prisons used to have treadmills to power machines. six hours a day, with rest breaks.

when there’s an engine to replace that, of course they’d explain it in terms of how many men it could replace permanently.

saying “but look at how much power Usain Bolt can produce for a few seconds” is not relevant.

the hp unit is reasonable based on whole-day power from typical farm horses.

I’m Spanish and I don’t fight bulls. I’m from Poland. Also you shouldn’t call Europeans Spanish, it’s considered offensive. And maybe stop saying Europeans eat pasta, we don’t eat pasta.

you don’t seem to have considered that your profession exists in every other country, and in your nation’s peers, your peers in the same profession are less miserable than you seem to be.

if you don’t think (at least) Thomas, Alito, Barrett, and Kavanuagh are outright malevolent self-serving sociopathic evil - you haven’t been paying any attention.

Ice that was on land will raise the sea level if it melts.

IBM standard cards are one 48th of a barleycorn thick. I believe IBM measured from the 1932 Iowa Reference Barleycorn, now kept in the vault inside Mt Rushmore.

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same. I stopped being active in my trade union because my local’s case officer has had his brain rotted by Grayzone and Dore etc, he harassed me for months with late night messages that “no Russia doesn’t target civilians on purpose” “Bucha was maybe a Ukrainian false-flag”, and publicly accused me of being a Nazi supporter for donating to a Ukrainian medical charity.

no help from the rest of the union because he always had plenty of fucking Glen Greenwald, David Sacks, etc tweets to “prove there are questions, he’s just asking questions and unconvinced by NATO CIA affiliated narratives”

Tankies are poison.

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Come to think of it, Shadowrun lore is a Cyberpunk 2077 crossover with The Witcher (the awakening ≈ the conjunction), and witchers could work fine on SR physical-adept rules… 🤔

Hope so! Shadowrun, which is basically Gibson’s sprawl plus magic, set in the 2050s in original editions from around 1990 -

Later editions added wireless computer connections to keep up with present technology, but wifi just doesn’t feel cyberpunk, so they later added some weird lore reason to go back to needing to plug in, for recent editions. Good change.

it’s bizarre without context, but i recognise what they mean - Sony’s headphones app suggests you send them photos of your ears so they can analyse the shape to improve the noise cancellation.

nor decoding 264 :(

a rather annoying regression from the 4 to the 5, especially when the 5 now supports more MIPI cameras where live encoding is crucial.

at least on a 4, this command will misleadingly return “disabled” even though your programs are able to use hwdec, because the h.265 decoder isn’t part of the Pi 4’s GPU, it’s elsewhere.

This one probably was a Ukrainian (pre-war stock) S-200 SAM - it was wayyy beyond Patriot range this time.

So now you’re saying politicians should only be prosecuted by members of their own party. Go to a doctor, tell them your brain fell out, ask for help.

Pretending that civilian ships don’t have people on board is a… weird tactic.

One example that happens quite often is “look, Uyghurs are in forced labour camps in China”, and the genetic fallacy response is “nooo that was reported by the New York Times which is an organ of western imperialism so it’s all bullshit you’re a westoid goon”

actually, they’re playing cards.