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Wait, being lazy is good for the environment? I'm in.
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The original hellboy movie deserves way more than 480p
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Cause it takes up a lot of space on store shelves. It's really obvious when there's a larger demand for them.
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I've been running a pair of cyberpower systems for over a decade. I had to replace the battery in each of them once, but they've been working great.
I assume newer ones use some sort of Li-Ion battery tech, but mine are just plain old Lead Acid.
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Sucks, cause I enjoyed some stuff on prime, but I refuse to be advertised to.
I just haven't watched anything on Amazon since this change.
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That article in Signal is bogus. It is entirely based on speculation from how funding comes in, and also either ignores, or misunderstands how Signal fundamentally works.
The EFF recommends Signal, and it's one of the most secure ways to communicate.
https://ssd.eff.org/module/how-to-use-signal
You can make your own decisions, but if you just grab any random arguments, you'll find a reason to doubt everything.
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Sometimes it's just to gauge how things change over time.
If you said 5 when you came in, but 3 after an hour, then we can make decisions based on what happened between those times.
If you said 3 when you came in but now it's a 7, maybe there's some emergency that needs to be acted on now.
If you said 9, and that makes sense based on what is going on, you get some nice drugs for a bit.
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Didn't you read the summary? They put a juvenile penny in the jar and it grew inside until mature.
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There are quite a few anecdotal cases of people dying shortly after retirement, or shortly after a spouse dies. Death is complicated and sometimes people "hold on" for weird and unexplained reasons.
People in terminal condition have a habit of dying when loved ones are out of the room.
Does Jimmy Carter feel like this election is something major he needs to accomplish before he goes? Maybe. Or maybe he just keeps busy with all of his volunteer work and other philanthropy, which is keeping him around.
Maybe he's just one of the lucky ones that happens to be healthy and sharp at 100 for reasons we don't know.
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Q: Would you have certified the election results had you been vice president?
Vance: If I had been vice president, I would have told the states, like Pennsylvania, Georgia, and so many others, that we needed to have multiple slates of electors. And I think the U.S. Congress should have fought over it from there.
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This assumes you have relatively normal air temperature and pressure.
Things change quite a bit if you interpret space to mean "open vacuum of space"
Then you have to decide if you mean orbit exposed to solar radiation, or interstellar exposed to galactic radiation. Or just in null gravity with null radiation.
This question can have a lot of answers depending on context.
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Some people walk to get groceries.
edit: on the flip side, if you're trying to lose weight, then eating low density food would probably fill you up faster. So more apples and less sunflower seeds.
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Depends entirely on what the job is.
Is the 42 year old a welder? Then 48 different jobs might mean they're in super high demand and contract out to high paying, low time frame jobs.
Is the 42 year old a cop or a priest? Probably skips town a lot for... reasons...
Most any other job might just mean they've had an interesting life and like to try new things. Their broad experience might mean they're great for what they're currently doing.
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It's shown that they have multiple techniques they enjoy. Quark once got a feather stuck in his ear from some ear play.
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Tympanic_tickle
My guess is that they don't like rigid objects inserted. They have extremely sensitive hearing, so I'm guessing vibrating objects are also a no-go.
PROBABLY not, but different people like different things, and Ferengi are well known for selling anything to anyone, so... maybe?
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AN erogenous zone, not THE erogenous zone.
I have an indoor/outdoor thermometer to keep track of how hot the back of my Expedition gets. I drive pretty regularly with two dogs in the back, and over the summer and winter the temps can get a little extreme. I need to be able to take it out to keep an eye on it remotely (it has about 1/4 mile range) but also have it not rolling around while I drive. There was a coin holder there that I popped out, and used as a template for an insert to keep this mounted semi-permanently. Printed with kinda crappy Amazon Basics PETG. If it holds up well, I'll reprint it with better quality black PETG so it matches the car better.
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Tips to keeping your identity secure, and protecting other members of your community from being accidentally doxxed or forced offline. Extremely useful, especially for people who coordinate larger protests or online communities.
Neat time lapse video of a bunch of different plants (and fungi) growing from seed to flowering/fruiting.
We planted a variety of plants, at different stages of growth. After a bit of experimentation, cosmos grow extremely well. These were cuttings we put in just a couple weeks ago, and they're already bigger than most of the other plants that have been in there for over a month. The very young plants did not survive, but the larger ones did. If they're too small, they just get swallowed down into the cups by the bobbing of the water. Seems like the plants need to be large enough to reach all the way to the bottom of the pots, and still stick out enough. Going to be interesting to see what it looks like at the end of the season.
The experimental mat has been out for about a week now, but extremely high winds during a storm last night pulled up a corner of the mat spilling out the contents. Luckily the majority of the plants were able to be saved, so we have one empty spot now. I added some weights to the four corners to hopefully prevent this from happening again. This is why we're experimenting! Learning what works and what doesn't with the setup.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/15830343 > Our retention pond in our neighborhood has a lot of algae and problematic plant growth due to the surrounding farms and lawn runoff, so we're experimenting with a floating island to pull nutrients out before they can cause problems. This will also provide some interesting flowering plants, and more fish habitats. > > Will be an interesting experiment to see what survives and what does poorly. > > Zinnias, sunflowers, marigolds, and a few others are in net pots, inserted into cutouts in EVA foam mats. > > Design is from: > http://www.beemats.com/ > > More reading: > https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/02/flowers-grown-floating-on-polluted-waterways-can-help-clean-up-nutrient-runoff/ > > https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666765723000637?via%3Dihub >
Our retention pond in our neighborhood has a lot of algae and problematic plant growth due to the surrounding farms and lawn runoff, so we're experimenting with a floating island to pull nutrients out before they can cause problems. This will also provide some interesting flowering plants, and more fish habitats. Will be an interesting experiment to see what survives and what does poorly. Zinnias, sunflowers, marigolds, and a few others are in net pots, inserted into cutouts in EVA foam mats. Design is from: http://www.beemats.com/ More reading: https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/02/flowers-grown-floating-on-polluted-waterways-can-help-clean-up-nutrient-runoff/ https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666765723000637?via%3Dihub
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Really important step towards expanding our research on the moon, is creating highly detailed maps of the entire surface. China is doing some great work on building out infrastructure and studies of the moon. They're the only country that's brought back any moon rocks in decades. Space Race 3.0 is on, and we'll see how different approaches to the research and manned missions will move forward. The US is currently building out an extremely upfront cost heavy project, but with a lot of long term benefits. China is building a more straightforward moon project, but with higher ongoing costs, as much of the infrastructure is disposable (more like Apollo).
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The amount of detail in these pictures is amazing. You can really see the texture in the nebula, and the features are so crisp, it kind of looks 3d.
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Pretty interesting topic, would be interesting if it could be used to move satellites to a "parking orbit" once they run out of fuel. It's unclear just how much movement in an orbit that can be done, as it says it needs to be in the same energy level. Source press release: https://www.surrey.ac.uk/news/new-technique-uses-knot-theory-create-tube-map-around-planets-and-moons Source journal article: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42064-024-0201-0
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If there’s a Holy Grail on Mars, it’s probably a specific type of rock: A rock so important that it holds convincing clues to Mars’ ancient habitability. Perseverance might have just found it.
Didn't work out at all, but wanted to share a conversion of a dobsonian telescope into a horseshoe mount that I built a while back. Was a completely failed experiment, but it was also kinda fun.
There was an issue on Reddit a while back where people would post some hateful stuff, and of course lots of people blocked them. After a while, anti-trans, racist, and far-right-wing stuff were only seen by non-logged in users, other bigots, or new people, and they weren't getting the downvotes they deserved. Is this going to be a problem on Lemmy too? I'm worried that if we're all blocking shitty users that we're just hiding the problem from ourselves, not fixing it.
This was a fun project, I had to measure and figure out the iottie thread pitch and then create an adapter to go from a phone mount stand to a backplate on my wireless camera screen for a backup camera on a trailer. Basically replicated the back plate from the original phone mount with the same tolerances and spacing. Took 2 test prints to make sure the threads and spacing was right, then I printed it out of PETG. Seems to hold up well, but I might end up adjusting the design over time if it has a weak point.