Our home phone is an extra line on the cell plan. That phone sits at home most of the time, and is a games phone for when kids come over with parents.

Depending on the pizza, it might be up to 90% oil.

I mean… It literally does. It’s the first 4 words, that the rest of the sentence is in reference to. That’s how English works.

There was no professional United States military at the time, the militia was the functional military, so yes it was referencing private arms, only because those formed the well regulated militia. Not every bumble fuck with a pulse.

Also, the Federalist Papers were 85 letters written by just 3 men. Alexander Hamilton wrote 51 essays, James Madison wrote 29, and John Jay wrote 5, and they were written to promote the proposed Constitution. They are by no means a full encapsulation of the founders thoughts, or in any way unbiased, they are essentially the definition of political propaganda, written anonymously to hide their source.

The 2nd Amendment actually references, in its singular sentence, very specifically, that it is regarding a regulated militia, not just everyone.

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

Those first four words are always left out when the gun nuts talk about it. Without those 4 words, it fundamentally changes the meaning.

It’s also a justification for the millions of dollars they already spent on office space that isn’t necessary anymore.

And this thing will either need extremely heavy batteries, or carefully protected tanks of fuel onboard - or both. So that’s going to massively add to the weight.

This is the sole reason we can’t have mechs until we develop high energy portable nuclear power, or discover something equally as capable.

A rocket launching satellites is like 90% fuel, the structure is remarkably similar to the thickness of a tin can, and it only carriers a few thousand pounds of payload, all while only running for a minute or so before being empty. We simply don’t have the power capability for anything approaching a large mech without it having to be wired to a power grid.

Which are not magical, or new. Just an AC running in reverse. Just moving the heat from the outside in rather than inside out. They use the same amount of power as an AC, because they’re the same thing.

most efficient at its task (heating and cooling large volume of air)

Air Conditioning is SIGNIFICANTLY less efficient in all conditions where evaporative cooling is effective at all.

This of course assumes the right conditions for evaporative cooling to be effective in the first place, primarily ambient humidity lower than 50%. It works by adding cool humid air, so it’s only effective as long as it can add that to the existing ambient air. An Air Conditioner on the other hand dehumidifies as a side effect, so ambient humidity is not a factor, but the components are more complicated, more expensive, require more maintenance, and more electricity to operate since it needs to contain and move the pressurized refrigerant around the system loop to transfer the heat energy from one place to another.

An evaporative cooler on the other hand is effectively just an absorbent medium, usually with a basin and water pump to ensure it stays wet, and a fan to move the air. People create these all the time without realizing it. Soaking a towel and putting it in front of a box fan is a makeshift evaporative cooler.

make your own air conditioner out of cheap materials

Such a pet peeve of mine when I see basic evaporative cooling called air conditioning. A/C is pretty specific in how it works using refrigerant, condensers, etc. to move heat from one place to another. They also dehumidify the air in the process. A/C and heat pumps are the same thing, just running in opposite directions. They use a lot of electricity to accomplish this movement and are effective in a wide range of temperatures.

Evaporative cooling simply moves air past/through a colder medium to lower the ambient temperature. Most commonly the only electricity used here is a simple fan, and maybe a water pump. This adds humidity to the air so it’s effectiveness drops off dramatically and the ambient humidity gets higher.

The only thing they have in common is making the air cooler, in completely different ways with dramatically different effectiveness and efficiency.

For most of those trackers you have to be invited by someone already a member. Sometimes they’ll have an open application or registration timeframe, but generally you have to have an invite.

From the one side used in the past, they usually track only the high quality releases, more complete multi-language options, and will often have new releases quickest through partnerships with the various groups that make the releases.

They usually have minimum seed requirements. Most often 1:1 ratio minimums and/or minimum timeframes like 30 day seeding. And they’ll have some sort of punishment or banning system of you fail to maintain this for an extended period.

To help facilitate those requirements a lot of people use dedicated seedboxes and copy files locally for use. There are a lot of options for that available across a ton of price points, as low as like $5/mo or so for enough space for a single user as long as you clean stuff out after the seeding minimums.

The semi-automated system I had setup at one point used Jackett (tracker index), Jellyseer (media requests), Sonarr/Radarr (release search and download management), ruTorrent (seedbox torrent), SyncThing (seedbox to local NAS file copy), and then Emby/Jellyfin/Plex (local media management).

Easy, replace all the CEOs at every company. Those are the connections. The computers can talk to each other to collaborate much faster than us mere humans. Tll

There’s no possible bad scenario from this whatsoever.

Potentially more effective overall given how so many CEO decisions seem to result in terrible outcomes because they don’t actually understand their product. Usually because they were hired into the company and industry, and have no actual experience with their product or how the company works.

Imagine what California could accomplish without having to fight the rural Republican anchor dragging shit down constantly due to their propaganda.

It’s not about hurting the case, it’s just irrelevant to the charges in court. How a suspect is stopped while fleeing isn’t usually relevant to the charges against them. Especially since it wasn’t an officer that stopped them, but a civilian. That information will of course be in the report, but it wouldn’t be relevant in the court proceedings, especially not needing them to testify in person.

Bullshit. This is the propaganda employers use so employees don’t have information to make educated decisions. There are already industries that have payroll information available to all employees, or even fully publicly available.

The simple fact is most people don’t resent each other for being paid less, they resent the employer exploiting them, as they should.

And reduce your water usage because it’s a drought. While we grow water heavy crops like almonds in those drought stricken regions and foreign investors from arid countries grow water heavy crops like alfalfa solely for export back home.

Many instances defederate from NSFW communities. Usually not for any kind of censorship, but just so it’s not mixing in with regular discourse as much.

Your lemmy instance, leminal.space has defederated from lemmynsfw.com which is by far the largest NSFW-oriented instance.

https://defed.xyz/check?name=leminal.space&software=lemmy

Also a reminder that Fifty Shades of Grey started out as a Twilight fanfic titled “Master of the Universe”. Which honestly adds a lot of context to the characters, you can basically just substitute names and it works.

Similarly Scott Cawthon, the creator of Five Nights at Freddy’s, created 79 games before FNAF.

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