Tlaloc_Temporal

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[–] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 hours ago

You don't need giant EMS vehicles is cities. I bet 95% of EMS vehicles in large cities never leave city limits. Even if absolute units of EMS vehicles are somehow necessary for rural service (I doubt that), smaller, safer vehicles could easily service urban areas.

[–] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

There's still miles of countryside between cities in the Netherlands, Japan, Switzerland, Germany, and Denmark. Many of Canada's cities have fantastically walkable neighborhoods and light train services, and Canada has even more unreachable rural areas than the Sates. Urban solutions are almost completely unaffected by the size of the rural areas.

These solutions can all happen in individual cities and even towns. How many hours of car driving away the next urban center is doesn't affect where parking is placed, or zoning density, or where the highways are routed, or how fast the busses are, or whether a light train could be viable.

[–] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 day ago

That's probably where line breaks were at some point, and some garbage formatting leaked in when moving the text.

[–] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 18 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Eh, that's a few dozen steps removed. By that standard, every herbivore "uses" photosynthesis.

These guys (coral & lichen too) use photosynthesis much more directly, completely encapsulating the algea and supporting it internally. It's much closer to mitochondria.

[–] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 11 points 4 days ago

Also, the cooling effect sulphate aerosols can cause only really happens at high altitudes. At low altitudes the reflected light is less likely to escape to space, and the aerosols fall out of the air faster.

Even if they reached high altitudes, one of the effects of being in the atmosphere is moving with the wind, across entire hemispheres. And at tropospheric heights, sulphates, their products, and other byproducts of combustion may destroy ozone at significant levels.

There may come a day where aerosol-based geo-engineering becomes a part of climate management, but it's definitely not with bunker fumes.

[–] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 5 points 5 days ago

It would be really nice on less powerful hardware too. One picture gallery can eat all my RAM real fast.

[–] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 20 points 5 days ago (2 children)

One of the arguments for the electoral college was that news travels by horseback and a new development needed a representative at Washington to accout for it.

These representatives (electors) must therefore be able to vote differently that how they were asked to if they deem the situation requires it. Say it's uncovered that one candidate was plotting treason, or has a heart attack.

Because we can communicate instantaneously now, electors are not needed to vote for people or states anymore; a direct vote is easily accomplished.

The unfair allocation of those votes is a different aspect of the Electoral College, but also a reason to be rid of it.

[–] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 4 points 6 days ago

3 3 1|2 1|3 2 1

Nauvis is "NAW - vis", like gnawing and aravice.

Vulcanus is "Vul - CAN - us", like Vulcan or Vulcanize

Gleba is more fun like "Glee - ba", but usually ends up being "glebbah".

Fulgora is "Full - GORE - ah" but I originally misread the name and said "Full - GROW - ah".

Aquilo is usually "A - QUILL - oh" but I accept arguments to pronounce it like Aquilae.

The DLC is two words: "Space - Age". Spaceage is whatever is dumped off a platform.

[–] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 days ago

It's almost analogous. A more massive object experiences a larger force caused by gravity, so assuming the gravity field stays the same, a larger mass is heavier.

You're right that it's technically incorrect, especially when talking about something like moving the Earth with gravity.

[–] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Both accelerate at the same speed, but the bowling ball completes it's fall first because the Earth was pulled up to meet it. The bowling ball falls faster not because it's moving faster, but because it's fall is shorter.

[–] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Those are Rare panels, if you didn't notice.

[–] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Racism. The Jays in jaywalking where probably immigrants with weird hats.

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