These are clearly fire benders, as indicated by the color of their jackets and the fact that they are literally manipulating the power of the fricking sun.

IIRC, California primarily uses raisin hydration/dehydration as a storage medium. Strange, but ineffective.

Not immediately viable, but much better for many applications: I’m imagining an agrovoltaic setup where the tractors use a pantograph to pull energy from an overhead line mounted off the solar panels. Effectively, it would be a trackless tractor-tram. Only a small battery would be needed for row end turnarounds and driving between fields. They already mostly drive themselves, so having the rows of panels to reference off of would actually simplify the navigation system substantially, and at that point you may as well add a pantograph and overhead line.

Most of the (little) inspiration I’ve gotten from AI has been when it makes a mistake in an interesting way (namely images).

We just don’t… time. At all. Ever. Usually. (Never never would be too consistent.)

I’m getting… bougie Mad Max vibes…? This thought both confuses and amuses me.

The “Save 10¢/gal with Amazon Prime” tag is really what completes the photo for me. Just awful. Chef’s kiss. 🤌

The color brightness improvement over DLP is night and day difference.

Two random guesses:

1. The UK has been inhabited for longer and thus many more of its aquifers may have been tapped.
2. Despite being fairly arid, Australia is just massive comparatively. In combination with number 1, it may have huge aquifers under uninhabited arid regions that are close to full.

I first read this as “Scientists play satellite tag with…” and was very intrigued to know if that was similar to laser tag.

Once I was bored so I downloaded a list of the top 100,000 passwords and counted how many have the name “Vlad” in them. It was 400-something I think. The more you know.

I love that the ^ makes the rest of it superscript. Fwiw, using code tags would fix it.

Well of course it doesn’t, God does.

Eh, not as much as you’d think. The back of your neck near the brainstem is crucial to temperature regulation. That’s why the go-to advice to alleviate heat stress is putting something cool like a wet towel around your neck. During midday when the sun is highest, keeping the sun off the back of your neck may well keep you cooler than keeping it off your face. Using your hands to shield your eyes occasionally looks a heck of a lot less dumb than keeping your hands up to shield the back of your neck.

Moral of the story, baseball hats are great for watching baseball, where you’re sitting facing one direction the whole time and can orient them accordingly. For general outdoor work, a sun hat with a neck flap is waaayyy better.

Who ever said there aren’t still disciples? It’s literally the Great Commission (Matthew 28:19-20; also Mark 16:15-16).

^(19)Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, ^(20)and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.

I would love to live in a society where police are genuinely and unironically referred to as peace officers. It would be a step in the right direction—the destination of course being a society where they need not exist, at least in their current form.

Unpopular ^(or popular but unspoken) opinion: Despite what the ACAB crowd would proclaim, I believe there are plenty of officers out there who may deserve such a title already, for trying their best in spite of being painfully aware of the system’s shortcomings and the public’s perception thereof.

Totally agree, just one addition. High prices alone don’t create profit, high prices at normal volumes create profit.

I mean, postmarketOS supports a pretty decent range, but as far as native Linux phones I’m right with you.

1099.512 Gigabytes

Also, if you end the hug too soon, I will start crying.