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  • It’s just taking advantage of the change in matter state. H2O expands ~16,000 times it’s size when it boils from liquid water to gaseous steam. That increase in size means it wants to go somewhere else, we just control where it goes and it’s relief valve happens to be going through a spinning wheel with magnets on it, inducing currents in the coils of wire around the wheel.

    Yes it’s way more complicated than that, but it’s the best way we have of turning heat into electricity, so it’s what we use. With the primary exception of solar, nearly every form of power production is using heat energy to indirectly spin a wheel.





  • Do people not realize that without legislative backing the President’s powers to make long term and lasting change are extremely limited and nil? Like how he pursued student loan relief and got blocked by the Supreme Court?

    Biden has never had a true majority in Congress, the senate was always 50/50 at best and even then two of those were DINOs with one of them fully switching to GOP in the last year. Scream all you want about Biden not doing anything but there really isn’t anything else he can’t legally do without Congress or Supreme Court just stopping his plan before it can even be publicly known. You want to see change with an actual leftist government in the US? Then fucking vote. Not just every 4 years in Presidential elections. but in midterms and special elections too. Find out who your state representatives are and vote in those elections too. If you don’t know who represents you from the local level of city council all the way up to US House and Senate then you’ve really got no room to criticize the DNC for being paralyzed in not wanting to upset the voters they actually can get to turn out to the polls.


  • Rakonat@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldHappy Thanksgiving.
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    29 days ago

    I feel this is not a fair assessment.

    2 people did die, but not because of the balloons.

    2 people were out on the lake and their boat sank, the balloons hampered the rescue efforts.

    Before anyone gets any ideas that the balloons crushed someone or suffocated them.




  • Rakonat@lemmy.worldtoPolitical Memes@lemmy.worldI guess I misunderstood...
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    1 month ago

    This is exactly what they meant. They don’t care that their ranks are full of pedophiles, rapists, thieves, traitors and murderers. They just want to make a show of the otherside ia bad too and make a spectacle of brining those guys in for highly publicized trials with fixed results so the bad person gets punished regardless of what the evidence says. If the accused has an ® next to their name then its a witch-hunt and all evidence is faked by the deep state. If there is no ® then its not politically motivated, even when the orange flat out says its retribution for something else.


  • Rakonat@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldGit good, son
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    1 month ago

    While 100% in the don’t fake it camp, please also remember us men are not mind readers and our equipment works different. Much like with cooking and cleaning, if you don’t tell us what we are doing wrong or better yet show us the right way, we are going to assume we did our part cause we got the result we wanted and you didn’t complain or ask for something different.



  • If you make a couple million dollars as a middle class person, without familial connections, you’ve at best committed fraud on a massive scale, or been involved in something highly illegal.

    Median income in the US is between 37K and 80K depending where you look and what figures you use. At 80K, it would take a person 12.5 years to make a million dollars. That’s not paying taxes, not paying living expenses, and generally somehow living in a bubble where you owe nothing and get to keep 100% of the check. In a more realistic scenario where half that income is taxed or expended on living expenses, that’s 25 years per million.

    Between inflation and price gouging by vendors and retailers of popular products, nobody alive today with a middle class job is ever going to have a hope of saving up a million dollars, there is no ‘lifestyle’ choices a person can make even with a well paying job that’s ever going to see them become a millionaire in their lifetime, let alone a multimillionaire without fraud or illegal activity.