I’d probably install it in that case. Like a dark mode.

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Discord sucks.

Poppin and lockin originated on the west coast, and actually came from highschool track culture. Breakdancing came from East Coast, very different scene.

Minimialism is a scam from big little to sell more less.

This is poppin and lockin

It’s crazy that the world lined up with the memes people were posting

Preston Stewart is reporting that gas is currently the equivalent of $15 a gallon.

I’m a simple person. I see an indehiscent, integumented megasporangium with one functional megaspore, and I upvote.

and Danny Devito as Jiraiya the Gallant!

Jared Leto as Naruto

Thanks I hate it.

I know this movie far better than any one should.

Its too smooth. It looks like a YT ai-sloppified thumbnail.

Why is this AI sloppified?

Sure, but its like, way, way way easier to scale a hydro system.

Yes, I agree. I’m just making the point that there isn’t just a lower limit to the scale for a system like this, but an upper limit too, where you would have been better off just building a dam.

I mean you are more than welcome to make that not the case. The git hub repo is right there. Fork it and make it your own.

Energy density has nothing to do with this.

No it absolutely does, and it matters because:

It’s the cost of how much pollution refining the rare earths and making batteries produces vs the amount of pollution associated with construction of a building with pulleys that move weights up and down.

If an entire building could be supplied with a few elevator shafts and some weights, because the energy density of the system is so high, it would be silly not to do so. But the energy density of these systems isn’t remotely close to that. Where as yes, a building absolutely can be built with batteries as a part of it to support its typical duty cycle.

Gravity is just not a particular energy dense form of storage. Its not really debatable. And like you said, building buildings comes with all kinds of other forms of pollution. Not to mention, we could be building them to house people, not pulleys and weights.

Its an idea that sounds good, but once you engage with it seriously, its limits become obvious. Pumped hydro will almost always make more sense. A big tank at the top and a big tank in the basement, and bam. Battery built. not to mention you’ve got a semi-permanent back up reservoir now built, which could help with flood control, drought tolerance, fire control, all kinds of other things. And you don’t need to build new buildings for this. They can go into/ on existing buildings.

Its a design choice that is central to how the infrastructure of the fediverse works.

And I disagree with your second statement.