Wolf314159

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[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 4 points 5 months ago

By ignoring the second half of their comment you've missed the subtly that "panel" is an overly broad term and there are several different kinds of panels that collect energy from the sun for human use, among them photovoltaics, panels for heating residential water (often seen as black roof panels with pipes), and complex mirror (aka reflective panels) arrangements for melting salts. All of them use panels in some form.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 11 points 5 months ago (2 children)

"Current" science is a bit of a stretch, like a couple thousand years of stretching. Eratosthenes showed the earth was round and calculated its circumference to an astonishing precision using research and fairly simple trigonometry. He died 2,219 years ago.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 2 points 5 months ago

True. True. True. And yet, that market may exist regardless. We'll see I guess.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Not the ones that use these. Most tools are unpractical when you don't understand how to use them.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 16 points 5 months ago (3 children)

You're supposed to leave it in the jar when not in use.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 12 points 5 months ago

That's exactly what AI slop would say.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Those reduced civil rights related to border patrol extend about 200 miles in from every U.S. border.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 2 points 6 months ago

This needs to be copypasta'd as a reply to every comment suggesting that opening up jellyfin to the internet is easy and everyone should do it to get away from Plex.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Self-hosting is inherently not low effort. This isn't memes or shitposts. This is people helping people that are trying to help themselves, a.k.a. people making an effort. Communities rely on the discretion of mods and rules specific to the community focus. If this community didn't have some kind of bar to meet for low effort posts it would drive away participants and contributors more interested in higher effort and more interesting topics. It gets real old seeing people ask and answer the same basic questions about Plex, Jellyfin, *arrs, and docker all the time. Worrying about if this rule will be abused seems premature. Besides (as others have pointed out) there are other communities with similar interests, if you're that concerned that your spammy no-context YouTube video got deleted, please go try your luck elsewhere.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 6 points 6 months ago

Yes, that is the subversion of expectations that makes this a joke.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 6 points 6 months ago (3 children)

The Hunger Games owes everything to Stephen King. They basically just took The Long Walk novel and glittered/mashed it up with The Running Man movie. Neither of those took place during or after any apocalypse. They were each just set in either the now, or the very near future, in an America that has gone fully corrupt as a result of being morally, politically, and economically bankrupt. King was (and always has) written very local and topical stories set in what is literally his here and now. When he lived in Maine, he wrote Maine stories. When he moved to Florida, he wrote Duma Key. So, it's no surprise that a YA story as derivative as The Hunger Games would have the same blind spot for Global events as the inspirational works.

But, also if we were really going to descend into an apocalypse (or a dictatorship), news of the broader globe would be one of the first casualties. People inside most apocalypse (and fascist dystopian) stories don't usually have a lot of knowledge about the "outside" world. If they do, it's usually an unreliable narrative.

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