mar_k [he/him]

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  • I know a family w solar panels on their roof. 100% of their home’s power comes from solar, 24/7. Energy generated in the daytime stores up in the battery to be used at night. It actually generates a ton of excess energy they don’t need, which gets distributed to the local electric grid to help power other homes in the neighborhood, which they gets compensated for

    side rant Solar is so rare in the US that Amerikans seem to just assume the dumbest shit about it… like people really think it’s completely useless whenever there’s a couple clouds? Sure it’s most efficient on sunny days, but there’s still quintillions of photons even when it’s cloudy, enough that a lot of solar-powered homes rarely even need to dip into the battery for power on cloudy days. 80% of UV wavelengths (light that’s invisible to us) actually easily penetrates thru clouds… this shit is 5th grade knowledge!









  • mar_k [he/him]@hexbear.nettoChapotraphouse@hexbear.netDemocrats launch Project 2029
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    Tf is it with international liberals and taking internet from kids? If social media is supposedly this harmful, addictive drug in everyone’s pockets at all times, WHY NOT JUST REGULATE IT FOR EVERYONE? Maybe ban companies from neuro-simulatory designs to maximize addiction loops/ engagement? Mandate better screen time controls and open-source, less addictive, less harmful algorithms?

    I guess the Meta and tech oligarchs would never agree to that but could get behind banning minors if it reduces their liability in some ways? i.e. they could relax censorship of gore, sketchy porn, and hate speech without worrying about as many lawsuits due to kids being exposed to it

    limiting data collection on children

    Omfg WHY NOT FOR EVERYONE? At LEAST the turbolibs in the EU Parliament did GPDR



  • Their entire fucking culture is artificially divorced from the Ashkenazi European culture of their parents/ grandparents. Like they could’ve organically spoken Yiddish, but they chose to revive Hebrew all bc of the Torah. Hebrew was a dead Afroasiatic language, and their revived version of it is so Europeanized and distorted that you could barely even call it Hebrew. Their accent literally sounds like a Frenchman attempting a racist impersonation of an Arab

    They also changed their surnames in mass to sound less European (e.g. Netanyahu’s dad’s surname was “Mileikowsky” before he changed it to Netanyahu). Not to mention the decades of gross racism, cultural theft, and forced assimilation of the native Mizhrahis/ Arab-Jews; with many European-Jewish settlers even straight up kidnapping Arab-Jewish children to raise as their own

    Israel is like if the Italian-American Mafia violently colonized modern Italy, changed Italy’s name back to the Holy Roman Empire, sloppily brought back the Latin language with a thick Brooklyn accent, and changed their last names from Sopranos and Rossis to Caesars and Cornelius’s