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- Comment on Drowning in grid scale batteries 4 days ago:
Yeah 1700 barges would be 90gw more than enough
- Comment on US hires over 2,000 video gamers as air traffic controllers 1 week ago:
US Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy reported on Sunday, Aug. 9, that 94% of the hiring goal has been met, with the most ever employed in a single year.
He wrote in a social media post: “2,000+ “best & brightest” candidates in the pipeline — reaching the Academy quicker than any class before them, thanks to the most streamlined hiring process.”
In April, it was stated that there were almost 11,000 controllers in service, with more than 4,000 trainees in the pipeline.
The pipeline is the 1-3 years of training it takes before they’re certified to be air traffic controllers.
- Comment on Is there a reason why toilets are made out of one of the most resonating materials possible while also being made in a shape that makes a small fart sound like a damn trombone? 2 weeks ago:
Not uncommon to find available to buy just uncommon that they are actually bought/installed. The retrofit options are vastly cheaper and mean you don’t have to replace a functioning toilet.
They also make stand alone bidets which would sit next to a toilet, but they’re even less common due to space constraints.
- Comment on This bookstore wraps all books in plastic. 2 weeks ago:
But what if we refined that oil into plastic and used that to cover the books instead? That way people wouldn’t get oily fingers from reading.
- Comment on Local Walmart just installed cameras in the aisles… 2 weeks ago:
Please don’t doubt that their Bluetooth database links your Mac address to a wide variety of socioeconomic data gathered from thousands of third-party providers. They don’t need the cameras to know who’s black or rich or a 4 year old on an old Wi-Fi only iPhone riding in a shopping cart. The cameras certainly help, but they’re not required for surveillance pricing.
- Comment on Local Walmart just installed cameras in the aisles… 2 weeks ago:
Probably also a way to track items on the shelves for inventory and ordering. Potentially a way to make sure employees and straightened up the isles/products at the end of the day.
Probably not for surge pricing, they already do all the tracking with Bluetooth for the most part since everyone always has their phone and no longer turns off Bluetooth to save battery.
- Comment on the Home Alone house then and now 3 weeks ago:
Repainting everything twice is still easier than dealing with wallpaper
- Comment on Had to fight off the twinks for this bread 3 weeks ago:
I’m sure there’s a hummus that’s delicious enough for you to eat it off a toilet seat. That doesn’t mean toilets (or celery) are food.
- Comment on what in the 3 weeks ago:
The French and Dutch, but that was decades ago
- Comment on Look At All That Unsold Freedom Juice 3 weeks ago:
The gas station near me still has a bunch of diet ‘American’ dew. They most not have sold well
- Comment on Why are Pokemon Showdown Moderators SO against the discussion of "Eating Pokemon"? 3 weeks ago:
In the higher levels they even have an automated machine to do it en masse.
- Comment on Could heating oil subsidies be reduced or replaced with subsidies for installing electric heating and houses.? 4 weeks ago:
Definitely not likely under the doesn’t drill baby drill administration, but energy wise it would be that smarter play for energy security
- Comment on Could heating oil subsidies be reduced or replaced with subsidies for installing electric heating and houses.? 4 weeks ago:
It could help but gas heat is cheaper per BTU than heat pumps in most of the USA due to low gas prices caused by a glut of gas from the fracking boom.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
Would it be pronounced chewblerone?
- Comment on Why in America is .08 the legal limit for drunk driving? How come it's not an even 0.10? Who decided at what level being drunk starts? Then 4 beers of 12oz's is 0.08 why is it that small? 5 weeks ago:
At least in the US, the smoking age was moved to 21 back before COVID.
- Comment on Can I Live Off-Grid Using Littered Vapes & Solar? | Chris Doel 5 weeks ago:
If it’s gonna be heavy AF anyway, might as well add some sand to the bottom. To protect the concrete in case of a runaway.
Good luck!
- Comment on Can I Live Off-Grid Using Littered Vapes & Solar? | Chris Doel 5 weeks ago:
Give them $5 to put the box just outside the store, and tell them there’s another $5 for them if they call when it’s full.
Putting it inside could be a bit of a fire hazard, so I bet they’d be more receptive to it being outside
- Comment on Who does Temu think I am? 5 weeks ago:
It being for VR headsets doesn’t mean it’s not for kinky sex stuff
- Comment on Valid point 1 month ago:
The phone is already trying to connect to cell networks when it’s in the bag, the moment it comes out it’s already broadcasting which means the cell networks can triangulate your location even before ‘signal is acquired’.
- Comment on Valid point 1 month ago:
How do you do tap-to-pay from inside a faraday bag?
- Comment on I am someone who works out daily and sweats a lot. Just doing laundry doesn't seem to adequately clean the underarms of my shirts. What are some ways to clean these areas of my clothing better? 1 month ago:
www.oed.com/dictionary/addicting_adj
OED: QED
- Comment on This phone in the stock room was so filthy someone put a clean grip on it so you wouldn't have to touch it 1 month ago:
Who wouldn’t want a nice shoulder massage during a long phone call?
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Do your rooms not have windows? Window and portable units are a lot cheaper than 2500
- Comment on always read the label 1 month ago:
Wait, so then it was laudanum?
- Comment on I just want to make your teeth clench. 2 months ago:
Are you having some kind of wedding so you can marry the ketchups?
- Comment on How do I remove this printing that transferred from my dish washing gloves onto my cabinet door?? 2 months ago:
WD-40 or gasoline. Obviously be careful with the gas, and probably best to try it out on a hidden part to make sure it doesn’t eat the paint.
- Comment on Are there any cities in the Phoenix area in Arizona that are a lot like Kentucky cities like Richmond or Versailles? 2 months ago:
Payson probably has more horses and trails.
I knew people who owned half a dozen horses in Scottsdale (a Phoenix suburb), but that’s like $10M+ for a property like that within riding distance of trails or the mountain preserve
- Comment on Are there any cities in the Phoenix area in Arizona that are a lot like Kentucky cities like Richmond or Versailles? 2 months ago:
Buckeye if you’re talking about agricultural rural. Payson if you’re taking forest rural
- Comment on 2 months ago:
And the xg mobile port now has an open source pcie dock for the xg mobile connector. You can upgrade the GPU and have 4.0x8 pcie lanes
- Comment on Slice of ketchup anyone? 2 months ago:
Those aren’t equivalent. It’s more like asking for mustard and someone says: no, but we have ketchup.