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@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works in asklemmy · 1d ago

I live in the American Southeast. We generally turn on the air conditioning.

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@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works in programmer_humor · 2d ago

It has achieved the same level of awareness as the average emacs user.

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@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works · 2d ago

In English: Braising: A method of cooking meat moist but not immersed in a fluid, often broth or wine, in a tightly sealed vessel over low heat for a long time, often used to soften tougher cuts of meat by rendering connective tissue into gelatin. "Roasts" are often braised. Compare with stewing, in which meat is cooked immersed in a fluid; contrast with barbecuing in which meat is cooked at low heat for a long time in a vented chamber flooded with smoke from a wood fire. Brazing: A method of joining two pieces of metal by hard soldering using bronze as a filler material. The base objects are heated to cherry red, flux is applied to eliminate any oxides and bronze filler is applied to wet the surfaces and when cooled strongly bond them. Contrast with welding where the edges of the base materials are heated to melting and the puddles allowed to flow together such that when cooled they form one object. Brazing is often done when joining dissimilar base metals which cannot be successfully welded.

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@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works in climate · 3d ago

Sailing ships are considerably slower than engine driven ships, especially given they usually have to sail way the hell out of their way to chase prevailing winds. Modern cargo vessels have to be able to do things like pass under bridges over harbor mouths that large rigging couldn’t easily do, and most require fairly clear access to the decks for cargo loading/unloading, particularly intermodal shipping containers. You do see a strange kind of “sail” called a Flettner rotor being used on occasion, which is a fairly easy system to bolt onto a modern cargo ship, it can be raised and lowered without much of a problem, and it can improve fuel efficiency by harnessing wind.

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@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works in climate · 5d ago

I’m a woodworker. I have a small hobby shop on the back of my property, looks like a garden shed from the outside, I produce 8 or 10 barrels of sawdust a year. That’s probably enough to heat my house through the winter. It all goes to the dump. Here’s why: There’s nobody who wants to work with me. There are places that make fuel pellets at industrial scale in my area, they want nothing to do with a guy bringing them 2 or 3 rubbermaid trash cans full of sawdust a few times a year, they want regularly scheduled semi truck delivery. There are farmers that have more modest sized hammer mills and extruders necessary for the job, but they don’t want to take the time to run a tool for some guy. I could buy the tools myself, for several times what it cost to heat my house with gas for a year. So who produces sawdust or other fine wood chips at industrial scale? Sawmills, but they often use their own sawdust to make particle board. Furniture factories maybe? The few remaining that don’t mostly use particle board?

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@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works in memes · 5d ago

Stirrup jeans are a thing.

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@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works in lemmyshitpost · Apr 08, 2026

All Cabs Are Bus Yellow? Also, I know that specific (former) taxi, it was on an episode of Regular Car Reviews.

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@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works · Apr 07, 2026

Because that kit would cost around what a new Civic would cost, and you're going to get a 16 year old car made worse. EV components don't really swap into the spots that ICE components do. An engine is relatively large, a motor is relatively small. A gas tank is relatively small, a battery is relatively large. Most ICEs designed from the ground up use a "skateboard"-like chassis with the battery taking up basically all the volume below the floor. The motor can be tucked away somewhere, and then the body built on top. You don't need the volume in the nose for the engine so you get a frunk. a 15 year old ICE car didn't portion out the room for the batteries, so you've got some of the area under the trunk occupied by the gas tank. That's about the volume that the batteries in a golf cart take up. Anyone who's capable of designing and manufacturing that kit might as well go into production of new cars.

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@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works · Apr 07, 2026

The closest to that I can think of is the Tesla Roadster. Which IIRC was basically an electric Lotus Elise, rather than a Mazda Miata. I wonder how popular electric Miatas would actually be, without a manual transmission. The most "normal car that happens to be electric" I can think of is the Slate. With the exception of the powertrain and complete lack of a radio, the controls and mechanisms look like they're from 20 years ago. The more I look at it though the more I think that car is DOA.

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@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works · Apr 06, 2026

I think there's also a problem with the kinds of EVs everyone tried to sell. Tesla has seen legitimate success in making EVs a desirable luxury item. The Prius became something of a fashion statement among kale chip eating Californians in the 2000s because of its alleged economy, but it was still an economy car. It wasn't that nice or luxurious. Tesla made cars people wanted to drive and be seen driving, with an all-electric powertrain. Pretty much everyone tried to copy that business model, making excessively fast luxury sport sedanover blobs with price tags that make car shoppers start muttering the word "depreciation." Meanwhile, EVs tend to be the breeding ground for shit features everybody hates, like touch screen HVAC controls. Nobody wants to make a normal car that happens to be electric, which is what a lot of the buying public wants, but can't find.

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@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works in technology · Apr 05, 2026

I could argue that VHS was a superior format to both Beta and Laserdisc because it offered a better blend of features. Laserdisc offered cinemaphile farkles like perfect pause and frame by frame, additional audio tracks etc. but a movie required at least three sides of a disc, and thus two discs with at least two changes. Laserdisc was read-only and thus useless for timeshifting and camcorders. The tape-based formats were slightly worse in quality but could hold an entire movie in one go. VHS was superior for timeshift and camcorder use than Beta because of the longer run time. There was a mini cassette for miniature VHS camcorders which could be played back on a standard deck with an adapter, Beta never got there AFAIK and insetad Sony went to Hi 8, which never really took off as a home video format the way it frankly should have. VHS was better than Beta at movie distribution because a longer film could fit on an SP VHS cassette, often with room to spare for some commercials at the beginning which helped subsidize the cost. VHS was at least capable of everything. DVD didn’t fully kill VHS; It unceremoniously killed LaserDisc and shouldered VHS aside a little. Through most of the 2000s VHS was still going strong, DVD-RAM is surprisingly old but wasn’t adopted that widely. Hard drive based DVRs and smart phone based video recording finally did VHS in.

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@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works · Apr 05, 2026

I don't think we even need to go that far. They were almost constantly making those direct to VHS movies and such they churned out in huge numbers, and I don't think it was easy on them. I'm convinced they were overworked as children.

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@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works · Apr 03, 2026

On a human, we have shoulders, upper back, middle back, lower back and ass. On a cow, these are called Chuck, Rib, Top Loin, Loin and Round. Both critters have muscles that run parallel to the spine. Ribeyes come from the rib primal, and are more tender and have a richer more buttery flavor. Go assward past the top loin primal where T-bones come from and you arrive at the Loin primal where we get among other things sirloin steaks, which compared to ribeyes are chewier but bring a more meaty, beefy flavor.

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@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works · Mar 31, 2026

After about a decade on Mint I ended up on Fedora.

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@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works in lemmyshitpost · Mar 26, 2026

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@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works in lemmyshitpost · Mar 26, 2026

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@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works in lemmyshitpost · Mar 25, 2026

Jesus I’ve done that with a Galaxy S10e. I have a Pixel 10 Pro XL now. It’s heavier than the nation of Andorra. If I drop it on my face I think it genuinely might cave my skull in.

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@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works in funny · Mar 16, 2026

Battletech is basically all of that except gay. I’m trying to think of any gay characters in Battletech…Rhonda Snord? Maybe a couple of the clanners?

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@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works in memes · Mar 10, 2026

There also wouldn’t be gestapo in Minneapolis.

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@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works in funny · Mar 09, 2026

I’m sick of this lie that the internet isn’t real. Have you ever heard it said that character is who you are in the dark? Kind of a Jungian take, the whole “you change your persona depending on environment and company, you’re only ever your true self when you think nobody’s watching.” Well, I think the internet is “in the dark.” It brings out the actual in people.

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@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works in privacy · Mar 06, 2026

someone said they have nothing to hide, respond by stating to take of their pants.

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@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works in privacy · Mar 06, 2026

What…is this shit? What’s the real reason behind this? What senator or governor has a brother in law in the age verification business that got this corruptioned into being a thing all of a sudden?

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@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works in lemmyshitpost · Mar 03, 2026

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@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works in technology · Mar 03, 2026

Point of order: That was Microsoft rather than Google.

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@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works in lemmyshitpost · Mar 03, 2026

must be chewsday, eh bruv?

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@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works in privacy · Mar 03, 2026

GPS itself is a one-way technology. On a basic level, the GPS satellites broadcast their precise location in space, and a very accurate timestamp from an onboard atomic clock. By comparing the difference in timestamps from a few satellites, you can determine how far away you are from each, thus deducing your own position. User devices only receive broadcasts from the GPS constellation; they don’t transmit. This is by design; GPS originated with the US military who wanted a navigation system usable anywhere in the world passively. You can use GPS without giving away your position by transmitting radio waves. The privacy nightmare is when you mix a GPS receiver in with all the other sensors, storage and radios found in a smart phone. How many apps on your phone have GPS privileges? Why does it want that?

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@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works in technology · Mar 02, 2026

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@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works in technology · Feb 26, 2026

New tit ion battery generates fifteen times the power and shits butter pecan ice cream. And, like every other battery chemistry there’s ever been a news article for, isn’t real and will never enter production.

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@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works in lemmyshitpost · Feb 26, 2026

The “not male, but outwardly pro male” angle tells me it’s fake.

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@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works · Jan 27, 2026

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@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works · Jan 05, 2026

I saw a video a few weeks back of a woman cleaning out layers of “decent quality insulated cups” from her cupboard, several each of a decade’s worth of fads. Those are going in landfills en masse before the 21st century is out.

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@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works · Jan 05, 2026

Oh there’s gonna be Gen Alpha or Gen Beta kids filling dumpsters with Stanley cups, anime figurines, gundam models and retro consoles in the 2060s. “Why did my grandmother think this was cool?”

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@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works · Jan 05, 2026

My grandmother’s house. I have two sewing machines, a 6-place dining set, fine china to serve 8, two sewing machines, several rickety old pillar tables and candle stands, a cabinet full of random glassware, a drawer full of ratty, yellowed old doilies my father “remembers from when I was a kid.” At least three unassworthy antique rocking chairs that are too delicate to serve a purpose…So much shit my father wants, but won’t move into his own heavily cluttered house.

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@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works · Jan 05, 2026

Shape shifting tables are actually quite common! There are quite a few types: Tilt Top Chair-tables. Hinged closed, it’s a table about the size of a poker table. Hinged open, it’s an armchair, with the tabletop forming the back. Drop-leaf tables. I’ve seen these in several shapes but the typical pattern is a long, thin rectangular table with hinged panels that can be folded up to extend the top. They can be folded to as little as 18 inches wide and stowed against a wall, you can open the free side with it still against the wall to seat a few people, or you can slide it away from the wall, open both leaves and have a full size table. Stowage of side chairs is a separate issue. The shakers were fond of drop-leaf tables, and made some truly huge ones that could seat a dozen people or more when unfolded, but would stow very efficiently. Extending tables. My dining room table is one of MANY examples, you’ll find them all over the United States because it’s objectively the worst of the lot: The long apron rails aren’t continuous but attached by a slide mechanism. The tabletop is split in half, so you get two table halves that can slide relative to each other. A gap can be opened wide enough to admit one or two lift-out sections to make the table longer. My dining room table can collapse to seat 4 around a (mostly) round table or extended to seat 6. All the additional hardware plus the two extra apron rails necessary make the table heavier than it should be, the slides never work right and if you prefer to have it collapsed, where do you stow the leaves? I guess with the two side chairs you nearly never use.

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@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works · Jan 05, 2026

My understanding is there are several related things at play: The jello effect. So, once upon a time, serving gelatin was reserved for the wealthy because making gelatin from scratch means rendering animal bones. You’ve got to be rich enough to pay servants/own slaves enough to do that for you. Then after WWII, there was suddenly a mass-produced easy to use product on the shelf called Jell-O. So in the 50’s and 60’s you saw an explosion in popularity of jello molds because serving gelatin was, to quote a Redditor I once read, “an impressive feat of housewifery.” Fancy dishes were similar; prior to WWII, fine decorated porcelain dishes were expensive, after WWII there were factories churning them out, and now Gladys from Topeka could have a floral print gilded gravy boat. Fancy dishes, and housewares in general, were marketed HARD to young women. Macy’s popularized the wedding registry, supermarkets started offering catalogs…it was common for young women to receive a portion of a china set for most of her adolescent gift-receiving occasions; Christmases, birthdays, high school graduation…this was the era of the hope chest, an entire industry sprang up for manufacturing pieces of furniture designed for young women to squirrel away a physical dowry in. You just weren’t a proper middle class lady unless you could come up with a fancy set of dishes to serve a Christmas dinner worthy of a Norman Rockwell painting on. So these damn dishes that can’t be machine washed were manufactured in the quadrillions; Gramma got really protective over them, she was taught to value them from a very young age, and they’re delicate, easily broken, her particular set hasn’t been manufactured since the Truman administration so in a way they’re irreplaceable, and they must be hand-washed. So only a few Thanksgiving or Christmas dinners, “special occasions” were served on them, and then by the 80’s gramma got sick of washing them, boomer dad “remembers that from when he was a kid” and thus they’re more sacred than God, God’s brother Jod and God’s nephew Zhod. To a boomer, there is no occasion special enough to break out gramma’s china, it’d be like eating dinner off of the original copy of the Declaration of Independence. Unthinkable. Millennials, who eat a lot of meals out of paper and plastic takeout containers, have no attachment to those damn dishes and haul them to thrift stores by the truckload.

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@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works · Jan 05, 2026

which is why I have a wood shop.

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@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works · Jan 05, 2026

Oh yeah none of it matters, gramma’s china is mass manufactured catalog crap.

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@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works · Dec 22, 2025

Hey, that’s a personal question.

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@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works · Dec 22, 2025

So we’re just doing food items with no other context as memes? What’s it gonna be next month? Pasta?

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@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works in technology · Dec 17, 2025

Oh just give it a minute. Europeans pretending they’re not following right behind the US, that their own right wing retards aren’t consolidating power.

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@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works in technology · Dec 17, 2025

Yeah, Denmark might actually try their stupid idea.

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@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works in technology · Dec 17, 2025

Well I mean, it was implemented about as well as California Prop 65, which had the effect of printing “This product contains chemicals known in the state of California to cause cancer” on literally everything ever made.

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@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works in technology · Dec 16, 2025

Uh huh, and how’d the Danish government arrive in power?

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@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works in lemmyshitpost · Dec 16, 2025

I hear they make very tough leather as well.

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@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works in technology · Dec 16, 2025

Well, I’m an American, and we’re collectively blamed for the fuckshit our government does, so absolutely yes. But also, if the Danish government passes a law that goes into effect, how does it matter how many or how few Danes wanted it?

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@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works in technology · Dec 16, 2025

What’s the difference?

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@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works in technology · Dec 15, 2025

the shoe event horizon.

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@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works in lemmyshitpost · Dec 14, 2025

If I am elected president, anyone who has ever claimed to be “building a better future for our children” will have their mouths smashed off with a rifle butt.

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@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works in technology · Dec 14, 2025

Hilarious idea: Wi-fi antenna dummy loads.

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@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works in asklemmy · Dec 14, 2025

It might be my pickup truck. It might be my toilet. Every moving part in the thing can be bought at every hardware store in town. My washing machine is pretty good, it’s a Kenmore 80 series, it’ll probably outlast me.

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