Was that the Urahraptor? Discovered in 1993, estimated 5-6ft tall and 16-20ft long according to wiki

Yeah, that’s why it’s mildlyinteresting. The general trend is change for the sake of change. This one didn’t.

Why change for the sake of change? Because marketing analytics says they need to be the face of new-new. Why risk breaking automation? Because that’s a you-problem. Google does not care about you, the user. They want you, the ad target. Things break all the time for meaningless changes

Would plugging a drive with an OS on it into a running computer just show a list of files like normal?

Fuck The System

It’s not necessarily that they dislike the people, either. It could be an issue if the other people/animals at home aren’t cooperative with your need to work, despite being lovely in normal home situations. It could be a total lack of cooperative workspace - no desk space, too cluttered, areas already dedicated to other home tasks, noisy neighbors, easy distractions, etc. And then some people are just wholly impatient, who can’t identify what they need to make their home space more like their office space. Personally, I played a bunch of video games in 2020. I felt I performed better overall because blocking off an hour of game campaign kept me off my phone most of the day. Now I sit in an office again, scrolling here for more than an hour each day.

But yes, I had a number of coworkers in 2020 that came back as soon as they could in order to get away from their families again. Work was their herculean daily task that gave them an excuse to be away from families and be too tired to engage with them after work. The kind that always joked “gonna go home, hit the wife, and fuck the dog”

It’s not always outright negativity, but it can be.

People credit Tommy Lee Jones, but the true hero was the basketball that we rolled along the way

For tax evasion, not for the illegal nature of his income

there are bikes, racks and bags in any combination that can carry all sorts of groceries.

Paper and liquid products are not cooperative with two-wheeled transportation, so there’s still a tangible limit

BRB, taking a close up of a black HOOOOOooooooooo…

Bitcoin has been moving like the stock market since 2020. Big investors got involved, small investors lost trust in stocks. I don’t fully expect the current halving to cause the rally like all the other times it halved. That is assuming it doesn’t keep bombing shortly after breaking $69,420, what I suspect is a meme sell limit price.

You really are hands-off on this petroleum situation. You’ve got no part in it. It’s official. Everything in your life is a bike ride away and therefore didn’t use petroleum to get to your locality and didn’t take any to be manufactured. You won

How’d you computer get to your home? Did it walk?

A car is far from the only consumer of petroleum. Many electrical grids directly use hydrocarbons, construction uses petroleum, public transportation uses petroleum, local shipping uses petroleum, overseas shipping uses petroleum, manufacturing uses petroleum, plastic is made from petroleum, farms run on petroleum… Sure, most of those industries are trying to convert energy sources, but in no way can an individual avoid petroleum consumption and still live. Avoiding windows and Adobe is less insurmountable, but still a powerful stressor for people just trying to make a living.

Because we, the individuals, do not have the power to change it with an individual boycott and need to keep our livelihood intact. Go try to break you unhealthy relationship with petroleum.

FUCK YOU NO I’M NOT 😢

With that phrasing, I don’t know if you’re confirming your nationality or just discovering it. I’m excited for you either way

Yes. And it’s rare on cloudy days because the rainbow only works if you have a point-source of light. Clouds diffuse the light so instead you get an infinite amount of rainbows, all overlapping back into white.

I recommend you find a garden hose nozzle with a mist option. See the circle rainbow, taste the circle rainbow, hunt the double rainbow, find the rearward rainbow. go crazy.

If I make a gas engine with 100% heat efficiency but only run it in my backyard, do the greenhouse gases not count because it’s so efficient? Of course they do. The high efficiency of a data center is great, but that’s not what the article laments. The problem it’s calling out is the absurdly wasteful nature of why these farms will flourish: to power excessively animated programs to feign intelligence, vainly wasting power for what a simple program was already addressing.

It’s the same story with lighting. LEDs seemed like a savior for energy consumption because they were so efficient. Sure they save energy overall (for now), but it prompted people to multiply the number of lights and total output by an order of magnitude simply because it’s so cheap. This stems a secondary issue of further increasing light pollution and intrusion.

Greater efficiency doesn’t make things right if it comes with an increase in use.

Standard map projection strikes again. Starting from the tip of South Africa, it’s 4300 miles to Uruguay (where you’d land straight east) and 5300 to Perth, Australia. New York City is 3300 miles to Portugal and obviously the smoothest route to Australia is hopping through southeast Asia. Coincidentally, the northern hemisphere has way more population.

Cape Town is only 34° south. Going to 34°N, you’re lined up with Los Angeles, Dallas, and Atlanta USA, then Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia, then the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, middle of China, southern tip of South Korea, and grazing below Tokyo. It’s still 4100 miles between Georgia (USA) and Morocco.

There are no southern polar flights and no southern undersea cables because the southern continental points aren’t as far south as the northern points are north. Population volume doesn’t create the demand for more direct service.