• PowerGloveSoBad@lemmy.worldEnglish
    72·
    3 years ago

    Lotta smug people in here having a laugh at the obvious satire, but from a technical standpoint this can be a real problem.

    Happened to me this AM – had to eat cold bread after it untoasted itself, then get back in bed before my alarm clock unrung. I had stuff to do today

  • FarceMultiplier@lemmy.caEnglish
    613·
    3 years ago

    When stupid people think their opinions are as good as opinions from experts, the world edges closer to extinction.

    • brygphilomena@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      3 years ago

      There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.’

      - Isaac Asimov

      • Flibbertigibbet@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        3 years ago

        The hilarious thing is, this letter is absolutely intended humourously. It’s from the comic Viz, and the “Letterbocks” section regularly contains jokes and letters mocking the letters sent into newspapers.

    • SzethFriendOfNimi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      3 years ago

      Obviously… since it’s AC power it doesn’t matter what direction the powers going.

      Some people just don’t know how stupid they sound…

      • funnystuff97@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        3 years ago

        That’s not how that works, moron. Wind turbines only spin one way (see image above), so they clearly generate DC. Obviously, to convert it to AC, there are little hampsters in wheels switching the direction of the electricity back and forth.

        Idiot.

        • _cnt0@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          1·
          3 years ago

          Obviously, to convert it to AC, there are little hampsters in wheels switching the direction of the electricity back and forth.

          Idiot.

          Nice way to display your own stupidity. Everyone knows hamsters have fallen out of fashion for that like a hundred years ago. Gerbils is where it’s at!

          Mongrel.

  • Grass@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    534·
    3 years ago

    This is only slightly less dumb than the people that think solar panels take sunlight away from plants.

  • Margot Robbie@lemmy.worldEnglish
    27·
    3 years ago

    When the wind blows the other way, you are supposed to plug all your appliances in backwards to trick the power grid into going the right direction again. Duh.

    I’m only an actress and even I managed to figure it out, who needs butchers for wind turbines anyways.

  • Norah (pup/it/she)@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    13·
    3 years ago

    When I was in high school we got to go on a field trip to a wind farm. They had one stopped on a kinda windy day so they could show us it starting up. Watching the blades rotate on their axis, then seeing this massive turbine slowly start to spin, was so fucking cool.

  • CrowAirbrush@lemm.eeEnglish
    3·
    3 years ago

    Well by real world logic, i get a headwind twice a day when i commute to and from work.

    So technically speaking they just drain the net from all the solar that’s stored when it is sunny.

    Let’s hope that guy was just messing around and not actually that dumb as a lot of people seem to be nowadays.

    On another note i jokingly called them fans last summer and thanked the local county for turning them on as it was pretty hot out.