Distractions all the way down.

You could take one of the five available seats in the middle of that cluster.

That song is beautiful but also very haunting.

negative feeling toward humanity

I don’t see it that way. Miyazaki hates what Japan (and his own family) did during WW2, and what Japan did to its environment after the war, but his movies are about creating a better world.

I’m not criticising Tom and Jerry lol. It’s very funny when you’re a child, and quite well-animated for the time.

Source please

1. Nausicaa (a Ghibli movie, by the way)
2. Compared to cartoons, I loved the pacing and realism. And, of course, the much more interesting story. (To be fair, the cartoons I am most familiar with are Tom and Jerry and Road Runner, so draw your own conclusions.)
3. JoJo, naturally. Ghibli movies and Violet Evergarden will probably be the peak of anime, both in terms of animation quality and storytelling. But there are plenty of novel shows, from The Heike Story to Black Lagoon and Tatami Galaxy to Kino’s Journey.
4. Cowboy Bebop has a large following, but I found it too loud and flashy, and didn’t really like any of the characters.

Is this a thing outside the USA?

Yes, most of Asia starts weeks on Sundays.

This assumes really good internet infrastructure and still requires some sort of terminal at the user end. Of course, Bezos is a billionaire and so might be dumb enough to believe it himself.

I think Ireland at least should be excluded; they were colonised by the British.

the only verifiable guarantee that such attacks will not be repeated is economic and energetic death of the usonian empire

I feel that Iran should ask for Russia to act as guaranteer. Perhaps with a fund set aside as collateral.

even if we were only using half the oil we presently are when the strait was shut down, the same portion would likely be coming from there, so the “shock” would still be the same

The same fraction of oil production, yes, but a much smaller fraction of total energy production.

You would still have shortages of specific fractions that have non-energy uses (like Helium or plastics), but at least fuel would be less affected.

But in 10-15 years nobody will let the Strait of Hormuz get blocked like this again.

How??? You have giant, slow, unarmed ships filled with flammable liquid that are forced to go through a small channel. Forget missiles and drones; you could set them on fire with artillery.

More likely, in 10-15 years we will have moved away from fossil fuels to the point that a closure will no longer crash the world economy.

The point is, it’s not an apples to oranges comparison when you talk about the energy efficiency of an EV vs. a ICE car.

Energy efficiency does matter because even if you are burning diesel to generate electricity, you can make power stations a lot more efficient than car engines. So shifting from ICE cars to EVs would reduce fuel use even in the absence of green electricity.

ICE cars are inefficient, but carry around a very energy dense fuel source and can go hundreds, sometimes thousands of km without needing to stop. EVs have much more efficient engines, but have to drag around really heavy batteries that aren’t very energy dense.

This is true, but like I said, the difference isn’t huge. An ICE car’s fuel + engine would be in the 100 - 400kg range, while an EV’s batteries + motor would be in the 200 - 500kg range. An additional 10% or so of weight is bad, but is outweighed by the at least fourfold increase in efficiency.

60 kg of fuel, which can supply 2.74 GJ of energy

‘Contain’, not ‘can supply’ 2.74 GJ of energy. At 20% efficiency, you’d need a 800kg battery to match.

https://m.xkcd.com/2501/

The only thing that stood out to me was the high heels and skirt instead of proper trousers.

Fascists are not constrained by having to respect reality.

The weight of the fuel tank is dwarfed by the weight of the engine, which can go from 100 (petrol kei car) to 300 (diesel) kg. The battery packs on modern EVs are still heavier, usually in the 200 - 400 kg range, but the difference isn’t as stark as fuel density alone might suggest.

I kinda wonder why Iran isn’t pushing a lot harder to manipulate public opinion.

They do. I have seen public statements by Iranian officials, and even memes (mostly AI), here on lemmy.

But they’re mostly in Parsi and Arabic, since that’s the audience they care about. Iran is trying to end the US threat against them, which probably means removing US bases in the Middle East and getting the Gulf powers on their side. So they don’t talk about rising fuel prices, they talk about Palestine, the massacre of the schoolgirls, and freedom in general.

Nah, a normal person would have said ‘inspired by Lenin’. OP is either dumb as rocks or AI.

Joseph Stalin was a communist leader inspired by Leon Trotsky

Obvious factual error in the first sentence. Sigh. They don’t make nazis like they used to.

A text editor shouldn’t be having security breaches.

Lemmy is older than the Reddit exodus, and historically had stricter moderation. When the exodus happened, the OG lemmy users saw the newcomers as rude at best, and various forms of bigots at worst. So ‘go back to Reddit’ is short-hand for ‘such talk is not welcome here’.