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  • That’s exactly what’s wrong with these army drill sergeants. They see the trainees under their care as statistics. It’s a one size fits all approach, and they’re so married to treating people like machines that they can’t open their eyes and see when they’re literally poisoning someone half to death. It’s inhuman.




  • Photovoltaic solar panels turn light directly into electricity. This thing bounces light to a place where it can be turned into heat. The heat boils water, and the steam turns a turbine. The spinning motion is converted into electricity.

    Steam power is a lot older than photovoltaic cells. Nearly every other form of power generation is basically just spinning a turbine. Nuclear, coal, and geothermal heat up steam. Hydro and wind get nature to spin the turbine. With steam power, all your problems with efficiency are mechanical. How do you reduce friction in the bearings? How do you get more power out of the steam? Whereas developing more efficient PV cells requires a deep understanding of subatomic physics. On the other hand, it’s difficult to think your way out of physical limits on steam power, like where does the waste heat go? The future of PV probably still has surprises left for us.






  • Have good situational awareness. Molly only does this at the very end of the mission. If you were paying attention earlier, then you know which way to go. Navigating and quickly memorising cave layouts is one of the game’s core skills, just as important as your aim or your weapon build.

    The scout here is only following Molly because the cave was too complex for him to memorise. That’s a skill issue.



  • OP (dad), married a woman and accepted her daughter into the family, making her his stepdaughter. We’ll call her Drake. Dad already had a son from a previous marriage. We’ll call the son Josh. Drake and Josh became close stepsiblings. Drake started dating a boy, who we’ll call Freddy. Drake introduced Freddy to Josh, and they hang out every week at Josh’s place to play Overwatch. Drake brought Freddy to her house, where dad was cleaning his guns, just in time for Freddy to walk past on his way to Josh’s room.




  • MindTraveller@lemmy.catoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldIroning
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    13 hours ago

    Yes, neurotypicals are indeed able to have large family dinners. But they have to do it using table manners as a crutch. They can’t just have an honest conversation about what’s really necessary, they need to rely on this social construct to tell people what to do without explaining why. It’s a great weakness. If only the average person weren’t so afraid to introspect and to question why we do things.



  • MindTraveller@lemmy.catoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldIroning
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    15 hours ago

    If you have a large number of people eating in comparison to the size of the table, and the table is already covered in food, the only place on the table to put your elbows is in other people’s personal space.

    The rule should be “no elbows right next to someone else’s food” but neurotypicals are terrible at communicating due to their underdeveloped social skills and empathy.