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Cake day: December 4th, 2024

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  • So I just always find it funny some pirates around some communities, get such an egotistical stroking of themselves when they make bold claims as to not having screwed up. They did, just don’t want to mention it.

    To be fair, it was pretty easy to not screw up with early piracy. Just don’t download or run any executables and you were pretty much safe. Back in the day, you didn’t even need a VPN. I’ve screwed up far more recently than I did back then.

    My favorite screw up was the time my mom got a C&D for me pirating the movie “Law Abiding Citizen”. Awful movie but if I still had that letter I would frame it.








  • Unplug your fridge. Clean the condenser coil (the pipes that get hot) which will usually be on the back but could also be underneath or on top. Then let it cool down for about 15 minutes before plugging it back in. A lot of times when a fridge fails it is just a dirty condenser. If that didn’t work then it has an actual problem like bad start components, a failed compressor, or a refrigerant charge issue. If it is one that has an active fan on the condenser then that could also be the cluprit but most residential fridges don’t use an active condenser fan.







  • That’s not strictly true, the voltage of the battery changes as it discharges, so you technically need to integrate the area under IV curve.

    Yes but a fully charged battery will also have a voltage higher than its nominal voltage which mitigates that quite a bit. Also as I said in my origional comment, the rated capacity is only ever a rough measurement anyways so while volts×amphours=watthours isn’t perfect, it’s close enough.

    or anything that let’s us compare across voltage

    I guess the part I’m missing is, when are you ever really comparing across voltage. Generally when you’re shopping for batteries it’s for a specific application and that application will have a specific voltage requirement. So you’re only ever really going to be comparing batteries of the same voltage anyways. It isn’t like you can just toss a 48V battery in something that requires a 6V battery.

    Although I do agree that a voltage agnostic capacity measurement would be nice. My personal preference would be watt hours.




  • My mom insisted on taking me on a cruise for my birthday. I left that boat wanting to full blown Ted Kaczynski.

    A cruise ship is just press where the wealthy wring as much money out of people as possible. You’re there to drink and gamble. If you don’t like doing either of those then you can go to any one of the dozens of events where people are, surprise surprise, drinking and/or gambling. I guess there were a few events that were just marketing for scummy tat or services too. There is nothing you can do that doesn’t cost money even with the “free” perks. We had a free drink package but god forbid you forget to tip for every fucking drink including if you just want some fucking water. Oh you one a free massage? Well guess what, it’s not actually free. It’s free after you buy the base package. Plus at the end of the cruise they automatically charge you a $160 “gratuity” just for existing because fuck you. The whole thing was unabashedly scummy; It felt like spending a week trapped in a car dealership.

    Our time off the boat was at tourist trap islands which had all been pillaged so thoroughly that tourism is now all they have. Some of those islands still had some natural beauty but looking at it also just pissed me off because there was nowhere you could look and not see what little remained being actively destroyed. The snorkeling trips were even more infuriating, nothing quite makes you hate people like snorkeling in dead garbage filled reefs.

    I want to see every cruise company executive sent through a woodchipper feet first. I want every cruise ship turned into an artificial reef.