JohnEdwa

Wroom wroom make monkey brain happy.

Because the servers I follow aren’t on matrix, signal or jitsi, and neither are any of my friends.

Currently, a lot of the discarding is done by individual shops/resellers. I know of a few instances where basically all customer returns and unsold merchandise was slashed at the orders of the manufacturer to make them unusable, and then thrown in the bin.

If that is made illegal and everything would have to be returned, stored, processed and then sent somewhere else anyway, the chance that it’s going to end up with destruction greatly diminishes - opening that outlet section/shop or selling them to a local outlet company suddenly makes a lot more finacial sense.

There kinda is, as at some point the heating hits a stage where the oceans will warm up enough, and as warm water can’t hold on to as much Co2, it will be released into the atmosphere, which causes the oceans to warm up, which releases Co2, which causes… And so on.
Add in some ice melting and stuff like that, and once the feedback loop starts properly, there’s not much we can do to stop it.

We are a frog in a pot where we know someone is going to put a lid on it eventually, and we keep arguing and contemplating about when and how soon it might happen, instead of working on getting out of the pot before it does.

Though if you are in extremely cold weather areas, like Alaska, it actually doesn’t help at all as the permafrost keeps the basement walls and floor frozen all year round down hundreds of metres (~3 times as many hundreds of feet)

But anywhere the ground isn’t frozen, go down a few floors and it usually stabilizes somewhere around 15C/60F no matter the ambient air temperature. Fantastic for geothermal heatpumps - warmth in the winter, cooling in the summer.

The fact that they can sell you a car without having to give you all of the terms and conditions is kinda nuts. Imagine if you went to buy a house and they just went “Nuh uh, pay first, we give you all the HOA rules and city ordinance laws you have to follow afterwards. What is in them? It’s a mYsTeRy!”.

Well, yes. Dumping high concentrations will instantly kill everything in the waterway, diluting them and doing it slowly means they can handle it and survived.

Heck, the ocean is full of salt, but if you started dumping high-concentrated brine off a beach you’d kill every animal and plant on sight, just as you would kill yourself drinking said brine. But it would be quite hard to argue that you can’t safely put salt in the ocean, or add some to your food, once it is diluted to a safe level.

The question is how much of something total can the ocean handle before it becomes a problem. And for many things the answer is, quite literally, that it is just a drop in the ocean.

Any temperature below somewhere around 60F/15C is “deadly cold”, as in your survivability depends entirely in how well you are clothed as you will eventually die of hypothermia otherwise, the only variable being how long it takes. Kinda like how you can get a 3rd degree burn with 44C water, it just takes 6 hours.

-12C really isn’t all that cold - lowest temperature in northern Finland this winter so far has been -42,8C / -45F - but it is a temperature where you will need to pay some attention on how you dress for it. For me, it’s around (-10 to 15c depending on the wind) where I’ll put on long-johns in the morning and add a sweater instead of just having a t-shirt under my jacket.

Also the US already has a military base in Greenland and has for many decades. In fact, they used to have dozen or so during the Cold War. And because the area is apparently such vital importance to the defence of the US, they currently have… 150 soldiers stationed there.
In the one base they have kept.

Very, very important location. Vital for defence.

Well to put it into context, you were allowed to work underground at the same age you were allowed to have sex, which was two years before you were allowed to be married, at the good ol’ ripe age of 12.

This whole “you gotta be 16/18/21 to be considered an adult” thing is really recent in human history all things considering.

Yup. And there’s a pretty fantastic short movie about it on youtube called 096.

To be fair, they haven’t really gotten all that much invading done recently, they’ve mostly just been squatting on the parts they managed to captured back in 2022.

I am kinda morbidly curious what would happen if they did decide to start invading some other countries - splitting their forces feels like it would be a terrible idea if their aim is to ever actually manage to win the Ukrainian war, and not just stall it forever.

I’ve yet to find any testing that would indicate it doesn’t work, only few where the effect has been quite small.

But even the tiniest effects become massive when multiplied by the amount of vehicles on the road. Like how turning your headlights off and using LED DRLs reduces fuel consumption by roughly 1-3%, which is quite a lot less pollution once you multiply that by the 250 million cars zooming around the EU and so on.

Stop-and-start systems usually result in a reduction of emissions somewhere between 3-10% in city traffic. That’s huge.
But because most people find it a tiny bit irritating, you are required the massive effort of pressing a button to turn it off every time. Most quickly realize it’s not all that irritating, because having to press a button to turn it off is actually more irritating, and so it stays enabled for a few hundred million cars reducing emissions.

It’s not, when many have buttons and not a dial, and the Golf Mark 8 specifically had two capacitive (IIRC) surfaces under the touchscreen.

They needed research to realise the cost was greater than the savings.

Touchscreen interfaces are absolutely wonderful if you are a car manufacturer, as they massively accelerate the designing process; slap a rectangle in the centre console and start manufacturing the car, you have until first units are sold (or even way later, yay updates) to figure out how it looks and works. And you don’t need to make and assemble hundred little dials and buttons either, just a single screen.

Same goes for the speedo etc display, but there at least everything is purely visual and being customizable is actually a benefit for the user too.

Also an attack against a NATO founding member, by another NATO founding member, making it the most confusing triggering of article 5 requiring the US to come to the aid of Denmark against itself.

France? Probably not.
Israel though?

At least Zelenskyy has a law degree, even if he did end up pursuing a career in comedy and entertainment instead.

Trump has a bachelor’s degree in economics and a career of running businesses to bankruptcy.

They did have a shoddy ceasefire agreement from 2015 onwards where the “little green men” totally not anything to do with Russia fought in Donbas, until Russia invaded properly again in 2022. So technically 11 years 9 months, but seriously only for around four.

Way too many artists.
For many the choices are paying for their patreon or following them on twitter or instagram, both of which are ass.