As a young adult who grew up with Discord throughout teens, discord has been so detrimental to my health. If it wasn't my group of comp peers in uni and hometown friends' choice of app, let alone the many fan projects with a home base on discord, I'd fuck off.
I've considered setting up my own matrix server for friends, but well I've noticed ppl are unwilling to adopt new tech like matrix, and pc would drain dorm energy limit.
All social media is bad in some way, but I feel that while I had bad experiences on all major platforms, Discord is by far the worst.
There's so many servers run by people who are unfit to run them, whether due to power or greed complex, mental illness, or immature/irresponsible. May just be my experience (I was a real mess and a cunt during my teens), but even when things weren't my fault, it felt so toxic and horrible.
And not to mention Discord's practices and stuff as a company. For instance, getting rid of the reporting system for bad actors, at one point an employee giving a bad actor backdoor to accounts, allowing them to access freely. More than that, but that's all I care to mention.
I've tried things like this, and they lag is very slight and variable, but is too noticeable for me to enjoy. There's nothing better than pure mechanical soundwaves
Every llm I ask what date it is today, to get a reference for how old at least it thinks the data is. It said September 2021, so like gpt.
Asked it the classic llm question too, who is the monarch of the uk. The answer says it all.
As a local of this side of the isle, I feel like the council are just being smart in getting more revenue.
I visited the Cliffs for the first time last year I believe, and I had a great time being up close to the cliffside. Me and my mam went along this cliffside walk that was difficult at times, but got us a great view.
When we finished and walked along the road to the visitor centre, it got incredibly foggy. But we made it, and when we were there, there was so many tourists that saw the visitor centre and the little lookout, and barely anyone besides locals walked the trail.
So for the council to capitalise on people wanting to see the cliffside, it's clever. The tourists can do the walk for free if they choose, the council knows a lot won't, mainly from laziness or time limit. They're just getting the bag, I respect it.
There's no reason to do that. You do not want to create more methane, and the possibility of even a trickling of it getting into the atmosphere. This methane to methanol is purely to get rid of the methane we produce, and hopefully the methane stored in the atmosphere. We've got plenty of hydrogen, it's one of the most common elements (iirc) in the known universe, but to convert some into methane? Hydrogen is clean, and then make it toxic methane? It's much better to just use the hydrogen as fuel. I remember seeing an article one time about a method to convert hydrogen into fuel, and so it's much better to do it that way. Though how costly or doable on a mass scale either conversion is, we don't know yet.
Methane is not toxic, in fact it’s frustratingly inert. Leading to long atmospheric residence time in decades. Unless you meant to type toxic methanol, which is true, but it’s not that toxic. Just don’t drink the wood alcohol, okay?
I think the plan is to produce methane from hydrogen on Mars for the return trip on Starship. Kind of a niche case, though.
This would be an alternative source of methane rather than getting more from the ground. If we could recycle the carbon in the atmosphere + hydrogen from water we could use this wherever methane is used currently without needing to make new vehicles / aircraft etc that run on hydrogen.
Hydrogen is incredibly dangerous and bulky. Using it where you create it works well enough, but without some breakthrough in metal hydride storage or similar it's starting to look like a poor choice even against batteries if you want to move your energy around.
Stuff that can store as a liquid opens a lot of possibilities, although this probably means ammonia most of the time.
