MUCH older. Shakespeare made a ton of contemporary references, and was referenced in turn by others during his days. Those were memes.
Medieval writers included strong biblical references, and we have some “entertainment” that is purportedly extremely funny and popular, that’s basically the medieval equivalent of Loss.
Brainrot videos are the first one I truly, truly don’t get.
I just discovered there are now over 9000 SCPs. Last time I checked, there were three hundred something.
Akshully, most medieval towns wouldn’t see all that many horses. They had a lot of humans though, and human shit smells SO much worse.
Larping works great for me.
It’s important to note what purification tablets do and don’t do. They kill bacteria, some viruses and many parasites. They don’t remove chemical pollution, or biological toxins.
You should use them if you want to drink from open water like steams and ponds, but it won’t, say, remove factory effluent. It will prevent getting diseases from human or animal waste, which is the main risk.
But it won’t make the water taste like it didn’t come from a pond.
I get some vegeterian people visibily upset that I’m eating “their” food when they know I usually eat meat.
Unless you’re at a place where you’re literally taking physical food, leaving them none, that’s just moronic
It’s mostly an artefact from how we measure it.
Chocolate demand is rising, which means cocoa demand is rising. It grows best in really warm places, where there’s plenty of readily available mountainous land that’s currently covered by old growth forest. They farm cocoa very unsustainably, by illegally logging the land, growing beans for 5 to 8 years, and moving on (following the illegal loggers). We’ve decided to place the CO2 impact on the cocoa, not the wood though, probably due to lobbying.
That land use change drives climate impact of chocolate. Milk drives the rest.
Why the hell don’t they capture the methane and sell it?
It’s really hard. Most methane comes directly from the cow, and cows spend most of their time in air. The methane gets mixed in the air, in very small percentages. Extracting a small bit of methane from a lot of air is complex and energy Intensive, and methane is cheap.
So you’d spend a lot of money and power to produce very little money or power.
Faxes are secure after sending. The only way for a third party to get a fax is to physically tap the line at the time of transmission, or to break into the building and steal the paper.
Email sits online, where everyone can get at it unless you prevent it. Faxes sit in a drawer, behind the locks you already have.
Well that, and a multi-decade headstart in solar panels
I spend a fair bit of time on construction sites, and cameras have one huge issue compared to mirrors: They’re one-way.
With a mirror, I can see the driver in the mirror. I can make eyecontact and confirm that they’ve seen me. With a camera, I have no idea if they’ve seen me. Maybe they can see more, but if they happen not to be looking, I have no way to tell.
And our stupid road regulations don’t allow for both.
Battery parks are definitely the new hot thing, but it takes a long time to get enough capacity that you can take the entire solar peak on a sunny day
The Netherlands has a huge grid capacity issue, but there are two much more relevant problems stopping the growth of renewable power: space and the fact that the earth is round.
The Netherlands is the most densely populated large country in Europe. Wind turbines take up quite a bit of space, and we’ve got a very large part of the country covered with stuff already. There isn’t much room for new wind parks. There is also a steady expansion there already, and we don’t have unlimited will turbine builders either.
The problem with solar is that we already have a lot of solar. Solar panels all produce the most power at the same time, which often causes an excess of electricity turning the price negative, meaning producers will turn their plants off. So a solar park will stop producing exactly when it would have been most profitable otherwise. This means the return on investment is significantly lower, below other safe investments, so people will just invest elsewhere…
And private solar panels suffer from the same issue,along energy companies charge extra to compensate for fixed-rate contracts, making them much less financially appealing for people.
Yes, and now we want to change those laws. It should be easy to follow those too.
Not at all. It’s assuming they don’t suddenly drop in cost 99%
LLM everything. Nobody who is selling AI services is making any money on it. OpenAI is burning tens of billions a year without even a concept of a sellable product, Microsoft is losing billions on OpenAI, and Amazon made 5B revenue on a 120B investment (and negative profit). Nobody who is using these LLMs is paying the full cost, and hardly anyone actually uses them for anything real. Productivity hasn’t gone up for the vast majority of companies using it, and only ignorant management is pushing it hard.
I’ll give it three years until it all falls apart, and that’s very generous.
I used to have a “mistake” Savannah, which was at most 40% Serval (mommy got into the male enclosure and nobody knows who the lucky boy was).
He was a LOT of work. I’ve never had a more active cat. You can absolutely train them, and you absolutely have to, or you need to keep them in a seperate enclosure. They will fuck up your house in ways you can’t imagine.
And he was only 40% serval.
It’s this stuff: https://www.tesa.com/nl-nl/consument/tesa-powerbond-outdoor-ean-4042448843432.html
Or your local version of it, but this website refuses to turn to other languages for me.
If anyone asks me what fragile masculinity looks like, this will be my example for the month.