I saw crypto from home screen to settings. While anecdotal, that made them very difficult to trust.

My wife and I built a travel trailer. We needed to judge our water usage to decide capacity.

My wife has long hair, all the way to the top of her butt. Without rushing it takes her 10gal (~40L) of water to have a shower where she washes her hair. At the other extreme, either of us can take a basic shower where we turn the water off until needed, a “navy shower”, with 2gal (~8L).

In the US all shower heads are limited to a maximum of 1.75 gal/min (~7L). It’d take about a half hour to use 200L+.

The first thing you could do is to heavily shorten the time the water is running. One or two minutes split between start and finish is sufficient. If even more severe limitations are wanted then install a bidet or kitchen faucet sprayer instead of a shower head.

Much is pointless, without meaningful effect. Go after the corporations polluting, using, and often stealing the vast majority of our water. And, move out of Phoenix and Las Vegas.

Many articles but never a list of apps. What shit reporting.

I remember when I was called a wack job for claiming we invaded Iraq under false pretenses.

Today, I’m called a wack job for purchasing a firearm. They drug a black man into a corn field and killed him a few weeks ago. The news spent a few seconds on it before moving on to a story about puppies.

It’s not rational to continue to trust governance. Yet, here we are still demonizing all that refuse to do so.

What a frivolous use of flying sheep.

If you are unhappy about an instance’s moderation it’s a free fediverse, you can always create a better-moderated one.

I could also call your implied false dichotomy part of the dumbing down of America, then make a new account elsewhere and no longer participate in threads originating from this instance.

So, because removal is too much punishment there’ll be no punishment at all, even now in the second draft of damage control.

They could remove the moderator’s ability to post for a period of six months. But, they’ve not chosen it.

Seems it’s time to go.

If you’re building a world it’s #1. If you’re telling a story then it’s #2 with presence activation. If you’re Asimov then all of these are wrong.

protests, boycotts, strikes, and revolt may have an impact upon leadership, legislation, budget, and environment

The NPS pulls in about $24b per year. Congress budgets about $3.5b. The NPS started a private funding campaign for $1b. A “record breaking” gift makes a small dent in the budget required to overcome the damage already done during COVID.

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My Vicorinox was a daily carry for ten years. I only gave it up because my wife needed a pack and I wanted a new feature. She’s carried it for another couple years. The pack is made better than my Osprey hiking pack and the 5.11 that replaced it.

What’s proprietary on a bike trailer?

I’m new to trailers, own a 14’ enclosed tandem. The only thing that’s kinda fucked is the quad-square screw drive on the self-drilling screws from floor panel to frame.

For BIFL you want a full metal cage & blades typically marketed to warehouses. A brushless motor will further extend the life. Buy them used.

A more effective way is a ceiling fan. Hunter isn’t a high end brand. But, if without a remote and excessive dust it’ll last at least a couple decades.

I hypothesize that they’re using three or four USB PD, 20V 5A circuits in parallel. This would keep the hardware cheap.

But, a single USB cable could only handle two circuits. I’m with you. I wonder what cables they’ll use.

14awg to about 20’

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ED: You see a well groomed garden. In the middle, on a small hill, you see a gazebo.

ERIC: A gazebo? What color is it?

ED: [pause] It’s white, Eric.

ERIC: How far away is it?

ED: About 50 yards.

ERIC: How big is it?

ED: [pause] It’s about 30 ft across, 15 ft high, with a pointed top.

ERIC: I use my sword to detect good on it.

ED: It’s not good, Eric. It’s a gazebo.

ERIC: [pause] I call out to it.

ED: It won’t answer. It’s a gazebo.

ERIC: [pause] I sheathe my sword and draw my bow and arrows. Does it respond in any way?

ED: No, Eric, it’s a gazebo!

ERIC: I shoot it with my bow. [roll to hit] What happened?

ED: There is now a gazebo with an arrow sticking out of it.

ERIC: [pause] Wasn’t it wounded?

ED: OF COURSE NOT, ERIC! IT’S A GAZEBO!

ERIC: [whimper] But that was a +3 arrow!

ED: It’s a gazebo, Eric, a GAZEBO! If you really want to try to destroy it, you could try to chop it with an axe, I suppose, or you could try to burn it, but I don’t know why anybody would even try. It’s a @#$%!! gazebo!

ERIC: [long pause. He has no axe or fire spells.] I run away.

ED: [thoroughly frustrated] It’s too late. You’ve awakened the gazebo. It catches you and eats you.

ERIC: [reaching for his dice] Maybe I’ll roll up a fire-using mage so I can avenge my Paladin.

My low level group ran across a sleeping gazebo fresh into level 5. Playing a druid my character said that if we didn’t do something it’d wake up and begin stalking us. Our 2h fighter melee wanted to try to surprise it with extra attack & action surge. But, our rogue thought we were trying to get him killed (again), then refused. We gave it a wide berth and went on our way. Two sessions later we’re ambushed by a gazebo.

Article highlights:

The rock, nicknamed Cheyava Falls, has three critical features:

1. First, white veins of calcium sulfate are clear evidence that water once ran through it.

2. Second, the rock tested positive for organic compounds, which are the carbon-based building blocks of life, as we know it.

3. Third, it’s speckled with tiny “leopard spots” that point to chemical reactions that are associated with microbial life here on Earth.

However, both the organic material and the leopard spots could have come from non-biological processes.

The rover has reached the limit of what it can learn about the rock.

They go on to say that the confidence in biosignature detection could be elevated significantly if the rock were brought back to Earth for closer study. And, it’s implied that doing so would be a worthwhile endeavor.