As someone who read Biological War: A Scenario last week… ah geez.

When I think of an automated system that can protect itself, ED-209 comes to mind for some reason.

Your writing is a pleasure to read. Thanks for this.

Oh my God, I just checked and me too.

Np. Rereading it now, I’m sorry my wording was so firm and final, but my experience was so terrible I felt I couldn’t let it happen to another person.

I am almost convinced these things are actual scams just to make money no matter the costs, not just a poor product that underperforms. I think they persist because it seems so plausible that it could work, but it just flat out does not, and the manufacturers just don’t care as long as it still sells.

Had one of these over 20 years ago, along the lines of the one you linked. It was positively useless. Never again. The air in your home becomes saturated with water so quickly, and your clothes stop drying because the air can’t accept any more moisture. A lot of heat comes out of the vent, ice or an ice pack would be done in less than 10 minutes, you’d drive yourself insane putting new ice in to condense upon, even if it worked, which it doesn’t.

It might work if you put a couple of dehumidifiers in the room with it, but there is just so much moisture output from a dryer I am certain it would overwhelm them in short order because they are not built for that crazy level of moisture. Also, even though your dryer has a lint screen, a ton of lint makes it out anyway, quickly clogging the one in the kit, messing with the throughput. So you take the filter out of the unit so it can breathe, and lint gets absolutely everywhere. It sucks. Don’t do it. Live with the outdoor noisy vent until you can save for a heat pump dryer. Don’t waste your money.

IMO Canadians should examine the war in Ukraine to get an idea about how to prepare, but keep in mind Russia’s relative military ineptitude.

The way accounting works, if the money is going on to their books, it had to come off of someone else’s. So the rest of us are not the same, you are correct, we are actually poorer, collectively.

Billionaires’ accumulation of wealth is basically self perpetuating once they get to the point of being a billionaire. They can’t possibly spend it all, so they invest anything left over, which gains more profits, which they invest again and so on.

They eventually run out of regular investments to invest in (see stocks just going up and up), so they move into investing in things like housing, which is why that bubble refuses to burst. Meanwhile, you can’t afford to buy your own house because of the astronomical cost, and you’re left renting your housing from the billionaire class who effectively own it, creating more profit for them. Even if you buy a home, you likely have a mortgage, with that money having been lent by… investors (see above), creating more profit for them.

Unfortunately, every dollar lent for anything requires an interest payment, which, if you know how that works (see “fractional reserve banking” to get an idea), forces money to be printed in order for there to be enough money supply to keep the whole system working. Printing money causes inflation, which lowers the buying power of any money you do have.

For regular people, that means we’re collectively poorer.

For billionaires, they’d never notice the inflation, both because they already have more money than they could ever spend, and the growth is self perpetuating because they have no other way to spend it.

If you follow that out, obviously they’ll end up owning absolutely everything.

But people have to eat, so one day, shit is going to hit the fan. The longer taxing billionaires heavily is delayed, the larger that shit storm is going to be. The people who are right now living in shantytowns, in their cars or RVs, are the tip of the iceberg.

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This doesn’t even touch on things like shrinkflation (which is just another part of general inflation).

Some people might say “oh, fractional reserve banking is dead”, but what they don’t say is that the reserve part is dead, meaning the engine is now fully pinned instead of just red-lining.

When things get dire, the fast and high bandwidth Internet we know will be gone, but a form of slow, intermittent Internet will probably be around; still technically an Internet.

Oh, so that’s why Google is killing sideloading.

Then again, I could have accomplished the same thing by knocking off work for the day and going to the driving range.

Hey, look at the bright side, as long as you were chained to your desk instead, that’s all that matters.

Oh my god, I’ve thinking about why git doesn’t operate this way for ages, but it already has for a decade. This is going to change my life. Thank you for posting this.

uninformed for skeptical

Perhaps one begets the other.

The article is not fishy, you are just uninformed. They are powering the datacenter with turbines fueled by natural gas. You are right about the datacenter though, it’s beyond fishy, into crime territory. To top it all off, they have approval to run only a handful of turbines (after not even seeking approval in the first place, i.e. running them illegally), but they are running a ton of them.

*looks around* That’s a pretty big if.

I feel there’s a certain sad irony about the domain on that link.

I am having flashbacks to the scene in Idiocracy where the doctor is talking about his wife.

We build our own prisons.

Sorry you are getting downvoted for being one of today’s 10,000

How else do you write them?

In a single (but not smooth) stroke, like how one would write a (mirrored) h, but where you would end the h normally, you connect it back to the bottom of the stem instead.

I learned cursive

That’s even weirder that you’d do ol for d then. I’d expect you to do a single stroke o, starting at the right hand side, but upon completing the o, continue straight up to make the stem of the d.

IMO a hallmark of messy writing should be the shortcuts taken to reduce the amount of lifts of the stylus for efficiency’s sake. You need to improve the efficiency of your sloppiness, to make things worse so it gets better 😂