tempest
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- Comment on There was no need to ever improve upon THIS 1 day ago:
Exactly.
Each of those knobs needs an injection mould, each switch behind it a supply chain. Iterating on digital design is far cheaper as well.
It’s far cheaper to use what are effectively 10 year old tablets in the cheaper cars. Since LCDs are being mass manufactured for other things that likely get a nice economy of scale.
- Comment on From the outside looking in 2 days ago:
That, and to pull them out during road rage incidents. Also pull them out when you’re scared of a black person. Don’t forget take them to school to get revenge.
They need them for a lot of reasons.
- Comment on Just answer the question you fuckin' nerd 4 days ago:
That’s one of those fun things until you have to clean it.
- Comment on one bright second 1 week ago:
For there to be cookies one must assume an eternal cookie banner / pop up telling you this site uses cookies.
- Comment on one bright second 1 week ago:
So if all the existing matter came from the big Bang, is it possible to condense it all back into one place?
- Comment on And they mocked me for my WoW subscription 😗 2 weeks ago:
The built a thing by burning investor money to artificially lower the price and sell out high on stock IPOs is still going strong I see.
- Comment on Cause and Effect 3 weeks ago:
I mean most don’t go to their PhDs because it is effectively training for being an academic. Except there are very few jobs for academics so you’ll be an adjunct professor getting paid poverty wages.
- Comment on This Plastic Mr. Fantastic 4 weeks ago:
Cardboard is recyclable so long as you don’t print on it and it’s the brown corrugated stuff. Which is a big ask.
Most of it doesn’t get recycled into more boxes though. Think like those cup holders you get at a take out place.
The other thing is trees area renewable resource in theory but we use a lot of fossil fuels to harvest and process then.
- Comment on save the planet 🌎 4 weeks ago:
Same.
The people I’ve noticed complain seem to buy giant drinks and let them sit around for a while.
Never been a fan of flat warm soft drinks myself.
- Comment on save the planet 🌎 4 weeks ago:
Yeah the last time I drank a can of coke it was crazy expensive. Like an entire dollar or some shit.
- Comment on PUT THE TRAINS IN THE BAG 4 weeks ago:
Those are hitting main populations between new York and LA plus the cities in Texas etc.
It roughly follows existing rail links
- Comment on Natural selection at work 5 weeks ago:
Someone should build a whale MRI to check your hypothesis
- Comment on Natural selection at work 5 weeks ago:
Can probably only breath while sitting up.
The Ven diagram of pugs I’ve met whose owners tell me they got surgery to assist breathing is almost a circle
- Comment on I Got This Right, Right? 5 weeks ago:
Thank you.
- Comment on I Got This Right, Right? 5 weeks ago:
Can we get a link from The associate press or Reuters and not a British tabloid.
- Comment on No brainer 1 month ago:
I mean that is the best pill. It’s like inheriting a free quarry. I could instantly undercut every other quarry and would not need to maintain any of the crushers or land to provide any type of gravel.
I’m definitely choosing that one for sure.
- Comment on How long do we have before PCs get locked bootloaders and corporations ban installation of "non-approved" software? (for context: Google is restricting sideloading worldwide on Android ETA 2027) 1 month ago:
Tell they to the Intel management engine or secure platform module
- Comment on Who is the enemy? 1 month ago:
Their livelihood doesn’t hinge on playing the game. That’s just incidental. They depend on interaction with the audience and stopping to read and understand something is dead air.
- Comment on how do you slice it?? 1 month ago:
One of the first things they will teach you in engineering design is to start by simplifying the model. So if you’re trying to figure out something like the surface area is a fish you assume it’s a cylinder then the math is easy. Same thing with assuming the object is in a vacuum. If you do that you ignore wind resistance and it makes the math easier. You can come back later and take the wind resistance into account.
- Comment on 100% vegetarian 2 months ago:
You don’t pocket mulch?
- Comment on Florida ounces 2 months ago:
I mean I’m pretty sure the American system is defined using SI units so it’s mostly because of American exceptionalism and a fetish for unit conversion.
- Comment on The White House Rose Garden was replaced by pavement 2 months ago:
Looks like a condo roof
- Comment on GOG’s Freedom To Buy Campaign Gives Away Controversial Games For Free To Protest Censorship 2 months ago:
Good trash or bad trash?
- Comment on Think about what today is considered next level vs what it used to be 2 months ago:
The quality of the media was not as good perhaps but I do miss when the world moved just a little bit slower.
No 24h news cycle, no social media, no being pressured to be connected and available to work at all times.
- Comment on Too bad we can't have good public transportation 2 months ago:
I mean this is sorta one of the things an autocracy does well. You might get substandard work and a lot of graft but when the order comes down no one gets to complain when they run a train line through your house.
- Comment on kingdom come 2 months ago:
Technically all fruits are vegetables since a vegetable is just a plant we eat.
- Comment on I'm doing my part! 3 months ago:
What is it about flat warm soda that appeals to you?
- Comment on I'm doing my part! 3 months ago:
The reality is more like there are just a few massive suppliers for restaurants. Sysco just offers paper straws and removes plastic ones and every establishment just orders a different SKU the next week.
- Comment on I'm doing my part! 3 months ago:
Honestly I don’t give one shit about the paper straws. I wonder if the people who don’t like them let their drinks sit for hours and chew on the straw till their soggy. Every paper straw I’ve had has lasted the length of time it takes me to drink the drink.
Still banning those things but not fucking everything else in the supermarket that is packaged in plastic is such a massive and stupid waste of everyone’s time and effort. Such an imperceptible inch forward they almost deserve no praise at all.
- Comment on You can drive 74 hours and still be in Germany. The American mind can't comprehend this. 3 months ago:
I mean sure, but I’ve been stuck at lights that long too