I find the sorting works well enough that I don’t even bother with taking the basket out. Though my dishwasher and utensil drawer are just a pivot step away from each other, so ymmv.

Seems kinda wild to me that numbers are that low still, considering just how contagious measles is.

“She took me back to the hotel” could mean two wildly different outcomes. I can’t tell if you mean she ended the date immediately or you two had sex in a hotel and then she ghosted you.

Though either way, her deciding on her own that she didn’t want anything to do with you was a bullet dodge, considering she not only used police resources to try to look you up but even scolded you about it, making it clear she either didn’t think there was any problem with it or didn’t think she’d face any consequences.

Yeah, personal preference also. I think I rank beef below chicken, pork, and turkey, but above lamb in general, but specific dish can change that.

Though I was talking about steaks, maybe a better comparison would have been to say that I’d take a beef lo mein or a decent (beef or whatever) hamburger over a steak any day.

Thank you for this comment as it allowed me to upvote This is America twice.

“Pterodactyl? … Absent again!?”

I’ve got a kid and had that nervousness. I remember when we left the hospital, it felt like it was too easy, like “we just made this kid, an actual person, and you’re just letting us leave and take it home with us!? Isn’t that irresponsible??”

Some portion of us are from all and/or enjoy chaos.

Yeah, in hindsight, I’m not really sure why I assumed it would be from scratch.

Yeah, and I think that’s what they were going for. Just “I programmed this artificial being that feels emotions like happiness, fear, and frustration, has his own wants and desires, and can calculate the odds of arbitrary things on the fly” is doing a lot of heavy lifting. It feels similar to a kid building a computer out of spare parts (reasonable) and then programming his own OS and software for it (less reasonable).

But, to be fair, maybe it was more of a case of he found modules with those different languages on them and plugged them into a standard but customizable protocol droid program and is referring to that configuration as “programming” rather than the act of writing the software itself. Kinda like how flashing a new ROM onto your bios can be called programming it, despite the lack of coding.

This place has a large portion of people who are here because they got tired of reddit’s shit and wanted something better.

I think the type that thinks being arbitrary about this stuff is ok mostly stayed at reddit because they are used to accepting arbitrary shit.

And I think the type that defends this are either the bootlickers hoping to get brownie points for supporting the boss’ arbitrary shit (or sometimes the arbitrary shit they assume the boss supports), or they are the type that enjoys abusing any power they get to make arbitrary judgements, sometimes even hypocritically because they don’t oppose the thing itself but are currently using it to lord over someone. The ones of those that are here are probably here because they were reddit mods and left after a power struggle with reddit admins and are doing similar shit here, though maybe not as extreme given that so many are only here after getting tired of power abuses.

The best kind is when it’s just a piece of chicken with breading added to it. I’ve had schnitzel before but can’t say that I’m familiar with how the meat is prepared before the coating is added. Breaded chicken is usually drier on the outside than what I’m used to for schnitzel, but I don’t know if I’ve ever had high end schnitzel, which maybe is similar. It (the chicken) can be fried, deep fried, air fried, baked, or BBQ’d.

I’m not talking about the fast food or frozen version that is basically just chicken meat (and whatever else they add to the grinder) processed into a paste then moulded into whatever shape. It’s not bad tasting (chicken tendies are a meme for a reason) but nowhere near as good as a good moist piece of breaded chicken.

Lol I started writing this comment in one place, finishing it at a good chicken place.

I had a similar experience with steaks and pork chops growing up. My dad liked his steaks well done.

I’ve cooked some steaks with the understanding that they can be better and they were, especially the one that I accidentally cooked perfectly. That said, I still don’t get the hype steaks can get. Yes, it’s better when cooked perfectly medium rare, but still not even close to a good curry or a perfectly cooked piece of breaded chicken (if you’re thinking like the frozen stuff, you should try eating at a restaurant that makes its own chicken wings or strips, holy fuck is there a difference there, too). The perfectly cooked steak was even better when I put the 2nd piece in a sandwich.

Problem is there’s no such thing as immutable rules unless you’re talking about the laws of physics. Any system only exists because the (sum of the) people in it allow it to exist. Laws only matter because there’s the hard power of force backing the soft power of the courts and branches of government. The unfortunate truth of this reality is that might does indeed make right, not so much in a moral sense but in a “what are you doing to do about it?” sense.

Though he does get asked to go back to middle earth and fix it after dying, and the task was a bit more… involved than the typical printer maintenance job (though a laser printer does have some high voltage dangers tbf).

My main point though is that it isn’t the electronics or the fan’s max speed that are the critical parts, it’s whether the fan is able to dissipate the heat being generated with the total sum of how everything is set up. If it can’t, then temperature creeps up until that max speed is hit (thus it can’t dissipate anymore and throttles, hits equilibrium at a higher temperature (because bigger temperature differential means more heat transfer even at the same fan speed, so it’s possible it won’t just run away when the max speed is hit), or melts/overheats to failure) or until the fan speeds up and is able to find an equilibrium or reduce the temperature.

Thus whatever tricks they use need to result in fans that are still good enough to replace whatever fan they are replacing or they will cause performance issues.

Though if someone is just adding case fans, then as long as it doesn’t disrupt the airflow, it will help even if it isn’t very good, and you can use multiple quiet fans to replace a single loud one and see an overall improvement even if the individual fans aren’t nearly as good as the single one they replace. So based on that, I’ll back down from my previous “their reputation speaks for itself” because the reality is that they can be overpriced underperforming garbage but still get a good reputation because they aren’t just being evaluated via a/b testing and I was naive to oversimplify it like that.

I don’t agree with max terms, mainly because good leaders are fucking rare and if they want to keep going, it’s to everyone’s benefit. Plus, as Trump is showing, when the really bad ones come along, they’ll challenge the maximum rules anyways and not give a shit about the optics like a good faith leader that feels like they need to answer to their population.

Though maybe each leadership term should end with a trial of some sort, though it would be difficult or impossible to be sure that those trials would be run in good faith rather than the ruling class taking it over to punish leaders that hurt them for the sake of the people.

I’m a bit more open minded; who really knows what’s going on beyond the reality that we see and interact with on a daily basis.

That said, I do think that anyone who claims to be an expert on that stuff is full of shit and either lying to everyone else or themselves.

Though my name comes from understanding enlightenment in a Buddhist sense is real, though even that isn’t as mystical as it can seem to the unenlightened. It’s just the process of growing wiser and “enlightenment” is the moment of epiphany when some piece of wisdom clicks.

Like one of the early ones I remember having is realizing that doctors, police, or whatever authority people are just people like anyone else, they have good days and bad days where they might just want whatever problem you have for them to go away rather than get solved. Some are diligent workers, some cheated their way to where they are, some failed upwards. Some think “I don’t know” threatens their position and will instead lie with confidence, assuming you’ll never know any better. Some assume they even know better without actually knowing and just act on that.

It’s obvious in hindsight but felt pretty profound when it clicked in my mind.

And the moon drifting away is stealing some of our rotational energy, making the days longer.

We’re also lucky to be on this planet during the time the sun and moon’s apparent sizes match. Being able to see a total solar eclipse where you can see immediately around the sun without needing a spaceship might be incredibly rare in the universe. Though total solar eclipses in general are pretty common, assuming our gas giants’ accumulation of moons is typical for giant planets, they’d happen any time the moon passed through the giant’s shadow.

Even if the tree was taken separately from the sun and added together using film or photoshop, the sun photo would require the same zoom as if it were one shot (though maybe not all lens zoom).