When you work in graphic design or hang out with other media-cremating people and everyone’s laptop looks the same, a sticker identifies yours as yours. My job has a ThinkPad problem

Did you read it? It’s not saying Halloween is only for queen groups, it’s saying queer groups flocked to Halloween celebrations in the way most people would picture Christmas fanfare.

Dunkin cold brew is delicious. Their drip coffee is just stained water though.

Americans often buy milk by the gallon and have various 1-5 gallon gas cans for common gas powered equipment (lawn mower, leaf blower, generator). I beleive a gallon is tangible here. I’m sure ~4 liters is tangible for metric countries although they often use l/100 miles so they just need to know 1 liter, which I assume many drinks are sold as such

Is that a reversible micro? What did that even work with?

This isn’t really an article that can be summarized. I beleive it’s 3x or 4x longer than the bot read. It’s split into several sections for different cycle types and calculations.

So they do a series of very precise, complicated drive cycles (with a few different options of which cycles and fuzzy math multipliers) to estimate a number that people will never reach because they’re doing 80mph. But somehow to anti-ev people it’s only electric range that is an unforgivable lie, not ambitious MPG ratings. It seems like a disadvantage to use a different rating system but I guess you can’t trust the gen pop to understand MPkW since they can’t picture a bottle of 1kW

“loophole” is a link in the article to https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/12/one-of-the-most-controversial-us-spy-programs-just-got-quietly-renewed/

As I understand it, there’s really two loopholes. One is that they can scoop communications in either direction from the particular communication in question, so could be American to American or foreign to foreign. The other loophe is all of this is put into a database that other agencies can access without a warrant, meaning your domestic communications are freely available.

They’re covering their eyes but peeking between their fingers.

Definitely the windows, but recent planes have gone with huge turbines so it’s not the most reliable tell. I don’t know Airbus well but the turbines on a 737-800 or Mac are pretty big compared to a - 300 or A320

I’m sorry, friend. I could have worded my comment better for you to explain I just wanted to do a PSA. I lost one grandparent to alzheimers and another to dimentia. I can’t imagine what you went through, but I can understand what it’s like to watch someone lose themselves. I know what you mean by certain circumstances being fortunate by time they emerge. The alzheimers grandparent lost communication skills and seemed trapped in his body but the dimentia grandparent seemed aloof to her conditions. There was morbid comfort among us seeing her fade.

I hope you found comfort and peace somewhere along the way.

That’s where speed is relative. But if you had to use a Mach number, it’s be at sea level or standard temp/pressure

I’m sorry for your loss and don’t want to take away from that significance, but I’d like to share some info. Just for general info so people can know what they’re seeing. Vision loss isn’t necessarily obvious to a fully-alert person. It’s not a black void in your vision, it’s a lack of image. A lack of image means a lack of signal, so your brain doesn’t see nothing, it processes nothing. You may be able to recognize a lack of vision if you know something is supposed to be there, but your brain will try to stitch together the information available. Point in case: both of your eyes have a blind spot a little up and a little outward from the center. It’s not just covered by your other eye because you still don’t see it when you close one eye. You can search it for a picture that partially disappears when getting closer.

I get occular migraines that involve distortion followed by central blindness in one eye. The “faces” I see are incredibly unnerving during those episodes. Last time, basically a 2" diagonal slice was removed from peoples faces at conversation distance from forehead to ear. Not a black spot, just gone with the remaining image stitched back together.

Being 50% more efficient doesn’t mean doing twice the work costs less. The bigger the gradient, the more work it’s doing. All that means is an exceptionally hot day won’t cost exceptionally more to cool your house than a cooler day.

Guinness has a little plastic ball in it to make it foam a certain way once opened

Red Bull’s Stealth Party Van built on a Land Rover Defender 130 LWB

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a15350937/on-the-ground-like-a-stealth-potato-red-bulls-4x4-party-van-is-insane/

Does the bed have sliders under the corners? I’d look for that first to see if it’s designed to be either truly held up by the length of the beams or if it’s actually already supported by the corners. If it’s just the corners, then you only need risers at the corner. If it’s making full contact with the floor, I’d prefer to continue supporting it almost fully with longer beams, leaving a gap where this stand goes

Pretty sure the downvote count has a limited effect on total karma. It was to counter downvote brigade from silencing people as you said.

If I’m already out, the hassle isn’t bad at all to get 1-2 days of groceries with the bike, excluding liquid or paper goods. But since I gear up fully, that’s the real hassle. I do my 20-min work commute on the bike about 1/3 the time though and that’s perfectly fine because half the gearing is done on the clock

The defensive drivers are here, they just aren’t yelling at everyone about how their gixxer 600 does 180mph

To drive a car, a driver must:

• accelerate
• maintain speed
• slow for changing road conditions
• make turns
• maintain lane position
• change lanes
• brake for obstacles
• be aware of surrounding cars
• read road signs and respond
• navigate roads to reach a destination

Cruise control can:

• accelerate at the driver’s input
• maintain speed
• slow at the driver’s input

Autopilot can:

• accelerate
• maintain speed
• slow for changing road conditions
• make turns
• maintain lane position
• change lanes
• brake for obstacles
• be aware of surrounding cars
• read road signs and respond
• navigate roads to reach a destination

Which one sounds like it drives the car on its own? Which one is clearly misunderstood by the average driver due to a reference to a feature in an industry experienced by very few people by comparison?