What the fuck is this?

We’ll make our own carbon cycle. With blackjack. And hookers.

In fact, forget about the carbon.

1st Gen iPhone also came out in 2007.

OOP is likely scared of his own shadow.

Plus at least he has a beard.

Oh and facial hair, too.

But why not just make electricity from renewable energy?

Like, I get the benefit of fuel cells, but people need to realize that hydrogen closer to a battery than a fuel source itself. You’re expending energy now to make storage of energy that can be tapped later.

It’s good for places where vehicles can’t tap into the grid and need dense energy storage (i.e. transoceanic freighters), or where long charging times are infeasible (like long-range trucking).

And probably good for grid-level storage, too.

But for a typical family car/commuter? There’s really no point. You’re adding more steps in energy conversion, and losing efficiency at every additional step (thanks to basic physics), and to gain what? A faster refueling time on a long road trip? An experience closer to what we were used to with ICE-cars? An experience that really isn’t that great anywhere that has a winter. Or an excessively hot summer.

Maybe for people who can’t have a charger at home, even an L1, but there are better solutions for that (like…adding an outlet? Making landlords responsible for providing power whenever there is parking? More municipal charging locations?)

Thank you for explaining the process, because the pro-fuel-cell pact doesn’t understand that hydrogen isn’t free and production is still heavily reliant on fossil fuels.

“Oh it comes from ammonia”. Alright, where does the ammonia come from???

You’re just moving the problem around, not fixing anything.

I’m guessing he spent 5 minutes, 10 tops. 15 if thinking about his old geography teacher. 2 if thinking about Aunt Steph, who was formerly Uncle Steve.

This is the zoomer humor I don’t get.

Like, antijokes are cool. But absurd memes like this? I don’t get.

I mean put yourself in my perspective here, suburban white boy in elementary school.

I don’t think there was even one black kid in my own grade until high school.

My only knowledge of prejudice being a bad thing came from an MLK poster in first grade, and my second grade teacher reproducing Jane Elliot’s experiment in class (which in retrospect is kinda fucked up and traumatized me into being a good person, because I wasn’t allowed near my best friend).

Edit: thinking way back, my parents owned a triple-decker and we lived on the bottom floor and rented the other two. When I was maybe 5 or so the third floor tenant was a black family with a kid my age and we were best friends until they moved out the following year.

My point is, as a kid, I had literally no idea what prejudice or racism was until someone told me.

Right? I remember thinking “Why did Rosa Parks want to sit at the front? The back of the bus is where all the cool people are!”

Depends on the print.

Solid color or conservative pattern? Hard pass.

Pineapples or flamingos? Fuck yeah.

Is the idiot you?

Because I’m usually both the person writing it and the idiot trying to maintain it 6 months later.

Albeit not perl. Dammit Jim, I’m a Network engineer, not a programmer!

It would have to be a more obscure, archaic language that’s barely even spoken of on the internet.

I asked ChatGPT once about their proficiency in languages, both human and computer. They responded that they are most proficient in English and Python, largely because they are the most written/documented languages on the internet.

I forgot where it ranked other languages…I think it said it was pretty decent in Mandarin and most latin-derived tongues. I uninstalled the app so not about to go through my chats with it and try to find it.

However, ChatGPT is known to write in ways to appease the user, and I’ve almost exclusively spoken to it in English and asked it python questions.

I do wonder if somebody who primarily used ChatGPT in, say, French, and account history had a lot of C questions, if it would answer differently.

It’s these types of tricks I need to find more of (granted, it was mine)…but this is a good example:

• deliberate placement
• in unusual spot
• in my path when I’m leaving.

Things like this make it easier to cope with being so spacey.

Depends on the store.

Around here, Aldi doesn’t bag your groceries, they just toss them into a cart and you can bag them yourself.

Market Basket (New England Chain) does the sticker and bag thing, but they also don’t have self-checkout and always has baggers (and ones that know what they’re doing, at that).

Stop and Shop (another chain, related to Giant) don’t care.

I stopped dicking around with that and instead bought a couple of nice strong totes.

I keep them in my trunk, and I don’t even bother bagging. Toss it all right back into the cart and load up the tote when I get to the parking lot.

Then just n-totes to carry in, instead of n*8 bags.

The trick is, once you unload the groceries, the tote(s) must be returned to the car immediately. If not, you have to put your keys in the tote and the tote near the door.

I’m guessing they are antivax.

Why would anyone want to do that when there are dozens on stackoverflow?

In some places there are combo-stores of the big Yum Food brands…KFC, TacoBell, Pizza Hut. Usually just 2.

These are increasingly rare but the off-menu combination of items you can order is insane.

You want a popcorn chicken cheesy gordita crunch?