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[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 months ago (13 children)

Headline ends in a question mark. The answer is no.

Battery swapping is a nice option for certain types of vehicles and locations, and battery standards would be great too, but I doubt it will replace home charging anytime soon. It has all the downsides of gas stations, as stated in the article.

Perhaps it makes sense in a couple of car-generations if batteries eventually get really big, like 5000 km range or something.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Coffee dispenser at work. It acts up like it's a printer. Replace left cartridge. Replace right cartridge. Cleaning required. Thorough cleaning required. Unknown leak. Heating water please wait. Unknown error. Fuck that, I'll piss in a cup myself if I don't get my coffee now.

Then there's also the towel roll thing in the toilets. I swear it's stuck for longer time than it's functioning. It'd be a full time job keeping that rolling throughout the day

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (4 children)

According to the source, he didn't saturate it.

I drive by something like that daily. Some days it does look like that, but it mostly looks like a regular manure field. Capturing it on camera is a matter of timing.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (2 children)

It's a different culture altogether, where a job is expected"for life", which also makes it difficult to quit a job. People are literally hiring other people to deliver their resignation notices because it's impossible to do in person.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Unions are gangs. Companies are gangs. Any group of people larger than 2 is a gang.

The difference is that unions are democratic, while companies (and criminal gangs) are top down hierarchy.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago

Perhaps it's time to remind people that the date of celebration of labour day in most of the world on May 1st. was chosen to commemorate the American Haymarket affair in 1886.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

It's going to fluctuate a lot on it's way down.

The people who bought it for a high price will also buy at lower prices to get a better average in total. These kinds purchases will increase the price for no other reason and self fulfill the option to sell the total at a slightly higher average than rock bottom. It's a (risky) way to cut the losses. Many people are probably still holding on to the overpriced stocks. With these things combined, existing investors can maintain an artificial high price. However, unless new investors start buying, it'll slowly but steadily lose value over time as existing investors manage to seep out.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Not a hoopy frood.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

I feel like I have seen that number a dozen times before, maybe more. It's impossible to tell.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

Yeah they do.

So does Hollywood.

Minecraft would have been better with a no-name actor as Steve. It would still suck, but at least it wouldn't also be a Jack Black movie.

Don't get me wrong, I like Jack Black; He plays an excellent role as Jack Black in movies where Jack Black does Jack Black things like the famous Jack Black falsetto, which is funny.

He's no Steve, though. Steve is an anonymous character and very much not a famous celebrity. Any random person off the street would have been a better cast.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 4 months ago (6 children)

Copied from Wikipedia:

Initially, crew members are unaware of the loop. However, Dr. Beverly Crusher (Gates McFadden) begins to hear noises before she goes to bed following the poker game. Having a sense of déjà vu during the poker game and being able to predict the cards Data will deal during a subsequent loop, Crusher takes a tricorder with her to her room, records the voices, and later analyzes them to discover they are the panicked commands and broadcasts of the crew. The senior staff work out that they are stuck in the loop; the voices they are hearing are those of themselves from the previous loop just prior to the destruction of the ship. They evaluate the voices to determine that the loop is restarted due to the collision of the two ships but do not know how to avoid that collision in the first place. Data suggests that his positronic brain can be used to send a short message to himself in the next loop which may help them to avoid the collision. When they arrive at the anomaly, and after the collision, Data sends the message.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Sweden does the opposite.

The reason why there's always a Swedish actor in Nordic films is that the Swedish Film Institute gives funding to movies with Swedish actors.

It's such a silly trope by now, but at least it's the sane and successful way of doing it.

Adding a "tariff" will only result in more CGI slob. What if someone makes a movie with a story happening in Italy entirely by CGI? Would it be tariffed, and if so, what if the Italy location is actually in a galaxy far far away?

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