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Put this thing in a VM and then let a scammer remote into it, see what he does.

Trying new stuff is great - when you choose it. Random surprise tweaks that you’re forced to spend a while figuring out how to revert are pure fucking evil and everyone knows it.

What’s especially terrible is when people change stuff for the worse, then remove the old better option.

A walk in, for Americans? No, make it a drive-in.

Fuck that, I’m nostalgic because there was an actual aesthetic with character. “Modern” flat UIs are boring and flat.

“Attractive” is making an assumption here. Thankfully, it’s not a particularly important one.

States aren’t an abstraction, any more than the earth’s gravity and atmospheric pressure are an abstraction. Both exist and are very stable, despite nominally existing in what’s otherwise empty space, if you ignore the whole world.

SMRs are in their commercial infancy. They need time and successful initial projects. With so many under development, the odds are quite good

I remember hearing that 10 years ago, so call me skeptical.

I believe, there’s a way to gas pigs that just makes them sleepy and then pass out. I think, it was by using nitrogen. But yeah, that’s not commonly done.

IIRC, it’s literally any other gas except CO2 - the human body detects suffocation not by the lack of oxygen in blood, but the presence of carbonic acid (which is acidic). Since every other gas doesn’t create carbonic acid (except maybe some gases that contain carbon?), they all silently/painlessly kill.

Nitrogen, argon, or hydrogen would all work and be fairly cheap. Hydrogen would be explosively flammable though, so you could combine two steps into one!

See also: 1984 out of 10, which is essentially a videogame wrapper around George Orwell’s In Defence Of The Novel essay.

Realistically probably this originally started as somebody being told about hydrogen fuel cells and people telephoned it into a conspiracy theory.

Realistically it probably started as a scam as, like the “this one weird trick! Doctors hate her!” thing. The premise is simple: learn how to modify your car to run on water instead of petrol (which sounds wonderful - so cheap! So convenient! Imagine if you could just fill up a bucket and dump it into your fuel tank and it’d work!). It sounds intuitively plausible - water is a liquid, petrol is a liquid, car is a machine that turns liquid into vroom - and frankly nobody in the general public knows why water-powered engines violate thermodynamics, only that they do (assuming they do).

And you really need to understand that these scams target the dumbest motherfuckers on the planet. The fact that it filters out anyone who applies critical thinking and education is a feature, not a bug.

Okay so it’s a martial art then, and killing younglings is a kata.

Just code up a lemmy plugin that lets you embed basic interaction for navigating 4D shapes, my dude. It’s just basic eigenvectors.

Possible candidate responses:

1. Solves it (too smart for job)
2. “That’s bullshit, who needs this for a $14.50/hr job?” (too intolerant of bullshit for job)
3. Tries to solve it but fails (lacks self-awareness for job)
4. Knows they can’t solve it so doesn’t even try (too lazy for job)
5. Doesn’t understand the question/comprehend what a hypercube is (too dumb for job)

Is it a religion if it gives you the power to shoot lightning bolts? That’s like saying proper gun maintenance is a religion.

The person who wrote the screenshotted comment clearly doesn’t think too deeply about anything, let alone the specific definition of “surfing”.

As someone in the renewables industry, you should know that literally 100% of all renewables problems ever are caused by their intermittency. Were you late to work? It’s because the sun doesn’t shine at nighttime. If you say “the blackout was caused by renewables”, Joe Q Public will assume you’re referring to intermittency.

Distinguishing between “renewables” and whether the inverters were grid-forming or not, is a useful distinction, even if it hurts anyone who’s read a dictionary.

Gunpowder in wholly agrarian societies is normal. In fact, the majority of gunpowder’s existence has been in agrarian societies! Gunpowder has been in Europe since the ~1400s, but the industrial revolution didn’t start until the ~1800s! (You could maybe drop that date back to the 1700s due to waterwheel factories, but then I could drop gunpowder back to the 1100s in China)

When the conquistadors invaded Aztecs/Incas in the 1500s, they were shooting guns handmade by blacksmiths with wrought iron from charcoal-powered forges.

Isn’t that why jaywalking is a crime in the US?

No. Jaywalking is a crime because auto industry propaganda literally invented the term “jaywalking” (“jay” basically means “Hick* or " country bumpkin”) and pushed it in part of a big media campaign in the, IIRC, 1920s, and then lobbied to make illegal.

Before then, everyone blamed the cars for murdering people by tearing down the streets (which belonged to people, not cars, before cars existed - playing sports on the actual street was normal) and not stopping in time.

Whatever rationale has been invented in modern times, the reality is that jaywalking was invented as a victim-blaming campaign by the car industry. Pure and simple.

If we ever ban corporate political donations, maybe. Also, if we put a decent carbon price on everything, including private jets.

Also, and maybe this is a stretch: don’t let billionaires buy and control entire media systems! (Or contribute the majority of its revrnue by paying for ads.) Half the reason for the US Clusterfuck is that the media didn’t call out the blatant bullshit when it could, which legitimised the bullshit because “if it’s so bullshit, why aren’t the media all calling it out?”.