I_Has_A_Hat

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Good job on providing a perfect example of exactly what he's talking about.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

X = Infinity

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Sometimes you see data and just know that the methodology had to have been shit.

The average response thought 30% of the US was in NY?! No fucking chance.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

From a selfish perspective, why should the entire populace be forced to give up small luxuries in their increasingly difficult lives just so that a handful of large corporations don't have to make any changes?

Why isn't it that these large corporations should be forced to change, thus removing the need for everyone getting rid of their small luxuries?

Just seems ridiculous that the message is "everyone should give up their creature comforts and live as simply and tediously as possible so that billionaires don't have to change".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

You're standing by a factory next to extremely loud machinery and complaining about the guy whispering next to you.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

The internet's opinion of Israel is changing, not sure how much is actually changing in the real world. The last election should have been a wakeup call to a lot of folks that the opinions they hear in their online echo chambers don't match the opinions of the general public. The average voter is uniformed and doesn't follow the news.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago (7 children)

What in the actual fuck is wrong with you? Go say that, out loud, in front of a mirror and think about your life.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

Gotta make the plebs think they're really sticking it to the billionaires. Look at any story about them and it's always desperate to paint billionaires as secretly miserable or like they spend even a single second worrying about what "the poors" think. Any, even mild, resistance is blown up and treated like a massive unified movement of the common man against the wealthy class.

Look at Bezos' wedding. If you believed the BS here, you would think the entire city of Venice was taking a stand and making it hostile for him and that certainly his wedding would be a miserable experience full of protestors and anti-Bezos street art. In reality, barely 100 people ever protested. All the floats and signs you saw posted were performance pieces, quietly removed by officials minutes after they went up. In reality, Bezos and all his rich guests had a great time and didn't see a single protestor because security wouldn't let anyone unvetted come anywhere near the wedding party.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 days ago (8 children)

But... They're right? The NWS did send out a warning shortly after 1AM. It was local emergency officials who dropped the ball and didn't pass on the warning until 7AM.

Is everyone just too far in their bubbles now that they reject whatever actually happened in favor of whatever narrative their side of the internet made up?

I hate it here.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 37 points 6 days ago (19 children)

I have yet to see a single item have a significant discount on prime day, it's not even a sale.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

At this point. I just block anyone I see using the em dash. Will a few false positives slip in? Sure, but I'm confident that I'm blocking more bots than nots.

 

Is it just a matter of not being worth it? I see cooling towers releasing what appears to be a ton of steam, pretty high up. If that steam were captured at the top and allowed to condense, wouldn't that result in a ton of water with a lot of gravitational potential energy? That water could then be released and used to power water turbines. Maybe I'm overestimating the amount of water being released as steam, or underestimating how much is needed to spin a water turbine to get a meaningful result, but it seems like wasted energy to me.

 

I'm aiming to get the 30k steps in a day achievement and was wondering if the app considered a day as in a calendar day, or if it's 30k steps in 24 hours?

30k steps comes out to about 15 miles. If the app goes off 24 hours, I was considering taking a backpacking trip some weekend and hiking half in an afternoon, stopping for the night, and doing the rest in the morning. But if it goes by calendar, I'd have to adjust my plans.

 

I'm moving across the country in a few weeks and am trying to plan my route as I'll be driving a moving van with a car towed behind it. The entire drive will be 16-17 hours.

Google maps seems limited for searching everything I'd want to take into account for the route (pull through gas stations, height requirements, avoiding mountain highways, etc.) and was wondering if anyone knew of a better way to plan out the trip?

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