All well and good as long as it’s something they own themselves. I’ve rather grown to hate all the public anti-vax, racist and far right stickers the idiots share on Telegram and plaster all over public property. Even in the nature reserve I like to walk to relax some dick has put Nazi stickers on every post in sight as well as all over informational signs telling people about the unique wildlife. It makes my blood boil, which is the opposite of relaxing in the forest.

He is the Messiah!

All of the people that were asked were prominent online personas in the flat earth space. Aka grifters who have made their day job out of talking nonsense and duping people. They would not just be ousted from the community they are currently in, they would also lose their income.

Just convincing any old smuk wouldn’t be useful, so flat earth “influencers” were asked.

As far as I know hPa is the preferred unit for air pressure and is used a lot. Usually referring to the air pressure of the atmosphere.

Also hectometer is used a lot when talking about land measurements. And we don’t mostly keep to mm and m, in my experience cm is the most used and most useful measurement for every day objects.

All of the different prefixes are valid and are used. It just depends on what context, which one is the most useful. No reason to stick to the 10^3 units, just use them all.

If we take the banana to be 180 grams and the square dishwasher to be 0.36 square meter, that would come to about 140,000 bananas per square dishwasher.

100psi is 6894 hPa for the freedom challenged among us.

I don’t think the aliens are hostile, because they don’t exist.

You are totally right. I was involved in a local council thing once. They had some plans promised, but had to cancel because the budget wasn’t there and costs were much higher than expected. I was outraged, as were a lot of people. So a local dude and myself volunteered to go over the budget and the cost, see where the fat could be cut and what could be changed to still make the plans happen. So we got together with the council accountants, went over all the numbers and were shocked at the state of things. We got a working space and access to anything we needed, with a very kind council worked who helped us every time we were there. We went over everything for two weeks and were sure we’d come out to be heroes in the end.

Spoiler alert: we weren’t. You’d be amazed at what even simple things actually cost, once you account for everything. And the amount of rules, regulations and compliance public work comes with. That eats up a lot of overhead. The council workers did a good job of cutting costs where possible and had creative stuff to make a lot happen with very little money. Our own proposals came out more expensive with a worse result when we calculated it. We even found some unaccounted costs in the original council plans. So we did not in fact save the days as heroes, but had to admit to hundreds of people we failed and the original plan was more expensive than we thought.

Anything government does is expensive and takes a lot of time. Everyone I’ve ever met in government who wasn’t a politician does their damned best to make everything faster and cheaper. It really put me in my place and I’ve come away with a lot of respect for people I once disliked.

There is about 1,260,000,000,000,000,000,000 liter of water on Earth. Lets say Hitler was a pretty good water drinker and on average he ingested 4 liter of water (not just in drinking but also in food). Hitler lived for about 20,454 days and would have ingested about 81,816 of water. Lets say you are a water superfan and live to be 100 years old, then there is a chance of 0.001185845% you will drink some of the water that Hitler drunk at some point.

So it’s probably not been in Hitlers mouth. Dinosaur piss I’ll leave as an exercise for the reader.

The name of the band is for their quest to become a full circle, a feat they have not attained thus far even though they have gotten close on several occasions.

They didn’t say disagreeing with moderators, they said disagreeing with moderation.

I read that as: You can disagree with how a mod applies the rules and challenge that. You can’t disagree with the rules themselves, the rules are the rules, take it or leave it.

And personally I think complying with NATO export restrictions seems like a good rule.

And when you try to stand back up you make this involuntarily grunt sound that alerts everyone as well

Nope these ones did it from the get go. We asked about it when they got installed, it was a feature to let you know they were operating properly. I really to this day don’t know why it was like that.

It wasn’t a loud beep, when the TV was on, you couldn’t even hear it. I only heard it when it was quiet in the house, especially when I wanted to sleep.

Yeah I love Ubuntu, it’s really fine. But I think because it’s easy and for a lot of people their first Linux, it’s seen as like the baby version of Linux. So people bitch about it a lot, as if it’s somehow inferior to other distros. Like if you don’t compile everything from scratch you are somehow not worthy?

Hard “Real programmer” vibes. https://xkcd.com/378/

And yes, I use pico as a text editor, it’s fine really.

Wow! That’s really cool, Debian Potato was so hype back then. And every new release was amazing, I had Sarge running for so long. And I had a little home made router with Debian Sarge and an uptime of like 3 years. I had to replace the NIC on it, from a 10mbit coax only to a coax and UTP model because I was switching over to UTP. I didn’t want to shutdown the server, so I live swapped the ISA cards, and it actually worked!

Those were the days.

Nah I went over to camp Debian for a long time, switched when Debian Potato was released. Then when Debian kinda stalled I was lured into Ubuntu because they had the latest and greatest. I know it isn’t the cool choice these days, but I have stuck with Ubuntu ever since.

I dug around in old boxes and found the book!

I started with SuSE 5 and it came with a book. I think it started with something like: “Don’t panic! You can do this!”

It was rough at first, but once I got into it I was hooked.

We used to have a fancy ass fire alarm system in the 90s and early 2000s. At a couple of points in the house there were detectors, each with a battery, power connected and connected to each other. If one of them detected smoke or heat, they would all start beeping. They would flash every 10 secs to let you know it is in sync, but they would also emit a small beep every 10 mins or so. They never ran out of power since they were connected to mains voltage with a battery backup. The battery was rated to be replaced every 10 years, but I think it was one of those that basically went on forever.

I got used to it after a while, but every now and again I would start noticing the beeps and could not stop noticing them. My dad was proud of them, he paid a lot of money to get them and get them installed.

No honey, we have Ned Stark at home.