My friend: congratulations on eating a healthy meal. It’s truly hard with all the options available today.
I have something that will change your life. Get a baking tray and cover it with non-stick foil. Put those vegetables in a bowl and pour some olive oil on them. Sprinkle your spices on them and put them on the tray. Put it in the oven at 350°F until they are slightly toasted.
Conservative groups have crafted a plan for demolishing the federal government’s efforts to counter climate change — and it wouldn’t stop with President Joe Biden’s policies....
Democrats are not center-right, and comparisons to European political parties are not accurate. The US has a “first past the post” electoral system. US political parties are more like coalitions of smaller parties.
The Democratics encompass all the left wing parties, except the Greens (who are essentially Russian agents at this point). The Republicans are the conservative coalition (immigration nuts, rich dudes, Nazis, people who have experienced a trauma and are taking their anger and fear out on the world, etc.).
If you want to move the Democrats left, you need to get elected and raise money like AOC does. Sorry, shouting on the Fediverse doesn’t count.
Besides not being aesthetically pleasing, what’s the downside of strictly using countertop induction cooktops, both commercial and household varieties, as my burners? If I go for the individual cooktops, I could easily replace them individually if they break or if technology or features improve, plus I can put them away for...
No one is cooking enough for their fossil fuel emissions to affect the world in any way. Throwing something out and buying everything new has a cost as well. Plus for cooking, it’s hard to beat a cast iron pan.
that you load up with a tablespoon from a traditional container
The point of the pods is to make money from people with two seconds to make their coffee. Yes, it’s wasteful and expensive, but that’s the point. You can make great coffee over an open fire. Or in a basic French press.
Exactly. Something you use every day can be $300 and work out to a good deal. Divide by the number of times you use it. Less than $1 per day for anything is great.
Because a bus that serves a town of 500 people will come once an hour, at most. Also, many people can’t walk far to/from the one bus stop. Busses do not solve a problem in small towns, because there is no traffic and plenty of parking.
Asking questions like “what do you think of this?” means nothing. It’s one dude’s experience decades ago. There was lots of irradiated stuff from back then. We were literally nuking shit just to see what would happen.
The problem with UFO enthusiasts is that they think they are qualified to guess what happened. At this point it’s unknown what happened to that guy, or these pilots. “Unknown” doesn’t equal aliens any more than it equals angels or my cousin Bob.
Burned metal doesn’t mean anything. Surely someone examined it. Why don’t they mention its composition? It’s probably some basic metal that would never be from outer space. Spaceships are made of some crazy shit to deal with extreme heat and low pressure.
Well, your models are wrong. In both examples, you assume exponential growth will continue forever. Resource limits are a thing in the real world, as evidenced by every population in history (humans or animals).
Here’s the thing: your potato quality picture is 10x better than any picture of a flying saucer. You can clearly see what it is.
The problem with “unidentified” phenomena is that they aren’t identified. You can’t jump from “we don’t know what this is” to “aliens” without proof. If you do, that’s just faith not science.
In that way, aliens are just angels for atheists. They’re a social phenomenon not a physical one. Notice how no one sees werewolves, vampires, zombies, etc. anymore. They didn’t go away, people just stopped believing in them.
People in history have speculated about life in the rest of the universe, like on the moon and Jupiter. We even observed their “canals” on Mars. Things that we know now are almost impossible. Notice how “UFOs” didn’t exist prior to about 1900. When humans gain the ability to fly, so do these aliens. Their ships somehow gained speed and maneuverability as ours did.
“But what if it really is aliens! That would be huge. We have to investigate each event in case they’re real!”
This is how we know UFOs are just optical illusions: They change as we change, as society changes. It’s like when you see your exact duplicate unexpectedly. You don’t think “I have a clone who copies my every move!” You just guess there’s a mirror there. But yeah, I guess you’ll miss the 1 in a trillion times it’s actually your clone.
Yeah, you assumed no catastrophic failures. On long timelines there are going to be world or civilization ending events.
There are so many species that were wiped out through their actions or just naturally. That’s the point of the Drake equation; the sky should be full of other civilizations, but it isn’t.
The common answer is that there may be a “great filter”, some event that all advanced species encounter. Maybe it’s ahead of us, or maybe it’s behind us. It could be something simple like “walking upright is rare” or it could be some powerful weapon everyone discovers.
Yeah, it’s free votes from nutbags with very little risk. Everyone involved is “just asking questions”. Plus it distracts from actual issues (hottest 3 weeks on record).
Camera technology has advanced so fast we have 4K videos of every battle in Ukraine. 95% of people have a good video camera on them at all times. Some people literally film every aspect of their lives and post it online.
If there were alien spaceships buzzing Earth, it would be in the background of Instagram videos within days. People would capture them inadvertently.
No need to make up conspiracy theories. He’s just a jerk. It’s not a plan.
The Saudis have no common interests with an electric vehicle company. And he has nothing to offer them. Even if you think they hate Twitter, they could have bought it themselves. There’s no national security issues with them owning a social network.
I feel like rich people in the UK don’t want to invest in tech or new ideas. That’s the reason Silicon Valley exists: there’s smart people and willing investors there.
Even so, it’s mainly CA, NYC, and maybe Boston doing the heavy lifting in the US. The rest of the country is just some cows and corn. Maybe Chicago has tech companies now. Deep dish tech? I dunno.
They wanted to sell because he stupidly offered a huge amount in a binding agreement. Musk had already bought a portion of Twitter. He wanted to drive up the price with a fake offer, then find a “problem” so he could sell at the higher price. It was just a pump and dump scheme.
The problem is, it’s very hard (and illegal) to do that with someone else’s company. Twitter’s lawyers wrote the purchase agreement pretty well. They basically forced Musk to either buy the company 100% or go to jail, courtesy of the SEC.
It’s just wrong though. Deserts are particularly huge in the West. Essentially the whole states of Arizona and New Mexico, plus parts of Utah and Nevada.
An easy example is to search for a product comparison. “Best ___ for 2023”. Those have way too much SEO and most are barely one person’s rambling opinions, possibly made with AI.
All it does is let leadership not define what they actually want, and make changes on the fly, which leads to longer dev times and worse code. Fuck agile, bring back waterfall.
Yeah, a lot of “meeting fatigue” is just bad management too. I have been on teams with great meetings where they stop when they run out of things to say (or cancel the meeting altogether!). I have also seen meetings where they go on and on about “virtual meeting fatigue” for 15 minutes. What do you think is causing the fatigue? This extra 15 minutes!
My producers dragged me to see ‘Barbie’ and it was one of the most woke movies have ever seen. My ful review of this flaming garbage heap of a film will be out on my YouTube channel tomorrow at 10am ET....
“Woke” is the new “politically correct”. If you want know what they really mean, just replace the word “woke” with “treating people with respect” or “respectful”.
As in, “I hate treating people with respect” or “Hollywood is too respectful nowadays”. “When did the world become so respectful?!?”
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Conservatives have already written a climate plan for Trump’s second term (www.politico.com)
Conservative groups have crafted a plan for demolishing the federal government’s efforts to counter climate change — and it wouldn’t stop with President Joe Biden’s policies....
Organic, huh? (lemmy.world)
Talk me out of using countertop induction cooktops (with outlets for both higher powered commercial and lower powered household devices) as my burners vs having a built-in cooktop.
Besides not being aesthetically pleasing, what’s the downside of strictly using countertop induction cooktops, both commercial and household varieties, as my burners? If I go for the individual cooktops, I could easily replace them individually if they break or if technology or features improve, plus I can put them away for...
LG's New Instant Coffee Machine Mixes Two Pods, Generates Twice the Trash, and its Nasa-inspired design looks like the Apollo lunar lander is relieving itself in your coffee cup. (gizmodo.com)
New to specialty coffee, my setup so far (lemmy.nz)
Picked up an Aeropress and a Comandante C40....
[image] Cars are an incredibly inefficient way to move people (lemmy.world)
UFOs Are a Common Sight, Former Military Official Tells Congress (Non Paywall in comments) (www.wsj.com)
Non Paywalledand… A replay of the hearing
Watch Live: UFO hearing underway as House panel pushes for more transparency (www.cbsnews.com)
Lemmies, We just reached over 10k subscribers, thank you all for helping us grow from our small humble beginning, to now the capital for US political debates and news. (lemmy.world)
It is happening! r/place goes out with a bang (lemmy.world)
Say it ain’t so (lemmy.world)
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Why is technology not making us more productive? (www.bbc.com)
I hope Warner Bros. marketing is paying attention... (lemmy.world)
They should've used the internet. (discuss.online)
Maybe they’re Amish.
Musk's new idea (slrpnk.net)
Land use in the US (lemmy.ml)
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‘World Of Warcraft’ Players Trick AI-Scraping Games Website Into Publishing Nonsense (www.forbes.com)
Agile is shit and leads to worse outcomes.
All it does is let leadership not define what they actually want, and make changes on the fly, which leads to longer dev times and worse code. Fuck agile, bring back waterfall.
Right wing commentator, Ben Shapiro pictured at the Barbie movie wearing all black, frowning and holding a stack of angry notes he took during the movie. (beehaw.org)
My producers dragged me to see ‘Barbie’ and it was one of the most woke movies have ever seen. My ful review of this flaming garbage heap of a film will be out on my YouTube channel tomorrow at 10am ET....