Shame on you APNews for not including any Hoiho memes

Has anyone read the novel? I normally like to read the source book before watching the adaptation, but my to-read list is already longer than a human lifetime.

Paywall!

Here’s a mirror: https://archive.ph/UJ8JF

When it works, it’s Arby’s. When it doesn’t, it’s hour-old Arby’s.

This is too American for me - Arby’s sells food? Is fresh Arby’s great or merely ok? I assume hour-old is bad.

People say they want that, but do those independent cinemas get enough people through the doors to stay open?

I forgot that Lance Armstrong was in this - quite fitting for a satire.

Its IMDb page is a bit sus: the reviews are an almost unbroken stream of gushing 10 star reviews, but there’s plenty of people voting it 1 star too. Astroturfing or just polarising?

I’m curious to know the impact of ad-blockers - I didn’t see you it mention in your post or blog, so I’m assuming you tested with stock browsers. Also, did you clear history and data from your Android install since it sounds like you’d normally use that?

I’m assuming that ad-blockers would be a net benefit to both battery and performance, given that in a way it’s an optimisation. The boost from removing data and computation (that the user doesn’t want anyway) must be far higher than the overhead of the plugin, right?

VFX artist explains why CGI in films is worse now

Article includes screenshot from The Mummy Returns which is from 2001 and is therefore old enough to watch any of the other films mentioned.

Those photos really sell the value of those satellites. It seems ridiculous that we don’t have replacements up there given how many launches there’s been in recent years.

In other news, you have a little cake on Voyager - you’ve been on Lemmy for one year today.

Perhaps everything after the low hanging fruit feels too politically painful.

Our online spaces are not ecosystems, though tech firms love that word. They’re plantations; highly concentrated and controlled environments, closer kin to the industrial farming of the cattle feedlot or battery chicken farms that madden the creatures trapped within.

This is a brilliant analogy, and I love how wellot works.

(This is a quite long article though, so I’ll finish it tomorrow.)

the video you mentioned, which everyone reading this should watch when it makes it over to Youtube

Ah, I’d looked to see if it had the First icon before mentioning it but it looks like he never uses the tags. For others, we’re talking about How Fish Survive Hydro Turbines on Nebula (you can watch without an account).

Anyway, thanks for the other video, I’ll watch it soon. It makes sense that sediment is a trickier problem than fish since, unlike fish, sediment isn’t actively trying to get anywhere. When I first posted, I was imagining something like a conveyor belt, or perhaps pipes (either without turbines or ones pushing downstream) low down on the dam.

Huh, I’ve just come from watching Practical Engineering’s How Fish Survive Hydro Turbines video - so I’m confident that if they cared they could resolve this.

“Quest was originally designed as a demonstration project to prove (carbon capture) technology and overall has met or exceeded our expectations,” said Shell

So they knew it wouldn’t work, but they got the government to subsidise it at least.

“There’s no silver bullet here, but there’s some silver buckshot, hopefully.”

This is something it’s easy to forget. Small improvements are still improvements, and enough of them will get us there. Don’t let doomscrolling (and stories like this) lead you into despair and apathy.

The denier line has moved on from “it’s not human caused” to “it’s too late/expensive to do anything about it anyway”, aiming for pessimism and doomerism to let them continue business as usual.

Having things like this we can counter with helps people argue and motivate to continue the fight.

Interesting/useful bits:

• The term “climate change” was initially popularized by Republicans under G.W. Bush as they wanted a softer term that sounded less “frightening”. It’s a better term though, because it covers non-temperature effects like ocean acidification.
• A warmer atmosphere means more water can be held in the air, which leads to more rain (often more extreme) but also more droughts as warmer air can remove more water from an area.
• The fact that the climate has (slowly) changed in the past doesn’t mean we aren’t causing change now. The faulty logic is akin to People have died of cancer in the past; therefore, cigarettes don’t cause cancer now.
• NOAA projects 3.5 feet to 7 feet sea-level rise along America’s coastlines by 2100.
• Unsurprisingly, windmills aren’t driving whales “a little batty”. Also, wind farms are responsible for just 0.03% of all human-related bird deaths in the U.S. and onshore wind is one of the cheapest ways to generate electricity.
• The primary reason the US Army wants to electrify its fighting vehicles is to reduce wartime casualties (no need for refuelling missions and electric is stealthier due to being quieter and cooler).

I thought that, and nearly didn’t read the article, but it’s really interesting - and useful to have these refutations to anyone who trots out these lies/distortions when talking to you.

Not that arguing with facts is actually going to change their mind, but at least you can feel good about winning the argument!