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  • Let’s take windmill like in the example, it has 3 blades, each maybe at most 5 degrees wide (out of the 360 for a circle). So that covers 15 total degrees or 1/24th the wind area, so at absolute best, it’s about 4% of the wind power in that area being stopped. But the blades don’t actually capture 100% of the wind power, a good amount will deflect off, those blades are not 5 degrees wide, they’re less and they aren’t straight blades, so again they capture less. Further the blade only captures a small vertical section of its own footprint, so it captures dramatically less wind power. Lastly blades are spaced with a good amount of clearance from each other leading to even less wind power captured. In aggregate, even by entirely layman measure, these likely have an immeasurable impact on another wind farm.

    I’d bet if you built a mile high, mile wide wind capture device that captured 100% of wind power going to it, and then put a 2nd one 1 mile directly behind that, you could just maybe get a few % measurable impact.



  • I’m currently doing an online Master’s with Northeastern. Honestly not surprised this happened, the quality of classes is WILD.

    Taking 2 classes per term, and each term so far 1 class has been very well designed but also insanely easy, while the other has been so poorly implemented that the course learning materials don’t actually help you do the coursework.

    Probably most astonishing so far though is a course I’m taking now just served me with the literally exact same assignment that I did for a course I just finished. Now, granted that both classes are from the elective course choices, so not everyone will take both, but come on… and they grill me about plagiarism with every submission I make…









  • See, people say that ad companies can use all this information they gather to better serve targeted advertising, but that’s just not my anecdotal experience.

    I get served ads all the time in languages I don’t speak, for VERY specific job related audiences that I’m not even close to related to, state politics that I’ve never lived in, services that I’m already actively subscribed to, just the worst targeting ever.

    If I have to get advertised to, I’d so much rather get an ad that could actually be at all relevant to my life, or even some generic ad over the total misses.

    Like, if you’re going through the trouble to do all this shady shit to get my data at least be good at it using it…








  • You’re already jumping to conclusions, specifically that he was definitely in the cell with his wife when she died and that she was killed.

    There’s still some doubts that can be cast, especially given the few details we have.

    He didn’t have control over who could enter or leave the cell, it’s possible someone else did the murdering.

    Heck with the evidence we have access to, it’s possible she never entered the cell alive.

    It could have been accidental as the result of something consensual.

    It could be coincidental that something consensual happened and after which see died of an unrelated cause.

    It could have been suicide, where she wanted to be with him at the time.