No, this is Patrick

As a little note, the eye tracking would be a huge selling point for social games like VRChat. Very few headsets support it so far.

“Welcome to Applebee’s! Would you like apples or bees?”

“Bees?”

“HE PICKED THE BEES!” chefs angrily shake jars of bees

He says what everyone’s thinking!

From the thumbnail, I thought this was some cursed gravy and shrimp pizza. I was getting ready to throw fists for committing such a crime against humanity.

Thankfully, it’s actually some good looking food.

I think it’s a Tumblr post that contains a collage of the news article, wolf picture, and a section of the 4chan post.

Here’s the map of the April eclipse across the US. It will go from Dallas Texas and curve off through Buffalo New York and maine:

Neat fact to know. I always love learning new things.

The audit was not about finding the exact cause of the previous incidents:

The audit, which is kind of like a quality control inspection for large companies, analyzed 89 aspects of Boeing’s 737 Max production

The audit looks at current production to assess wether or not everything is being done to prevent further hazards (they failed over a third of the inspections). Determining what caused the past incidents would be assigned to the equivalent of crime scene investigators (FAA detectives?).

Determining production line compliance and investigating the cause of a major malfunction are two entirely different beasts.

Feel like I just descended through the seven layers of hell…

Anyone here remember the old flash game Junkbot?

Gottem!

That was sarcasm lol. I’m sure they limit the app names to a-z 0-9 _-!?& And maybe a few others.

I just want that dino as a fren

“utilithing”

The app name is actually an X followed by four zero-width characters.

You’re welcome! I honestly had a fun time looking this up. Such a random but interesting thing to delve into.

First off, I absolutely hate the diamond industry. So I by no means am saying natural diamonds are better than lab grown ones.

That said, the article does have some point. Based on a quick look online, diamonds actually require a lot of energy to form. The range seems to be between 300 and 2000 kWH per carat. Here’s just one site:

A modern larger multistone cubic HPHT press will use 75–150 kWh per rough ct., which would end up around 350–700 kWh per successful polished ct.

[A CVD producer] told me [it used] around 60–120 kWh per rough ct. and 1,000–1,700 kWh per polished ct. There is more unused rough from CVD since they are cube shape, which is why those ratios are higher.

According to the EIA the average monthly household power usage is 900 kWH.

That means a one carat diamond can likely require more power than your entire house uses in one month.

Coal power plants in the US operate art an avg of 33% efficiency. Therefore, your one carat of diamond requires at least 3000 kWH of coal.

1 kWH requires 1.14 pounds of coal. So then your one carat consumes 3,420 pound of coal.

I’m no expert, but I imagine that is a lot of emissions for one diamond. Plus, none of that accounts for unregulated countries which could make any of those numbers so much worse.

Once again, I’m all for lab diamonds. There’s still a point to be made that they require massive amounts of energy and that we can do better to make sure that energy is clean. Renewable power is the best way to make diamonds for sure.

I second this. A 100 dollar bill just gets saved in my safe. However, if I’m given something like an Amazon gift card, I have zero reason to not spend it.

Granted, the things I would want are very particular and normally on the expensive side, so I would rather have people give me a bit of money to go towards said things.