I fucking hate when the ice cube damn breaks and i spill all over myself. But it’s a small sacrifice to make for the turts.
To jump on the environmental roll… I love that it’s now environmentally friendly to not rake your leaves. I haven’t raked them in years because they mulch over the winter and pretty much disappear the first time you cut the grass. Now I can just feel smug about it. Also, the dandelions on my lawn are bee friendly.
Maybe this should go in the things that make me happy thread.
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I rake and compost … love me some good browns
Yeah, that particular image was really just a lightning rod with a good story during a slow news cycle.
The reality (and enormity) of the oceanic pollution problem is yet another incomprehensibly complicated problem that people like to latch on to and over simplify.
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Aliens did it.
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Damn right they did. They use the transporter so they don’t even have to enter the atmosphere. 
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My children do and I sometimes get a shake in a situation which has a high risk of spillage. But thank you for your assumptions and haphazardness.
That’s the part that causes all the emissions. Mining Lithium is a nasty process. Then that raw material is shipped on cargo vessels to where they refine it into a battery and then shipped on another vessel to where it’s put in the car.
Interesting side story on turtles: Working with the turtle researchers, we are looking at technology to scan the ocean with cameras or sensors and pick out turtles automatically. We (the engineers) were referring to the turtles as “targets” for our sensors. The researchers asked us to stop because some couldn’t handle the idea of turtles as “targets” (it’s not like I was going to drop bombs on them).
I think you misunderstand. Emissions from the raw material transport, refinement, and shipment of the lithium batteries was taken into account in the calculation I linked.
The problem with the batteries is the destructive mining practices. But, oil drilling isn’t environmentally friendly either, and is constantly needed to keep a car fueled. A battery is small and a one and done thing. While not 100% green, let’s not get carried away and say that hyribs/electric cars are as bad or worse that 100% gas’s powered… Unless there is evidence to say otherwise that I’m missing?
A lithium ion battery circumnavigates the globe as it goes from mined material to finished battery. It does so on freighters burning bunker fuel (think dirty diesel).
A Prius battery needs changed as the range drains on them. The battery doesn’t last as long as the engine and frame of the car. So you need more than two batteries per car to get the same useful life as you could with a Camry.
Any of you use GoToMyPC? It is the biggest piece of shit program I have ever used.
Per the link I posted, shipment of materials is taken into account. About 4000 miles was the calculated “break even” point for emissions with a Prius vs Corolla. As you can tell by how quick the break even happens, the majority of emmissions are caused by the fuel to run it (extraction, transport, combustion), not by production of the car or it’s parts.
Key to remember that the batteries materials get shipped essentially once, and weigh very little and take up little space, relatively (same reason why plastic bottles are better than glass bottles, but cans are best). Same with steel frame and other componentry of cars, they get fabricated and shipped once in the 15 year lifespan of the car. Oil gets extracted, refined and shipped for each and every gas tank fill-up.
a good IT Dept is soooooo nice to have. Like a referee in sports, if they’re doing their job you’ll never notice them, but of they suck it blows up the whole game.
Our IT department is pretty good. It’s just a garbage program.
I feel you- CMU has the best compsci program in the world but can’t get their online courses registration system to work properly…
… But AI will rule the world!!!
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Can’t be any worse than the humans who have messed it up so much.
Famous last words … or in contemporary vernacular: hold my beer
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The question “How is work?” is starting to annoy me
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