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- Comment on It works better if you put it in your mouth first. 3 hours ago:
What grid? It looks like the “power box” on the wall is generating power for that house all by itself, no transmission necessary.
Considering that the smallest operating nuclear reactor ever made was this big…
…and that critical mass is a thing, I can only assume the “power box” was some kind of RTG.
- Comment on It works better if you put it in your mouth first. 3 hours ago:
I was pro-nuclear until Georgia Power stuck me with the bill for Plant Vogtle 3 and 4.
(Or rather, I was pro-nuclear until shortly after construction began on a 7-year plan that ultimately took 15 years, when it started to become clear that gross incompetence and corruption was going to make it an expensive debacle.)
Nuclear power from Vogtle 3 and 4 costs 16¢ per kWh (according to the linked document), by the way, compared to less than 0.1¢ per kWh expected by OP’s comic.
- Comment on Chelyabinsk liked your Post 1 day ago:
Motherfucker my globe doesn’t even have South Sudan on it and you expect me to have up-to-date males of the moon?!
- Comment on In the context of celebrities announcing a new thing they're releasing, what does "soft launch" vs "hard launch" mean exactly? 🤔 2 days ago:
Soft launch is when you make it available to the public for a while before advertising it.
- Comment on Dream 🦕 Big 2 days ago:
Chicken, probably.
- Comment on Who Is the Worst Person Louis Theroux Has Met? | Honesty Box | LADbible Stories [25:42] 3 days ago:
TIL he’s half-American.
- Comment on Anon enjoys videogame music 3 days ago:
I’m not sure exactly which space characters are supposed to be used on 4Chan, but doing it here I tried two spaces and it was too far left, then three and it was too far right. I ended up with two regular non-breaking spaces and one thin non-breaking space, and that’s as good as I can get it.
It looks almost right for me, on both the default web UI/Firefox/Linux and Voyager/Android.
- Comment on Anon enjoys videogame music 3 days ago:
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▲ ▲ - Comment on William Shatner And ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ Actors React To News Of Series Ending 4 days ago:
More like “vice signaling.”
- Comment on William Shatner And ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ Actors React To News Of Series Ending 4 days ago:
I mean, it ain’t exactly The Honeymooners or Dukes of Hazzard, is it? That’s the standard that we’re measuring “woke” against these days!
- Comment on It's sad that people completely misunderstand what Star Trek is about. 4 days ago:
Star Trek X was Nemesis, but who’s counting?
- Comment on It's sad that people completely misunderstand what Star Trek is about. 4 days ago:
It was the first season (and only 10 episodes in, at that, because TV production is stupid these days).
Imagine if you could only judge, say, TNG on the first 10 episodes.
- Comment on It's sad that people completely misunderstand what Star Trek is about. 4 days ago:
Looking at the downvotes, I don’t think anybody realized you meant “abandon Xitter,” not “abandon using their platform for the greater good.”
- Comment on I almost got to try my new quick clamp 5 days ago:
- Comment on Asked LA Fitness to cancel my membership, they offered to freeze it for $10/month instead 5 days ago:
I think that’s a common defense.
It’s not. Or rather, it is something people commonly try, but it doesn’t work. The court system is designed by lawyers, for lawyers. The idea that a contract isn’t valid just because a non-lawyer can’t understand it just categorically does not fly with them.
- Comment on Think the fuck again 1 week ago:
Something right!
- Comment on Great Tits 1 week ago:
I gave it its 69^th^ upvote. Nice.
- Comment on When people recommend Brave browser. 1 week ago:
Your attitude is very reasonable. I strive to be as unreasonable as I can.
reference
___ “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” ― George Bernard Shaw
- Comment on When people recommend Brave browser. 1 week ago:
I will reject the misbehaving website rather than resort to using Chromium.
- Comment on Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game 1 week ago:
If your training data has a pixelated circle as an input and a circle as output, your neural network will “upscale” your pixelated circle to a circle. If your training data has a pixelated circle as input and a high definition pie as output, your neural network will “upscale” your pixelated circle to a high definition pie. It’s the same algorithm in both cases.
- Comment on Court tells Subnautica 2 publisher Krafton to reinstate fired CEO and let him handle its Early Access release | VGC 1 week ago:
It’s not yet been decided what monetary damages, if any, will result from the ruling, nor is it clear if Subnautica 2’s release will be affected.
Sounds to me like fair damages would start with removing Unknown Worlds from Krafton’s ownership.
- Comment on hostile design: sink 1 week ago:
To be fair, it’s plausible. They might not have wanted a home inspector writing up “low water pressure” as a potential problem. 'Course, the inspector might write “water splashes out of the sink” as a problem instead, but that at least is more straightforward to solve, rather than being possibly indicative of a bigger hidden problem.
- Comment on hostile design: sink 1 week ago:
Yeah, hostile design (or “hostile architecture,” which is the more searchable term) is like IRL enshittification: it’s not just when it’s bad, it’s when it’s intentionally bad in order to serve some goal other than fulfilling the needs of the user.
The most common example is a bench with an armrest in the middle so that homeless people can’t (easily/comfortably) sleep on it.
- Comment on Theoretically speaking, if one wanted to sail the seas while being not very tech savvy – is using a VPN (Mullvad) enough? I would never, of course… but theoretically? 2 weeks ago:
Theoretically doing something right, you mean.
- Comment on Happy 3.14 Day 2 weeks ago:
You need to evolve wheat from primordial soup.
- Comment on Karim Diané on playing Star Trek’s first gay Klingon 2 weeks ago:
That wasn’t dressing for jazzercise; this was dressing for jazzercise!
- Comment on Karim Diané on playing Star Trek’s first gay Klingon 2 weeks ago:
Being overweight is in an entirely different category than the other attributes you mentioned because it’s a choice, and more importantly because physical fitness is directly relevant to a soldier or sailor’s ability to perform their duty. In fact, the show itself addresses this: there are scenes that show Tilly jogging around the ship so that she can get a “physical endurance commendation” and be more likely to get into the Command Training Program.
If she were a civilian character, sure: no judgement, no problem. But having an overweight military officer (especially if they hadn’t acknowledged and addressed it the way they did) would be problematic in a legitimate, non-judgemental, suspension-of-disbelief-defying way.
(That said, I don’t think Tilly was anywhere near big enough for fan complaints to actually be legitimate. I’m just saying that, in principle, that category of complaint could be legitimate for that type of character, in contrast to complaints about race/sex/hair that are never valid.)
- Comment on German man says american are savages 2 weeks ago:
So he’s saying “send a German” but what I’m hearing is “tow a gurney with a bike.”
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Look, I didn’t want to shove that all into clarifying square brackets within a quote, OK?
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I mean, I LOL’d at the “this data is internally valid in the sense that I am precisely average in all respects, in relation to all the other [zero] people I know of the same sex” part.
