I'd rather live near a nuke plant and far, far away from any large grid scale solar installations. I don't want to deal with any of the heavy metals that would leach off of the panels, no matter how slowly they leach.
This paper simulates leaching in a landfill by crushing the panel and running an acidic solution over it. When they did that, they found the leachate to be far over the federal limits for heavy metal content. But when it wasn't acidic, there was minimal contamination.
Given that large grid scale solar installations aren't a) crushed and b) having acidic fluid run over them continuously, I think you can stop worrying about leachate.
By all means, avoid living near a solar panel recycling or disposal facility. But also don't live near a facility that makes or disposes of any other electronics, because you'll have the same issue.
I'm going to go to space and change mine so it's no longer useful to them. Then I'll be able to count on one hand the seven reasons I'm never doing business with them again.
Is your issue reading comprehension or is it that you're just an asshole? Both?
Nowhere did I say that felons in general shouldn't be given a second chance. What I did say is
She had her money and her fame, and she abused the power that came with it. Time to give someone else a chance who hasn't committed felonies.
I like how stupid this part is:
Poor cunts get out of prison and keep getting fucked by idiots that don't understand the concept of justice.
Martha Stewart is definitely not poor, nor was she when she left prison. Nor did she keep getting fucked by anyone that she didn't want fucking her.
I support giving people second chances who actually fucking need them. Not obscenely rich assholes who get shorter sentences for multi-million dollar financial crimes than the poor shoplifters you're talking about.
What I don't get is why places like the food network have decided to do business with her again. She's a fucking convicted felon. But hey, she's rich and white, so we'll ignore that pesky detail.
7 billion people in the world, and there's not a single one that you can do business with to avoid rewarding a criminal by giving them more money and positive exposure? She had her money and her fame, and she abused the power that came with it. Time to give someone else a chance who hasn't committed felonies.
The problem is the international connections and if you put too much red tape on those, real world business gets impacted.
That's such a load of horseshit.
Absolutely no legitimate international business needs to randomly call tens of thousands of people every day with a faked caller ID from the receiver's area. None. And if one does, fuck their business model, because that's phone spam.
If a legitimate international business really needs to do this, they can set up a satellite office in the US.
Or you can find competent candidates, train them, and give them a work environment and/or pay sufficient to keep them with you. And suck it up when you hit a brief downturn and hold off on your layoffs so you don't give them a reason to go work for your competition.
Thinking everyone has the skills because someone else trained them doesn't work. Not paying enough to someone who has the skills when very few others don't (see first issue) doesn't work.
If you want to lowball your pay and benefits, train the skills into otherwise good employees. But don't expect them to stay around if you don't bump up the compensation afterwards.
And what else could it be? You take a rugged thing that doesn't need electricity and replace it with something fragile that does. And you take something that you don't want to ever change and you make it able to change. About the only way this would make sense is if they were going from e-ink to metal plates. Going the opposite direction means you cause a pile of expensive issues while fixing nothing.
Why should you even have to mess around with a sticker once per year?
Because lacking the right sticker is probable cause for police to pull you over, and they like to have a variety of those. There's no reason they couldn't just run the plate for any car they stop to see if it's been registered. And as you point out, the automated licence plate readers could easily do the same.
This is an issue with my condo. I'd have to get the board's permission to wire up a drop in my parking spot and hire an electrician to branch it off from the meter. Which probably would require a breaker box, because the meter is connected to the one in my unit 2 stories up. Or I'd have to run a line back from it to the basement.
That said, I'm still considering it, because my wife can charge at work, and a bunch of the places we go have free electricity.
Chosen at random through proven methodology, Nielsen’s U.S. TV families represent a cross-section of representative homes throughout the country.
That's a lie.
Nielson only selects people who watch enough TV to survey. We don't really watch TV, and Nielson sent me their diary for a week and told me if I filled it out they'd let me do a month's worth and pay me a pittance.I figured I would to see what happened. What happened was that they sent me a response saying in effect that I did not meet their criteria to be a "Nielson Household". Why? We didn't watch enough TV. Too much Netflix and YouTube, and not enough cable.
So while I can believe that Nielson has an understanding of what people are watching on TV, it's complete bullshit to call this number the average that Americans watch per day. It's the average of users who Nielson thinks watch enough TV that they want to survey. Nothing more, nothing less.
I was going to grab lunch with a coworker probably 4 years ago at this point, and as we walked near a Walgreen's pharmacy her phone popped up special coupons she could use that day, and tried to get her to go in. That was a mind-breaking moment for me. She intentionally let a corporation watch her every move so it could try to lure her into spending money with them when she got close to one of their locations.
That's a level of creepy that still haunts me, and I know it's probably only gotten worse since then.
Likewise, I chose a ruby set in a complicated split-ring design. The one-off, locally made ring cost more in the art area than the stones set in it did, which I know because they priced them all out. Both of us were pretty darn happy with a custom piece where the bulk of the money went to a guy named Tom who made the ring in his workshop down the road rather than to a faceless corporation with blood on its hands.
A major benefit of the custom work is that it's low profile (which means it doesn't have to come off at work) and really catches the eye in the way a giant diamond doesn't. We're conditioned to look for that on a woman's finger, and when there's an intricate art piece there instead with a gleaming ruby in it, people are really drawn to it.
I really don't get why people are OK settling with the giant rock in an ugly setting that everyone else has. If you've found that special someone, why would you just buy something generic for them as a symbol of your undying love for them? And why would they be ok with you doing that?
I 100% disagree. But that's because I'm in a city surrounded by farmland where the farmer's markets are filled with flower vendors. For somewhere between $5 and $7 I can get a giant bouquet of stunning flowers, filled with interesting shapes, textures, and colors. Dahlias, Lupine, Celosia, etc. (Something along these lines.)
They're still going strong after a week, because they generally got cut at 5am the day of sale.
The bouquets they make are nothing like I've seen either in the grocery store or at a florist. I'm not sure which is more stunning - the variety or the price.
This is also where Patreon shines. I support a couple of local bands, and I, along with only a hundred or so like-minded people, have managed to give them a solid financial base upon which to plan. I probably get a 75% return on my donation, with free t-shirts, albums, show covers, etc. that I would have purchased anyway. And I'm plenty happy to donate that other 25% to support some really interesting and talented musicians.
I've heard what triggers Alexa to wake up because I can listen to the interaction using the app.
And you know this is all that amazon listens to how?
If you're never going to own one then why do you think you can tell others how it should work?
Because dumbasses like you think that you know what triggers the spyware, and the rest of us understand that you're eating the shit sandwich they serve you.
Look dude, you're claiming knowledge that you just don't have. You don't know what it records, you don't know what triggers it, and you don't know that what it gives you is the truth. Where do you get off suggesting that you know the truth and the rest of us running the fuck away from this spyware are actually less knowledgeable?
I feel that the duty of cops is to protect and serve. I'm baffled why a cop being able to straight up murder someone because they're scared is a mark of honor and a good thing. It's fucking barbaric. It's neither protecting nor serving.
I want cops to shoot second. And yes, more cops will get shot at if they shoot second. But at the same time, 0 innocent people will get shot by cops. These people didn't choose to stand in the line of fire as their job, while the cops did. A random dude (ffs you or me!) answering the doorbell shouldn't have to be expected to act in a specific way so that cops won't murder him. To say that he/she should have a telepathic link with cops to know what actions they might take which would get them murdered is fucking madness.
Seems pretty reasonable to me that cops should get shot at while unarmed people should not get shot at by cops. If the cops don't want to get shot at, they can choose a different profession.
I have never been a threat to anyone. If some group would kill me for living my life? That group is my enemy. And unfortunately, cops currently fit that description. I live in a city where a drunk white guy (and I occasionally represent that) was shot dead by cops while his neighbors tried to talk the cops down.
To me, every cop that pulls the trigger who hasn't been attacked with a weapon (even fists/feet) that could cause injury/death is a straight up coward murderer, and should be put away for life. Nobody should die because some schmuck with a badge left his balls at home that day.
Some of us can cook kale, and it's fucking incredible. Nutritious, delicious, and cheap. Shitting on kale is the opposite spectrum of shitting on pork belly because it's too fatty.
Yeah, if you can't cook, lots of things are terrible if you have to think about eating them raw. If you can cook, pretty much everything is delicious.
I have a fucking smoker and smoke large hunks of fatty meat. And I eat kale, because it's delicious. Often with the smoked, greasy, fatty meat, because some crisp kale with a vinaigrette is an excellent complement.
there is still a bit of a cultural norm that says office-time is company time, and home-time is me time. If you remove the office, though, that norm necessarily diminishes.
I know a couple of people who work from home, and both have made one room an office and separated it from the rest of the house. When they're "at work" they're in the office. When they leave the office, they are no longer at work.
If you can't look your supervisors in the eye and lay down expectations for a reasonable work/life balance, you're not going to get one either in the office or working from home. It's about setting clear boundaries, and if your company won't respect them, find a new one. Or make sure that they are paying you enough to make up for it.
As an American, this became painfully obvious when I visited South Africa. The streaky bacon that I'm used to is just the strip of fat that's attached to the actual bacon. What I want to know, though, is where's all our actual bacon?
It's called pork loin. We just separate the belly and the loin, and keep the loin as big slabs of meat. Canadians eat just the loin sliced as "bacon", and the English have loin with belly and fat attached.
If you want to get close, get a pork loin, thin slice it, and cook it up with bacon.
A friend of mine actually does live in Vermont, and has a silicon valley job. The cost of living where he is is under half that of silicon valley, and he's making about three times the pay of similar regional jobs. If you'd take the beach over the 6x cost of living differential, you're really making a mistake. Because you can work remotely from anywhere, and that 6x of money buys a lot of beach time, which you don't even need to spend vacation time to use.
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I'd rather live near a nuke plant and far, far away from any large grid scale solar installations. I don't want to deal with any of the heavy metals that would leach off of the panels, no matter how slowly they leach.
This paper simulates leaching in a landfill by crushing the panel and running an acidic solution over it. When they did that, they found the leachate to be far over the federal limits for heavy metal content. But when it wasn't acidic, there was minimal contamination.
Given that large grid scale solar installations aren't a) crushed and b) having acidic fluid run over them continuously, I think you can stop worrying about leachate.
By all means, avoid living near a solar panel recycling or disposal facility. But also don't live near a facility that makes or disposes of any other electronics, because you'll have the same issue.
I'm going to go to space and change mine so it's no longer useful to them. Then I'll be able to count on one hand the seven reasons I'm never doing business with them again.
Is your issue reading comprehension or is it that you're just an asshole? Both?
Nowhere did I say that felons in general shouldn't be given a second chance. What I did say is
She had her money and her fame, and she abused the power that came with it. Time to give someone else a chance who hasn't committed felonies.
I like how stupid this part is:
Poor cunts get out of prison and keep getting fucked by idiots that don't understand the concept of justice.
Martha Stewart is definitely not poor, nor was she when she left prison. Nor did she keep getting fucked by anyone that she didn't want fucking her.
I support giving people second chances who actually fucking need them. Not obscenely rich assholes who get shorter sentences for multi-million dollar financial crimes than the poor shoplifters you're talking about.
What I don't get is why places like the food network have decided to do business with her again. She's a fucking convicted felon. But hey, she's rich and white, so we'll ignore that pesky detail.
7 billion people in the world, and there's not a single one that you can do business with to avoid rewarding a criminal by giving them more money and positive exposure? She had her money and her fame, and she abused the power that came with it. Time to give someone else a chance who hasn't committed felonies.
The problem is the international connections and if you put too much red tape on those, real world business gets impacted.
That's such a load of horseshit.
Absolutely no legitimate international business needs to randomly call tens of thousands of people every day with a faked caller ID from the receiver's area. None. And if one does, fuck their business model, because that's phone spam.
If a legitimate international business really needs to do this, they can set up a satellite office in the US.
Or you can find competent candidates, train them, and give them a work environment and/or pay sufficient to keep them with you. And suck it up when you hit a brief downturn and hold off on your layoffs so you don't give them a reason to go work for your competition.
Thinking everyone has the skills because someone else trained them doesn't work. Not paying enough to someone who has the skills when very few others don't (see first issue) doesn't work.
If you want to lowball your pay and benefits, train the skills into otherwise good employees. But don't expect them to stay around if you don't bump up the compensation afterwards.
And what else could it be? You take a rugged thing that doesn't need electricity and replace it with something fragile that does. And you take something that you don't want to ever change and you make it able to change. About the only way this would make sense is if they were going from e-ink to metal plates. Going the opposite direction means you cause a pile of expensive issues while fixing nothing.
Why should you even have to mess around with a sticker once per year?
Because lacking the right sticker is probable cause for police to pull you over, and they like to have a variety of those. There's no reason they couldn't just run the plate for any car they stop to see if it's been registered. And as you point out, the automated licence plate readers could easily do the same.
Let's just say we all wasted just a little time here today.
There's a point to /. other than that?
This is an issue with my condo. I'd have to get the board's permission to wire up a drop in my parking spot and hire an electrician to branch it off from the meter. Which probably would require a breaker box, because the meter is connected to the one in my unit 2 stories up. Or I'd have to run a line back from it to the basement.
That said, I'm still considering it, because my wife can charge at work, and a bunch of the places we go have free electricity.
On their website, Nielson says:
Chosen at random through proven methodology, Nielsen’s U.S. TV families represent a cross-section of representative homes throughout the country.
That's a lie.
Nielson only selects people who watch enough TV to survey. We don't really watch TV, and Nielson sent me their diary for a week and told me if I filled it out they'd let me do a month's worth and pay me a pittance.I figured I would to see what happened. What happened was that they sent me a response saying in effect that I did not meet their criteria to be a "Nielson Household". Why? We didn't watch enough TV. Too much Netflix and YouTube, and not enough cable.
So while I can believe that Nielson has an understanding of what people are watching on TV, it's complete bullshit to call this number the average that Americans watch per day. It's the average of users who Nielson thinks watch enough TV that they want to survey. Nothing more, nothing less.
I was going to grab lunch with a coworker probably 4 years ago at this point, and as we walked near a Walgreen's pharmacy her phone popped up special coupons she could use that day, and tried to get her to go in. That was a mind-breaking moment for me. She intentionally let a corporation watch her every move so it could try to lure her into spending money with them when she got close to one of their locations.
That's a level of creepy that still haunts me, and I know it's probably only gotten worse since then.
Likewise, I chose a ruby set in a complicated split-ring design. The one-off, locally made ring cost more in the art area than the stones set in it did, which I know because they priced them all out. Both of us were pretty darn happy with a custom piece where the bulk of the money went to a guy named Tom who made the ring in his workshop down the road rather than to a faceless corporation with blood on its hands.
A major benefit of the custom work is that it's low profile (which means it doesn't have to come off at work) and really catches the eye in the way a giant diamond doesn't. We're conditioned to look for that on a woman's finger, and when there's an intricate art piece there instead with a gleaming ruby in it, people are really drawn to it.
I really don't get why people are OK settling with the giant rock in an ugly setting that everyone else has. If you've found that special someone, why would you just buy something generic for them as a symbol of your undying love for them? And why would they be ok with you doing that?
I 100% disagree. But that's because I'm in a city surrounded by farmland where the farmer's markets are filled with flower vendors. For somewhere between $5 and $7 I can get a giant bouquet of stunning flowers, filled with interesting shapes, textures, and colors. Dahlias, Lupine, Celosia, etc. (Something along these lines.)
They're still going strong after a week, because they generally got cut at 5am the day of sale.
The bouquets they make are nothing like I've seen either in the grocery store or at a florist. I'm not sure which is more stunning - the variety or the price.
Because my grandparents had really shitty tastes in jewelry and were poor?
Because my aunts and uncles had first dibs on the jewelry when their parents passed away?
Because if you have more than 1 kid, there are suddenly more people than pieces of jewelry in the family?
There are a lot of reasons that generational jewelry hand-me-downs don't work.
This is also where Patreon shines. I support a couple of local bands, and I, along with only a hundred or so like-minded people, have managed to give them a solid financial base upon which to plan. I probably get a 75% return on my donation, with free t-shirts, albums, show covers, etc. that I would have purchased anyway. And I'm plenty happy to donate that other 25% to support some really interesting and talented musicians.
I tried to disable the stupid swipe up to log in for a bit, then realized you could just start typing your password and it would log you in.
It's stupid as fuck, and everyone who came up with the idea, approved it, and implemented it should be shot.
I've heard what triggers Alexa to wake up because I can listen to the interaction using the app.
And you know this is all that amazon listens to how?
If you're never going to own one then why do you think you can tell others how it should work?
Because dumbasses like you think that you know what triggers the spyware, and the rest of us understand that you're eating the shit sandwich they serve you.
Look dude, you're claiming knowledge that you just don't have. You don't know what it records, you don't know what triggers it, and you don't know that what it gives you is the truth. Where do you get off suggesting that you know the truth and the rest of us running the fuck away from this spyware are actually less knowledgeable?
I feel that the duty of cops is to protect and serve. I'm baffled why a cop being able to straight up murder someone because they're scared is a mark of honor and a good thing. It's fucking barbaric. It's neither protecting nor serving.
I want cops to shoot second. And yes, more cops will get shot at if they shoot second. But at the same time, 0 innocent people will get shot by cops. These people didn't choose to stand in the line of fire as their job, while the cops did. A random dude (ffs you or me!) answering the doorbell shouldn't have to be expected to act in a specific way so that cops won't murder him. To say that he/she should have a telepathic link with cops to know what actions they might take which would get them murdered is fucking madness.
Seems pretty reasonable to me that cops should get shot at while unarmed people should not get shot at by cops. If the cops don't want to get shot at, they can choose a different profession.
I have never been a threat to anyone. If some group would kill me for living my life? That group is my enemy. And unfortunately, cops currently fit that description. I live in a city where a drunk white guy (and I occasionally represent that) was shot dead by cops while his neighbors tried to talk the cops down.
To me, every cop that pulls the trigger who hasn't been attacked with a weapon (even fists/feet) that could cause injury/death is a straight up coward murderer, and should be put away for life. Nobody should die because some schmuck with a badge left his balls at home that day.
Sorry you eat shitty fast food and can't cook.
Some of us can cook kale, and it's fucking incredible. Nutritious, delicious, and cheap. Shitting on kale is the opposite spectrum of shitting on pork belly because it's too fatty.
Yeah, if you can't cook, lots of things are terrible if you have to think about eating them raw. If you can cook, pretty much everything is delicious.
I have a fucking smoker and smoke large hunks of fatty meat. And I eat kale, because it's delicious. Often with the smoked, greasy, fatty meat, because some crisp kale with a vinaigrette is an excellent complement.
there is still a bit of a cultural norm that says office-time is company time, and home-time is me time. If you remove the office, though, that norm necessarily diminishes.
I know a couple of people who work from home, and both have made one room an office and separated it from the rest of the house. When they're "at work" they're in the office. When they leave the office, they are no longer at work.
If you can't look your supervisors in the eye and lay down expectations for a reasonable work/life balance, you're not going to get one either in the office or working from home. It's about setting clear boundaries, and if your company won't respect them, find a new one. Or make sure that they are paying you enough to make up for it.
So in your world the cost of buildings downtown is the same as in the suburbs? That's an interesting world, and not very similar to the one I live in.
As an American, this became painfully obvious when I visited South Africa. The streaky bacon that I'm used to is just the strip of fat that's attached to the actual bacon. What I want to know, though, is where's all our actual bacon?
It's called pork loin. We just separate the belly and the loin, and keep the loin as big slabs of meat. Canadians eat just the loin sliced as "bacon", and the English have loin with belly and fat attached.
If you want to get close, get a pork loin, thin slice it, and cook it up with bacon.
Well, they're fish. That's pretty different.
You're doing it backwards.
A friend of mine actually does live in Vermont, and has a silicon valley job. The cost of living where he is is under half that of silicon valley, and he's making about three times the pay of similar regional jobs. If you'd take the beach over the 6x cost of living differential, you're really making a mistake. Because you can work remotely from anywhere, and that 6x of money buys a lot of beach time, which you don't even need to spend vacation time to use.