Saudi Arabia? What are they doing with all those batteries? Are they actually switching to solar even though they have all the oil they could ever burn?

A phone with a full sized HDMI connector? Neat!

Or set up a seesaw and use the kitchen scale to weigh yourself in one go. With a bit of clever physics, you can prevent the scale from maxing out, and with a little bit of mathematics, you can convert the reading to your actual weight.

Turns out, asklemmy just banned that account for being a bot.

The real tip is in the comments.

Posting this much isn’t normal. Looks very fishy to me.

Yeah, that’s a classic case of Acute Waifuitis. If you notice your firend’s computer hardware starts manifesting anime girls, treat that as a cry for help. He won’t be aware of it, but you may be his only hope.

Early symptoms include disrupted sleep cycle due to binge-watching seasonal anime at 3 AM, developing strong opinions about dub vs. sub, and using obscure anime references in real world situations.

It can progress to full-blown Weeb Ascension Syndrome, where you start collecting figurines you can’t afford, and unironically using Japanese honorifics with your friends.

Better get that checked out before you wake up one day with a katana collection and a part-time job at an anime convention.

Not really a problem, since my phone is usually silent. I miss mystery calls all the time. It’s their fault for not texting me first.

There bananas and four kiwis.
3 Ba \ 4 Ki

😂 That was wild!

It’s a whole rabbit hole of tutorial videos. Try all the different methods to see what you like. I think the “restaurant style” might be your thing though. It involves doing the whole thing in a bowl of water.

Also applies to peeling/cutting exotic fruits. Like, how do you even open a pomegranate without making your kitchen look like it came straight out of a horror movie? Turns out, there are several ways.

Facts don’t matter in that discussion. It may look like a debate, but it’s all about emotions and cognitive biases. What wasn’t reasoned in, can’t be reasoned out.

Like a cab, but it’s your car and you take care of everything.

If you need a car only once a year when going to the airport, a cab will be cheaper. If you need to go somewhere at least once a week, driving your own car will be cheaper. Likewise, if you need only a little bit of cloud storage for your photos, free iCloud or Google Drive might be fine. If you need a whole lot of storage, self-hosting becomes cheaper.

When you take a cab, do you need to worry about maintenance, gasoline, insurance, or other things? No. The same goes for cloud storage. When you throw your photos on Google Drive, you don’t need to worry about electricity bills, security updates, or hardware maintenance.

When you drive your own car, you need to be a responsible driver and a car owner. Maintenance is your responsibility. Likewise, self-hosting means you need to be a responsible server admin.

Looks like it won’t rain on Saturday. It’s been raining pretty much every day for the past 2 weeks, so not raining is kinda nice. Might even see the sun.

With visibility like that, I expect this place has seen its fair share of carnage.

Sounds like there’s also a lot of potential for soviet style gulags, forced labor camps, or basically just slavery. If that’s what USA is offering, many dictatorships would probably be glad to make a deal. Once USA figures out how to have gulgas on their own soil, the expenses will suddenly vanish entirely.

But isn’t that also a very expensive way to murder people? How can they afford a massive system like that?

On top of that, the rest of chemical industry is largely dependent on oil, with oil-based products literally everywhere. Even asphalt and bitumen used in road construction comes from crude oil. Lubricants, dyes, detergents, waxes and emulsifiers are also derived from oil, just to name a few.

Even when we develop clever new methods to manufacture all of these products from plant-based materials, the logistics chain to manage the volumes required by modern life is not there yet. Building this infrastructure will take a long time, just like it took decades to create the addiction we’re currently in.

The petrochemical industry has significant economies of scale, making it difficult to dethrone. Also, there are some shady political shenanigans to ensure its continued existence. Getting rid of oil is going to require some radical changes.