So you’re saying it’s actually a spiritual successor to KSP2?

IIRC there’s some situations where you’re considered responsible if anybody dies. So if you break into a house to steal something and the homeowner hears you, runs down the stairs, trips and breaks their neck it counts as if you murdered them.

If you want to make a greybeard feel old, grab one of the old floppies that they still have in a filing cabinet, hold it up and say, “Hey look, someone 3D printed a save icon!”

The really stupid thing is that they aren’t getting into government in the next election and probably not in the one after, so the energy transition is going to be mostly done by then. The elderly coal plants that the LNP wants to pour money into are going to be gone.

Coal power stations wear out, and we haven’t built any new ones in 20 years or so. Many of them were built in the 80s and nobody’s looking to fund new ones.

So that’s what Ted Cruz was doing there.

Maybe consider running security updates if they’re connected to the internet.

Current capacity, safety and power delivery are fine for most purposes, really.

LFP batteries really solved battery fires - they can’t produce their own oxygen like older NMC batteries, so they just get really hot and die instead of going off like fireworks.

Once you get past 300 miles, you’re pushing the limits of the average bladder and you need to stop before the car does.

With current electric trucks, if you’re doing some city driving and plug the truck in when you take a break, a truck driver will run out of hours before the truck runs out of range.

That’s how it should be done - overbuild renewables and intelligently shut some of them off when not required.

EVs are even better - you’re fully in control of the power, without an engine and transmission imposing a bunch of limits and power bands based on engine RPM and vehicle speed.

You actually get the experience that automatic transmissions promise but fail to deliver. If you want power, press the pedal. If you want more power, press the pedal more. That’s it. No power fade, surges, hiccups as it shifts, etc.

I prefer a manual to an automatic, but they’re both obsolete. Electric motors just do as they’re told.

I wonder if they’re going to change that one. More and more people are going to go their whole lives without ever seeing an analog clock.

People on here get all upset about kids these days who can’t read an analog clock. Funnily enough, a lot of those people think it’s completely reasonable that they don’t know how to drive a manual.

This. ‘Gentle hand wash only’ clothes go in the machine. If they can’t go in the machine, let them be ruined.

TIL I should eat beans before a date.

People always say they couldn’t give up a good steak, but we’re mostly not eating steak, we’re eating low quality processed meat and you could swap that with other protein and not notice.

Can we get some more JPEG? I can almost tell what some of the colours are.

Doesn’t have the depth, warmth, or ability to bring joy to others.

My favourite is when they include a screenshot as evidence, and the screenshot clearly disagrees with them. So I get to read back to them the message in their own screenshot.

“Nobody wants to work” always has the unspoken second part, “for what I want to pay.”

Because then they’ll actually need to do recalls instead of just patching issues with an update.

That’s probably only true for USB power supplies - a USB adapter isn’t set up to do anything with voltage and probably just passes the positive and negative pins through.

The VGA adapter feeding power back through USB in the first place, yeah, that’s not supposed to happen.