Wouldn't (fully) burning all single-use plastics effectively make them no more long-lived and problematic than burning crude oil at sea? I know that's a low bar, but it seems like at least you're getting two uses out of them at that point...
Readit Newslxmorj commented on Scientists break down plastic using a simple, inexpensive catalyst and air phys.org/news/2025-03-sci... · Posted by u/PaulHoule
Firm believer that he stole the entire thing from the book Running Out of Time by Margaret Peterson Haddix.
lxmorj commented on US companies are producing heat pumps that work below -20F electrek.co/2022/12/26/us... · Posted by u/jbrins1
Why not just use a natural gas or electric heating element to heat up the air coming into the heat exchanger when it's below the operating window? In most of the US below zero is a <10 day per year issue. Sure it's terribly inefficient on those days, but I'd bet it's cheaper than maintaining an entire secondary heating system.
I use SignNow.com - the level of subscription I need is something like $8/mo.
However, I probably use it less than 1/3 of the months that I pay for. This is true for dozens of memberships: Adobe, Canva Pro, Netflix, HBOMax, The Economist, etc.
It'd be nice to have a service that automatically unsubscribes me after every use, but rejoins seamlessly the next time I sign in.
If I pay for a month of Netflix on Jan 1 and immediately unsubscribe, I'm good to use it until Feb 1. If I don't log in for a week, it'd pay on Feb 8th and unsubscribe again. I'd have til March 8th to watch, and I'd save ~25%. For less frequently used services I might save 50% or more this way.
lxmorj commented on Jetson One – Personal Electric Aerial Vehicle jetsonaero.com/... · Posted by u/swatkat
The official number is 400ft but I've heard anecdotes that there have been successful deployments lower. That said, I see this being operated in the "dead mans curve", ie well below any effective height, for a significant portion of it's flight
Surely there are flight patterns that can minimize this risk: ie diagnostic hover at 10ft for X seconds to rule out start up failures, followed by an ascend to 500ft, flight path maintains that height, similar pause prior to descent on landing...
I can't speak for the person you're responding to, but I don't think an assumption of human trafficking by the site's owners is supported given that some other site's owners did human trafficking. By all accounts I've been exposed to, models on OnlyFans earn much better than models on other sites. That seems like a prima facie reason to believe it's overall a good thing, and the evidence would need to be presented to demonstrate otherwise. Starting with the assumption the owner of something you don't like is a human trafficker is not a good way to make a convincing case against OnlyFans.
I believe he is not saying the site owners are traffickers but that some OF channels could be trafficker run.
lxmorj commented on A dwarf planet coming within 11 AU of the sun over the next 10 years groups.io/g/mpml/topic/83... · Posted by u/MKais
> In a two-body system it doesn’t matter what you do;
Two-body systems do not exist in reality.
Energy is also conserved in 3 body problems. When you utilize the slingshot effect, some of the energy of the orbit of the body you are swinging around orbiting is transfered to you. The transfer of this energy does not depend on the closeness of the sun, but rather on how deeply you descend into the gravity well of the object you are slingshotting around.
> which is a pretty safe assumption 11 AU out of Saturn doesn’t come close
No, it really isn't. The "safeness" of the assumption entirely depends on your margin for error. The existence of the naturally captured saturnian satellites clearly indicates that you are simply wrong about the relevant margins for error.
Saturn's captured satellites might also be the result of incidental aerobraking or whatever you want to call smashing into a bunch of very tiny satellites during a close periapsis, no?
lxmorj commented on A salt monopoly could spike car accidents in the Midwest mattstoller.substack.com/... · Posted by u/new_guy
>> winner take all procurement will put incumbents out of business
The worst part isn't that companies go out of business, they probably won't, but that after a few rounds of one big state contract only one company will have the capacity to even bid for the contact. That one big company will then subcontract lots of little local delivery contracts. The one big company will have then effectively replaced the government in that it will manage salt delivery across the state.
That’s silly. A single buyer doesn’t have to buy the entire supply in one shot. They could easily say “We buy the cheapest marginal salt in any quantity until our total capacity is met. You must beat $CANADA_PRICE + $IMPORT_PRICE, as well as $NY_PRICE + $TRANSPORT_PRICE or we’ll have to buy from them instead”.
lxmorj commented on The demise and potential revival of the American chestnut sierraclub.org/sierra/202... · Posted by u/jseliger
Companies screwing up has caused way more harm than gov. Bhopal, lead gasoline, asbestos, tobacco industry, strike busting layoffs company towns, oil spills, ozone hole, greenhouse gases. On and on.
Anyone who thinks gov is the enemy has been bamboozooled by corporate propaganda.
They are both collections of flawed humans. Accountability is necessary regardless of the collective noun you use.
lxmorj commented on The demise and potential revival of the American chestnut sierraclub.org/sierra/202... · Posted by u/jseliger
As far as we know. My argument is that large chaotic systems are often poorly understood by us and we have gotten it wrong many times in the past.
I agree that erradicating bad mosquitos feels like a win, but I personally don’t know if there’s any unforeseen effects.
We could maintain a few populations in labs and/or isolated areas. Inspects repopulate hella fast, so it’d be easy enough to undo such a project if we found that they were a lynchpin of some kind.