The second and arguably more important component is that conservatives strongly believe in social hierarchies (even if they are themselves near the bottom). So it doesn’t actually matter if their lives get worse, as long as the lives of people below them (i.e. minorities) are even more miserable. In addition, they believe the rich should stay rich and maintain or increase their power, because they naturally deserve it (this would have been the monarchy and the landed gentry/nobility etc in the past).

Some gas is needed for firming and “last resort” purposes, but I don’t even think we need any additional supply beyond what we have (especially if we cut some of our exports).

I’ll include non-fiction books that are based on academic works but aren’t aimed at an academic audience. They can use footnotes so they are not too distracting, but some of us do want those sources.

And they are not even the only comedians doing this. It’s basically a trope at this point.

Link to the report itself which was missing from the article: https://ieefa.org/resources/how-much-gas-does-future-grid-need

Say some gangsta is making you get up at 4 to do scientific experiments.

You just give em one of these!

Lenny: Looks like Homer has one of those robot cars!

crashes

Carl: One of those American robot cars

Kellyanne Conway, senior member of the 2016 Trump admin, wanted people to look into Trump’s heart for the truth:

You can’t give him the benefit of the doubt on this and he’s telling you what was in his heart, you always want to go with what’s come out of his mouth rather than look at what’s in his heart

I think in an ideal world, I’d set speed limits to be higher than they are now - say, (spitballing) 100mph for interstates.

I suspect many cars on the road can’t even be driven safely at that speed, and then you have to account for the driving ability of the average person.

You’d have more cases where there are high speed differentials too with some only going 60mph, and others going 100mph, increasing the amount of passing.

My gut tells me that, just due to the relatively sparse density of cars, rural driving is already significantly safer, and if you DO drive like shit, you’re likely to only injure yourself.

Fatalities are typically more common in rural areas (proportional to population). Likely because of higher speed roads and higher drink driving rates in rural areas. And maybe due to truck drivers and people driving long distances driving sleep deprived.

You’re right that streets should be designed such that low speeds feel inevitable and not something you have to think about, and that they should serve one purpose and not two (no stroads). And highways should completely bypass cities, because the idea that they should cut through them is just absurd.

Where are the cameras catching tailgaters, people who don’t signal, people cutting others off, people cruising in the left and not passing, people blatantly running stop signs, people texting or doing makeup?

The technology to do this is more challenging then detecting speeding. Red-light cameras are also very common, because they are relatively easy to implement. I believe there is some tech for texting while driving at least, but I’m not sure how automated it is.

If it’s the case that the only evolutionary reason for large breasts is to better attract (some) men, that would be interesting.

It’s not like large breasts are more common than not large (unless you mean anything larger than nothing at all). I suspect there was a random mutation, and it didn’t hurt their reproduction chances but it didn’t help either. So you end up with a variety of breast sizes.

Worrying about the water use of almonds when animal agriculture is right there is absurd in any case.

I was thinking more about the apparent changes in legislation, so the issue could reappear. It’s hard to tell if the author is overreacting or how it will actually pan out, since it’s all a bit incoherent to me.

Will be interesting to see if this applies to Vodafone, as I haven’t seen any messages despite using an imported phone. And the messages I received from Telstra were somewhat justified as the phone is missing B28, but that’s more of a coverage issue.

A shitshow in any case. VoLTE should really have been a core part of 4G and not this tacked on proprietary upgrade.

And the software ecosystem, much of which they have funded/developed. In 2015, there was no proton, no DXVK, no vkd3d, and most important, no Vulkan.

It’s a reverse-cycle AC if you’ve heard the term. Basically, an AC that can can run in reverse, heating the room.

It’s the most efficient form of heating and cooling that we have, since it doesn’t create energy, but instead moves it (so its efficiency is greater than 100%).

I’ve seen it go down in some cases on VPNs, so it could be a matter of time (or they’ll find a solution again and the back and forth will just continue).

Youtube isn’t just a thing people use to waste time, but a source of educational content. That actually matters, and there isn’t a good alternative to much of it.

That being said, I agree that people could at least drop it (or reduce their usage) if they are just using it as a time waster.

What headphones in particular are you using? Because with standard AD2P you’re limited to mSBC at best, but maybe your device has some proprietary implementation.

You could try with a hardware dongle, but no guarantee that will work either.

At least in the long run it should be fixed by Bluetooth LE audio, but I’m not sure if the Deck properly supports it yet, and it requires new audio devices as well.