That moment when you look around for the most competent person, and come the sad conclusion that it’s you

Meanwhile, basically every Dutch students “dates” by bike, and most of London dates via the Underground.

A lot can be legal if you agree to it. But they absolutely can’t unilaterally declare this rule into effect.

Just don’t pay, what are they gonna do? Sue you for damages that they admit themselves can’t prove?

Ehhhhhh.

Starlink has a major problem in durability as a result of the low orbit (required for low latency), meaning it’s extremely expensive in upkeep.

The satellites inability to talk to eachother, combined with the narrow transmission angle means the system scales very poorly and has numerous bottlenecks (both the satellite and the uplink station). Yes, Starlink is “working on it”, but the laser-link solution is very complex in terms of engineering.

Starlink has some amazing usecases, but those usecases can’t possible cover the cost. It runs almost entirely on subsidies and venture capital.

https://nypost.com/2023/01/18/spacex-employees-enjoy-calm-as-elon-musk-distracted-by-twitter/

They said he was incapable of being deposed without perjuring himself.

“Perjury trap” is a fake term that tries to place the blame for “My client is a compulsive liar and literally can’t tell the truth to save his life” on the other party. And whoever came up with the term deserves both a raise for being amazing at their job, and a knee to the groin for being a shit human being.

Dont forget that other favorite “No you can’t have more hardware, these were fine in 2006 and they’re fine now! Just delete some old stuff like you IT people always do”

worker: Gets new job

Employer: Shockedpikachu.jpg

Also, in quite a few comic timelines, the hammer literally makes Thor.

Error-correction for dropped packets is also pretty shit.

Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes flashdrives hurtling down the highway.

And no hamberders

Using non-existant words will be the only way humans will be able to distinguish themselves from our machine overlords after the comin apocalypse.

Trump narrowly averted a nuclear holocaust… by forgetting how the Football works.

It’ll trickle down aaaaaany day now.

Well, China, if you want a few chip-makers, i know a few slightly-used ones that used to belong to an old lady and have only ever been used for shopping trips.

In Dutch, “they” is the same word as “she” (ze/zij), even though the use is different. To resolve this, people who want to use a gender neutral pronoun have switched to using the Accusative “them” (hen), which is even more awkward in sentences.

Just do what humans have always done: make up a new word. The pushback from assholes will be exactly the same anyway.

Is that known rapist and sex trafficker Andy Tate?

former fatty here with a little addition: Also just eat less outside of your meals. Go diet in the supermarket by buying less, instead of dieting by not eating what have at home. You spend 20 minutes in the supermarket and multiple hours at home. It’s MUCH easier to be strong for 20 minutes than for 12 hours.

you should place a solar pannels on your roof and make some money while also reducing your footprint far beyond what you see on the graph?

The average household of 2.1 people here (the Netherlands) produces 0.8 tons of CO2e from electricity per year, at the current power mix. So, reducing that to zero places you somewhere between colder washes and getting a hybrid (0.4 tons). Not nothing, but also not even past the left half of the chart.

Also, realistically, net-zero isn’t actually zero at all, you need to massively overproduce to truly offset your consumption.

Too lazy to photoshop, but the average dutch household produces 2.2 tons of CO2e for heating and 0.8 tons in electricity. The average household is 2.1 people, so call it 1 ton for heating, and .4 tons for electricity.

• So going completely off-grid (VERY hard) will place somewhere around equal to the “Buying green energy” bar (duh…).
• Just solar panels will rank around “Replace car with electric”.
• Switching to a heatpump is roughly similar.