I dunno. I think the animals should worry. The Anthropocene is going to mean millions of species of things cease to exist because we’re changing the global climate.
I dunno. I think the animals should worry. The Anthropocene is going to mean millions of species of things cease to exist because we’re changing the global climate.
GenX here. Kids enjoying doing kid things even if we don’t understand why they do that hurts no one? Keep it up, kids. You’re doing fine. No cap.
Start with Short Stories or novellas. A whole story from beginning to end in as short as 3 pages or as many as 30 or so. There are entire books of short stories (anthologies) in every genre you can imagine. You say you don’t have the patience. However, in the time its taken you to read this entire thread, you could have finished a short story. You’ve proven you have the patience.
Patron: Excuse me, what aisle could I find content on ‘god’s fury’?
Worker: That would be aisle 6.
Patron: oh, excuse me. I misspoke. What aisle could content on ‘furry gods’?
Worker: Oh, no worries! That would be aisle 8.
You can even see the stylized product icon with the simple facial features with the little square mustache. People in that timeline unironically refer to that CI tool as “The Final Solution” in CI.
“buck” is a common slang for a US Dollar. Its also a male deer. These are both very common words in American English. The “buck” in Starbucks doesn’t use either of these meanings, and thats fine, in this case you’re right that that part of Starbucks doesn’t carry any meaning from English…HOWEVER neither does “star” in Starbucks. The modern Starbucks logo has no star shapes in it, and nothing referencing astronomical stars. Its equal to “bucks” in that it is just a set of sounds. Yet in Mandarin, the “star” is literally translated as “star” like the astronomical body and spoken it sounds close to “sheen”, while the “bucks” sounds close to “bahcoo” for a total pronounced word of “sheenbahcoo”. So literal for the first part, phonetic for the second part. Essentially using two completely different sets of rules inside one word.
Its taught me all languages are broken in some way. Romance languages have words that have arbitrary gender needing conjugation. Some have two genders, some three! Then the Romanian language comes in with its own tricks.
Chinese (Mandarin and Cantonese) lack an alphabet so words are conjunctions of smaller words, or sometimes worse the phonetics of smaller words without the meaning of the word.
Starbucks (the coffee company) in Mandarin is 星巴克. 星 is the literal translation of Star. So far so good. However 巴 can mean “to hope”. 克 can mean “to restrain”. The reason they use 巴克 for the second half of Starbucks is that when you pronounce them they vaguely sound like “bahcoo” (buck). So the first half is the traditional use of direct translation ignoring what it sounds like phonetically, but the second half ignores direct translation and instead uses the phonetics of the second two characters to sound like “buck”.
You could accomplish what you’re trying by putting the GPU in a second computer. Further, most UPSes have a data interface, so that you could have the GPU computer plugged into the UPS too, but receive the signal when power is out, so it can save its work and shutdown quickly preserving power in the UPS batteries. The only concern there would be the max current output of the UPS in the event of a power outage being able to power both computers for a short time.
There are people that hold specific definitions of the term “vegan”. If you never use the word, you can never run afoul of anyone’s definition.
That’s interesting! I also wonder if its a legal shielding technique to abandon the “vegan” label in case one of their upstream suppliers changes without notifying the manufacturer. If you never claim it to be vegan, you’ve in no danger of violation.
Lost technology of the ancients allowed them to make churros the size of city buses. Even with today’s most advanced science, we lack this ability.
“The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago. The second best time is right now.”
Stop regretting what you didn’t do in the past, and do it now. Time will continue to march into the future irrespective of whatever actions you take. In another 20 years from now would you like to arrive there having accomplished many of your goals or accomplishing nothing?
Why do we hate commercials and advertisements?
In marketing principles, there are about 20 methods used in advertising, heres a good list and explanation of each:
https://thevisualcommunicationguy.com/business-communication/advertising-appeals-overview/
Most of these are manipulative to the audience by creating a need where one didn’t exist, then providing the product to fill that need. Of these only three can be used ethically without manipulation:
However even THESE can be misused and distorted in an effort to sell a product.
In short, nearly all modern advertising lacks honesty.
My answer is that we don’t like to be marketed to, especially from companies of which we don’t have a single ounce of interest of doing business with.
Those businesses would actually prefer not marketing to you either. There’s a saying in marketing “I know I’m wasting have my money on advertising. I just don’t know which half”. If you’re being marketed to for a product or service you’re not a candidate to consume, thats wasted money for the advertiser. This is one of the reasons that Facebook and Google are so valuable as advertising platforms. They have access to VERY DETAILED information on what does interest you, and advertisers desperately want to reach you with their appeals to their product or service.
Makes me wonder a lot of the time, why we aren’t attacking marketers and salespeople more often. I swear if we all focused on a week or a month by breaking the kneecaps of any salesperson or marketing agent while tormenting their families through harassment because of all of the years they’ve harassed us and fucked with us by relentless advertising.
Are you actually suggesting bodily violence against people working in advertising or sales?! That is wildly inappropriate if nothing else just based upon basic human rights most nations recognize as “free speech”, such as the USA Constitution’s 1st amendment.
There were two (firmware?) releases of the Dreamcast keyboard. The first release would allow TWO KEYBOARDS to be used with the game. The later release keyboard would only allow a single keyboard to be active at a time. It was a lot of fun yelling at your teammate to type faster, which of course made both players more flustered and do poorly.
I surprisingly good game! I also learned that my touch typing was decent, but not when zombie mobs are attacking me.
In Ohio this costs an average residential electricity customer $95/year they have to pay extra on top of their electrical bill.
Nuclear should be ran until EOL, then ideally built back up again
Arguably it has in Ohio. In 2002 a football sized hole was discovered in the top of pressure vessel eaten away by the caustic cooling water:
They bought a replacement from a mothballed nuke plant.
The plant was supposed to be EOL in 2017, but was extended to 2037.
At the same time Republican lawmakers in Ohio gave oil and gas companies full control over where wells are place, but put rules in allowing the blocking of solar and wind installations. source
Nuclear should be ran until EOL,
then ideally built back up again
That can delay things, but ultimately it will be the US against the rest of the world and no amount of subsidies will be able to offset that.
Coal and nuke power company provider First Energy straight up bribed the Ohio Speaker of the house with $61 million to get legislation passed to force residential electricity customers to pay extra fees to subsidize unprofitable coal and nuclear power in the state. The former Speaker is in prison now. The extra fees are still being paid by customers even today. source
This is called Voluntary Nystagmus.
If he was in office that long, your local historical society may be interested in that matchbook.
There’s a fantasy series that has part of this as a plot point. A normal person becomes god with all the godly powers but only for a very short time do they get ALL the power. Its overwhelming in the first few moments and they almost destroy the planet with a mere thought. They realize their mistake a few seconds later, but only have half the power by then, so they put in an ugly workaround, before most of their power runs out. Now that ugly workaround is just “life as we know it” on the planet for the people that live there.
This is a deep spoiler for a popular book series so I don’t want to post the series name and I don’t think we have a spoiler tag yet.