Continuing a proud tradition.

Fanta originated in Nazi Germany because they couldn’t source the ingredients for the Coke recipe.

He truly is an idiot’s concept of a genius.

No one who anctually understands Unix or IP networking would ever craft that as an explanation for this concept.

That said, it’s an excellent explanation of how a lobotomy helped him embrace his true self.

I’ve considered Windows a toy OS for decades because the only use case anyone can legitimately make for needing to use it is to play games.

Economics is a tool. All tools can become weapons when used in an incendiary way.

I’d like to live and participate in a society which has a robust and supportive economy, as opposed to an overbearing economy which treats society as an extractive resource.

Economics filled the void in society vacated by religion after the Enlightenment.

A mechanism of control, conjured by the ruling class, imposed indiscriminately upon the masses, protected from scrutiny, and justified by arbitrary, curated rules.

• Economists are its priests.
• Banks its churches.
• Finance its mythology.
• GDP its God.

“These colors don’t cum”

So they’re edginglords.

Nut milk comes from male cows.

It’s a Sony 65” 2019 4K LCD panel.

2160p registers ~200W, 1080p ~100W.

The measured 2160p feed is from a 2017 Apple TV 4K, 1080p from a docked Nintendo Switch.

I’m in Australia, so my perspective may be skewed. The trailer would be optional, and I only mentioned it as the system as proposed could be just an extension of the self contained removable battery in a vehicle.

Unless batteries can become tremendously lighter, I see a standardised, swappable EV battery a given as a means to further increase vehicle efficiency. Why lug around hundreds of km of range when the distance between typical charging points is a fraction of that.

The batteries are what make EVs heavier compared to ICE vehicles, and the majority of trips don’t call for anything close to their peak range.

Installing a fraction of the capacity as a static battery would reduce weight for shorter trips, also extending the typical range.

Removable batteries could be installed in a standard cavity in the undercarriage, or in the regular cargo space, it just needs an electrical connection to the rest of the system.

Fast charging is also a problem, as it disproportionately affects the performance and longevity of the batteries. Swapping batteries would permit charging them at a more leisurely and manageable rate.

• My TV’s power consumption is basically doubled when the input is running at 2160p compared to 1080p.
• Running the portable AC in my office for more than 24 hours causes it to cycle off and on because the humidity collection sump fills up and needs to be emptied (it throws a completely unhelpful error of ‘Low Temperature’).

I don’t see the use case for phones, and maybe there is for other personal electronics, but something similar for EVs should become the norm.

Basically a range extender when you need it, but it can be removed to save on weight when your trips are within the built-in battery’s range. Such a system could easily be extended to trailers, including their own static or removable batteries, and where the additional axles could be powered so they can contribute regenerative braking.

This is a false dichotomy, and illustrates the pernicious terminal incuriosity and learned helplessness modern society incentivises, rewards, and celebrates.

There are models other than incendiary extraction and debasement which can be implemented to value and promote creative work. Elevating the legitimacy of advertising in its current role perpetuates its abuse, and suppresses these preferable alternatives.

How, precisely, does that relate to, or negate, what I posted?

Decades of experience has revealed the overwhelming majority of ‘suicide prevention’ concepts are exclusively focused and fixated on acute suicidality, which are often precisely the opposite of what’s required when dealing with chronic suicidality.

One of the most effective mechanisms, particularly for chronic suicide prevention, is to create an environment in which one can realistically and actively choose to participate in when we’re at our most vulnerable.

Advertising needs to become as socially acceptable as smoking.

It’s the most pervasive pollution wrought upon our environments, and amplifies the carcinogenic perpetual growth delusion.

• Deadloch
• Colin From Accounts
• Shrinking
• Silo
• Landman
• Arcane
• Lower Decks

Friends don’t let friends use Facebook.

Don’t eat shit, mulch the rich.

My take is anyone who can vote but doesn’t is implicitly throwing their support behind whoever eventually wins. On 2024-11-05, the majority of Americans chose to not be taken seriously by the rest of the world.

I’m not an American.