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Ape… together… strong

There’s only a few hundred of them. There’s 8 billion of us.

It’s called the use of sarcasm.

Same place relative to what?

It’s space-time, not space and time. Moving backwards in one moves you backwards in the other.

Headline sounds like FOSS bro cope. They’re talking about letting users choose to have a robots.txt denying AI dataset scrapers lol.

Not like other sites do a good job of preventing it anyway. robots.txt is not worth the metaphorical paper it’s written on.

You’re on .world. You’re gonna see Reddit libs first and foremost

Americans think they need to get an entire month’s groceries in one go

Well there’s another solution. It also doesn’t involve genocide, funny enough.

You guys got money from your parents to pay for college?

The auto industry takes up a huge segment of our economy, rivalled only by resource extraction. We’re trying to transition to the EV industry, and removing tariffs on EVs would essentially be a death blow to our auto industry, as ICE cars are phased out over the coming decades. So it’s not just about protecting American companies, because American companies manufacture here.

It was only very recently that other car brands started adopting Tesla’s ports. Probably most non-Tesla EVs won’t be found at a Tesla charging station.

With that said, is it really that uncommon for EV owners to not have a charger at home?

Sanctify Israel, arrest the Jewish people. That’s apparently their play.

I think we sell power mostly to alleviate excess supply during low demand periods since most of our generation is relatively stable. Another way to alleviate excess supply in low demand periods, if you can’t sell it to your neighbours, is to shift demand from peak periods by… making peak more expensive.

And a third way is to make the cost of electricity during low demand periods negative, to incentivize excess electricity use (and enterprising individuals with storage capacity to charge up so it can be discharged during peak).

So close…

Now I’m staring at my reflection because it locked instead.

“You say we live indoors yet you pointed to four walls, a door, and a roof. None of these is specific to a building.”

Fucking hell

I agree! My country is so fucked because we’re caught between metric and American units. Worse than just Imperial.

It’s not actually that intuitive when you don’t use kilograms. An American might know what a gram is, but mentally multiplying the conception of one gram by 1000, it’s hard to imagine. You really need experience with kilograms to understand kilograms.

As an analogy, say you don’t know Fahrenheit. I can tell you that 32 °F is the freezing point of water, and 100 °F is a really hot day. Is 300 °F the right temperature to cook chicken at? In theory, you can mentally extrapolate, but in reality it’s hard to say without direct experience with Fahrenheit in cooking (it’s not right, it’s too cold).

To your last point, I don’t value the external appearance of my home at all. I see the outside when I’m exiting and entering. I see the inside for all the time I spent at home. So being able to change the internal appearance is far more important, and condos, as long as you don’t compromise the other units, generally give the freedom to do what you want. We need more affordable condos. Renting is still a useful housing supply, but the condo market needs to be absolutely flooded.

But property is for some reason considered a retirement plan so causing a housing crash would be political suicide.

A freefall from space has not been demonstrated. The 40 km jumps done are well below the 100 km Karman line (accepted as the definition of space, but it’s mostly an on-paper thing) and much lower than the 400-600 km orbit of the ISS. The thing about these jumps is they begin at ~0 km/h already in or just above where the atmosphere is significant. If you fall from significantly higher than this, you have a lot of altitude in freefall and the atmosphere is so thin that you won’t slow down enough for it to matter, leading to a very high speed entry into the lower atmosphere.

Baumgartner’s top speed was Mach 1.25. If you fell from the ISS, your speed when you got to where he began his fall would be around Mach 6-8.

If you fell straight down from the height of the orbit of the ISS, by the time you reached the thicker parts of the atmosphere, you would be travelling at around 2 km/s. Unprotected, this is enough energy to raise your temperature by 500 °C, but not all of that energy would actually go into you so you would be a little bit cooler. But suffice it to say, if you have to get off the ISS without a capsule, you’re cooked.