IMHO mathematicians go into the madman category.

Do people struggle that much more to divide dollars compared to feet?

I mean I totally get that base 12 is pretty cool for calculator-less maths (though not as cool for base 60) but ultimately, we still have a base 10 numbering system.

So yea, base 10 units for base 10 numbers. Using the same all the way down makes it easier to learn how to handle the more complicated divisions in all cases, you don’t have to switch logic if you see what I mean.

Of course, to each their own. The best case for metric remains that it’s the system everyone else has agreed on.

So the rich are so rich that they create inflation, just not because of literal hoarding, got it.

Is efficiency really the reason behind dams being somewhat intermittent? Rather than just the fact that we might not need them on all the time (needs vary), or that we just can’t leave them on all the time (not enough water flowing in), and that yes, under these conditions, operators will direct power sources in the most efficient way possible.

What I mean is like, I get that leaving a dam off 50% of the time will have it generate more power once you turn it on. But over the whole period of time, assuming enough water upstream to replenish it in either case, is it actually going to generate more electricity than leaving it on 100% of the time?

I guess what I’m asking is, rather than them being more efficient, isn’t intermittent operation of dams due to the fact that we can’t just leave them on 100% in the first place?

« Authorities have confiscated crew members’ passports to restrict travel, the sources said. They are allowed to move freely around Baltimore, but require the FBI’s permission to travel to other states.

“I’ve never seen this [detainment] before,” said a source. “It’s very unusual. But nobody wants to get into a shouting match with the FBI »

FBI can do whatever the fuck they want apparently because you know… it’s not appropriate to tell them not to

Indeed I do

TIL I could easily do em dashes on my phone

OMG thanks.

I think I actually knew this at some point but somehow it completely slipped my mind.

What version are you running? I just tried on Ventura, worked fine on both a .dmg package and some terminal script, both unsigned, and both would need the settings thing if I simply double clicked to open. You still get a prompt, but you have an “open anyways” option.

brew install —cask librewolf

Gentle reminder that slave labor, industrial automation and exploitation of far away lands were not even recent in 1950, and that still today, the vast majority of humanity still doesn’t have the means to own hundreds of outfits at a given time, let alone have a walk-in wardrobe.

Thanks for the insight

Do you know of !womensstuff@piefed.blahaj.zone ?

Don’t mean to imply that your post, or any women/gender-centric post, is not welcome here, I certainly think it is, but also posting over there might help you reach more women and further help you get the answers you are looking for.

Have you no shame, flexing all that knowledge in front of us ignorant peons?

I had to google Hawking bits and then fell into a black h…

Afraid the NRA will start pushing back seriously if (when?) they gun down another legally armed non-violent protester?

As a European, I’d never imagined to come to see the NRA as a potential force for good.

Personally, I choose to believe he was just zoning out one day during a meeting with a big Mercator-projected map on display and he was like “wtf is this bigass piece of land right next door? Whatcha mean this isn’t an actual country? Let’s claim it then!” Then his yes-men counselors all came up with actual strategic reasons for this (minerals, halfway between the US and Russia, etc…)

Fair point but I find it bold to assume that people do stuff only because they need do. We also do plenty of stuff just because we can.

And if you have a tractor company that includes kill switches in its equipment ( https://www.entrepreneur.com/business-news/john-deere-remotely-disables-tractors-stolen-in-ukraine-by/427045 ) it’s hard to rule out that a Defense department, which probably pays handsomely a certain number people to be actively paranoid, would refrain from doing so.

In 19th century France, there was this guy talking about « extreme center » to describe views intolerant to anything not in an arbitrarily proclaimed middle ground.

The concept has become quite popular to describe Macron and his quite authoritarian style.

Reaper also runs on Linux