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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

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  1. Your post must be a screen capture of a microblog-type post that includes the UI of the site it came from, preferably also including the avatar and username of the original poster. Including relevant comments made to the original post is encouraged.
  2. Your post, included comments, or your title/comment should include some kind of commentary or remark on the subject of the screen capture. Your title must include at least one word relevant to your post.
  3. You are encouraged to provide a link back to the source of your screen capture in the body of your post.
  4. Current politics and news are allowed, but discouraged. There MUST be some kind of human commentary/reaction included (either by the original poster or you). Just news articles or headlines will be deleted.
  5. Doctored posts/images and AI are allowed, but discouraged. You MUST indicate this in your post (even if you didn't originally know). If an image is found to be fabricated or edited in any way and it is not properly labeled, it will be deleted.
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[–] 4am@lemmy.zip 17 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

This is the plot of the DOOM games is it not?

[–] Baggie@lemmy.zip 8 points 13 hours ago

Doom 2016, but they are definitely using the souls. Turbine honestly would have been preferable.

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 44 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Evolution: everything turns into a crab.
Engineering : everything turns into steam which powers a turbine

[–] OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world 12 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

The future is steamed crabs!

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 12 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

Well, I'm from ~~upstate Maine~~ Aroostook County and I've never heard the term "steamed crabs"

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 5 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (2 children)

Physics: Everything becomes a single number that explains everything in the universe.(42)

[–] 666dollarfootlong@lemmy.world 2 points 18 hours ago

Dry active yeast comes alive at 42°c

I like the way you think

[–] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 17 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Till we come up with a better way to generate alternating current than spinning a magnet inside a coil, it will always be turbines

[–] Emi@ani.social 8 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

I wonder if we would even switch to some different way of electricity if we found a new better way to generate and use it but require making new infrastructure.

[–] Kirp123@lemmy.world 12 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

There are a bunch of different ways to generate electricity that we already know about.

The photovoltaic effect which is used in solar panels generates electricity from light. The thermoelectric effect which uses the temperature difference between the two faces of a a thermocouple to generate electricity. Electrochemistry can generate electricity from various chemicals such as in batteries.

The issue is that these methods don't scale as well as just steam generators. Steam generators can reach up to 50% efficiency. So yea, unless we find a method that scales better and has higher efficiency we will keep using steam generators for a while.

[–] DeLancre@piefed.social 5 points 17 hours ago

Can't wait for cold fusion to replace regular nuclear reactors. Then we will be finally able to boil water like no one ever did before!

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 3 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

if power electronics get a bit better than they are now, we could switch to DC power transmission and DC/DC converters instead of transformers. bunch of infrastructure could be replaced one by one, but benefit is slight except for already used undersea cables

but on generation side, it's either photovoltaics or spin a magnet

[–] chaogomu@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

The problem with DC is line resistance. AC has to deal with line impedance, which is much easier on long distance transmission.

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 3 points 17 hours ago

AC also needs to deal with line resistance, and cheap, efficient multi-MW, multi-kV DC/DC converters aren't there so far, but there are prototypes (and drop-in transformer replacements https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid-state_transformer) Advantage is that these converters can be more efficient than transformers and you don't have to deal with reactive current (if DC). Obvious downside is that frequency control isn't there

[–] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 14 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (2 children)

"The Only Thing They Fear Is You" intensifies.

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 2 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

They are rage, brutal, without mercy. But you, you will be worse. Rip and tear until it is done.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

I was so disappointed when I found out about the miniature steam turbine that my PVE system uses....

[–] BitUnWise@programming.dev 1 points 18 hours ago

Modded Minecraft pumping lava out of the nether to run generators