Raw is great, but it still requires some prep. Grated raw and mixed with olive oil, with some black pepper, and salt, makes a wonderful dip/spread on toasted bread.
Cars: 40,990 people The agency estimates that 40,990 people died in motor vehicle traffic crashes in 2023, a decrease of about 3.6% as compared to 42,514 fatalities reported to have occurred in 2022. The fourth quarter of 2023 represents the seventh consecutive quarterly decline in fatalities beginning with the second quarter of 2022.Apr 1, 2024
Guns: 42,967 people In 2023, 42,967 people died in the United States from gun related injuries. Between 2010 and 2020, gun-related deaths rose by roughly 43%. Every day, on average, at least 327 people are shot across the US, including roughly. 115,552 are shot.Feb 14, 2024
I never even thought about that. So we’re back to having a dedicated appliance circuit installed, just like microwaves back in the 1980’s.
And the idea of running a 240v outlet to my PC? I already need one installed for the car. May as well do both at once now. I’m gonna need a bigger breaker box.
Oh, and Technology Connections did a video a while back that touched on having a “smart panel” to work around limited house service power. In it, I learned that not everyone is wired for 100A and have 50A instead. And the neighborhood itself may be limited in how many folks can upgrade to 100A. So, some people are going to hit that wall with power-hungry devices like EVs and 1.5+ kilowatt PCs. IIRC, electrical codes limit how many more circuits you can add before you’re “maxed out”, regardless of how much total power draw you typically have for the whole house.
I’m one of these people. I can smell an apartment roach infestation from the front door, every time.
And yes, restaurants always get the “sniff check” before we sit down. No-go odors are:
bleach
pine-sol (amonia)
heavy perfume (think “Glade plugin-in”)
insects (roaches, etc)
pet odor (wet dog, litterbox)
sewage (usually a dry floor drain but that’s still not okay)
dingy carpet (think: “old movie theater”)
The first two are obvious attempts at covering up something worse with “clean” smells, and/or the staff has no idea what “clean” actually means. And they obviously don’t care what olfaction means to someone trying to enjoy a meal, which says heaps about what they think food service actually is. Everything else just speaks to the “I don’t care what you smell” part, or there’s something very wrong with how the kitchen is run. /rant
An example of a top-shelf dining odor experience? I once went to a Japanese restaurant at opening time. The only smell in the dining room was that of the specific kind of imported cedar in the cutting boards. This is traditionally cleaned with boiling hot water, and nothing else. This released a gentle woody and pine-y scent that just filled the space and invited the senses. I came hungry, but I sat down ravenous. The meal to follow was something I will never forget.
If this post got your attention, give the short-lived Hyperdrive a shot. It’s much more Trek than Red Dwarf and leans more comedy than sci-fi in similar ways. As a “normal people just working a job in space” show, it now watches like a BBC template for The Orville. Hey, it even has Nick Frost^1^ and Miranda Hart in it.
All while perfectly mimicking the visual style of the DesiLu production.
For those of us that are into set design, lighting, cinematography, etc. the first minute of the cold-open in episode 1 goes hard too. If they kept a 4:3 aspect ratio (I think) and added some film grain, I would have struggled to tell them apart. They did a phenomenal job here.
a lot of devs love watching stuff like speedrunning
True, but some of them hate it. But with the growing presence of speedrunning friendly features in new titles (looking at you, Supergiant), I think that’s becoming less of a problem.
Either way, these “devs watch” reaction videos are fantastic.
I have an old lightweight laptop that I use for youtube videos from time to time.
Page loads take 3-10 seconds. Video decoding, once it gets going, is great due to dedicated MPEG hardware. But the site itself - well, old man gets there eventually.
Edit: already stripped overhead to the bone by running Bodhi Linux. I may try FF over Chromium in case there’s more performance to be had. But the 2GB RAM footprint is really pushing it these days.
any old farkers? (midwest.social)
You should always at least double it (lemmy.world)
Hopeful thinking (lemmy.today)
Fan suing Madonna for ‘forcing’ them to watch sex acts during concert (www.independent.co.uk)
Seems awfully dangerous (lemmy.world)
Its power is growing (lemmy.world)
His neighbors live in constant terror (lemmy.world)
When the DM tries to make it as obvious as possible (lemmy.world)
LAN party from 2003 (files.catbox.moe)
Ant smell (mander.xyz)
free and open source GPU compiled by hands (lemmy.world)
Star Trek Genesis Tuesday bit, but Bri-ish (lemmy.world)
With sincere-ish apologies to our Lemmings across the pond. Credit to SzethFriendOfNimi@lemmy.world for the comment about M. Bison
It's the same thing! (lemmy.world)
After almost 28 years, Super Mario 64 has been beaten without using the A button (www.eurogamer.net)
existing wrongly (lemmy.ml)
Elders [Alex Krokus] (lemmy.world)
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Conservatives: "Hey want to hear a joke?" *Transphobia* (lemmy.world)
me_irl (lemmy.world)