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by falcolas 3y ago
The owners of “X” box? Who woulda thunk it. Now then, of course Musk can challenge it, and given his domain ownership, possibly successfully even. But given the scads of lawyers who Musk owes money to, yet is not paying, who will take the
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by falcolas 3y ago
Have a heat pump that was grafted into our central air in Montana. We absolutely adore it. It doesn't work every day of the year - winters can get bitterly cold. But it works for somewhere around 320 days out of the year. We kept our g
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by falcolas 3y ago
I have to say, that's a surprisingly well maintained and curated site. As a former motorcyclist, I also personally approve of their comments regarding safety gear rating and finding good vendors.
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by falcolas 3y ago
Ironically, we’re getting our fertilizer from the same place we get most of our fuel: exhaustible caches in the ground. They may never run out, but they will only go up in price, raising the price of food.
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by falcolas 3y ago
Politicians who don’t understand the internet using bad analogies (postal mail, plumbing, briefcases, etc) to regulate it. Plus companies trying to create a moat around their business using lobbying money.
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by falcolas 3y ago
Anyone who solves addiction would be regarded as a hero of our times. It's a huge problem across humankind. But it's not just addiction that needs to be solved for videogames like these, it's highly targeted psychological m
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by falcolas 3y ago
Rewards are also frequently devalued to push you into getting new rewards. Either by power creep in released rewards or active nerfing of existing rewards.
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by falcolas 3y ago
Sure, when you pit investments of billions of dollars into researching the psychology of addiction and marketing against an individual's willpower, it's not technically a "forced choice". But of course the customer&#x2
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by falcolas 3y ago
Or supply going up. Which most articles on this topic attribute the change to. Tesla dropped their prices across the board recently too.
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by falcolas 3y ago
I typically see people rolling coal on bicyclers much more often than on EVs. It’s absolutely hate bread by a superiority complex.
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by falcolas 3y ago
Our ancestors' survival in Africa, Siberia, and pretty much every place in between gives lie to the notion that "most of us require artificial augmentation in order to survive". And to be clear, no, I do not consider the use
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by falcolas 3y ago
Death Valley is also a bit of an outlier in it's dryness. Of course, that's what also makes it a desert. It wouldn't take much humidity to turn those temperatures into wet-bulb of 100+ - fatal to humans. Expanding the area of
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by falcolas 3y ago
Not really. At least, never in the US. Plantations, for example, are fairly distant from each other, and from their associated towns.
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by falcolas 3y ago
If it's hot and humid (a wet-bulb temperature above body temperature) and you lose power, you're dead within hours, not months. You can't hydrate or shade to cool yourself sufficiently in those conditions.
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by falcolas 3y ago
You have to consider what would happen if power went out. If everyone for whom power went out dies within a few hours, then yes, I would consider it uninhabitable without extraordinary means of ensuring that the power can't go out (s
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by falcolas 3y ago
With only a little bit of snark: if you listen to insurers that would be Florida.
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by falcolas 3y ago
FWIW, it's only mid July. Not the hottest part of the year typically. Yet we're hitting historical records. The thing I'm concerned about is that it is likely going to get even hotter. What happens if - when - we see rolling
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by falcolas 3y ago
> 53° C (127.4° F) is extreme, even for Death Valley. This. And we're not even in the hottest part of the year yet. I'd like to see the wet bulb temperatures too, but I'm guessing they're in the low 70's because
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by falcolas 3y ago
This may be an artifact of where I live, but most rural areas have always had a centralized city (post office, bar, church), and the vast majority of folks who called that village/city their home lived miles away from it on their farms
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by falcolas 3y ago
> Every city in the US used to have a robust public transit system. Every major urban center, perhaps. No city in Montana (I'll go so far as to say the midwest, minus perhaps Chicago) has a "robust" public transit system.
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by falcolas 3y ago
Because some things are too expensive to keep in stock (at least with any variety in styles/brands/etc) at local retail stores? Clothing, hobby supplies, computer peripherals, etc.
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by falcolas 3y ago
I think you need to go one level deeper: People needing to move non-trivial distances for periodic tasks shapes everything. Cars, and thus car parking, come about because of this need. Even before cars existed, roads and parking (such as hi
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by falcolas 3y ago
Yup. Reasonable, and perhaps even required. Similar to sex itself, aside from "abstinence only" positions on porn, there's very little open or fact-driven discussion about it.
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by falcolas 3y ago
> whether that's something we want as a society needs to happen Not sure there's a choice. The allure of the taboo draws people in, even when they are not interested in the acts themselves. We should instead tailor education to
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by falcolas 3y ago
> I think this could be fair for background actors _if_ it was scoped to a single project. That’s how it’s been done, more or less, as far back as The Scorpion King. Digitally inserted extras have been a thing for awhile, but it still re
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by falcolas 3y ago
IMO, it's because writers and actors form a seriously minor part of the labor needed to make a film or TV episode. From VFX to catering, there's a lot of labor needed - much of which is highly specialized - that would cost too muc
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by falcolas 3y ago
The studios haven't even come to the negotiation table in the 70 days of the WGA's strike. Their entire plan is waiting them out so they'll accept a worse offer.
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by falcolas 3y ago
Not being the worst tactic used by companies to break strikes doesn't make it good or even OK . Nor should it lessen the condemnation faced by these companies. EDIT: To be clear, I expect a company's executive team in the 21st
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by falcolas 3y ago
Given the explicit "we'll just wait for them to lose their housing" messaging from the Hollywood executives... Good on SAG-AFTRA. This can only increase the bargaining power of both groups.
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by falcolas 3y ago
That sounds shockingly similar to what's required to get ADHD stimulant medication. Which is fucking silly for birth control.

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