Posts by MyLittleFashy@poa.st
(DIR) Post #AUkABF0DtUclaElc36 by MyLittleFashy@poa.st
2023-04-17T12:56:15.872843Z
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@LouisConde @Eiregoat @SerfnUSA The direct colonial empire was bound to fail in an hilariously explosive way and in my opinion we were relatively lucky in how it went, it could have been a lot worse.The sphere of influence policy on the other hand, especially in Africa, was pretty successful as long as France was playing the “sometimes I’m part of GAYTO, sometimes I’m not aligned, you can’t tell hon hon hon !” game.
(DIR) Post #AUyTUGYOy8nTEryhWa by MyLittleFashy@poa.st
2023-04-24T10:28:43.296140Z
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@Umlaut @Crux_Invictus That’s the dumbest shit ever, you can teach the point of view of major denominations without doing gay centrism.While I don’t believe that republican separation of church and school was well thought out (it creates a void that is filled with liberalism), it’s still better than “let’s do a multicultu religious education but avoid anything that strays away from sugar coated just be nice“.
(DIR) Post #AVafG3Py4uIcT0n0NM by MyLittleFashy@poa.st
2023-05-12T20:45:55.141435Z
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@lamp @graf @r000t @Rwoeidk Yep, that’s actually a pretty neat solution.
(DIR) Post #AVkA1D3KxeN6KNMWTw by MyLittleFashy@poa.st
2023-05-17T10:09:36.168124Z
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@RealAkoSuminoe @Twoinchdestroya @WashedOutGundamPilot @ferrarilegends Hydrogen is a meme fuel, but methanol is not, and it’s easy to synthetize from basically … well air since all you need is CO2, Water and a fuckload of energy (most of which could be recovered in combined heat and power installations).And being liquid at normal temperature and pressure, it’s basically compatible with existing infrastructure, runs perfectly well in turbines and even existing diesel and gasoline engines could run on it with ECU and timing changes (not optimal at all for diesel, you would want a higher flash point, but it would work).All you need is lots of nuclear power plants to synthetize it, no need for any new tech or deep restructuring of the energy distribution and consumption infrastructure.
(DIR) Post #AVkBaSZ1Np2gWXYSP2 by MyLittleFashy@poa.st
2023-05-17T10:59:31.714818Z
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News from France.First the retirement protests are still going on in a slow burn, the most visible part is that Macron basically cannot go anywhere in France (or even in Europe) without a bunch of activists making noise.There are a few legal options left, we have a fake party in the national assembly “LIOT” that is basically a shell structure for independentists and regionalists (so that they have the privileges of a real party, membership in commissions and stuff), it is trying to get a law to cancel the retirement law on the floor, it’s significant that they are the ones doing it because they have been used as a “neutral middle ground” for proposals that both the nationalists and the far-left can vote on without any appearance of a red-brown coalition (the nationalists can and do vote for tankie communist proposals, especially on energy policy and worker’s rights, but the reverse is not true, and the trotskyists basically make sure that nothing they propose doesn’t have a poison pill).Unions are still angry and are not letting the subject disappear, but they got past the point where they could do a general strike, the inflation is so high that people are very concerned about making ends meet and it’s not great for mobilization.
(DIR) Post #AVkBae8sKrG4QvPkJc by MyLittleFashy@poa.st
2023-05-17T11:00:50.718554Z
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On the ourguys and ourguys adjacent front, it’s been an active few weeks…I’m sure you have heard about the small town maire trying to get a refugee camp in his town and his house and cars being burned, he resigned from it and that created a huge mediatic storm.The guys who did it got away with it, and since they didn’t kill or wound anybody most people don’t really care that much, but the political and mediatic class went ballistic.The RN’s (nationalist party of Marine Le Pen) reaction was, all things considered, pretty white pilling, while of course they disavowed political violence because they are all about taking power legally within the institutions of the Vth republic, they didn’t cuck too hard, going “what about antifas” systematically anytime a journalist would attack them on the event and refusing to stand up in the parliament when a standing ovation was made for the resigning maire.The internal security apparatus went on high alert against “far right groups” tho, and people are going dark all over the map, an executive order was sent to prefects (basically regional governors with pretty extensive police powers) to forbid any public “far right” demonstrations and to set the repression to the maximum level. Those orders are probably illegal since they target a specific political ideology, but being illegal does’nt stop them from being effective.Action Française (basically the oldest surviving proto-fascist organization in the whole world ^^) did get a judicial win against those orders which will be used as jurisprudence in the following months… or years… but it’s going to take time and/or some other “threat” to reduce the strong security service focus on the far right, until then it’s low profile time…
(DIR) Post #AVkBaeTn55zLTnCRuq by MyLittleFashy@poa.st
2023-05-17T11:00:11.826494Z
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On the muh Russia front, it’s mixed signals all over, on one hand we are delivering AMX-10RC light tanks to Ukraine which is a shame since they are our first line of colonial fighting force and we need them for our own forces (they were very effective in Afghanistan and are very effective in Africa, but they are designed to fight savages, not Russian armored divisions with artillery); And we had to low-key allow the UK to deliver the Storm Shadow missiles (which are a bigger problem, but so expensive that I doubt they will change anything strategically, they will kill Russians tho). On the other hand our nuclear industry has reinforced its cooperation with Russian Rosatom, which displeased greatly the other members of GAYTO.
(DIR) Post #AVkCwaI1RIhUoHiX4K by MyLittleFashy@poa.st
2023-05-17T11:13:41.739257Z
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Oh yeah, and on the political minutia level, two relatively significant things.First Marine Le Pen distanced herself from Meloni, saying “Meloni is pro-NATO, I’m not”, and members of the party doubling down when interrogated by the media, basically explaining the difference between the Bannon-Right and actual nationalists, I don’t know how much of it the people actually understand, but at least the idea was floated.On the far left side, the PCF (Stalinist commies) are visibly fed up with their alliance of sorts with the woke neoliberal left, both green/socialists and the trotskyist antifa-adjacent LFI party, from what I can tell, they are predicting a Marine Le Pen victory and want to be the “serious” opposition party, which is incompatible with allying with a bunch of violent freaks who are all about disruption but have zero governmental credibility.
(DIR) Post #AVksXG21oicIofqGlk by MyLittleFashy@poa.st
2023-05-17T19:03:53.296538Z
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@RealAkoSuminoe @Twoinchdestroya @WashedOutGundamPilot @ferrarilegends I would basically solve the energy storage problem the same way, but using overproduction of nuclear energy (basically going over base load, but not up to 100% peak load) and using the overflow to synthetize methanol (or better, but for energy storage, methanol is fine) or even methane (but storage is more expensive) and just burn that methanol for the percentile of peak load that actually goes over my inflated baseload (and the rest of the methanol can run vroom vroom cars !).But both techniques are valid, artificial photosynthesis and/or bioengineered improved photosynthesis is a valid alternative, the decision between the two is a local one, in France we have a lot of experience with safe nuclear and very expensive land that is so great at agricultural production that it’s a waste to use it for fuel, but in a country with a lot of land, or a lot of not-great land, photosynthesis makes more sense.
(DIR) Post #AVku8svYGchY7LJoky by MyLittleFashy@poa.st
2023-05-17T19:21:48.698343Z
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@AnimeTradCath Hon hon hon !
(DIR) Post #AVkvejdKSOfmVuXvjU by MyLittleFashy@poa.st
2023-05-17T19:32:52.220337Z
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@AnimeTradCath The cigarettes or the girls ? If the first, yeah, they are stinky but it’s nothing compared to the old Gitanes Maïs we had !
(DIR) Post #AVo3z1jsEUffZAfrhA by MyLittleFashy@poa.st
2023-05-19T07:57:22.499712Z
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@didymus @CatLord @anonaccount @TheEternalAnglo @Varus @GoodBoyUV Yeah, it stopped being only about financing his estate and became about financing his historical legacy.Churchill knew that you don’t get legend status without a war, and he was all about leaving a legendary mark on the blood of europe.It’s funny how some people can’t imagine corruption in anything than pure monetary matters, you can corrupt people with a lot more than material personal enrichment.
(DIR) Post #AVv6YznEEwSWtlZMNU by MyLittleFashy@poa.st
2023-05-22T17:29:11.656689Z
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@nugger @Frondeur @ImperialAgent @Badmann @YeetLibs Battery tech is so far from being a competitive energy storage option that it’s not even funny.Now, delivery trucks for the last mile, there is an argument to be made that you could have actual benefits in going full electric, but that’s a specific and specialized market, one where a lot of alternative prime movers could do a better job, not only battery electric.For the long haul, sure everybody would love electric motors, the motor part of that equation is incredibly better, but for energy storage there is nothing that can compete with combustible fuels, not in the sense that everything else is slightly worst, but in the sense that nothing gets near to being anything better than TEN TIMES WORSE.Hell, even nuclear reactors are not that competitive for vehicules, sure the energy storage density, both by mass and by volume, is incredibly better, but instantaneous energy intensity is not that great.The very sad thing about the whole electrification story is that the ideal solution for vehicles has been known for nearly a century, keep combustible fuels as energy storage, but replace mechanical transmission with an electric generator, batteries and motors, you get the flexibility, size and weight advantage and low RPM torque of electric drives while keeping the best energy storage option.
(DIR) Post #AVv8H47pasHd1xmfT6 by MyLittleFashy@poa.st
2023-05-22T17:47:24.730206Z
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@CatLord @nugger @Frondeur @ImperialAgent @Badmann @YeetLibs Yeah, methanol is the simplest and cleanest burning synthetic fuel we know how to make that is practical to store and burn.If somebody manages to make metal hydrogen pellets sometime in the future that may change, but with current tech it’s the easy synthfuel.You can basically make it from air and electricity if you are ready to take a big efficiency malus at the production site, and that big efficiency malus only is one if you don’t use the waste heat as valuable energy, otherwise it’s not a malus at all.You can burn it with very limited modifications in modern gasoline engines, recent ones are already designed to tolerate ethanol and the corrosion issues with methanol are the same ones, so you could take most >2005 engines on the market and simply run them on methanol with an ECU firmware update.If for some reason you don’t want to run an internal combustion engine at all, and you want direct conversion to electricity, fuel cells can burn methanol with air too.Diesel engines would need either a more complex syngas, or new engines (running the diesel cycle on light fuels is hard, still needs -some- R&D, but nothing gigantic, a few billions would solve the remaining problems).Now is methanol as good as gasoline, nope, it’s not, energy density is not great -compared to gasoline- but it’s still an order of magnitude better than the best batteries !
(DIR) Post #AVvOxwPhjwWApdbvFI by MyLittleFashy@poa.st
2023-05-22T20:13:38.730211Z
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@Godcast @CatLord @nugger @Frondeur @ImperialAgent @Badmann @YeetLibs Yeah, you can of course increase that energy density to be as good as gasoline, maybe even better, but at the cost of a more complex manufacturing chain on the production site, and, more importantly a much harder to tune engine on the consumption side if you want a clean burn at a low enough temperature that you don’t start making a lot of nitrogen oxides.Getting a clean burn with longer chain fuels basically requires optimizing the engine for a single point on the curve, worth it for pure electric transmission hybrids with a turbine prime mover, but requiring a total retooling of the existing tech.I’m partial to turbine/electric propulsion with highly engineered fuels for greenfield new projects like hybrid planes, but those are going to be a minority of engines for a good century even with the correct people running things, methanol is a pretty good gasoline ersatz all things considered for transitional tech.
(DIR) Post #AVwPmRtBBRo85XRPbE by MyLittleFashy@poa.st
2023-05-23T08:38:05.375498Z
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@CatLord @Godcast @nugger @Frondeur @ImperialAgent @Badmann @YeetLibs You can distill plant matter waste from agricultural production, or wood, it does’nt really scale up to fueling an entire modern economy to do it that way unless you have huge amounts of land and crops that leave a lot of waste, but for small scale use it’s the easiest method.For large scale industrial, you either have to use selected and dedicated crops, selected algea farms (both would require enormous land surface) or nuclear power and CO2 capture.
(DIR) Post #AVwdSCq0pf6IyVCYSW by MyLittleFashy@poa.st
2023-05-23T11:08:27.280353Z
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@DemonSixOne @CatLord @Godcast @nugger @Frondeur @ImperialAgent @Badmann @YeetLibs With a gas (or molten salt, or liquid metal) cooled reactor, indeed, otherwise you do have to make that process heat with some losses on the way because the reactor outtake temperature is too low, which is totally ok as long as you have waste heat recovery for your entire chain.The thing with waste heat is that if you have enough of it it stops being waste and becomes a valuable energy source in itself, you can heat greenhouses and/or heat or cool cities with it.
(DIR) Post #AVwe8Q5lwZgOFDhar2 by MyLittleFashy@poa.st
2023-05-23T11:19:17.878928Z
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@DemonSixOne @CatLord @Godcast @nugger @Frondeur @ImperialAgent @Badmann @YeetLibs Thermodynamics says you can’t win and it also says the penalty for not playing is worse, so its best in my opinion to use as much fractionation all the way down.Indeed, current western style power plants have horrible thermodynamic efficiency because NIMBY issues stop them from doing a real combined heat and power cycle.We do have some heat reuse in France, but it’s marginal at best, it does allow us to grow exotic fruits economically and domestically so it’s still better than nothing.Soviet plants are actually better at that, part of it is that Russia is fucking cold of course, but not only, you can burn political capital in making sure that nukes are distributed efficiently on your territory, or you can burn it in making sure that niggers are…
(DIR) Post #AVz1oWzBOEL737aZgO by MyLittleFashy@poa.st
2023-05-24T14:52:22.928470Z
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@Elfie @RealRaul At core, he’s on one of the main paths to the gnostic heresy, rejecting the body and the physical world as inherently evil.I’m not saying he’s there yet, hopefully he never gets to his destination, but that’s the slope.
(DIR) Post #AW2T3f3qvdPefu5mEa by MyLittleFashy@poa.st
2023-05-26T06:10:22.857920Z
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@graf @redditeur The exfiltration route is pretty esoteric, otherwise it looks kinda normal, high agency, not script kiddie stuff, but still normal.I do have to wonder why they chose such an exfiltration route instead of a more mature DNS exfiltration.