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Advocate for freedom and tolerance even if you say things I do not like

Adversary of Fediblock

Accept that I'll probably say something you don't like and I'll give you the same benefit, and maybe we can find some truth about the world.

Ah... Is the Alliteration clever or stupid? Don't answer that, I sort of know the answer already...

I have a personal addendum to shopping cart theory.

If you can return your cart, then you're worthy to live in civilized society. It's your mess, and it was easy to do, and it makes life easier for everyone.

If you return an additional cart someone else left there as well as your own cart, you're the sort of person who could build a civilization.

Seems shallow at first, but I will say that when I see an abandoned cart now, I'll take the time to return it.

Stainless Steel bros strong forever.

Keep that bottle away from that damn elf.

Project Farm did a test of nonstick pans and a seasoned cast iron pan, and the outcome was essentially that cast iron isn't non-stick. It wasn't even close compared to any of the non-stick surfaces.

>People are gonna lose their minds over that acronym if it's real.

No kidding! The nuhgufufl!

There's a clip going around of Jordan Peterson threatening to use his Bronco to splash someone with cold slushy water.

I rode a bike everywhere in the frozen north for several years (and not somewhere like Vancouver, somewhere it actually gets cold like -40 for weeks at a time) and he's talking about the difference between the fantasy of electric vehicles or other alternatives to current transportation being touted and the reality that when it's cold and icy out you want a dependable and warm vehicle.

EVs in cold conditions charge more slowly, and don't have as much energy available (or the battery can be conditioned, meaning energy is required to keep the battery in the ideal temperature range), and to heat the cabin you presently use resistive heating which is a pure burning of energy which directly impacts your vehicle range, and if it's so cold you can die if your vehicle stops, vehicle range stops being a mere anxiety and becomes an existential threat. It either brings you warm to your destination or there's a good chance you die.

The whole rhetorical device was dumb and the delivery was bad, but the core point is correct as long as we're thinking about how to actually successfully achieve a thing instead of just proclaiming the problem solved and yelling louder than anyone who says anything differently. EV sales are way down at the moment and I think that this is a core part of the reason, because a lot of people don't trust that they're going to work when they need it.

It's been pretty cool where I live not just last year but this year too. I just got in from outside, sitting in front of a heater trying to warm up (but today is particularly cold)

I'm actually thankful. I've been trying to make it a habit to get out with my son every single day I'm at home so he's getting a normal childhood as opposed to an iPod kid YouTube nanny childhood, and I've been largely succeeding during the spring and summer, we haven't had any days so hot we couldn't go outside. Usually days we don't make it out are cold and rainy.

My favorite woodchipper themed anime.

I do wish half the character designs were hugely different, but I like a lot of the story and the magic world building.

I'd treat it a bit differently than that because rather than affecting the rate of heat transfer, the evaporation actually creates a new area of lower temperature. Matters thermodynamically because rather than just bleeding energy into the atmosphere to reach equalibrium. you are using the phase change to create a lower temperature equalibrium. That's how humans can survive in temperatures greater than 100F.

Where were these based actors over the past 15 years?

Humidity matters because evaporating water soaks up energy making a thing cooler, so warm temperatures in 0% humidity for a human being will be actually cooler than the same temperature in 100% humidity since the energy is being used on evaporation but the water can't go anywhere otherwise. With the fan, either it's assisting with evaporation making you much cooler or it's just pushing air cooler than yourself over you. The former is far more effective.

There are house coolers that use this principle called "bog coolers" that spray water on a heat exchanger cooling it.

Nooooo not my heckin pornerinos!

Souka

I bet it's the obvious ruling that presidents have sovereign immunity to actions taken in their role as president.

Anyone with two brain cells to rub together would know that's the case, but because it's orange man they can't wrap their heads around the fact that if it was any other way it would open every Democrat president up to getting charged for things that happened in the normal course of government business.

Oh, neat. Is odyssey still up?

I was watching a react video to one of shoeonheads videos and she described this as the story behind her marriage, so I guess unironically...

If they hate the university then just expel them. Problem solved.

How embarrassing.

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