metalman

China is leading the push to decarbonise mining, and is now offering a full suite of electrified heavy equipment, with Volvo bieng a big player in marketing equipment to western operations. Automation and management software for this equipment is yielding further gains in efficiency and productivity, with current fuel costs reducing ROE very significantly , with more than a few special cases where mine trucks are loaded uphill from where they dump and are in regen all the way down, but the empty return trip uses less energy than the gravity regen so they can also 'dump' the excess electricity, and while this isn't changing industrys numbers overall, it sue drives the point of electrification home in a way that no other technology can compete with as it is all the exact same equipment used everywhere else.

All civil aviation radio is by default strictly done over open channels in order to co ordinate with all of the other aircraft and ground control, and is often the only comunication possible in an emergency, and is always monitored and 'published' in order to co ordinate emergency responses, in the air, on the ground, and can often serve as the only real evidence as to what happened. The other part is that it also serves to keep wild speculation to a minimum. Your or anybody elses fucking feelings will never be meaningfully effected by this standard procedure, these people died publicly and it was witnessed, it's obsene to attempt to then 'privitise' that. Wanaknow whats worse, I'll tell ya, these people had the option to blast strait up through and OVER the iceing conditions, but were saving fuel by flying lower and counting on the 'de ice' equipent normally only use for 'decent into weather' and landing, or thats what I am gathering, others with better knowledge will have completly picked it apart.

panick spending , panick politics, by the zionists and there allies. the 1.2 billion is only the anty they must declare, the big spend is behind closed doors to outright steal whatever seats they can. All for a genocide cult with no future.

Guggle is panicking after the 1/2 trillion dollar reset, and the WAY to late, and WAY to little, nod, to the internets base population is very very likely to earn them the pointed derission that they are most deserved of, and nothing else. It's worse of course, as the most likely outcome is that some of these forums will now get bought out, instantly missmanaged into oblivion and rendered for there data sets.

Right now there is a space race happening, and solving for each challenge is just engineering. Given the demand for rare earths and other exotic and critical metals and substances, with the potential for specialized zero gravity factories, the race will continue for the forseeable future. The question of there bieng life on Mars or the slightest chance of colinisation will keep a steady pressure to set up bases and full round trip transportation. Simple facts, 'elon'is abandoning falcon to focus on starship, because as soon as starship is fully commisioned, China will have built one, and if China likes it, then they will scale and the only advantage 'elon' has is the jump.The only reasons China will get into 'Big Space' is if they see proffit AND prestige,which they do, so the race is on now,PLACE YOUR BETS, pikers, punters, big rollers, grifters, and all

it's fine, everybody I talk to is raising there prices in order to survive the insane comodity price increases, along with cutting personal costs, and discretionary spending and then finding ways to optimise for greater proffit. Also as pointed out going solar and electric is proving to be an insulative layer that is very helpfull, where we are going to see houses and other properties with solar south facing roofs and slopes start to be worth significant premiums as off grid car charging becomes viable, or I should say matures, as it is very definitly now viable for someone who can manage the systems integration.

open, I mean closed sesame. open source means nothing, except, trust us and come work for free.

graphene OS is bullshit big money play acting as an 'alternative' there is NO clear identity or core team, just the standard trust us because we say so, and the tedium of another big company that will inevitably walk back whatever freedoms THEY GRANT is such a tired trope that people are of course alert to the clear signs comming from the money, like oooooh look 13 fucking banks just jumped on board, and all your apps will work, and something something, all that traffic to google servers is 'obfusicated', trust us.

power guys got surprised as rest of the grid load is human randomised and even huge factories will come on one chonk at a time, vs miilisecond co ordinated load switching at scale, with batteries as the load of the initial surge into even fully charged batteries can be almost infinite, and the whole calculation around grid scale turbines is that they run at very precise rpm's for stability and longevity, but worse, and a big fail, as battery storage is supposed to help with that, not be the problem. bet it gets fixed realy fast as those grid guys definitly get listened to.

brown chip investment

not good, not good at all, as this is how ALL bridges and towers are supported, the basic engineering bieng that any cable end will be stronger than the cable itself and will last longer than the cable itself, except now, when it isn't, not good, not easy to inspect, not easy to service.

Icelanders obviosly laugh at themselves first and a lot, so rolling out another joke for a specific occasion is just something they do, a lot. AI is like bieng a kid again, when your parents start trying to force some new thing on you and are acting all WIERD huddling up whispering to each other and there friends, cause they all fucked up and into WHO KNOWS WHAT, except it's everybodys boss and you have to play along with doing the "extra curricular activities" whether you like them or not. There must be many poor souls who are bieng pushed into AI, not just by there boss, but by there parrents as well. Icelands looking better by the second.

presumably the only way to get a good picture of a blackhole would be to get very lucky and catch a supernova going off next door, preferably at a slight oblique angle from one of the poles and be able to light the acretion disk and any dust but I dont think we have the visible light gathering capacity to search at the distances required for even a slight chance of capturing the event, so the answer to the question is : you wait.

not shameless as here is cut and paste from the landing page when all that renders is plain text

elect.horse is a daily gerrymandering puzzle: the horse is losing the popular vote to the cow, the donkey and the goat, and you draw equal districts on a hex map so it wins the most seats anyway. It needs JavaScript to play.

I only clicked because I have a horse, with whom I spent a few miniuts out in the paddock before daylight listening to the coyotes whoop it up so close you could smell there not dog , but not bad, odor.

you can watch the heat moving in real time here https://www.ospo.noaa.gov/products/ocean/sst/contour/

just a little thread of warmer water running up the california coast vissible in.this subset https://www.ospo.noaa.gov/data/sst/contour/global_small.cf.g...

but the actual heat energy involved is mind boggling

I think that there will be a number of updates as to the conditions to expect bieng issued shortly, and my personal plan is to keep doubling down on having everything ship shape and ready for prolonged adverse conditions.

no mention of this bieng an actual translation from the original sumerian in any of the reviews, and the truely epic and laudable journey that is bieng replaced by the sleezy term 'verse translation', ie : hollywood sceen play ready, as that is what could be the most that can be expected from a former probation officer turned the official british royal panegrist.

edit: the songs of innana and other older actual translations of gilgamesh are there for some little peeks into the sumerian world that continues to define ours in so many subtle ways.

edit, edit: before commenting I did a fairly decent search for any details on this 'book' , of which nothing that I found written in plain text offered anything other than the standard devious prevercations found when some politico/legalistic thing is bieng floated. And I can state with absolute certitude that this 'translation/rewrite' of Gilgamesh will not age well even in the tiny demographic it is aimed at and will go further out on the limb and suggest that this 'work' will soon be evaluated and found to contain certain 'isms' from some of the one name only agregators of our literary present.

scrapping has helped me make ends meet many times, too busy with cash work to bother right now,and so is everbody else localy, and I have to haul scrap out of the shop and find someone who will let me dump it, which then takes me to one of my favorite backwoods pirates(my term), where often is to found some rather improbable stuff that gets scrapped and junked and rendered, or sometimes rescued and taken on as a project. Copper, bronze, brass, platinum from catelitic converters, stainless steel, and aluminum can all bring in significant amounts of cash, as will the shear mass of a row of stripped down bulldozers or cement trucks. The larger operations are otherworldly, the scale aproaching a complete landscape exposing the inner workings of our industrial civilization, where a car can be taken from a complete and in many cases drivable state, to having its mechanicals ripped out by a modified excavator and the rest shredded into fist sized backened chunks, in 5 minuits, all the plastic and glass and other stuff ground into a paste(loose change, lost phones,tools,junk, etc,etc,etc) containerised for shipping for further rendering. And the cast of characters that casualy fit into a chaotic apocaliptic sceen, that will also have an incongrous and often large office building where some tiny patch of non destruction, and maybe some flowers demarks the boundry where order is re established, and the highest value materials are stored, and money , always cash for sellers, is exchanged. Which leads to the experiences of going to such places and the very hightened, edgy awareness of bieng someone new showing up, and the relationships that grow , vs the other side of my life interacting with various proffesionals, academics, business people, bankers, lawyers, etc and just how uncomfortable they often are, though beurocrats, those bastard children of academia are invisible, lives wholely contained within buildings and behind barriers, therin to steep in whatever miasma of guilt at the horrors they tend, creates.

Actualy it's both, Billionaires Democracy : who ever has the most money gets the biggest vote.

Oh Ye mighty look upon my unsubstantiated forcasts and tremble, something like that?

there is a very simple method to locate well preserved organic archiological materials, pick a river valley, and a section of bottom land that would have had an equidistant relationship with the broadest availibility of harvestable resources, marine, forrest, mineral, hunting, and gathering,etc, and lo right at that spot will reliably be found, worldwide, a settlement that was burried in a landslide cause by deforistation of the slopes in the lovely valley microclimate that humans will reliably gravitate towards, and devestate, one intersting feature of these sites is that human remains seem to be almost universaly absent, as these were strong and observant people who aparently knew when and where to run, which unfortunately seems to have been another close, but less perfect valley. seattle, sits right on top of a series of mega deposits from long run out slides, but in that case these are volcanic debrits and earthquake cause, rather than human, though this is just another physical situation that sets up for gravity to do it's thing, there bieng several other. I have my suspicions about how increased heat, water and water vapour, CO², and other forces will effect geological processes in ways that have not been accounted for or even considered properly, carbonation, like rust, never sleeps

hey! thats what the money is for, the AI metaverse where your virtual clone will be shiny, and popular for ever

human figure jumping, clapping, smileing gleefuly.

I think that this is the first truely idioic thing that I like. At one point I considered myself an absurdist, but for a while now it seems that people can no longer recognise deliberate absurdity and respond like it's something plausible, but here we are I wonder if he will bomb Switzerland for refusing him the peace prize.

kudos! for solving a hardwares, hardware problem, but especialy for the open, matter of fact demenour devoid of rhetoric. aaaand the web site renders perfectly on my less than standard browser, fast too.

I like the way it's worded, as it leaves open if you are buying information on a specific person or thing or haveing information on a specific person or thing, become secret. But the real money and show auctions will be for end of term pardons for things that cant be kept secret, and then there will be all sorts of deals and perks, get a free secret with a full family pardon and complimenterty stay in the white house epstien suite.

may he have his wish granted today ;)

hey! lets see how long it takes for Bosonaro the second to throw a hissy fit and try something REALY stupid. The united latin american response indicates that they will not be able to hold the territories they have captured and may loose Venezuala sooner rather than later. It's so bad that the cia is reduced to publicly advertising on facebook and competing against nasty bottom feeding scams for any attention.

sensorship is unfortunately required in a world where unexperienced, uneducated, people with LEGITIMATE grievances start agitating for change, but whos efforts and energys will result in disaster and chaos, the coulor revolutions that happened in the middle east are absolute proof of this, decades of war, millions of casualties, and now no way out of the divisions. I will very strongly advocate for completly uncensored physical libraries and peer to peer communication, but will resist 'platforming' ANYBODY, we dont need mass leaders, we need coaches and mentors, colaberators, companions, helpers, bosses, and a general reshaping of the hiarchical structure of human civilisation into something that is much more distributed in practice but unified in principal.

I had one of those in front of me the other day and it's not a truck, cyber or otherwise, it's a bloat car that answers to some vauge notion of space ships and laser cannons, but by all accounts is poorly built and drives like a cow and looks out of place everywhere, except possibly when stuck in gridlock when you could go up and put your hand on the tint to see what the person driving the thing looks like. if they had built a cab over, 4 door, 4x4 with a 9' deck, they would have my undivided attention, a platform that could be a minibus or cargo van, cab over flat deck, or the crew cab farm truck that I will end up building myself.

another place to go for an animated film

https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/wildwood-review-laika-...

https://www.laika.com/our-films

Following the theme, of the tangent, we can go bigger yet, and divide concepts into those that are demonstrable, like bieng sensored/re written, and things that are purely human constructs, like money and the easter bunny, some would include religion, but then we get into a debate about devine delivered truth, or we could include all of scientific theory, things like numbers. In any case when it comes to gods comandments, these truths are by definition non negotiable, and if you are a believer then you dont do that, and if you are not, again, there is no point in debate, and civilisations thrive on knowing where various peoples beliefs are exposed, and finding other things to enjoy arguing about. Bieng a muslim on the one hand and a reader of Frank Herberts works on the other with no interest in the shamefull garbage that comes out of the movie industry, I could only direct you to Mr Herberts comentary on the analysis others did ,of how much of the first Star wars movie is a direct plagerism of Dune.