a slingshot

Yeah, you become a trillion dollar company by being lazy and not knowing what people want!

How much of your EV charging money goes out the power plant smokestack, into the river/cooling tower, or heats up the air around the electrical wiring though?

i’m a proponent of EV’s, even when they charge from fossil powered grids, because of the thermodynamic efficiency gain.

But ragememes, no. Let’s not be like that.

I want that whole arrangement to be in a tip with a USB-C receptacle and a fixed voltage and barrel size so it’s barely bigger than my thumbnail and can be used with standard usb-c cables.

So I can get a “9V-5.5x2.5-Pos” to convert my casio keyboard to usbc, without all that other stuff hanging off and extra, unnecessary pieces

But yeah that’s cool

And O-circumflex “ô” in French indicates an elided “s”. hô = hos

now someone needs to make USB-C jack to barrel plug “tips” with the PD chip built in so I can substitute USB-C for wall wart transformers.

guar gum, xantham gun, locust bean extract, etc - all emulsifers or texture additives used to mask lower product quality and allow more air to be whipped in.

Even the expensive stuff, Ben & Jerrys (sold out to PE a while ago), boutique brands at Whole Foods, and even Kirkland premiun have the same list of bullshit.

The only brand I can reliably find without them is Haagen Dazs.

I make as much as possible to avoid the flavor additives, texture modifiers, and preservatives found in much packaged food.

I make waffles from scratch and freeze them for quick breakfast. Prep large pots of soup, chili, stew, etc and freeze in deli tubs.

But as to who is right? No answer on that. I have built up plenty of cooking experience so things that seem tricky or time consuming to other people don’t faze me.

Just going to throw out that electric heaters are the most expensive/least efficient way to heat electrically.

If you’re in the US, you can get a partial credit for improving windows, doors, and insulation (always the best first step).

You or your landlord can also get up to a $3000 credit toward a central heat pump system, which gives 3-4x the delivered heat for a given amount of electricity.

The kids on my street do come and knock, but they don’t know what to do then. The just stand there waiting - I’m like “what do you say???”, and they go “uhh, thank you???”

C’mon kids!

Is COBOL subject to buffer overflows and use-after-free bugs? I honestly don’t know.

I don’t recall the COBOL code I’ve read using pointers.

LOL, yeah. Capitalism.

The great socialist countries are way ahead with modular, standardized mobile handset components.

Everyone knows the longest-lived PC bus standards came out of the Soviet Union and North Korea in the 80s.

And large businesses worldwide are still running accounting software on the mainframe architecture China’s government developed in the 60s.

“direct action”, otherwise unspecified. Maybe carrying a sign or blocking traffic will stop imperialism? Maybe stealing the neighbors’ Amazon packages? I don’t know, and I bet he comes up with nothing other than glittering generalities.

can you be more specific than just saying direct action? Like what does this action entail? What do you go out and do?

yeah, that’s basically giving up any power you do have.

let me know how the direct action works out.

lol, right, this is terrorism!

Can you outline those things that actually matter, that you are doing?

Well said.

Use all the tools at your disposal. Vote for the better of the candidates, and then also take direct action or whatever.

It’s stupid to “protest the system” by rejecting the method it does give you to steer it. If it’s ineffectual, you’ve lost nothing. If you happen to be one of 10,000 that markedly changes the outcome away from an outwardly evil candidate, then you have made a significant positive difference.

Can you say what you mean by “leftist” then?