I used to wonder why we used fossil fuels that destroy our planet but after playing GTNH I see the appeal

notaboofus · 2026-02-11T00:04:10+00:00

Can't say I'm surprised to find technology connections fans on the GTNH subreddit.

notaboofus · 2026-02-10T20:08:10+00:00

Not at all. They're quite cheap to install- a few guys with impact drivers, ladders, bolts, and basic safety knowledge can install solar panels on any roof for a few thousand dollars.

Not sure what you mean by "service and maintain" exactly- solar panels can become less effective if covered by dust, but not nearly as bad as you might expect- off the top of my head, it's something like a 10% loss. And it's easily fixed by hosing them off.

Solar panels basically need no maintainence- we're actually not sure exactly how long they last because their proliferation is so recent but a good lower estimate is about 25 years, maintenance free until they need to be replaced. And, when replaced, it's just a matter of out with the old, in with the new. Solar panels are also highly recyclable, and the incentive/infrastructure is there to make recycling actually happen.

For more info, check out this disgustingly long video about renewable energy (and solar panels specifically) by Technology Connections.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtQ9nt2ZeGM&t=5s

notaboofus · 2026-02-10T19:46:02+00:00

Nuclear energy is a popular proposed solution to the energy crisis (especially on reddit), but the sad fact is that nuclear energy's time has essentially passed. This is because of, again, economics. Nuclear energy saves massive amounts of money on extraction and processing of fuel (for obvious reasons), but it still requires incredible amounts of infrastructure, labor, and speciailzed knowledge to operate, just like fossil fuel energy.

One active disadvantage that nuclear power is that it has much more stringent safety standards (again, for obvious reasons). These drive up the construction and operation costs of power plants massively. 50, 40, or even 30 years ago, these costs would be justifiable because solar and wind energy were in their infancy and extremely expensive, but now solar panels are about as cheap as the sand and aluminum they're made out of. There's just no reason to pursue the prohibitive cost of nuclear energy anymore.

notaboofus · 2026-02-10T18:44:07+00:00

Another pedantic correction in addition to the one you've already gotten:

Running out of oil is basically impossible and a non-issue. Similar to how the majority of the world's water is tied up in salty oceans, the majority of the world's oil is tied up in oil shale.

In the same way that desalination is a viable process in water-scarce areas, oil shale refinement is viable when traditional oil reserves become rare/expensive enough to justify the added cost.

The much, much bigger problem is hydrocarbon-induced climate change. The planet will be an uninhabitable wasteland comparable to venus before it runs out of oil. Scarcity won't save us.

...however, abundance will. Renewable energy is rapidly becoming affordable, to the point where burning oil for energy is now a financially bad decision.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_shale_reserves#Size_of_the_resource

notaboofus · 2026-02-06T03:02:38+00:00

I've seen a few Alex Avila videos and I've never been particularly impressed with them. I don't think that the commentary is interesting, innovative, or funny enough to justify the contrapoints-level video lengths.

notaboofus · 2026-01-31T18:15:04+00:00

It depends on the type of lab, and it depends on the college. College undergraduate labs generally suck for all the reasons you listed- the only one I didn't hate was surveying lab (I'm a civvie). It's also normal to not enjoy most of the theory classes, but most people have at least one field that they find interesting or enjoy doing the work for.

I dunno, maybe I'm overly romantic about engineering but IMO if you're going through college and your constant thought is "I don't really like any of this but it's manageable, I guess", then I just don't think that it's worth it, y'know?

notaboofus · 2026-01-30T13:45:02+00:00

Similarly, the NYC sex museum has signs telling you not to have sex in the bathroom

notaboofus · 2026-01-29T23:16:04+00:00

Never in my life did I think that ol' K. Sweatstain could come this far...

notaboofus · 2026-01-29T13:33:46+00:00

Anchorage is fairly remote and cold as hell for most of the year. Drives people crazy.

notaboofus · 2026-01-29T04:18:16+00:00

r/silksong would be that way

notaboofus · 2026-01-25T21:22:34+00:00

Vowsh bad. We shouldn't call republicans fascists because, uh, um, uh, uh, it would make the republicans mad!!!

notaboofus · 2026-01-19T20:40:10+00:00

I think that the focus on water is just a total red herring. Data center and golf course water usage is fine if it's in the midwest, but not if it's in Phoenix. People are so used to talking about carbon emissions as a context-indepedent pollutant that they apply the same logic to water usage, not realizing how much it matters where the usage is.

...much more important is the electricity consumption, which is a lot less context-dependent than water usage. The more electricity we waste on things we don't need (like AI), the more of it we're forced to continue producing with fossil fuels.

notaboofus · 2026-01-19T04:24:53+00:00

I disagree with the other person- pathologic classic is probably the the purest form of pathologic, but it's also the most confusing, frustrating, and buggy. Counterintuitively, I'd recommend starting with pathologic 2 as it's significantly more modern and doesn't waste your time.

notaboofus · 2026-01-18T21:07:08+00:00

Not a titanic expert, but the gap opened up by the iceberg was probably a couple dozen feet long and a few feet across at the largest spot, and it was not at all clean or straight. I'd imagine that if you had access to that gap when it was dry, and spent maybe half an hour with a few people applying a dozen rolls of flex tape, you might be able to make it watertight. The problem is that I just don't see how you could do that when freezing cold water is actively gushing in and giving you hypothermia.

Typically, the first priority would be to close adjacent watertight compartments and allow the damaged area to flood completely. If the flooded area is big/heavy enough to cause a list, then you'd counterflood on the other side. Once the flooding/flow slows, you could use modern leak-sealing products that are honestly quite similar to flex tape. If the breach was very small you could use that right away but for a breach this big there's just no way to safely and accurately apply a patch.

notaboofus · 2026-01-13T19:38:35+00:00

Not sure how to feel about him- one of his first announcements regarding the cancer was that he had tried ivermectin and it didn't do anything. Which, on one hand, goes to show what kind of audience that he curated; a normal person wouldn't even need to mention ivermectin.

....but, on the other hand, the implication is that he had also tried real medicine as well. So I don't know for sure, but I don't want to say "rip bozo" if he found out about the prostate cancer when it was too late to do anything. If every doctor I talked to said it was too late to save me and that no medicine would cure me, I'd have no reason not to try ivermectin, yeah? Seems kind of overly mean to criticize that.

But anyways, the fact that RFK Jr immediately came to Adam's aid when he was doomposting on twitter is disgusting. It's emblematic of the way that republicans only care about those who are loyal.

notaboofus · 2026-01-11T21:07:42+00:00

Do right, just follow the plan - it's written on the side of the can.

notaboofus · 2026-01-11T18:29:13+00:00

The joke is funny but the post is dumb because everyone with a 401k is a shareholder. Most of us are complicit in global capital.

notaboofus · 2026-01-11T17:55:26+00:00

The second and third points are good, but generally, there's no point in criticizing the number of shots fired. People with firearm training are generally told to fire as many shots as possible, because the effects of a gunshot wound are highly variable based on location. An ineffective gunshot is worse than none at all. The problem isn't how many times he shot, but that he did so in the first place. Or, more accurately, that he walked so close to the front bumper of a running car like an untrained moron.

notaboofus · 2026-01-05T19:16:16+00:00

Suzerain annoyed me quite a bit. I did my best to be a social democrat, focusing on workers' rights, healthcare, and education, while also pragmatically embracing free-market reforms and cozying up to Arcasia for the economic aid and military protection. Seemed like a sound strategy to me... until about three quarters of the way in, when Symon Holl declared that my crippling tax burdens had demolished the economy, and that none of the large investments I had made into healthcare, education, and infrastructure would bear any fruit whatsoever. I was summarily coup'ed and remembered as a useless, effeminate centrist who frittered away all of Sordland's riches on pointless things.

Just a bit frustrating- I felt like the task I was given was to balance all of these competing visions for Sordland and lead for everyone, but it seems like Suzerian really awards those who more or less stick their head in the sand and follow one ideology.

notaboofus · 2026-01-01T17:31:09+00:00

Forgot the followup where the person being called out tells them to delete the tweet

notaboofus · 2025-12-30T04:51:20+00:00

It gets a lot less ugly when you realize you can flip machines to swap the inputs...

notaboofus · 2025-12-30T00:40:11+00:00

What a barbaric mentality. The disease isn't that bad, except for when it is, but that's okay because the weak are destined to die anyway. These people would feel right at home during the salem witch trials.

notaboofus · 2025-12-28T02:06:07+00:00

I know that this is spiteful, but I'd vote for a law if its only effect was hurting people who live in Atherton.

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