There’s a solar farm type that is literally that. Thousands of mirrors focussed onto one photovoltaic cell.

Scaled? It seems to work like how reddit’s feed worked before, where all of the activity gets rated against the age

Seems to be back up. If something’s down, I usually throw it into Down for Everyone or Just Me, or just wait for a day. Stuff goes down sometimes

… Might want to check his username

That’s… Weird, given I usually get games on sale from Humble if I’m getting them on steam. Might just be full price?

Steam, and Epic, both have exclusives. Steam is more incidental (some devs just don’t bother releasing elsewhere), while Epic had a deal going on for devs that released exclusively on Epic for the first 6 months of the game’s life. Don’t remember what the deal was, but it was a marketing thing to try and get people over to Epic. After the 6 months was up most devs also released to Steam.

Probably around $200-250 depending on the month. I spend $20-40 per grocery run, and shop twice a week most weeks. It was higher when I first moved because I was buying the bulk staples that I just keep stocked (rice, vanilla, salt, etc, gave all of it to my old room mate when we moved), but it’s gone down since. I think I spent about $400 the first month, $300 the second, and it’s probably gonna go down again in the next couple months.

I used to spend $80/mo, but that’s when eggs were $1.29 for 18, spam was $2 a can, and milk was $1.50/gallon.

sigh That wasn’t even “Back in my day” that was like 6 years ago. Fuck these prices.

I’m very much an advocate for base 12, which would have 100 be 144 (12^2, same way 100 is 10^2)

From the wikipedia article:

The plural stone is often used when providing a weight (e.g. “this sack weighs 8 stone”).[34] A person’s weight is usually quoted in stone and pounds in English-speaking countries that use the avoirdupois system, with the exception of the United States and Canada, where it is usually quoted in pounds.

Which I checked for fun. I love how they say that like therr are more than 4 countries fitting that description. 2 of them use stone, 2 don’t, at least I think. Can’t find anything official on whether Liberia uses it or not, but I’ve heard UK people say it.

Just the fact that they say it like it’s not a 50/50 split xD

I’m fairly certain the only reason we don’t know the things Fahrenheit was based on is because he didn’t write it down.

While Celsius is based on something real (the freezing, and boiling points of distilled water at sea level), it’s not something that someone can measure at most locations? Fahrenheit has the same issue, mind you, the only calibration point it had that’s always measurable is the average body temperature, which is also inconsistent, as anyone who’s tried getting pregnant will know.

At the end of the day anything we base a temperature scale on could be considered arbitrary, though modern Fahrenheit is also based on freezing/boiling water, we just put the points at 32 and 212 (180 degrees between) instead of 0 and 100 (100 degrees between). AFAIK the reason the freezing point is at 32 was because the original 0 point was based on the freezing point of a brine solution? Either way, point is now they’re both based on the same thing: When a specific uncontaminated liquid changes phases at on specific parts of the planet that don’t exist in a lot of countries

“PUGS?! That’s the dream, man!”

Yeah… I do, that one’s been there for a bit xD

Generally yes. I don’t really point it out to people if it’s like… 2-3 carts in the corral, and they don’t fully stack them. Long as they’re in there. I’ve seen a massive pileup outside of one once, had to be about 10-15 carts? Couldn’t return a cart even if you wanted to. Ended up pushing them all together. I used to be a cart pusher, I know how bad it sucks, plus those loose carts can cause damage if the wind kicks up

Honestly I’d be fine with them under filling the soda. I just don’t want my drink cold, but also yeah. The ice chute is nearly impossible to clean, so it doesn’t get clean.

China, Mom is the sky

Every 1-2 weeks, depends on how often I remember

Yeah I just have an alias called update that runs all of the update commands, as well as a few other things

I’ve used PeerTube for streaming personally, it works well. I haven’t used OwnCast, but I’ve been on OwnCast streams, and it also seems to work well. PT also has the benefit of being fedi, but that’s only if you want it, OwnCast just has a central website it posts all of the streams to I think? At least all of them that want to be there

There are already seats you can buy that just strap to the back of your legs, just search up “wearable chair”

The future’s now!

If we’re counting keyboards as a type of piano, you can get some that are pretty portable too. I lucked out and got a second hand one from my ex’s sister for free (she was getting rid of it anyway), and it’d pretty light and not too big!

Oh, wild. My GPS (I’m in the US) just goes from 1/8 mile to 100 feet. It’s kinda rare to hear people talk in yards unless it’s a vague “A few yards over”, or when it’s 1/32~1/16 miles if they need to be accurate here. Anything nearer is feet, anything farther is in eighths, quarters, or half miles.

I’d like to point out that it’s literally just Liberia, Myanmar and the US.

As other people have pointed out, the UK, and Canada also use Imperial, just not officially, and it’s in a lot of different contexts. Canada had 6’ signs in most shops at the start of COVID, while government buildings all had 2 meters, as an example.

I have no idea what the difference could be, since it’s a concept that predates any system of measure and is biologically hardwired into us.

Not totally sure, either, but it does seem like there is one. There’s the funny haha one of Americans thinking driving 200 miles (~300km) is a day trip, but that’s not what it’s been feeling like. Can’t quite put my finger on it, but it’s like the whole thing where once you learn what eggshell looks like in comparison to off-white you will always see the difference, where before you really didn’t.