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The most steel-intensive power source – by far – is the modern wind turbine. The steel intensity of a wind turbine depends on its size. A single, large wind turbine requires significantly more steel per megawatt of installed power than two smaller wind turbines.

The link is from the-most-solarpunk-website and is mostly about steel in general, but I wanted to pull out that one fact.

Wind and solar energy are not "good for the environment"; they pollute; it's just that we hope they pollute less than the alternative. One major reason they pollute is because they require a lot of steel to build. But the household-scale or village-scale ones use less

de Decker is citing: Topham, Eva, et al. “Recycling offshore wind farms at decommissioning stage.” Energy policy 129 (2019): 698-709.

This is what I get when I look up 'quotes from Yellowstone' –

Why?? What's the point? "Ooooh look at how evil I am, I am so amoral, I don't care about anything except money and power."

It doesn't even advance the plot, they're just doing it to be weird.

I made it about two minutes into that new British show about gladiators for the same reason: every single line of dialogue is like this.

The characters are complex enough that they do surprising things, don't just follow a simple template, yet their motivations make sense.

There is Machiavellianism but they don't pile it on (one of my pet peeves about current American culture is they constantly make a point of signalling how amoral they are, it's really weird)

It has some tropes (martial artists can fly/become weightless) but only here and there, not so they overwhelm the story.

Let's pick out a line from https://www.gutenberg.org/files/16643/16643-h/16643-h.htm to see what he has to say:

"Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist."

That's a pretty typical line. Let's set aside for now the debate on whether nonconformity is good or bad: look at the tone of the writing. It is a moral lecture. It is saying: "This is how you should think, what you should believe, how you should be." The reading allows only one interpretation. It's just beating you about the head with serious truth-claims. Another line:

"Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. It undergoes continual changes; it is barbarous, it is civilized, it is Christianized, it is rich, it is scientific; but this change is not amelioration. For everything that is given, something is taken."

Each sentence is a bland assertion. Commanding the reader what to think. I am reading a list of opinions. That is all it is: a list of opinions. This is considered peak Usan culture. It is considered to be literature or philosophy. Another line –

"He is a good man, who can receive a gift well. We are either glad or sorry at a gift, and both emotions are unbecoming."

This is not literature. This is a self-help book. It is downright bad, adolescent writing. It's relentlessly po-faced, and there isn't a whiff of creativity from the prose. I grew up on Irish writers. Irish writers say things like –

"Choosing his boot, the buttoned class, as a convenient example of inanation, he lifted it in the air"

Irish writers say things like –

"She opened the fridge for the ham, the butter, the can of Smithwick's. Happy as a duck she was"

These are just the first two lines before my eyes when I picked up the first two books by my elbow. Do you see the difference? Literature should have warmth, humanity, creativity. Writers should have the craic with language. The words should be buttered with character. Ralph Waldo Emerson's output has all the banality of ChatGPT's. Imagine living with this guy. Imagine trying to flirt with him and he just starts lecturing you like a charmless Anglican.

Edgar Allen Poe's pretty good though I'll give the yanks that.

They include:

• Romance of the Three Kingdoms

• Water Margin

• Journey to the West

• The Plum in the Golden Vase (of the Ming dynasty)

• Dream of the Red Chamber (The Story of the Stone)

• The Scholars (of the Qing dynasty).

The Chinese historian and literary theorist C. T. Hsia wrote that these six "remain the most beloved novels among the Chinese."[2]

The Guardian and other liars are reporting Fmovies is "shut down"

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The Guardian and other liars are reporting Fmovies is "shut down"

• https://fmovie-s.to/

• https://www.fmovies.hn/

• https://fmoviesto.cc/

• https://fmovies.ps/

• many more

verified up and working today

Really really good, best film I've seen in years.

Won the 2023 Palme D'Or.

It's a French courtroom drama I suppose you could call it, though it doesn't follow some genre formula.

The brilliance of it is that the questions aren't answered, the core of the plot is a mystery rather than a stated fact. My main gripe about American culture is there is only one interpretation of the text.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUXawkH-ONM

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatomy_of_a_Fall

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt17009710/

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/19382242

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