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  1. Comment on The liquid air alternative to fossil fuels in ~enviro

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    Levelised Cost of Storage (LCOS) is the metric to beat. Per the article this is "as low as" $45/MWh, thermal batteries appear to be between $100-145 per MWh and no special equipment, tech, or...

    Levelised Cost of Storage (LCOS) is the metric to beat. Per the article this is "as low as" $45/MWh, thermal batteries appear to be between $100-145 per MWh and no special equipment, tech, or materials needed for liquid air. We've been purifying, compressing, and liquefying gases for a couple of centuries now.

    7 votes

  2. Comment on Luigi Mangione wants death penalty count tossed in US CEO murder case in ~news

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    I'm not commenting on any conspiracy, just clarifying the options for "they" as your comment seemed to think there was only one, NY State.

    I'm not commenting on any conspiracy, just clarifying the options for "they" as your comment seemed to think there was only one, NY State.

    3 votes

  3. Comment on Luigi Mangione wants death penalty count tossed in US CEO murder case in ~news

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    He has three cases against him, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Mangione, New York People v. Mangione, United States v. Mangione. He's in NY for both the NY and Federal cases. There are a lot of...

    Who is the "they?" He's being charged in New York state court.

    He has three cases against him, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Mangione, New York People v. Mangione, United States v. Mangione.

    He's in NY for both the NY and Federal cases. There are a lot of "theys".

    7 votes

  5. Comment on Luigi Mangione wants death penalty count tossed in US CEO murder case in ~news

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    In their filing, Mangione’s lawyers also urged U.S. District Judge Margaret Garnett to throw out evidence from a backpack seized during his arrest, arguing officers searched his bag without obtaining a warrant. Police questioned Mangione for more than 20 minutes before reading him his rights and blocked him from leaving the McDonald’s even though they initially told him he wasn’t under arrest, according to the filing.

    23 votes

  7. Comment on Qatar to build air force facility on US base in Idaho in ~society

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    It's not entirely unusual. Singapore trains there, Germany trains at another base, any number of F35 buyers train at another. And this has been in the works with Qatar since 2017. I don't like the...

    It's not entirely unusual. Singapore trains there, Germany trains at another base, any number of F35 buyers train at another.
    And this has been in the works with Qatar since 2017.

    I don't like the fat orange fascist any more than anyone else here, but I expect more from Tildoes than just eating whatever the outage machine that is mainstream media feeds them.

    5 votes

  8. Comment on Offbeat Fridays – The thread where offbeat headlines become front page news in ~news

  10. Comment on Discord says 70,000 users may have had their government IDs leaked in breach in ~tech

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    Update: Discord says 70,000 the hacker group says 2 million.

    Update: Discord says 70,000 the hacker group says 2 million.

    6 votes

  12. Comment on America’s landlords settle claim they used rent-setting algorithms to gouge consumers nationwide for $141 million in ~finance

  13. Comment on A 21-year-old Ukrainian-born sumo wrestler is surging to the top of the rankings in Japan in ~sports.combat

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    Thanks for the @. As @cfabbro mentioned, Ukrainians tend to be some top level wrestlers, just only more recently have stepped their toe into professional sumo with Aonishiki and Shishi. The entire...

    Thanks for the @.

    As @cfabbro mentioned, Ukrainians tend to be some top level wrestlers, just only more recently have stepped their toe into professional sumo with Aonishiki and Shishi. The entire Eurasian Steppe seems to be a great source of rikishi as we have/had representation from (namely) Mongolia (too many to list), Kazakhstan, Bulgaria, and Slovakia as well.

    Aonishiki is exciting to watch and seems every bit as strong as he looks with good strategy to back it up. I am a bit more reserved in my expectations than most of the media will state, but that's because I don't have a subscribers or readers to entertain and hype every new up-and-coming rikishi as I've seen too many of them get Hatakikomi'd just as fast as they rocketed towards the top. I do think he'll be a mainstay near the top if he keeps improving as he has, but time will tell.

    Shishi is less exciting to watch, but that's more because he's more awkward in his movements and doesn't seem as sure of himself in the ring. I think he'll grow out of this.

    Do hope I get to see both in top form come January when I go to Japan for the new year tournament.

    4 votes

  16. Comment on Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without an online account in ~tech

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    Going to go hug my Win 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC install and it's continual updates until 2032. Linux will finally be ready for mainstream by then right? Right‽ ...do not... ..come at me with "Linux...

    Going to go hug my Win 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC install and it's continual updates until 2032.
    Linux will finally be ready for mainstream by then right? Right‽

    ...do not...

    ..come at me with "Linux is ready now" because it just plain isn't.

    21 votes

  17. Comment on Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish? in ~tech

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    To counter: I stopped paying for prime two price increases ago. Their music, movies, books, etc aren't worth it, the shipping time for things that are very local is good, but if it isn't in your...

    To counter: I stopped paying for prime two price increases ago. Their music, movies, books, etc aren't worth it, the shipping time for things that are very local is good, but if it isn't in your local warehouse it's more-often-than-not isn't going to meet their two day promise and if I had something already scheduled to be delivered 5 days later, they'll delay my two day order to ship with it.

    Prices have increased to the point that they're close enough to brick-and-mortar to just buy it locally.
    Yes, their returns are their strong suit, but because of that they are also easy to manipulate. I've received items that I bought "new" that were clearly returns (box open and/or item used) and have received counterfeit items on multiple occasions.

    I've started to largely use Amazon as a search engine and buying things elsewhere.

    27 votes

  18. Comment on Google details Android developer certification requirement, and it’s as bad as we feared in ~tech

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    The non-certified systems are also seeing newfound difficulties with recent google changes to AOSP to kill them off as well. They're powering through for now, but I'm not expecting them to last...

    The non-certified systems are also seeing newfound difficulties with recent google changes to AOSP to kill them off as well. They're powering through for now, but I'm not expecting them to last too much longer.
    You will bow to your Google or Apple corporate overlords and like it.

    14 votes

  20. Comment on ZR1, GTD, and America’s new Nürburgring war: Ford and Chevy set near-identical lap times with very different cars; we drove both in ~transport

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    A video on the changes to the GTD if you're interested in what goes into making a $300,000 Mustang: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxiBausGtso

    A video on the changes to the GTD if you're interested in what goes into making a $300,000 Mustang: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxiBausGtso