PuddleOfKittens

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Roughly speaking you'd need to change the barrel every ~1000 rounds, and WW1 MGs shoot at ~200 rounds per minute, so you'd need to swap the barrel once every 5 minutes of continuous shooting. It could be half of that tho, depending on the barrel and the gun.

Two seconds worth of googling gives me 15.6 million tons of CO2 from private flights, vs 3.35 billion tons from cars.

Minor nitpick: don't compare millions to billions if you can afford it. Say something like "16 million VS 3350 million tons of CO2". The meat of your point is 16 vs 3350, so highlight it!

Basically because sails don't scale for large ships (and large ships have less drag per volume due to the cube-square law, so shipping is less expensive - not to mention the crew requirements grow more slowly), and (traditional sails) also interfere with cranes for shipping containers, and they also take money and take up cargo space, while saving money on fuel which has traditionally been fairly cheap.

It's coming back because essentially 1) climate/sulfur emissions are starting to be enforced, and 2) battery-electric shipping makes it make more sense. See this amazing article on battery cargo ships (it doesn't mention sails tho).

NixOS is a distro with cool tech where you declaratively configure your entire OS and can regenerate it from a single file. There's some other benefits too.

Nix is filled to the brim with drama and dysfunction, and has been for years. This is probably another case of people burning out trying to unfuck the dysfunctional city of the project, although it could also just be drama.

What this means is you either groan and ignore it, rant about it, or grab some popcorn.

on Absolutely · c/2northamerican4you · 6 pts · 25d

Ok serious question: What exactly is a "crisis"? Like, is a crisis supposed to be temporary? Unexpected? Unwanted? At the risk of starting a Pedantry War, I suspect we're not in a crisis, thing have just gotten shittier.

AKs aren't as reliable as the meme pretends. Anything sufficiently widely produced (and used) will be reliable, because as they're produced they'll find defects and fix them, until eventually they run out of defects.

on Why all the landlord hate? · c/funny · 1 pts · 37d

Another use for rent money is to build new homes.

There's no particular reason to assume rent money specifically is what will pay for new homes. Literally any (investment) money can be invested into new homes.

on Why all the landlord hate? · c/funny · 2 pts · 37d

The people who own their own homes after the landlords sell. Fixing a leak in the roof doesn't need to be profitable if you're the one stepping in the puddle all the time.

on Why all the landlord hate? · c/funny · 2 pts · 37d

"Property management" is what a landlord does in a functioning housing market (I.e. one where the price of housing is holding steady, so a landlord can't make money just renting while the land value goes up on its own). It's what makes renting preferable to owning in a functional market - you pay extra for convenience and flexibility.

What you're saying is that most landlords don't do their job. Which is correct, and also why everyone hates them.

on A dog approaches you · c/funny · 1 pts · 41d

When adjusted for their size (and thus how long they can go without eating), cats wait longer than dogs before eating your face.