@prettygood "Great Scott! We've got to go back to 1998, Marty, and stop this before it happens!!"
@rbreich I'm now half inclined to bet that although a skilled tyrant in Trump's shoes could use the US's military might to negotiate deals in Venezuela that would be highly lucrative for himself and his cronies, Trumpworld will actually suffer losses from this due to being up against the more competent and established systems of oppression and corruption in Venezuela.
"Never go up against a Sicilian when death is on the line"...
North Carolina :-)
(...I guess I should stop being so Americentrian and add "US" after that, huh...)
@brooke The whole Win11 thing of having to log in with your Microsoft account in order to make changes on your local machine is... at least a bridge past the bridge that was too far.
A fruticose lichen forest climbs up a dark pumice rock
#LichenSubscribe #lichen
@mirabilos neither do I -- but ether way, it almost certainly was not the same school :D
@bouriquet Right! I figure there's probably some optimization to be done on that, but the basic principle doesn't require anything dangerous.
(Another option would be for each heat-dumping device to continuously monitor the fluid temperature and run enough to make sure it always stays some number of degrees above freezing.)
@ceejbot FWIW: I kinda feel like political fuckedness is a bit like depression spells: it won't always be this bad. (Yeah, ugly stuff will happen and much will be lost that should not have been lost.) Incompetently vicious leadership is not a stable end-state.
Proposal: LLM for responding to Sealions and mansplainers
(cue music: "XTC vs. Adam Ant")
@rnd ...not to be confused with the more common "mh-/+" mental health indicators, and their corresponding "mH-/+" indicators of a decrease or increase in one's capacity (for coping with bullshit or life or whatever).
the "ph-" and "ph+" content warnings are for negative and positive information about one's physical health
these are not to be confused with the "pH-" and "pH+" tags, used to inform people as to whether one has become more acidic or basic respectively
I am still trying to make abstract art with a camera and fast-moving water, and will probably never stop trying. It's my thing 🙄
#photography #AbstractPhotography #WaterPhotography
@bouriquet Remember that the hose wouldn't contain refrigerants; it could just be water. The refrigerants would all be confined to their respective devices.
That said, I suspect there are some otherwise-valid safety regs which could stand to be updated to allow for improving tech (e.g. allowing electric power storage devices to backfeed into the household A/C mains -- a thing which has already been legalized in at least one US state).
@modulux Now that you mention it -- I remember just a week or so ago when I was trying to put in a screw from a really awkward angle (on the other side of a board), it actually worked better to just close my eyes and focus on the feel of it rather than trying to judge the angle from what I could see (which didn't include the actual contact point between screw and driver).
