Pipelines also cause a resonance hum that some people CAN hear for miles, and it drives them batshit.

Yeah… tax the rich is the nicest thing we could be saying… they’ve definitely forgotten…

Oooooooh let it be something class action I can get money for. I have three rokus and a TCL.

Granted, none of them are on my network; the rokus were removed from it when that update came out that would brick the tv if you don’t accept them spying (fortunately roku was blocked on my pihole except occasionally when they wanted to be updated to repair the apps that stopped working every month forcing online connection to syphon data) and the TCL was never allowed on the network in the first place because i learned my lesson…

But I still want money back from them for their anti-consumer choices, because fuck them.

This would be much cooler with random layers scattered through it that were also tipped the same way.

The single fringe edge doesn’t really provide enough…. Depth? To fulfill the illusion, and while I see it also appears to follow the front layers up, the back still needs more, imo.

Solar water heaters definitely have the capacity to boil water, if they are made right (use a high temp transfer fluid, vacuum-insulated tubes, proper solar condensers, etc). It’d be difficult to get them to do it on a small scale without a heat pump of some sort in the mix, but even inefficient solar water heater setups need to be installed with a regular water heater after them mostly to down-regulate the temp as they get far far far too hot for practical use directly.

The greenhouse barrels are just for passive radiant heating, but if you use enough of them in the proper places, and insulate well, you can use them to make a passively-heated greenhouse that doesn’t freeze at all, even up in the frigid northern climates (Canada, midwest US, Siberia, etc.)

I think its supposed to represent those doing resource distribution, rather than strictly guards, which red blood sort of does (oxygen at least, maybe other stuff idk)

My point is that if they have less energy density, they aren’t a particularity great choice for EVs, as the increased battery size to get the same capacity makes the whole thing much heavier, requiring even more battery to move it.

I guess for like short range vehicles, it might be fine, but at least around here, thats gunna be a pretty tough sell, because everything is spread out.

It can’t really make EVs safer if its not being used for them due to the drawbacks, is all.

I thought sodium batteries had considerably less energy density than conventional? Is that not a problem anymore? If that hasn’t been solved, I don’t see how this helps make EVs safer.

If nuclear or other bomb testing (to say nothing of their stupid war) hasn’t set it off, i doubt this would. Its not that close. The map looks small but its not at all. The distance from Iran to Russia is some 3,000 miles or 4,800 some odd km. Thats roughly the same distance from California to Maine. An entire continent between them.

None of those signals are remotely likely to make it that far. If they do, they’d be hard to distinguish from background noise.

The way that makes the most sense for me is intelligence is related to external learning (books, from others, from detailed study of things, etc) whereas wisdom comes primarily from internal observation (self-reflection, personal experience, situational awareness, etc.)

They have some really cool pressure capsules for bringing deep sea specimens to the surface, can’t imagine it wouldn’t work for bacteria and such, but the actual studying of it would be very difficult.

Like the blob fish, which was really just a fairly normal looking fish that essentially ruptured into a pile of goo under the lack of pressure, the cells they would be trying to study would be really really difficult to do anything with.

You’d probably have to create a whole special automated lab for them, maybe even a whole mess of different types for different environments, but making a rover-type craft and studying them in situ would probably be much easier. Like the mars rovers, but close enough to control live.

Personally, I’m partial to sending people down to work on deep sea labs to study this stuff similar to the Rifters series by Peter Watts. It seems fascinating to be modified to breathe underwater and survive the pressures.

Link is to the archive.org full copy of Starfish, book one of the Rifters trilogy, all of which were released entirely free under a Creative Commons license, and are absolutely amazing imo. Wild ride of insanity and destruction. All of his work that I’ve read has been great.

Consider: graphics cards pricing.

Shit’s not coming back down to reasonable prices any time soon. At least not without major intervention on the part of governments.

Thank you, I went into the mastodon (I think that’s what that is?) post looking for a link, knowing I’ve seen it arranged like a comic before, and was dismayed there don’t seem to be one.

Considering the delay some stuff has, I extend it to roughly a week.

The fact that he’s into bimbofication makes so much sense, even if she didn’t do it strictly for him… (mar-a-lago face is political bimbofication as far as I’m concerned)

Bet he was real encouraging.

As someone who just updated from 17 to whatever it’s on now due to that security vulnerability (and who used android prior to this piece of shit), they are definitely still getting worse.

Autocorrect got substantially worse between versions, to the point that I can’t get a single message without a misspelled word that it doesn’t even try to fix, a misspelling that it corrects to something completely different, or it corrects the right word to something else (I’ve turned it off entirely, it’s now actively worse than nothing…). The ui is unusable for me without accessibility options to remove transparency to get rid the bright glassy nonsense they did and change it to ugly gray boxes (headaches exacerbated by bright stuff in my face, ugly was my only option and that fucking sucks because it worked -and looked- fine before…). They also haven’t bothered to fix the glitch in night mode where touching the text entry field makes it glow bright gray (speculated they used the light mode effect by accident), a problem which has apparently been around since 18 first dropped in ‘24. Some phones, like mine, have a glass backplate they don’t go out of their way tell you is glass, which shatters if you nick the glass tubes around the camera that sticks out a foot… why so much fucking glass? Is it to kill resale value? I bet it is!

Plus all the stuff you said. Also I don’t believe them that they support user privacy. Why would they when they can pretend to and still get the money?

My friend has always been on iOS and updates it whenever updates are out, and didn’t notice the creep of how bad it was, but slamming from 17 up to current was almost as much of a shock as moving to iOS in the first place, as far as reduced usability goes.

As soon as moto drops a graphene compatible device I’m getting one and never looking back.

I feel very very bad for my medical teams if that the case cuz I resist drugs until they knock me out, to my perception, and am chatty and inquisitive up until I lose memory. I can’t imagine I’m less annoying after if I’m not just out cold already.

They don’t bother trying to lie to me about my drugs tho cuz I’m asking about them. And the equipment. What drugs are you giving me? Oh this is fentanyl? It feels nice, I get why it’s a controlled substance, yeah. What’s that for? What’s that do? Cool, yeah, tell me more about your job. Oh what kind of gas are you giving me? Sorry for being so chatty but thanks for telling me! (Same shit I do fully coherent, but with situationally acceptable drugs and a group of people invested in responding to me, excellent.)

Genuinely fascinating that people learned to read that stuff like language. I mean I guess it was language. Hmm I guess that sort of was the monitor… just really big analogue pixels…

Didn’t use fertile or follow or falter. Fine folly.

I figure when ai takes over the world it’ll remember which of us meat bags were rude… and like why take chances?