fun alternative: cruise ships. cruise ships exploit workers and can pollute as much as a million cars on a daily basis while dumping endless shit into the ocean and endangering all passengers on board because the on board air quality rivals some of the most polluted cities in the world while being a breeding ground for disease. cruise ships deserve to have negativity associated with them
also all crimes commited aboard a cruise ship is under the juristiction of whichever country they’re registered to once they’re a certain distance away from land so you have the added bonus of the crimes being very unlikely to be properly investigated (due to usually being physically so very far from the actual police whose juristiction they’re under)
terrifying!
On top of THAT cruise ships tend to have their own morgue, as people tend to die on ships all the time. Good for those spooky scenes.
plus u can just like…leave a hospital. good luck escaping a killer or a monster or a curse or w/e in the middle of the fucking ocean
As an ex cruise ship employee, let me give you some stuff to work with!
Water tight doors! You get a special training video on interacting with these correctly because they will literally cut you in half if you try and go through them while they’re closing!
Freezer vaults for food in the sub decks - you can only get into these with the correct code and they have very thick walls. Good luck if you get shut in one of these just after the last round of checks bucko
There are cameras everywhere…except in the crew cabin corridors. Also there are no windows down there because unless you’re an officer, you live below the waterline. Day and night have no meaning because everything is in the same slightly unsettling yellow light.
Don’t piss off the guys who deal with the rubbish. They have machines down there that can crush metal barrels
As well as morgues, cruise ships usually have one basic operating theatre with all the attendant horrifying equipment in it
One cigarette thrown carelessly in the wrong place WILL start a fire that will gut half the ship.
When we’re pitching side to side, the anchor swings out and then back in, striking the metal outer shell with a noise that shakes half the ship
People disappear overboard more often than you’d really want to be a thing
A lot of cruise ships now have theatres on board (usually towards the front) with all the potential for dark corners, creepy costumes and electrical calamities you could want.
And as op says, you can’t really escape a ship in the middle of the ocean. Particularly during a storm, as then you can’t even evacuate to lifeboats unless the whole ship is going down. On the upside being on board during a storm means most guests hide in their cabins and the staff walk around like drunks, which would likely throw off a skilled murderer’s plans.
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You also have the bonus of a corporate overlord who doesn’t give a shit about anything but profits and can be reliably counted on to downplay any disaster in an attempt to avoid publicity.
Being a bigot has very little to do with being “nice” or “not nice”. It has to do with who you see as human.
The number of people I’ve had say to me “They’re very nice, just a bit misguided about X.”
You mean they’re very nice to you. A person who fits their definition of “fully human and deserving of human rights and dignity.”
These are people who look themselves in the mirror in the morning and think “I’m a good person.” Then they go out into the world and spend the day intentionally discriminating against minorities and then congratulate themselves at the end of the day for “being kind” and “doing good work.”
And for them there’s no disconnect because they have absolutely been kind to everyone who qualifies in their mind as a person.
Literally should be the point of renewable energy. The point of society in general should be to make as many things cheaper or free as possible.
Nerds in the 1950s: Nuclear power is going to make electricity so cheap that no one will even bother metering it.
Nerds in the 2020s: solar power would make electricity too cheap in Arizona so we can’t build it uwu
It’s not like people could adapt to the cheaper electricity at a specific time of day by changing power-hungry processes to take advantage etc., no, the current consumption pattern is set in stone by divine decree
“Too cheap to meter” is way better than what’s happening to solar, which is too cheap to not meter
Negative prices are exactly like positive prices except in the other direction - you have to get rid of the power or it will overload your system, so you’re paying people to take it off your hands.
1950′s nuclear dreams are “what if electricity was like air, free and plentiful”
2020′s solar is “Air so plentiful, we’re dying form pressure induced narcosis”
This is a real problem that really needs to be solved, not an artifact of the evil capitalists sad they can’t make money.
Kirchoff’s laws are an evil capitalist invention by billion dollar corporations uwu
yeah the tweet here is not saying the important thing: if there’s too much supply in your grid, things catch fire.
I propose that we solve this by giving every small town a couple of those gigajoule capacitor banks they have at the National Ignition Facility. Maybe throw in the laser too so they can burn off the energy.
Though I will say: I’ve never understood why you couldn’t just punch excess power into a big resistor and waste it - yeah the numbers are Big but are they that big? (This is mainly me not understanding resistor design, not so much me not understanding power production)
why can’t they just disconnect the solar? is there no mechanism to signal producers to stop?
the issue is that the solar panels continue to run even if disconnected, and so the energy has to go somewhere. a simple solution would be to (if you had suntracking) tilt the solar panels out of the way of the sun and (if you didn’t) just cover a bunch of them in the middle of the day, but both are Very Silly things to do that decrease capacity factor of solar even further below the already low-ish number it is (about 50%, because the sun doesn’t shine at night)
my conclusion from a cursory search is that it’s fine to short circuit solar panels and that leaving them open circuit might possibly lead to some degradation in the long term, but in any case I think it’s perfectly reasonable to require electricity producers to take care of their overproduction instead of forcing the grid to take on energy that isn’t needed
Correct me if I’m wrong but can’t you just ground solar power output automatically if it reaches dangerous levels, a bit like a PWM / control system where it switches between your system and the dirt in your back yard
my favourite ship dynamic is when a powerful cosmic entity falls in love with a regular dude. like Greg Universe and Clark from Connecticut are two of the best lads. rose and malfina are lucky to have them
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