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the NASA STI youtube channel has a 9 hour series of lectures on fastener design

Asmongold started stressing after realizing he’s 36 and doesn’t have a girlfriend “I’m going to bed at 2 am. On my day off I washed my car and did lawn work.. I fed the birds… This is getting bad guys.”

My home is paid off. Why do I have to pay property taxes on it?

Heat Exchangers, Turbines, Transformer First it was the transformers, then it was the turbines, the next critical industrial equipment to see a supply crunch might be heat exchangers. There are myriad new technologies for transformers, turbines and heat exchangers that nobody in industry (of note) is really pursuing in anger. Transformers are essentially obsolete, there are safer, much better and more performant ways to step voltages up and down. We don’t use them because nobody makes them at scale. There are superior turbine cycles that use high pressure gases instead of steam. You can run a closed Brayton cycle with a gas turbine sans a combustion chamber. It’s 5-8% more efficient than steam. Yet we still build new steam turbines because that’s what we’ve always done. Same with heat exchangers, we now know how to make printed circuit heat exchangers. We can build them at huge scale and we use them in LNG tankers to cryogenically liquify nat gas. Do we use this new technology elsewhere in industry? No not really. We still build tube and vessel heat exchangers just like they did in 1880. Is this 3x new startups all pressing 3 different markets? Or should this be 1 larger startup? Pooling resources across adjacent products and markets? These three product categories have a big impact on energy conversion, process efficiency, and waste. When industry moves to new technologies, the risks and costs of proving the tech are often privatised onto a single project, whereas the benefits are socialised to everyone once the new superior technology is proven. This often leads to many individual projects passing on superior technologies that are newly available, because the project is too small the shoulder the cost, or the project is too big to shoulder the risk. This consistently creates a market failure in free markets, which is why China often is more advanced in these spaces. Where the CCP can force individual projects to carry new technologies for the benefit of wider society. In the West, we need to get much better at this. In reality maybe the west needs a super conglomerate that is able to build a power stack suitable for 2040, just like Tesla built their car tech stack for the future and SpaceX built the reusable rocket stack. This is the path to trillion dollar market caps. Rebuild the whole stack in one coherent business case and raise the capital necessary to get it all the market. This often demands something like $10bn of development spending and capex, but that’s a small price to pay owning the new paradigm on the power generation sector when the world needs to spend something like $5 trillion on new grid infrastructure and power generation assets. All the pieces already exist, and they exist at the necessary scale.

Debatten om luciafirande är så dum. Det handlar om att föräldrar inte kan uppföra sig, de fotar/filmar trots att det inte är tillåtet. Det finns barn på förskolor/skolor som inte får synas på bild. Det respekterar inte föräldrarna och då får de inte komma.

Metroid Prime 4 Beyond first impressions: 1. Companions are ok. They don't bother me at all, and they're barely with you. 2. Open world hub feels empty. Wish there was more to do. 3. This game feels more action-adventure than Metroidvania. There's minimal backtracking so far.

BREAKING – European Union will now monitor the private chats of individuals The EU is planning to pass "Chat Control" law that could lead to the scanning of private conversations of billions of people

Is it possible to make a microwave oven without the whole oven part? You know, a portable microwave you can carry around like a handheld barcode scanner and aim at foods to heat them up in a flash? It could be pretty neat.

The reason atheists could never cohere into a subculture is because atheism, taken seriously, is right-wing, but almost all the prominent atheists are left-wing. Thus, the movement is schizophrenic. If you don’t believe in supernatural creation, then you believe that evolution by mutation and selection is the *only process* known, or even imaginable, that can construct value from non-value. We are not exempt from this: memetic and cultural evolution drive progress far more than reason. Indeed, reason is just a particularly fit metameme that evolved because it granted power to its hosts. It is not categorically special, nor is it capable of producing progress on its own. Reason can criticize but it cannot create. Evolution, taken seriously, is colder and more brutal than the most vicious human tyrant. It is alien, hideous, captivating. Cleave the emptiness in two, smash the halves into each other, then cleave the winner in two, on and on forever. I must emphasize: this is not just the only process that *has* produced progress. It is the only process that *can* produce progress in the absence of the supernatural. It follows that every transfer from the fit to the unfit which hinders the power of the giver or artificially boosts that of the receiver undoes the work of creation. The egalitarian tribe of lions where every male gets to mate and food is redistributed will be pathetically weak in a few generations compared to the tribe where the strongest male kills his rivals and has a harem. To be right-wing is to accept this process as the only real engine of truth, beauty, and power. To be left-wing is to believe in miraculous exemptions to its iron logic. PS: yes there are forms of religion and mysticism that accept this one and only Law, including some rare clear-eyed Christians. I’m not talking about those.