Not me, but an old coworker used a similar trick to see if reviewers were actually reading his documentation. Before sending a large document out for review he would add a sentence to some random paragraph stating, "If you read this, come to my office and I will give you $20." Surprisingly few people ever came for the money.
It's also great excuse to drink while wallowing in dread. I have a bottle of gin set aside for the occasion.
Making quiche for brunch. Apparently an omelet is fine, but a scrambled omelette is gay.
A couple of months ago I wrote a single comment
The modlog shows you were having quite a spat with some mods 5 months ago.
Nothing else
Again, the modlog shows otherwise.
https://lemmy.world/modlog?page=1&userId=111123
Why bring this up now, five months later?
@The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world is a meme god.
@PugJesus@lemmy.world keeps history alive and the Confederacy in check.
@anon6789@lemmy.world is our resident owl afficionado.
There are many others, of course, but I seem to notice these three a lot in my Subscribed feed.
We are homeschooling one of our kids because his particular needs were not being met by the local school. Meeting other homeschool families is always nerve-wracking for me. I never know if they're going to be a normal family adapting to an unusual situation, or tinfoil-hat nuts using homeschool as an excuse to hide their children from the outside world.
Loans aren't the problem. Insane loan debt is a symptom of an unsustainable higher education system.
You can learn a lot on your own, but many careers require a formal education (medicine, law, engineering, etc.). By itself, banning student loans within our current system merely makes it harder for poorer people to attain those careers.
Some of those instance names are, uh, interesting.
The Washington Redskins finally changed their name, and all my conservative relatives were like "What a bunch of ridiculous woke bullshit!" Really, guys? You don't understand why that might not be the best name?
Great quote from a Slate op-ed: “You can often protect your client against the government, but you can never protect him against himself.”
That author has the best name for a fake ID I've ever seen.
I especially liked the Neanderthals. Outsiders looking in.
The end-of-year numbers aren't in yet, but 2023 should be the year that wind and solar finally generate more electricity than coal here in the US.
https://www.eia.gov/outlooks/steo/report/BTL/2023/02-genmix/article.php
For new generation projects coming online in 2023, 86% of the electricity is from non-fossil sources. The generation capacity that was retired in 2023 was all fossil based.
https://www.energy.gov/eere/vehicles/articles/fotw-1304-august-21-2023-2023-non-fossil-fuel-sources-will-account-86-new
"Resistor" usually implies a device with a fixed resistance value. A rheostat is a device with variable resistance. The two terms are not synonymous.
As for condenser and capacitor, Wikipedia has an interesting tidbit:
Early capacitors were known as condensers, a term that is still occasionally used today, particularly in high power applications, such as automotive systems. The term was first used for this purpose by Alessandro Volta in 1782, with reference to the device's ability to store a higher density of electric charge than was possible with an isolated conductor. The term became deprecated because of the ambiguous meaning of steam condenser, with capacitor becoming the recommended term in the UK from 1926, while the change occurred considerably later in the United States.
They can and do get sick. Here's an example of bovine parasites whose life cycle goes from cow to grass and back again:
https://livestock.extension.wisc.edu/articles/managing-worms-on-summer-pastures/
The former fighters found themselves missing the freedom of the front-lines as they adjusted to the mundane nature of office work. Huzaifa, a 24 year-old former sniper, said, “The Taliban used to be free of restrictions, but now we sit in one place, behind a desk and a computer 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Life’s become so wearisome; you do the same things every day.”
“In our ministry, there’s little work for me to do,” said Abdul Nafi, 25. “Therefore, I spend most of my time on Twitter. We’re connected to speedy Wi-Fi and Internet. Many mujahedin, including me, are addicted to the Internet, especially Twitter.”
And with a 9-to-5 comes the dreaded commute—and actually having to show up for the job in order to get paid. “What I don’t like about Kabul is its ever-increasing traffic holdups.” Omar Mansur, 32, said. ”These days, you have to go to the office before 8 AM and stay there till 4 PM. If you don’t go, you’re considered absent, and [the wage for] that day is cut from your salary. We’re now used to that, but it was especially difficult in the first two or three months.”
I never thought I would identify so much with the freaking Taliban.
In some places that is a strategy to satisfy zoning requirements. The builder has to provide a minimum amount of outdoor area per dwelling unit. They could create a large ground-level courtyard, or they can create a bunch of tiny balconies that sum up to the same total area. The ladder latter strategy allows a larger building to exist on the same lot.
Edit: Stupid voice-to-text always gets me.
It's the same way you know the things outside your window are real. You look at the light coming to you from that object and make inferences as best you can. As long as new observations and inferences line up with old observations and inferences, then you can be reasonably confident that your growing model of the outside world is accurate. When something doesn't add up then you revise your model and keep iterating with new observations.
There's no difference whether the object appears to be within our solar system or far outside it. We see something and we interpret what we can from the available observations. Occasionally, if something is close enough and interesting enough, we send a robot to orbit the thing or maybe land on it and gather better observations, like how Rosetta/Philae visited a passing comet.
The community was removed from lemmy.ml by their admins. Here's the reason in the modlog:
Unmoderated duplicate of /c/usa . Any world-related can use /c/worldnews
As people dive deeper into a hobby they have very particular desires. That means two things: (1) specialty parts with very low sales volumes, and (2) people are willing to pay extra to get exactly what they want. If I just want two wheels and a set of pedals and don't really care about the details then I can grab any $200 bike from a department store. But if I want, say, a very particular drivetrain, carbon fiber parts to shave weight, maybe a specific suspension design, mounting points for niche accessories, etc., then I'm shopping for very specific items from boutique brands. That's why a very small number of hardcore riders do crazy stuff like pay over $4k for a set of wheels.
You'll see the same thing in other hobbies, too. I can't imagine what some people spend on their gaming PCs.
I was talking with my high school girlfriend about future career ideas and she mentioned one that made me think, "Huh, I never thought about that." So I decided to read about it at the school library during lunch one day.
I can directly tie my college degree, all the places I've lived, most of my friends, half the countries I've traveled to, and meeting my spouse all back to that one moment.
Your first point is technically correct, but 24-hour days and 7-day weeks are a de facto global standard at this point in history. There are outliers, like the Javanese 5-day week or the experimental 5-day Soviet calendar, but they are few and far between.
By monogamy do you mean having one partner, and only one partner, for life? That isn't the norm. It's very rare, at least in the western world.
Serial monogamy is the norm, and seems to make the most sense for most people.
Polygamy and polyamory only work for a small subset of people. I don't see those types of relationships ever becoming mainstream.
The meaning depends on the intent of the person displaying that flag.
The innocent option is that it's military cosplay. The US military uses black or gray monochrome flags since red/white/blue is bad for camouflage. Some people think it looks badass, so they mimic it.
The negative option is that it's a "no quarter" flag.
IIRC, Egypt also sees Hamas as a threat since Hamas is backed by Iran. They aren't going to do anything to make life easier for Hamas or similar groups.
I was working for an HVAC contractor and we did a job at a prison. We would work at night while all the residents were locked up and sleeping. We had a corrections officer escorting us the whole time. The hallways were all on the exterior of the building and lined with large windows. That allowed the guards in the towers outside to watch people moving within the building.
One night, in the wee hours of the morning, we're walking down the hallway when a red laser dot appears on the wall next to us. All of us contractors freeze instantly. We don't know what is happening and we DO NOT want to get shot. Our escort gets on his radio and tells the guys in the tower to stop fucking with us. The little red dot disappears and we go on with our night.
We were briefly afraid for our lives because some bored asshole prison guard couldn't resist flagging us with the muzzle of his rifle and teasing us with the laser sight.
Physical seasons, and the modern western calendar, are both based on the sun. Having two moons wouldn't make a difference there.
Two moons would make the ocean tides more complicated, though.
You might like this fun article from The Atlantic last week: Congress Accidentally Legalized Weed Six Years Ago
Here's an archive.is link for those who prefer it.
After digging into it, we banned the two sh.itjust.works accounts mentioned in this post. A quick search of the database did not reveal any similar accounts, though that doesn't mean they aren't there.
Violent chaos in the US. One of three things will happen:
Good ol' Shitpost Calligrapher!
https://theshitpostcalligrapher.tumblr.com/
Dracunculiasis (disease caused by Guinea worm infection in humans) is almost eradicated. We hit a new all-time low for known cases: 13 last year, and now only 3 in the first half of 2023.
Homeopathics, though sometimes even a placebo can have beneficial effects.
Some German speakers say "Erdapfel" which is literally "earth apple."
That cheaper 88 octane fuel is a blend of 85% unleaded gasoline and 15% ethanol. It's also known as E15 fuel.
The ethanol is an oxygenate: it adds oxygen atoms to the fuel mix so the fuel burns more completely. That's good for vehicle emissions. However, the ethanol is less energy dense than gasoline so you will get slightly worse mileage.
https://www.motortrend.com/news/what-is-e15-gasoline-pros-cons/
Archive.is might help:
https://archive.is/aAI5s
The protocols and software are all free and open source. You can't stop a company from running a Lemmy or Mastodon instance any more than you could stop an individual from doing so.
The nice thing is that the system allows for free choice. Your favorite instance isn't forced to federate with a hypothetical Meta instance, and and even if it does you can choose which communities to subscribe to or avoid. Who cares if Meta runs an instance, or a hundred instances? You can simply choose not to use them.
Does Weird Al count? Because he is just as talented as any "serious" musician.
Also, The Presidents of the United States of America.
It includes ... copies of historical documents including the U.S. Constitution, Declaration of Independence and Pledge of Allegiance.
https://www.npr.org/2024/03/27/1241186975/donald-trump-bible-god-bless-usa
The Associated Press seems to have a decent results presentation ready to go:
https://apnews.com/projects/election-results-2024/
I wouldn't bother watching minute-by-minute. There is a decent chance that some swing state will be close enough to trigger a recount, and/or one side files lawsuits challenging the results. This circus is far from over.