“What Orwell failed to predict is that we’d buy the cameras ourselves, and that our biggest fear would be that nobody was watching.”
“What Orwell failed to predict is that we’d buy the cameras ourselves, and that our biggest fear would be that nobody was watching.”
camera that watches you drink the verification can
You’d have to try it to find out. I’d like to think they were smart enough to brick this thing if it doesn’t call home every so often or maybe it has a unique controller? Maybe you’re really badass and can make it happen. They could always try to come at you for…$550 I guess? I think that’s what their fine print says.
edit: correction
for the real processed stuff that comes individually wrapped, any place you need an instant melt cheese-turns-into-a-sauce sort of thing
“He captured this feeling of people who are tired of being lied to, tired of being lied to by politicians and officeholders of both political parties,” Lotter said. “And they were sick and tired of another poll-tested Washington creation politician. … I think he taps into that, and he has been able to keep that going.”
I’ve got to be more careful. I’ve just woken up after facepalming so hard I lost consciousness. So they want to be lied to by a mass media created and tested politician instead?
I’m a little worried about the state level elector shenanigans that have played out since 2020. Is it possible we’ll see a state ignore it’s own voters?
Why? What should people know about Texas power grid upgrades?
Best I can see right now is ERCOT and others saying lots of upgrades have been made, but not specifics. I can see ERCOT and the legislature going back and forth on a “market overhaul” that no one can quite agree on yet and which favors more on-demand sources (natural gas and such). Can you point to where people should read about upgrades?
I think there is a bad title here, but that’s not the title at the link. I don’t know where this title came from. OP? The link is a pretty straight forward reporting of this recently released EIA report and doesn’t seem to contain much of the author’s opinion (apart from being on a renewable biased website).
The author of the article doesn’t say anything about “surplus generation”, that’s a quote from the report.
You don’t think the US Energy Information Administration knows what it’s talking about? Bold stance.
I wonder what a LLM trained on the increasingly…shifted content Twitter has recently would look like.
never cracked a screen but 90% of the time I take it out as I sit down
A search for “asymmetrical spoon” gives a few that are shaped just like OP’s. These ones look particularly close in shape. They also have sort of similar design around the handled ends - at least in that they have designs rather than a fully plain end.
OP doesn’t say anything about the flatter side being thinner or sharper. I think if meant to cut into grapefruit or ice cream that side would be sharper/thinner. Absent sharpening, a pointy spoon should penetrate something easier than a less pointy one - and these look less pointy than if they were symmetrical. Plus, you’d bend those up pretty quick in hard ice cream I think. I think they’re just asymmetrical for the sake of it, a point of distinction perhaps marketed as favoring right handed people in getting liquids off a flat surface better.
Cool comparison. I didn’t know it could be had so many ways.
I feel like a huge part of the arcade experience was the free spinning steering wheel controller. You just spun it hard and stopped it after your truck made it around the corner. No unwinding of the wheel or anything. As a kid that couldn’t drive, that was the right amount of realism (untealism?).
The inhibitors of the Revelation Space universe of books by Alastair Reynolds are a sort of unknowable, unescapale, and undefeatable force.
A secret force/organization that is seemingly undetectable and unbeatable bad guys that are always one step ahead of the good guys is one of the antagonists of the Pandora Star and Judas Unchained 2 book series from Peter F Hamilton.
I was looking for this take. It seems like there’s huge amounts of data to constantly be serving up for video compared to more transactions but of smaller chunks of info for majority of threadiverse stuff
I sort of cringe (more of a nose wrinkle really) at OP’s “it’s known in some circles to be bad” You see beliefs and correlative evidence constantly misrepresented as proof and truth in food and medical science (reporting and discussion).
I get it. The body is a hugely complicated system, it’s hard to figure these things out. What does even figuring them out mean with the amount of complicating factors of this affects that which affects this which causes this.
I’m open to the idea that lobbying and such means Aspartame (and other industrial food products) has really been pushed through.
It’s also obviously been studied quite a bit and it’s hard to believe all the studies saying it’s safe at recommended levels are bunk or fraudulent.
This news was on another instance where the discussion included that the IARC carcinogen classifications do not take into account exposure/dosage. A whole bunch of things can be carcinogenic depending on exposure. Haven’t we all read how the rats that got cancer from saccharine had epic doses? It was just magnitudes more than a human would consume.
If an observational study won’t cut it (I see you, @xthedeerlordx, and appreciate your comment and explanation), how does one prove the causation? Don’t you need randomized controlled trials which would be extremely onerous controlling for various factors and basically making the (ideally large number of) participants live in a lab for whatever amount of time the study takes to really prove causation? I’d genuinely like to know. It seems like for a lot of things correlation after correlation after correlation is the best we’re going to get.
An analysis of student records by Students for Fair Admissions, a conservative activist group representing Asian American students in the lawsuit against Harvard, found that the institution, on average, rated Asian American applicants lower in personality and likability ratings than others.<
I didn’t see that approach coming, but I guess I should have. Conservatives have always argued that affirmative action was racist, but racist against white folks. Now they’ve found a non-white group that they could argue was discriminated against based on race.
Sounds like it’s time for another infrastructure week! It’ll work time I’m sure.
Once those things cool they won’t be too much of an issue…I hope.
If I promise to switch to oat milk, can I keep the cheese?
From a Texan: Welcome to the heat dome!