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by vel0city 2y ago
Twinkies ingredients, minus the less than 2% (was saying most by mass): Sugar, Water, Enriched Flour, High Fructose Corn Syrup (sugar), Tallow (animal fat/oil), Dextrose (sugar, from the HFCS), Egg Twinkies are >98% sugar, flower,
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by vel0city 2y ago
Twinkies are made up almost entirely (by mass) of the things listed above. The only major thing missing is sugar.
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by vel0city 2y ago
Pretty much all oils are processed foods. Vinegar is a preservative and is a processed food. Most salts are processed and are common preservatives. Flour is a processed food. The reasons why Twinkies are so shelf stable are largely the same
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by vel0city 2y ago
Most aluminum cans have a plastic lining inside of the can. Assuming the lining was undamaged and applied properly, it should prevent the beer from reacting with the can for a long while. Usually, the oxidization is with the oxygen which wa
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by vel0city 2y ago
> pathogens cant live in beer Depending on the beer there might be live yeasts in it. Beers can still go bad. Not always from a "not safe to consume" but often at least a "not going to taste very good anymore" kind of
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by vel0city 2y ago
> Most of the food that sits on the shelf for weeks shouldn't be consumed. Salt? Flour? Oil? Oats? Rice? Garlic? Black pepper? Most ground spices? Nuts? Beans? Honey? Vinegar? Quinoa? All of these can reasonably sit on a shelf for w
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by vel0city 2y ago
And here come the headlines about gas shortages in Florida. Many hours of idling to go <100mi, stranding cars along the highway. Meanwhile, EVs still charging just fine.
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by vel0city 2y ago
Sure, if apps choose to use those APIs you can still theoretically get a GPS fix. But tons of apps just use the Google Play Services APIs.
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by vel0city 2y ago
> in that the iPhone + ATT plan was the only unlimited data plan you could get at release on a non-carrier controlled general purpose smartphone. I had unlimited data on non-carrier controlled phones pre-iPhone on AT&T, and it was fa
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by vel0city 2y ago
I'll take half the blame for using such measures interchangeably in a single sentence. The metric system is the tool of the devil! My car gets forty rods to the hogshead and that's the way I likes it!
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by vel0city 2y ago
I've definitely heard evacuation information broadcast over NOAA radio. Have you been in a mass evacuation before?
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by vel0city 2y ago
Having lived in (and still do) disaster prone areas, people often don't even own radios outside of that thing they get annoyed by when their car turns on before bluetooth/Android Auto/Carplay connects and don't bother wi
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by vel0city 2y ago
Because its massively impractical to think the average person is going to get the notice "you've got anywhere from an hour to an afternoon to evacuate" and be ready to convert their vehicle to goal gas and have plenty of wo
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by vel0city 2y ago
> the car itself will have slightly less kinetic energy, being slightly less dangerous. Extremely slightly less. What, 170lbs compared to 4,000lbs+? Is 4% weight reduction after the collision starts, minus the energy imparted to the
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by vel0city 2y ago
There's a lot of variables there. How well sealed is your tank? Was there much air there? How humid? Its definitely much shorter than a decade, but if stored really well more than a year is pretty doable. 2+ years can be a gamble tho
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by vel0city 2y ago
AM radio reception on a headphone wire is pretty bad. I've had a few small radios designed to get commercial AM/FM using the headphones as antennas; the reception is almost always very miserable. Meanwhile commercial FM is like ~3
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by vel0city 2y ago
Sure, lets do that. FM is where most of the listeners are anyways. We can start with every AM EAS station which also transmits on FM also get their FM stations up to standards and grants to make that happen. Sounds good to me. In the end th
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by vel0city 2y ago
> I have ~200gal of red diesel > it's a fungible asset Cool, let me put that in my gas-powered ICE car. Its so fungible. And I mean practically every household has a 200gal tank of diesel in their apartment and suburban househo
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by vel0city 2y ago
In an emergency, when you have a million people evacuating a city, you can put up signs that say e.g. "tune to FM 90.1 for emergency broadcasts". We're in cities, not the middle of nowhere in this scenario. The idea that we n
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by vel0city 2y ago
Which is why I think this whole thing is really dumb. You know what would be actually useful for requiring in cars that wouldn't otherwise be included? A NOAA weather radio mode in the car, along with the option to have it automaticall
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by vel0city 2y ago
A lot of the complaint for "I used to get channel x before the digital transition now I can't" is often because channel x got remapped from VHF to UHF.
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by vel0city 2y ago
When the grid wasn't functioning around me, pretty much every gas station didn't have working pumps. The extreme few which did heavily rationed fuel (I think only 4gal per customer?) and often ran out.
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by vel0city 2y ago
I've actually lived through evacuations of a major metro area...twice. Both times gasoline quickly became incredibly hard to come by. Electricity would have been a lot easier. Also, there was massive amounts of traffic trying to leav
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by vel0city 2y ago
I have never encountered anything like this at storage units from a wide scale of corporate ownership, different levels of newness, and different levels of affluence in the area. Not saying they don't exist but I've never seen any
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by vel0city 2y ago
The band for 6GHz WiFi channels does dip a bit into 7GHz (up to 7125MHz) frequencies, but it's still normally called operating in 6GHz mode. You wouldn't normally say you're operating a 7G WiFi network, despite there being tw
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by vel0city 2y ago
5G WiFi and 5G the collection of cell phone technology standards have practically nothing in common other than they're both collection of RF signaling standards. 5G for cell phones means the 5th generation of standards, 5G for WiFi is
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by vel0city 2y ago
If you add yourself to the docker group you don't need to use sudo.
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by vel0city 2y ago
Computer engineering degrees are also a thing in the US. I used to joke with friends it was 2/3rds Computer Science and 2/3rds EE. https://catalog.utdallas.edu/2024/undergraduate/programs/ecs...
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by vel0city 2y ago
> I do not take the view that the budget our taxes pay for is beyond reproach Sure, and I have a similar view. Show me what we bought for $640M instead of just saying we spent $640M. How many people did we house for that? How many people
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by vel0city 2y ago
So its 400mi away from another set of tiny islands which themselves are hundreds of miles from the mainland. I'd still argue that's pretty much "not close to anywhere."

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