Clifford Dive

I'm not an anything-ist, because as soon as I have an -ist then someone else decides what I believe.

Engineer and jogger, I ride an MTB and a motorbike.

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@dorfman_p Indeed—they're coming to get us. Big money has won the battle.

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@lembitopik This power is costing me nothing right now.

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@implausibleblog Remember that the BBC held high level meetings expressly to make changes to favour Reform.

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@KingSirdave @premnsikka It's the raison d'être for private equity—acquire a distressed asset cheaply, suck it dry and throw away the husk, while causing massive collateral damage to bona fide creditors.

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@KingSirdave @premnsikka Sadly in all things that are important in today's world, morals and ethics are irrelevant, and the value of everything and everyone is measured in $$$

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@The3rdFrame @dadifreyrfrever @thetimes Pigeons have societal values. I've never seen one with a bible.

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@The3rdFrame @dadifreyrfrever @thetimes As I said, there are societal values. Those are often embodied in religious writings of many religions.

We are just a form of animal. Whether higher is a matter of debate.

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@The3rdFrame @dadifreyrfrever @thetimes No, I believe there are societal values, just not an old man in the sky to maintain them.

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@The3rdFrame @dadifreyrfrever @thetimes In that case they're not sinners. It's a confected concept for control purposes.

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@The3rdFrame @dadifreyrfrever @thetimes I don't believe in sin.

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@The3rdFrame @dadifreyrfrever @thetimes A lot of people due for lies, unfortunately. Many of them are perpetrated by Christians.

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@The3rdFrame @dadifreyrfrever @thetimes There are historic manuscripts from a number of cultural backgrounds containing some sensible ideas.

To suggest that we have a reliable verified 2000 year provenance for one of them, and it's the right one, is stretching credibility just a little.

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@GregMcgarvie @dorfman_p I was being lazy.

A bit of digging suggests a round-trip efficiency (RTE) estimated at over 55% to 60%, alongside an exceptional cold storage efficiency exceeding 95%. This is due to some clever recycling of hot and cold energy produced in the round trip.

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@GregMcgarvie @dorfman_p The article outlines the technology—compress air and then liquify it, then reclaim the energy via turbines. All sensible, but the challenge is to do all of that at an efficiency that makes it cost-effective.

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@The3rdFrame @dadifreyrfrever @thetimes So if we don't understand, make up a fairy-tale?

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@The3rdFrame @dadifreyrfrever @thetimes He should have read more science.

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@The3rdFrame @dadifreyrfrever @thetimes I believe certain things are near enough certain they can be treated as facts—like Newtonian physics.

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@The3rdFrame @dadifreyrfrever @thetimes I have a lot of disbelief in the words of idiots. But I don't think that's your point.

It's possible, but vanishingly unlikely that someone will come up with an immortality solution, so I can't say my death is mathematically certain.

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@The3rdFrame @dadifreyrfrever @thetimes It's an extremely likely outcome.

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@The3rdFrame @dadifreyrfrever @thetimes There are beliefs and there is reality. The former do not change the latter.