rainwall

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[–] rainwall@piefed.social 15 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

Flat bottom carbon steel woks solve this issue really well. I use the top pick there on an electric burner cooktop, and the thing gets stupid hot very, very fast and produces really good stir fry with the fine char that you expect from a wok.

[–] rainwall@piefed.social 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Accuracy is about the abilty to hit a specific target, Precision is about being able to repeat it.

[–] rainwall@piefed.social 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Ive biked to work for years and only had 2 bad crashes. Both involved slamming hard into pavement at speed, one had me slide into a tree. Both times I hit my shoulder/arm/hip hard and was honestly very dazed, but neither time did I hit my head.

You can shake a bike accident off if you get lucky in how you hit the ground. Mainly if you dont smack your head. Super duper wear a helmet cause that the kind of spill that fucks you.

[–] rainwall@piefed.social 1 points 1 day ago

There are minimal buffers, regardless of the part of the cycle. Crude may need to be refined, but its just enough crude to refine just enough into gasoline just in time.

Even the "strategic reserves" that they released cant meet the demands beause those systems cant process the cached oil fast enough either. The US can only process something like 1 million barrels reserve/day, so its not comperable to a 15 million barrell/day disruption either.

Even the "safety system" cant keep up because Its just cut corners all the way down.

[–] rainwall@piefed.social 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Because most system are run on a "just in time" model of logistics that means you dont store enough stock to cover emergencies, because storing extra stock costs money and may depriciate in value. So instead you get only the exact amount you need, when you need it.

Since every system is basicslly optomized to this cutthroat, zero reduancy way, we cant really just "take the hit" when 20% of oil/food/etc disapears overnight. It would be like telling people to "just eat 20% less" or " just drive 20% less." Both good advive, but we are creatures of habit that build routines around systems, so when someone fucks a system over, it causes rippling chaos. So what happens when 20% of a daily resource goes away in our global, market economy? All prices go up up! Then people have to break habits, and/or start breaking politicians. Well, we are in stage 1 and barely in the bad polling/protest stage of 2.

[–] rainwall@piefed.social 15 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Past the first generation of Leafs when battery chemistry was kooky, it looks like EV batteries are lasting long term really well. With the moving parts reduced from something like 850 in a ICE car to something like 35 in an EV, its entirely likely EVs last way, way longer.

[–] rainwall@piefed.social 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Nah, any investor knows they should never try to time the market and should instead invest a set and steady amount every month to smooth out the highs and lows.

Its fully possible this is not the "dip" at all and that is still coming. Dollar cost averging frees you entirely from gambling on time lines.

[–] rainwall@piefed.social 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Its clear they meant to make a very, very stupid threat, but im also sure they did it in the laziest, shittiest way possible.

The stupidity comes from trying to threaten a religious figurehead of a church of 1 billion people with assasination in our media enstrangled world when the president can't even handle the bad polling from gas prices going up.

I have no doubt some of his inner circle would gladly murder the pope to make a point, but their evil is also grossly incompotent.

[–] rainwall@piefed.social 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

FEMA has some aces up its sleeve here. We may need to use waffle houses as anchor points though.

[–] rainwall@piefed.social 1 points 2 days ago

You are basically a rare edge case that makes current EVs a poor fit for your usage/requirements.

EVs make driving better for a vast majority of drivers, but not everyone.

[–] rainwall@piefed.social 30 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (5 children)

Asking for basic rights doesnt mean you assume anything. Its not a zero sum game where trans people having rights means others have less, or that trans people cant have rights because other may not have them either. Thats a very weird way to make it "Us vs Them" when its just a basic ask all around.

Secondary to that is the fact that if you don't agree with what trans people are saying, they exclude you from their spaces and conversations.

This is just JAQing off with more steps. Woe be it that the people whose mere existance is met with raw hostility dont put up with yet more bigotry or "just asking questions" rhetoric that they get literally everyday of their lives.

Does this derail what may be honest questions? Sure, but when you get 90% hate and 10% good faith and cant always parse the two, sometimes you filter out all 100% for your own safety.

[–] rainwall@piefed.social 11 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Its accurate. Home sales are public information. All the retalor sites pull from the same data.

 

Andy praised her directly last year alongside his other pro GOP comments:

Proton reiterated the claim that it is a “politically neutral organization,” then went on to state that “regardless of one’s views about the wider Republication platform, if you agree that action is needed on antitrust then the appointment of Gail Slater is a positive thing,” referring to President Donald Trump’s choice to head the Justice Department’s antitrust division. Proton further stated that “Big Tech CEOs are tripping over themselves to kiss the ring precisely because Trump represents an unprecedented challenge to their monopolistic dominance.”

https://theintercept.com/2025/01/28/proton-mail-andy-yen-trump-republicans/

Has he or the offical Proton account adressed their current position on the GOP now that the Trump admin has fired their most prominent antitrust proponent?

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