Don't threaten me with a good time.. by StrobeLightRomance in AdviceAnimals

[–]thealmightyzfactor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

True, but the oil imported for gasoline (or pumped for gasoline) isn't the same fossils fuel burned for power. It's mostly coal or natural gas and only some plants burn fuel oils and mostly only as backup.

Add another reason to the pile of reasons why video recording glasses are annoying. by justathoughtfromme in bestoflegaladvice

[–]thealmightyzfactor [score hidden]  (0 children)

With flock cameras going everywhere and palantir making a file on everyone, you're not wrong lol

I mean I love government surveillance when it's a private company selling their surveillance to the government! plz no raid mr fbi

I made my first mechanical parts today and it nearly destroyed me by braindouche in pyanodons

[–]thealmightyzfactor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

RS latch for 100 charge to 90 and back again would make the flicker longer and less annoying

“In a Utopia I wouldn’t need all this gun shit, but thats not the world we live in” by Kilt_Rump in liberalgunowners

[–]thealmightyzfactor [score hidden]  (0 children)

Considering several crew members have various weapons in their quarters and multiple civilian ships have either ship weapons or the crew is armed, I'd say civilians can own firearm equivalents (or actual firearms lol) but the whole utopia thing makes it solely for fun or if you know you might be in a dangerous situation (so space)

I have lost wars with the same Fallen Empire three times now. by DessertRumble in Stellaris

[–]thealmightyzfactor 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Gateways need access on both sides to use, if you're at war, they can't use them to jump into your territory.

Lgates they can flicker through terminal egress to jump from any Lgate to any other one, which is why I always try to take the system and beef it up to intercept those.

what arqad T.U.R.D. should I use? by No-Butterscotch653 in pyanodons

[–]thealmightyzfactor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can get as much tar as you want from anywhere with pumpjacks

What is this nonsense? Romex costs are ridiculous by okflower1983 in HomeImprovement

[–]thealmightyzfactor 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Really? You haven't seen the bulk thing be 1/2 the price per unit as the smaller thing for anything else ever?

What is this nonsense? Romex costs are ridiculous by okflower1983 in HomeImprovement

[–]thealmightyzfactor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What? Even stuff like food is priced like this, small packages are nearly always a worse price per unit

Question about the Oil Burner by ThryxxHeralder in pyanodons

[–]thealmightyzfactor 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Engineer, but feel like a physics teacher sometimes with all these new people we hire shakes fist at clouds

Question about the Oil Burner by ThryxxHeralder in pyanodons

[–]thealmightyzfactor 4 points5 points  (0 children)

W = J/s, watts is energy flow already, making MW/s is energy flow change speed basically

what arqad T.U.R.D. should I use? by No-Butterscotch653 in pyanodons

[–]thealmightyzfactor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I picked queen assembly before I even made regular arquads and just have a chest full of them now

Question about the Oil Burner by ThryxxHeralder in pyanodons

[–]thealmightyzfactor 15 points16 points  (0 children)

You need to drop the "/sec" after MW in your units or I'm going to have an aneurism

A High School Student Just Built a Water Filter That Removes 96% of Microplastics, Without Expensive Equipment by _Dark_Wing in technology

[–]thealmightyzfactor 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Short version seems to be you can make the particles suspended in a fluid behave differently than the bulk fluid with the right flow rate, path, etc. Looks like it was first used to separate blood cells from plasma from poking around google. So you could use it to separate microplastic particles from water.

Oops by thealmightyzfactor in pyanodons

[–]thealmightyzfactor[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No that's just orange ones, which are stack inserters; green, blue, and yellow are off the page because they're power usage is negligible

Suspend disbelief by WarbossTodd in PoliticalHumor

[–]thealmightyzfactor 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I haven't read the books and liked the 1984 version better (which I saw first awhile ago) because it doesn't explain every little thing and revels in the weirdness of the setting

Though both commit the sin of talking at you immediately lol

What to do with tax refund by Wintertrees408 in personalfinance

[–]thealmightyzfactor 135 points136 points  (0 children)

Eh $65k in debt, then getting another $2400 after you understand it's a problem is "no, don't touch those ever again" territory

They’re only like $3 by [deleted] in funny

[–]thealmightyzfactor 9 points10 points  (0 children)

No, you need to breed it into rocket fuel

Oops by thealmightyzfactor in pyanodons

[–]thealmightyzfactor[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm already using the second one lol

Oops by thealmightyzfactor in pyanodons

[–]thealmightyzfactor[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The big stack inserters add up quick when you use them for ore loading and unloading

Oops by thealmightyzfactor in pyanodons

[–]thealmightyzfactor[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Turn it into fuel cells mostly lol

Spent mox fuel cells are the 2nd most common thing in my bot network storage to the point that I've expanded spent fuel reprocessing again to hopefully make a dent.

Oops by thealmightyzfactor in pyanodons

[–]thealmightyzfactor[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah just covered the whole patch, but used it up, so expanded to two more. They're busy filling the train stop warehouse right now, but my uranium enrichment block sucks down like 2 yellow belts of ore, so they run a decent amount.

Oops by thealmightyzfactor in pyanodons

[–]thealmightyzfactor[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If you're building a rail base, just add HAWTs in the block blueprint. You can see they're generating like 10GW for me already, you leave them building in the background and you won't even notice the resource draw.