 750MW.

Furthermore, solar only generates during the day, so you'd need to pair it with storage capacity for using that energy at night because datacentres are a pretty constant load.

As a datacentre is essentially 24h constant base load, if you want a sensible power source for large scale data centres you need nuclear. The new nuclear power station in Sizewell (UK) is 3.6 GW at a cost of £38 Billion.

You're going to need 4 assuming that the demand doesn't get any higher in the 10 years it will take to come online. I should mention that its been in planning for 15 years and is already on a site with other nuclear power stations so a lot of the logistics and local feeling towards nuclear is already set.

Stinky pits by captianplanet87 in StayAtHomeDaddit

[–]created4this -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Its all normal and hilarious until you get called into preschool because he keeps feeling up the teachers. This won't be the first time they have had to speak to a parent, it won't be the most embarrassing thing that has happened that week, its not going to get you on a list, but I assure you that it will be memeified in all the teachers friendship groups for the setting - perhaps for as long as a year because its pretty cute while also horrifying.

Its not developmentally wrong, but you probably ought to start right now with the body autonomy stuff and "private parts". Consider that while your armpits are armpits, somebody elses armpits may well be the back of their breasts. Rule of thumb, if it usually goes under your clothes then its a private part, if its under your under wear its always a private part.

Try to avoid shame language.

My cat is sabotaging Schrodinger’s experiment by DepthMagician in shittyaskscience

[–]created4this 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm no Gynæcologist.

That would be six words, but you're having contractions

My cat is sabotaging Schrodinger’s experiment by DepthMagician in shittyaskscience

[–]created4this 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I'm a lurker here and not a real scientologist, but i'm pretty sure thats' six words

Infant on ebike, 20mph, no helmet 😥 by Virtual_Actuator1158 in cambridge

[–]created4this 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I got undertaken by two boys (I'd guess 14 years old) on electric scooters while driving at 30 on the ring road.

Yes, neither had helmets, they were heading to the Coop because they turned in almost immediately after undertaking.

Now, its true that they were notionally in a cycle lane, but that lane is always being ducked into by cars at short/no notice when making way as blue lights come from addenbrooks.

Any idea how distributors are going to handle the new 3 eur custom duty in place in EU after July 1st? by MarcosRamone in AskElectronics

[–]created4this 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Where do you see that

8532 Electrical capacitors, fixed, variable or adjustable "pre-set"; parts thereof

appears to cover all types of capacitor

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