You can’t borrow the money?

The RIAA tried to get the original YouTube dl taken down a few years ago. That is why it’s called YouTube dlp now.

I think most people are qualified to say that killing is bad regardless of the reasons or intent. If the goal of Israel is to put a stop to Hamas attacks then they certainly aren’t going to get there by killing random Palestinians regardless. That is only going to create more people who hate Israel in the long run.

Israel is retaliating against civilians for an attack carried out by Hamas. This is what America did in Afghanistan after the attack on the world trade center in 2001. It was dumb and it’s dumb now.

It’s giving me Iraq war vibes, except my friends aren’t getting involved. The escalation doesn’t make sense at all unless you consider Netanyahu needed to distract from his aspirations of becoming a dictator.

The worst part about plastic bottles is the energy required to make them.

They go through a 2 stage process where the plastic is melted and injection molded into a “pre-form”

Then they get fed into a blowmolding machine where they are heated in different areas by many 2k watt halogen bulbs. Once they’ve been heated properly they go into the blow mold where they are pressurized with ~500psi air.

The molds are liquid cooled through an industrial pipe system with an extremely large refrigeration system. The energy required to run all of the equipment is insane. A factory can consume as much energy in one hour as a standard home will in an entire year.

This doesn’t include all of the energy required for moving materials around since performs can be made at one factory and shipped to another and empty bottles are often shipped to warehouses and then off to the plant where they will be filled, then warehoused then distributed etc.

My dad has a PhD and he’s on his third marriage. Do you think I should ask him life advise? He’s dumb as hell unless you need a complex math problem solved. However, he feels like he can punch above his weight when it comes to other issues. It’s like a pro football player who thinks they could compete in any Olympic sport because they’re good at football.

Friend had an insight with oil consumption issues, so not those either.

Automatics have also become wildly better in the past 10 years. They used to be 3-4 speed and break all the time. Now they are 10 speed and super quick and more reliable.

Where I live you can drive at 16 and I believe you can also drive a fully loaded 40 ton grain semi for farming purposes on a regular license.

I program mine to run less when we’re not home. On top of that I set a “super cool” routine on weekends when it’s going to be hot outside.

You see, the a/c is most efficient when it’s cooler already. So in the last hour of darkness in the summer I set it to run down to 68 or so. Then it doesn’t have to run as long to do that. Then it doesn’t have to run again for several hours as the temperature is set back to 72.

I also clean the outside coils annually and put up a sun sail so that the outside unit is shaded all day. This has helped save a lot of money along with the thermostat programming.

I honestly never realized how much of af my stepdad did not give until much later. As a diabetic he would wear a fanny pack with his insulin, needless, and extra sugar drop candy in case his sugars dropped. This was before pumps were a thing. He would also wear bike shorts, slip on shoes with socks, a regular white t-shirt and a flannel as an outfit with the fanny pack. Oh and also transition lenses. The thing about the bike shorts is that his legs look like an eldritch horror because diabetics don’t heal very quickly when they get a scrape or cut. He also kind of looks like Dale from King of the hill.

I used to work with the “king” of geocaching in our area. If a new cache went up, he was always the first to get it. I figured out it was him from comments he had made online, not from talking to him. I often thought about ways I could mess with him, like making a new cache and waiting for him.

I often have connection issues with the Windows app. I usually have to turn WiFi off and on.

We’ll reach a point where performance improvements are largely unnecessary. Sure, governments and corps will still privately compete to get those precious nano seconds ahead on trades or whatever.

It’s nothing new. Have you ever opened up a laser disc player or discman from 1989? Extremely intracate parts Ave mechanisms that are nearly impossible to work with.

Even a basic VCR or DVD drive has a ton of small moving parts which are difficult or impossible to fix and designed to break early and often.

We get those temps on occasion here in the Midwest as well, except it’s not dry here, so it feels even hotter. This year we got lucky and had a drought for a month or so and it was cooler because of the Canadian wild fire smoke.

It’s not “too hot.” You’re spoilt and don’t know what “too hot” actually means.

Too hot? It gets over 100*f in the Midwest with high humidity pretty regularly. Chicago average daily humidity is 70%. But then it’s also winter for 6 months straight.

Weather is extremely stable in California, that’s why it’s a popular place to live.

There’s a small group of the general public that goes in the dmv with a complicated niche case with no idea what they need to do.

I got stuck behind a lady at the post office who had the dmv on speakerphone while they were trying to get proof of address because she just never had her mail forwarded when she moved.

I go into the dmv they make the dmv counter people answer the phones. I had two people call in and essentially cut the line in front of me to ask basic questions that they could have looked up on the website. If it’s unacceptable for people to interrupt me in person, then why do they allow it over the phone? Hate that shit.