Oh, no need to check. It's either bad or non-existent. Outside of local trains, what few routes exist are slow, limited in availability, and overpriced.

We're so screwed. 😺

A Hammerite plot. I am certain of it.

The side effect is the implication that the lights stopped flickering after you updated the motherboard drivers. And that either suggests something about human tendency to look for patterns or something very unsettling about your computer.

Now y'all got me curious too.

And everyody's parents are in on it, Amy? They just all happened to conspire together to keep this going? And every year they keep biying presents? For a dubious shot at making children behave?

At some point, you have to accept that a magical man in a flying sleigh is a simpler explanation.

Hopefully, you start breathing when I start listing things, and not wait for me to get it all out, because that might take a while.

And ignore the misregestration from the non-cooperative target recognition. You know how they get. And might as well silence that radio warning receiver alarm. It's too late now, regardless.

That is a very optimistic take.

I'm convinced that ~90% of gfx engineers I've met were faking understanding the integral form of the rendering equation, and I think that's fine.

Mew?

Why can I actually hear his voice while reading this? 😭

The important part is I won, so who's the joke now, huh?

People will ask us, "How did you learn the news," and we will say, "From seeing enough Crab Rave clips posted all at once to freeze my phone."

US just isn't built for them in so many places. Weather's also a factor. I'm not saying we can't build cities where you don't need a car. Just that it's not a "Next 5 years" scale of a project. We need a stop-gap either way.

Spicy queer smorgasbord bundle

IT'S LESBIAN VISIBILITY WEEK

GIVE MONEY TO LESBIAN (ME)

BUY BOOK

itch.io/b/3612/spicy...

Photo taken along the pier, with two sister ships, Jewel of the Seas and Brilliance of the Seas, moored in parallel to either side. Their aft sides with ship's names and flags of Bahamas, are facing the camera. The two ships are very nearly identical, each dominating their half of the frame.

Returning to the correct ship. Challenge level: Advanced.

Yeah, Bolt's not bad. We are badly in need of a sub-$20k small city EV, and one's definitely feasible. But a sub $30k with good highway characteristics is also a must in US, and having at least Bolt in that category is not a flop.

No price range is rich for options, though, and that is upsetting.

Couldn't have happened to nicer people. 😺

But yeah, it's been a few years since I bought my EV, but I recall test-driving a Tesla around 2020 and noting how it wasn't an improvement on 2016-ish, still feeling experimental, while other EVs started to feel like, you know, cars.

I think it's a case of a bit of both. Yes, motivation has malice behind it and not mere misunderstanding. But also, if they weren't out of touch, they'd know how garbage this is as messaging.

To be fair, I understand that it can be hard to walk the line between, "Everything is hopeless," and "Things will work out on their own."

Like, we already did irreversible harm to Earth. We are on track to do more. But also, our efforts are helping, and we can avoid the worst if we keep pushing.

I'm not sure it was intentional. People suck with numbers, and averages vs peak, and various efficiency factors. It's part of why I hate cursed units thrown in on top.

And yeah, it's far from bad. Nothing groundbreaking, but another vital step towards the goal.

Which is again why I used archaic incandescent light bulbs as a point of reference. People generally don't realize how much power they consume on day-to-day. Unless you're in a fully electrified private home, you don't get a sense for it.

But that's without factoring in heating, which yes wouldn't be fair to use against, "powering X homes" statistic as used, because gas or oil are usually used instead, but if we're serious about green energy, that should all be swapped out for heat pumps and that more than doubles the average power.

400Wh is closer to average household, but that's because Germany has more than 50% living in apartments, so it's not factoring in street lights, electricity used for water supply, etc. All the things actually involved in powering a home. Per capita average works out closer to 700Wh.

But an old 60W-100W incandescent bulb someone never bothered to change, because it's always on, so it didn't burn out from power cycling, is going to keep drawing that same power day and night. Even if people don't have them in their house anymore, they get an idea of how mich that is.

Primarily, because little of our power consumption is continuous like that. A kettle is up to 1kW, but it will run for 5 minutes. While a phone might be drawing 100W to charge for an hour or longer. A TV could be a 100W, but will vary with size and brightness, etc, etc.

It's a good measure. Yeah, you can run a lot more lighting on this, but it's still a very small quantity of power. People still have a good feel for a pair of incandescent lightbulbs running continuously. People don't have a feel for a combined total of a house as an average.

I don't know what you have in mind in terms of complexity, but I can't help picturing what you could do with lenslok concept utilizing modern display densities. Even if you have to scale the patch to match the lens size, there are plenty of pixels to make it crisp.

And light would propagate way faster for any remotely realistic material than the twist.

It would take time to travel. It's a type of wave, and there would be a corresponding wave speed depending on stiffness and density of material.