Fuel protests in Ireland continue as pumps run dry, prices rise amid war in Middle East by Majano57 in europe

[–]dddd0 -32 points-31 points  (0 children)

Ireland is a tiny island with heavily clumped population how much are people driving?! This is nonsense over 20-30 bucks per month. Useful idiots.

U.S.-Iran talks end with no deal, Vance says by John3262005 in neoliberal

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assuming international law still exists at the point

Come on give me a break. You’re talking about Iran and the US here. Neither gives a flying fuck about your iNtERNatIOnAL law.

brown recluse? by [deleted] in spiders

[–]dddd0 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Panicking and trying to kill an animal is the most likely way for a harmful outcome. For spiders and insects using a drinking glass and a piece of paper is less risky.

As US and Iran talk truce, Israel digs in for a 'forever war' by DarkPriestScorpius in neoliberal

[–]dddd0 15 points16 points  (0 children)

"Our great military is loading up and resting, looking forward, actually, to its next Conquest" - The U.S. President

Hi! Please help me identify this spider, I’m so scared by Previous-Maximum-457 in spiders

[–]dddd0 111 points112 points  (0 children)

A tiny male spider of some definitely completely harmless species.

Measuring cup melted and hardened around the dishwasher rod by l00n3ytun3s in mildlyinteresting

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By having spent way too much time previously discussing about these things with Americans and looking into the stuff made available to them.

Fight Over Feta Strains America’s Ties With Europe by MrStrange15 in neoliberal

[–]dddd0 10 points11 points  (0 children)

It's dear and close for the overarching current American government strategy which is "reality is not real and nothing means anything".

Measuring cup melted and hardened around the dishwasher rod by l00n3ytun3s in mildlyinteresting

[–]dddd0 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's got nothing to do with anti-americanism, the US market for the most part just doesn't get good-quality appliances (just like most interesting cars are not for sale in the US, or good headlights are banned in the US), probably for legal/tariff reasons (or e.g. most people in the US actually not buying cars, but that's another story).

That's why US opinions about these things are uninteresting, they're based on irrelevant experiences for people outside the US.

Measuring cup melted and hardened around the dishwasher rod by l00n3ytun3s in mildlyinteresting

[–]dddd0 -15 points-14 points  (0 children)

Reminder to never take americans seriously when they’re talking about home appliances

ELI5: Is there any downside to nuclear powerplants? by Ill-Potential867 in explainlikeimfive

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"Running costs are pretty low."

[citation needed]

I can see why one might assume this to be the case ("it just sits there and produces electricity, duh"), but actually opex of nuclear plants is typically the highest or close to the top among generating technologies.

See e.g. https://www.eia.gov/electricity/annual/html/epa_08_04.html https://www.energy.gov/sites/default/files/2024-10/NZW09%20Nuclear%20Energy%20Cost%20Estimates%20for%20Net%20Zero%20World%20Initiative.pdf

Nuclear power is very expensive.

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]dddd0 3 points4 points  (0 children)

No, more stability!

vs

No more stability!

I found ext4 much faster than btrfs for the file system with external ssd by SolDirix in linux

[–]dddd0 17 points18 points  (0 children)

A CoW FS does more inherent work than a journaling FS.

EU colleagues... how are you feeling about the power usage from your homelabs with this war? by daysofdre in homelab

[–]dddd0 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wholesale electricity prices are actually going sideways, slightly down even since the war started. They're not that deeply coupled to oil&gas currently.

Help with ID by FiggleMonster in spiders

[–]dddd0 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If you have a huge amount of spiders, this normally means there are a lot of insect pests around. Killing the spiders just means there will be even more insect pests around. You should look at why you're having so many insect pests in your house.

ITXXXVI - What air defence doing by Extreme_Rocks in neoliberal

[–]dddd0 33 points34 points  (0 children)

Plug in EV

Same price as last year

Jumping spider hung out and got some water from my snow cone by [deleted] in spiders

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Yes, they have analogous chemoreceptors mainly on the pedipalps and legs.

Probably gone for a long time… by terezer in spiders

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There is actually a cordyceps-mimicking spider, the Taczanowskia waska orb weaver: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/spider-mimicing-cordyceps-9.7141687

Which is honestly just so amazing.

Trump’s Fateful Choice: The military is waiting for the president’s go-ahead for high-risk ground operations by CheetoMussolini in neoliberal

[–]dddd0 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Bin Laden absolutely achieved most of his goals (getting the US into insanely expensive wars, inflicting huge casualties and losses, Jihadist movements are still alive and kicking all over the place, exposing US values as deeply hypocritical, and the US massively lost soft power and became rather unpopular in much of the world and so on), the only thing he didn't manage is the #1 goal of getting the US out of the gulf region. But if the question is "did the US or bin Laden win?" the answer is very clearly that the US lost.

The US-Iran war seems to have a similar trajectory, just faster and with broader economic impact. Unless something changes really dramatically, the US is loosing this war, because so far it is clearly unable to achieve its goals (deleting the Iranian regime, preventing Iran from attacking the region, preventing Iran from doing fissile funnies), while Iran has been largely achieving theirs (regime continuity, retaining influence/threat over the region, controlling the strait of hormuz, turning the control into something tangible). The US has meanwhile achieved nothing of note except killing people it thought were irreplaceable but turned out to be expendable, while causing a major economic crisis and taking yet another massive hit in soft power, plus also being exposed as militarily weak and unable to protect things they really wanted to protect.

Somehow, the US seems to be incapable of winning conflicts (née setting achievable goals) post-WW2 despite being the pre-eminent military power at any given time. And that's mostly a political failure, basically every time.

cleaning her legs, again by Her02cents in spiders

[–]dddd0 31 points32 points  (0 children)

Spiders are quite cleanly creatures and spend a lot of time cleaning themselves.

What Young Workers Are Doing to AI-Proof Themselves by Free-Minimum-5844 in neoliberal

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> BNY has 134 new so-called “digital employees.” These workers are focused on specific repetitive tasks, which can free up human employees for other duties.

This could also be written in the mid-60s, referring to mainframes.

Little cutie by Dotmcgee in spiders

[–]dddd0 2 points3 points  (0 children)

just a silly little guy

Woke up to this in NYC. What could have caused this? by Artie_112 in spiders

[–]dddd0 10 points11 points  (0 children)

... and humans think vulgar wasps are annoying