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- Comment on How it feels using TOR as a Brit rn 🤘 13 hours ago:
It bothers me that the sunglasses are in front of the diagonal. That diagonal is also the wrong way.
- Comment on The next time you hear someone say they're just vibing in life without a job, just look at this image. 5 days ago:
The Japanese Elvis culture springs to mind.
Also, there are “cowboys” everywhere in the world.
You mentioned lederhosen and of course those types exist outside of Germany too.
- Comment on I just figured this out today 1 week ago:
Don’t know that one.
- Comment on In the cave 2 weeks ago:
The meme is referencing Plato, so I’d say it was originally his idea.
- Comment on xkcd #3115: Unsolved Physics Problems 2 weeks ago:
hair plugs that admittedly look pretty good.
Nah, it also doesn’t fool anyone. it looks like a toupee, except that he can’t take it off.
- Comment on Say Hello to the World's Largest Hard Drive, a Massive 36TB Seagate 2 weeks ago:
You wouldn’t download your mom.
- Comment on Why Americans Can’t Buy the World’s Best Electric Car 3 weeks ago:
All car manufacturers world wide are subsidized.
subsidytracker.goodjobsfirst.org/parent-totals
Of course China can make cheaper cars, because most car manufacturers get their parts produced in China anyway.
- Comment on Barbers HATE this one simple trick 3 weeks ago:
That’s no moon.
- Comment on Have a good trip 3 weeks ago:
With enginuity like this it should be possible to make a water trap to keep the smell contained.
- Comment on Does people doing things that upset others also upset you? 3 weeks ago:
A dog without leash shows that the owner hasn’t bothered taking dog training classes or in the case of my country that they haven’t bothered learning the law. If they can’t be bothered to do that, I worry that they are not responsible enough to take care of the dog, and they shouldn’t be allowed to own a dog. Dog ownership ought to require a license or mandatory training.
The person using the perfume might also not even know about the issue, but in that case, I don’t think it makes sense to blame the consumer. There are simply too many types of products that are potentially dangerous when used wrong. Perhaps the seller ought to have warned about it, but I doubt that would make much difference. You can still be upset about it being produced. Lots of things are like that.
Sometimes you can blame the consumer and sometimes you can’t.
- Comment on We really don't want to talk about our problems 4 weeks ago:
If I could drop out of everything for 29 days, I wouldn’t come back at all.
- Comment on Corporations are saving the planet! 4 weeks ago:
The caps was a problem yes. Not just littering, but also in sorting for recycling, where they’d often end up in the wrong place.
It obviously depends on where and how it’s done, but the thing I’ve heard is that due to (the lack of) weight and size the bottle caps would end up in the paper badges, which would ruin the paper from being recycled. It’s better if it follows the bottle. PET bottles (including caps) are shredded, washed and used for new bottles.
Same thing happened to the pull tabs on aluminium cans. Those used to be separate too.
- Comment on Tesla's European car sales nosedive for fifth month as customers switch to Chinese EVs 5 weeks ago:
The mentioned cars are somewhat outdated.
You might also want to consider newer models like Renault 5, Skoda Elroq or Hyundai Ioniq.
- Comment on There is probably a subsection of vampires that use careful sun exposure as tattoos or bodymods 5 weeks ago:
People do that.
- Comment on Your TV Is Spying On You 5 weeks ago:
Sometimes hundreds of snapshots a second.
That’s a pretty neat FPS for a tv.
- Comment on McPenis 1 month ago:
McCockNugget
- Comment on PROGRESS 1 month ago:
If you use 3 slices of ham in a regular sandwich, you will need 9 slices to create the scaled version of the pictured sandwich.
- Comment on PROGRESS 1 month ago:
In comparison to an ordinary sandwich.
Ordinary sandwich: 2 bread 1 ham. Pictured trianglewich : 3 bread 3 ham.
- Comment on PROGRESS 1 month ago:
Probably more than that.
There’s 50% more bread, but 200% more ham.
- Comment on The "standard" car charger is usually overkill—but your electrician might not know that [32:26] 1 month ago:
My guess would be yes, somewhat, probably. but maybe not much. As he says in the last part of the video: If it gets hot, you have a problem.
Better ask an electrician.
The devices sold as “EV wall chargers” are not really chargers. They’re simple power suppliy units, whether or not it has bells and whistles to time the charging and what not.
The actual battery charger is in the car. It will attempt to suck as much energy from the PSU as it can and it will itself balance the load and all that. Having a separate unit also trying to regulate the load seems like something that will inevitably create more heat than necessary somewhere in that chain.
Generally speaking you do not need to protect the car from unstable supply. It will protect itself.
I will still recommend getting a proper “EV charger” to ensure that it can utilize all the phases unlike a regular garage plug. Also to ensure that it is properly grounded, which can be an issue for some cars.
At least here in Europe, where we have 3 phases. It’s much better to have all 3 phases wide open and let the car suck a little on each, instead of having it overloading a single phase through a granny plug.
I know the American 2 phase circuit is different, but I still believe it’s better not to put any more heat inducing obstructions in the chain.
- Comment on The "standard" car charger is usually overkill—but your electrician might not know that [32:26] 1 month ago:
It’s not fucking overkill. There’s no such thing.
I’m really disappointed with the video. That dude usually knows his shit, but he’s way off the mark here. It’s just plain wrong.
Getting a smaller charger might save a few hundred, but it will also increase your chances of burning the house down. Good fucking advise, huh.
Fuck that. You’ll always want to charge as fast as your main circuit breaker will allow.
- Comment on ‘A very Finnish thing’: Big sand battery starts storing wind and solar energy in crushed soapstone 1 month ago:
Oh sure the technique of storing heat in stone is valid. Again, the Finnish have used it for long time in oven design. It’s possible to get modern soap stone ovens for this purpose.
- Comment on ‘A very Finnish thing’: Big sand battery starts storing wind and solar energy in crushed soapstone 1 month ago:
It could be interesting in a smaller scale or off grid purposes, but you’d still need solar panels as a source.
I doubt it’s worth saving heat from a wood stove. It’d be better to burn less wood to begin with. Some of the modern pellet ovens are very efficient for that.
They use this system to convert excess renewable electricity to heat for storage to be used in the district heating system. There’s probably a lot of loss in comparison to a regular battery, so the point is to utilize excess the electrify. It makes perfect sense in Finland because their electricity is a lot cleaner than their heating.
- Comment on ‘A very Finnish thing’: Big sand battery starts storing wind and solar energy in crushed soapstone 1 month ago:
It’s basically a very large sauna stone.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
The birds are watching you.
Try leaving bird seeds. They’ll know instantly, because they’re always watching you.
If you don’t leave bird seeds they will find your car and shit on it.
- Comment on A game you "didn't know it was bad 'til people told you so"? 1 month ago:
Ultima IX: Ascension (1999)
I genuinely enjoyed the game. Fans of the series claim that it destroyed the franchise. Perhaps they’re right, but the franchise was pretty fucked up to begin with.
- Comment on How do you charge an electric car without a credit card? 1 month ago:
Apps or NFC tags are used where I live.
I charge at home myself, but in the odd case where I’ve used public chargers I’ve had to install an app from whatever charging company it is, because I can never find one that takes cards directly, though they all ought to do that by now.
For people who use public chargers a lot, it makes most sense to get some subscription and get a tag for that. Some of them works across different networks. It’s a bit of jungle.
The apps probably do require a card to setup, unless you get it through some company where you already have direct debit (f.i. your electricity provider or gas station monthly billing etc.)
It’s not that different from gas stations. It’s not possible to pay those in cash anymore anyway.
- Comment on Only $50? 1 month ago:
The face of Jesus
- Comment on Japan births in 2024 fell below 700,000 for first time 1 month ago:
This site shows a pretty clear picture of population demographics for countries/continents with both past and future projections. Some places are more fucked than others.
- Comment on Pull to enter, you say? 1 month ago:
Oh hey, let me make a treasure map and put the treasure map into the treasure chest and bury it under ground.
Why can’t people find my treasure? Are they fucking idiots or something?
I should probably put more maps in the chest.