image transcription: picture of a statue of the Hindu deity Durga. The statue has ten arms.
caption underneath the picture reads: in Hinduism, Durga is revered as the goddess of war, motherhood, and protection. But did you know she also wrote the default key bindings for Emacs?
Not transoceanic, but there are two projects currently proposed that will -- when constructed -- break the current record for the "longest undersea power transmission cable" (a record currently held by the North Sea Link at 720 km, or 450 miles.)
One of these projects is the Xlinks Morocco-UK Power Project which aims to lay 3,800 km (2,400 miles) of cable and sell Morocco's solar power to England.
There is, as of yet, not enough cable in the world to even begin this project. The company proposing the project is building factories to produce this cable.
The other is the Australia-Asia Power Link, which aims to provide Australian solar power to Singapore using a 4,500 km (2,800 miles) undersea cable.
Where the Xlinks project ran into a "not enough cable in the world" problem, Sun Cable's AAPL has apparently been running into a "not enough money in the world" problem, as it has repeatedly gotten into trouble with its investors.
@[email protected] provided a fantastic link to a lot of energy storage mediums that are already in use in various grids across the world. These include (and the link the professor provided gives an excellent short summary on each)
Also, this wasn't in the Gumby's answer, but Finland's Vatajankoski power plant uses a hot sand battery during its high-demand, low-production hours.
@[email protected] noted that hydrogen has advantages no other energy storage medium possesses: duration of storage and ease of piping/shipping. This is probably why numerous governments are investing in hydrogen production, and why Wood Mackenzie projects what looks like a 200-fold increase in production by the year 2050. (It's a graph. I'm looking at a graph, so I am only estimating.)
I have questions about this event.
First of all,
As the first-ever democratically elected leader of the UAW, Fain, a long-time union member himself, has taken a more confrontational approach to negotiations than his predecessors — including filming himself throwing Big Three automaker proposals in the trash.
What was the process before? Was it worse?
Has UAW been a sleeping giant this whole time on account of its leadership selection process?
But the strike won't involve all of the nearly 150,000 union members who work at the three automakers walking off their jobs en masse.
Instead, workers at three Midwest auto plants — a General Motors assembly plant in Wentzville, Missouri, a Stellantis assembly plant in Toledo, Ohio, and part of a Ford plant in Wayne, Mich. -- were the first to walk off the job under UAW president Shawn Fain's "stand up strike" strategy.
Are stand up strikes common? Do they win concessions?
I want get myself an official diagnosis on ADHD and an answer regarding whether I'm autistic.
Typically, a "10 minute test" takes me several hours. I spend a great deal of time contemplating the questions, filled with indecision. So I want to fill out the test before I even get to the psychologist's office.
Which is why I plugged "official ADHD test" into a search engine, and got overwhelmed by the choices. And my main questions are:
Another prompt from the reedsy list. From September 21st, 2018.
https://blog.reedsy.com/creative-writing-prompts/funny/when-an-elderly-person-went-to-their-local-mall-th/Open linkView original on lemmy.myserv.oneOne of the prompts on this list here is
"Describe an everyday item as if it's magic."
is vaguely similar to my cyberpunk prompt.
Which makes me feel like I'm kinda reinventing the wheel here.
Plus, the lists I am talking about are enormous! It would take years for us to run out of prompts from them. Definitely a good way to keep the community's pulse going until the prompt posting process starts to happen more organically.
I'll be sure to hyperlink the source of the prompt in the body, (or in the case of reedsy, possibly the URL field.)
So what do you say? Shall we borrow prompts until we've gathered some steam?
Example:
Darren operated the mouse and keyboard, aware of them only as mundane extensions of himself, told his computer's web browser to establish a connection with the address called "Amazon." As if an online "marketplace" (powered by an ever evolving, manipulative artificial intelligence) bore any resemblance to the wilderness that used to cover the earth.
Especially when said stretch of wilderness was already a fraction of itself, eaten up for strip farming or land speculation by dozens of corporations driven by the same profit-seeking mindset that motivated Amazon itself: infinite growth.
Millions of microscopic lights flashed to show images of "products you might be interested in." Darren, like any other person, had to constantly relearn how to push past and ignore the suggestions. A subtle arms race between humans and the AI built by the rich to control the poor.
Image Transcription:
An 8-panel Phoebe Teaching Joey meme.
The first panel is Phoebe from Friends saying "Russia".
The second panel is Joey from the same show replying with "Russia".
The third panel is Phoebe saying "has invaded".
The fourth panel is Joey repeating back "has invaded".
The fifth panel is Phoebe saying "Ukraine".
The sixth panel is Joey repeating back "Ukraine".
The seventh panel is Phoebe saying the completed phrase "Russia has invaded Ukraine".
The final panel shows Joey proudly proclaiming "NATO just started a proxy war".
I derive a lot of benefit from mind-mapping in the style shown below. I usually do this in .txt files. But is there some generally accepted text file extension specifically for monospace art?
┌──────────────────┐
┌┤ Current Projects ├─────────┐ ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│└──────────────────┘ ├─┘ ┌──────────────────┐ │
│ │ │ Possessions List │────────────┐ │
│ □ Forever Park │ └──────────────────┘ │ ┌──────────────┐ │
│ └────────────── │ │ │ ┌┤ Forever Park ├────────────┐ │
│ │ │ ░ Some reboxing would be │ │└──────────────┘ │ │
│ □ Possessions List │ │ ░ nice │ │ │ │
│ └─────────────────── │ │ │ │ ░ Not much. Just keep │ │
│ │ └──────────────────────────────┘ │ ░ plugging away at that │ │
│ □ Healthcare Application │ ┌────────────────────────┐ │ ░ outline. │ │
│ └───────────────────────── │ │ Healthcare Application │───────┐ │ │ │
│ │ └────────────────────────┘ │ └────────────────────────────┘ │
│ □ Tapstry Map │ │ │ │
│ └────────────── │ │ ░ Previous healthcare expires │ │
│ │ │ ░ Sunday, April 30th │ │
└┬────────────────────────────┘ │ │ │
┌┘ └───────────────────────────────┘ │
│ │
│ ┌─────────────┐ │
│ ┌┤ Tapstry Map ├─────────────────────────────────────────┐ │
│ │└─────────────┘ │ │
│ │ │ │
│ │ Explore: │ │
│ │ │ │
│ │ ░ line endpoints │ │
│ │ ░ text box wrapping │ │
│ │ ░ google sheets and csv files with real datasets │ │
│ │ ░ d3 pointer events so I can see mouse coordinates │ │
│ │ │ │
│ └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ │
│ │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
From the article: When Marguerite Duras Got Kicked Out of the Communist Party
This was part of their justification.
Technically speaking, it was probably happening sooner than 1950, since Trotsky arrived in Turkey in 1929.
I want to respond to writing prompts, but from a separate account. That way, if someone enjoys a story, they can scroll through my (alt account's) history for more writing without needing to dig through all of the dramatic, vitriolic, shit-stirring my main account will be regularly diving into.
I was wondering if one of you wonderful people was familiar with some corner of the Fediverse perfect for this sort of use? Or would you recommend I create the account here on Lemmy?
So: is there a part of the Fediverse I ought to be examining for this? WriteFreely, for example? Micro.blog perhaps?