Hydrogen is actually less dangerous than batteries

Tell that to the Hindenburg.

When there is a leak, it generally dissipates fairly quickly and fires or similar are quite rare

It’s more the risk of hydrogen embrittlement, which can cause sudden catastrophic failure of their containers.

And, broadly speaking, it’s not an issue because hydrogen cells aren’t commonly in use for retail civilian consumption.

As soon as you’ve got a bunch of big tanks zipping around on bumpy tracks at high speeds…

Except you have that problem with everything that doesn’t somehow take power from a catenary or similar

Energy density counts for a lot, which is another reason why H2 is a substandard fuel.

Yes, when you do have problems, the fires are quite big, but it’s a rarity for problems to exist, especially with trains that are maintained to a much higher standard than your average car.

The Indian rail network is not known for its high quality maintenance.

That said, I’d trust anyone with batteries over hydrogen, as a general rule.

Having battery electric trains run on a partially electrified network has proven to work fairly well.

You still run into the old rocket problem - needing more fuel to move more fuel - but it’s definitely less of a problem than with fully unelectrified rail.

I want hydrogen power to work, but I have yet to see anything that has reasonable promise

I’ve seen much more success with synthetic gasoline and kerosene, from a safety and reliability perspective.

But it’s more expensive than simple battery electricity per W, so… We get cheap and dangerous, instead.

Producing H2 isn’t hard. Storing and transporting it is the tricky part.

California spent billions of dollars trying this and never got it off the ground.

Incidentally, the Japanese, the Chinese, the Spanish, and the Russians all got around this with full electrification of their rail networks. Then you don’t need to produce H2, just push electricity where you need it on your grid.

Isn’t this what Russia and China do?

It’s very funny to see people continue to compare these two countries in a single breath. Russia is far more in line with modern day Brazil, Mexico, Indonesia, or Iran, both in terms of its economic throughput and its level of domestic development.

China’s only real peers are the US and India. They’re operating with a fully distinct socio-economic goal and political philosophy. And their economy is 10x as large, never even mind the technological capacity they’re reaching.

It’s like talking about the World Cup and mentioning Japan and England in the same sentence.

“Have you tried voting?”

“Yes.”

“Okay, but have you tried voting harder?”

The joke of Reddit is that it’s been decimating its real human userbase while it gobbles up investor cash and sells out wholesale to AI data harvesters.

For whatever reason, the folks with all the money don’t seem to care that they’re throwing enormous sums into a labyrinth of bot-farms. Tens of billions of dollars being pissed away on the Ur-case for Empty Internet Theory.

Tale as old as time

Song as old as rhyme

Fuck /u/spez

What are we rating this blunt rotation?

Make one post feel like it’s got a thousand lurkers

I don’t want to be that guy but… that’s just because Conservatives skew older. And they’ve been skewing older for generations.

The right wing propaganda machine is geared towards insulting young people and pandering to old people. Consequently, independents and unaligned voters and squishy liberals skew conservative as they get older.

But we had this dynamic under Bush. We had it under Reagan. We had it under Nixon. You need to run all the way back to FDR to find an elder plurality for the liberal party. And that was only because of Dixiecrat southerners trading on progressive economics to sustain their apartheid social order.

Bigotry skews older. 70s feminists become 90s Girl Bosses become 10s TERFs. Millennial rainbow techbros become Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg. Your parents go insane from Fox News playing in the background for twenty years.

Everyone goes to Reddit, despite it being an AI Bot filled shit show

Search engines direct you to Reddit as a first page - even first result - choice. It’s superceded Wikipedia in a lot of cases.

Critical support to the real MVPs

Now you’re just bragging.

even casual drinking increases your risk of cancers by alot

Not according to the CDC. Binge drinking carries a host of risks, even if done infrequently. Moderate (ie, less than 2 drinks a day) drinking is generally not associated with negative health impacts.

also besides alcohol is use to subdue a population from causing an uprising.

I’ve heard both sides of this. Beer as an intoxicant reducing the population to drunken louts, incapable of self-defense. And beer as a social lubricant, capable of bringing people together for collective action.

I don’t think the alcohol is the proximate cause, either way. Certainly, there have been a multitude of hard-drinking Revolutionaries and Reactionaries alike (Hoffbrau’s were popular with both Lenin and Hitler). Meanwhile, Prohibition as a public policy was largely used to harass the working poor and monopolize production/imports into the hands of well-positioned political insiders.

I truthfully told him that I don’t drink at all and I guess that was inconceivable to him because he started going, “You WILL drink. EVERYBODY drinks. Don’t lie and…” so on so forth.

There’s a lot of social pressure to drink, particularly for folks over 40. My first year at my current company, it was very normal for the department head to take everyone down to the bar and buy them shots. We definitely had folks that declined. But those weren’t the ones he got close with. Consequently, they weren’t the ones who got fast tracked for promotions and raises and such.

Not saying it’s a strict 1:1 correlation, because we definitely have a few teatoddlers in the upper wings of management. But it’s the exception more than the rule.

There’s also a lot of status in drinking - particularly expensive wines and liquors - such that having a nice bottle on hand when friends are over is considered normal. So I can see why it’s frustrating to your dad, talking to someone who isn’t in that lifestyle and culture, when he hears “Oh, I just don’t do that”. Particularly, when he’s trying to hammer home how easy it is to go from “I don’t drink” to “I drank too much”.

It never seemed appealing to me what with seeing people ruin their lives and act foolish, the odor, all the money people spend on it etc.

It’s a popular social lubricant for a reason. A glass of wine or beer is great at reducing social anxiety. I’ve got friends who insist on a drink at big events. It’s that or pop a xanax.

I also know a few girls who go from dead fish to horny af after a few glasses. So, when they want to hook up, they will take a few shots first to get in the mood. And “odor” can be a plus (for me, anyway) when it’s a petty scotch or rich cherry.

There’s also an artistry to the craft of fermentation, such that it’s as much a hobby as a habit. I know a guy who brews his own beer and loves to bring different casks to events to show off what he’s made. And another who works in the industry. He loves to pull out bottles he picked up overseas and show off different styles, flavors, and techniques of manufacture.

Then there’s just a general quality of pairing. My wife keeps a small wine collection, knows what pairs well, and regularly opens a bottle for cooking or to match with a particular meal.

So… YMMV. But there’s definitely a big gray area between never drinking at all and being an alcoholic.

Stop. Fucking. Your. Beer. Bottles.

Well, more than just an inheritance. It deprived Ur of a namesake, effectively dooming his soul to an indefinite purgatory.

But then you let a bunch of Rabbis argue for a few centuries and they overthink it.

The etymology is crazy. An old talmudic story about refusing to nut in your dead brother’s wife

people are eating children

I’m sorry, what’s up?