I don’t visit coffee shops, but out and about, people on zoom calls, or regular calls are much louder.

I suppose I never got that far into the show. After the scene where Billy Bob portrays himself as an expert on why windmills don’t work, I just about threw my remote at the TV. It’s just plain lies. Viewers took it as truth.

"Do you have any idea how much diesel they have to burn to mix that much concrete?

"Or make that steel and haul this s*** out here and put it together with a 450-foot crane? You want to guess how much oil it takes to lubricate that f****** thing, or winterize it? In its 20-year lifespan, it won’t offset the carbon footprint of making it.

"And don’t get me started on solar panels and the lithium in your Tesla battery.

“And never mind the fact that if the whole world decided to go electric tomorrow, we don’t have the transmission lines to get the electricity to the cities. It would take 30 years if we started tomorrow.”

For some reason I read State of Fear recently. At the end of the book he wrote page after page of why he thought global warming wasn’t real.

I can’t recall the exact language he used, but he said something to the effect of “we shouldn’t use any global warming protections until we can exactly predict the weather for ten years. If we can’t predict the weather precisely, the obviously we can’t prove global warming is real.”

Aside from being full of misleading and cherry picked data. The book was terrible. The whole thing read like a bad science lesson from a second rate conspiracy theorist.

If you really want to vomit from propaganda masquerading as entertainment, watch Landman.

It depends on what you’re voting for. The House of representatives is based on your district, not your state as a whole. There are some very oddly shaped districts to take advantage of this.

For anyone that doesn’t understand what gerrymandering is:

1. Imagine your favorite soccer team scores however many goals in a season. Now you have the power to reallocate those goals amongst whatever games you want. Instead of losing some games 3-1 and winning some 4-0 you win every single game 2-1, except you lose one game 40-0. Still the same number of goals, but your record is significantly different. Now do this with votes by district.

2. Different districts get different voting support. There are areas that the line to vote is very long. Sometimes hours. This isn’t an accident. Some people just don’t have time, capacity, or the effort to spend half of their day voting.

For example: Georgia banned giving water to people waiting in line to make conditions worse.

You could always start by teaching English in another country. I recall that it pays quite well and is in demand in many countries. The requirements are also very low.

As for learning another language. You get better at it when you’re around it constantly.

Odds are Keychron has what you need.

…Or at least close enough.

I was waiting for a punchline involving an sand or the letter ‘s’… Still good though

I mean, I like my EV… But bragging about it’s performance in winter? Not the sales pitch I would go with. I get 1/3 the range of a mild day, and I’m not blasting the heat.

Fox News. Endless propaganda and ratings driven idiocy. People watch the most alarmist “news” and they jump on this bandwagon of stupidity. In particular, people of limited education/intelligence love to be anti science, because for once they can feel like the person that is actually smart.

It’s scary.

Before Amazon was as big as it is today, they approached me for a position. I had three different 1 hour interviews, then I found out they still expected me to fly to Seattle for 3 full days of interviews. I told them I was not interested. Before I knew much about corporate America, my gut told me that was a bad sign. Glad I listened.

During the pandemic, interviews seemed to have endless rounds of ridiculous questions. There needs to be a law that interviewers need to pay you at the position’s rate for anything beyond 2 hours. It would eliminate so much bullshit.

Wow, that was a long, informative watch. Kinda wish they had a tldr;

My take:

• Run water until it’s hot prior to starting dishwasher
• Powder is probably intentionally ‘nerfed’ at the store to sell pods
• Pods didn’t necessarily outperform powder

Unfortunately, the product that they came up with is probably more expensive than my Costco pods. But at least I learned stuff.

I’ve seen my cousin on several “reality” shows. He’s a professional sound guy, but sometimes they put him on set as a customer or whatever when they need a body. They’re all staged.

Meh. Reddit had a very strong political bias.

Lemmy doesn’t have the same polish, it’s a little more difficult to create an account, and doesn’t have any marketing. Also success snowballs.

I respect the crap out of everyone that pitches in to make Lemmy as good as it is. But if I’m being real, I’m here to spite Reddit. Few people have that moral give-a-fuck. Spite is easy, following through to do something that is more challenging and pays nothing is not.

Same. For whatever reason Jellyfin just does not want to work outside of my network. I have fiddled with port numbers, settings, and everything else. I have no idea why it won’t work.

He is Franz Kafka. Franz Kafka!

TIL there is a cover song and director’s cut of this sweet Rock Opera.

Maybe start with clearly defined maximum pricing, publicly visible numbers, and strict punishment for denying doctor recommended claims. Also no “out of network”. If your hospital accepts insurance, they are in network.

The venn diagram of massive profits and legit health care is just two circles that don’t touch.

Those 100 companies have made it so it’s incredibly difficult not to buy from them.

Groceries? There’s like 10 companies that own all of the food supply. Good luck figuring out which one’s have child labor, and a horrendous environmental impact. They’ve very purposely masked that image.

Oh wow, everything is recyclable! No, those companies just slapped that logo on all of their products so we can ignorantly wish-cycle their garbage. Most of it ends up in the landfill.

Don’t want a car? Our cities are very deliberately designed to require cars. There is a very strong private agenda against good public transportation.

Then there’s the pollution. These companies pollute so much more than we know. Whether that’s dumping forever chemicals into our water, or taking private jets everywhere. It’s not like the label on your T-shirt tells you that.

Finally find a good company? They’ll buy it up, lobby against it, or coerce them out of business. Just look how many companies Luxottica has destroyed.

There’s layer after layer of obfuscation to hide what these companies are doing. It’s not just a matter of picking Product A over Product B. We rarely have much choice, or the information to make better choices.

I still find that insane.

“Russia has been attacking us for 2 years. We’re going to attack back.” “No, don’t do that. That will escalate things.” “Oh cool, I guess we’ll just keep taking it.”

It’s been raining more than average here… So yeah. Same difference?

Randy Savage “Macho Man”