Do you really need to spam out a post a minute? this is getting ridiculous.

Do you know the account specifically? From what I’ve seen it’s just the insane amount of spam and trying to use Lemmy as an archive that’s getting on people’s nerves.

Vaguely lamenting spending 5000ish bitcoin sending people pies on r/randomActsOfPizza. Good time tho, made some people’s day and that was worth it.

Tough love :(

… Nobody’s acting like that, though?

I’m not sure how that’s relevant to what I said here, but yes they are indeed doing that!

Especially given China has 90m more cars than the US, produces 2.3x more electricity than the US (10.5TWh vs 4.5TWH) and consumes 3x more oil than India, the most populated country.

Its really hard to report on this given how complex it is - For example: “The gap in consumption between the US and China is really down to China’s consumption of coal for primary power generation (60%) vs the US (9%) where coal isn’t included in the barrel/day totals”. Easy to say, but a gross oversimplification of the situation. There’s also serious pressure in the US not to report on the energy sector because of Trump - which is why most people don’t know more than 50% of US power is now supplied by solar/nuclear/wind/hydro despite the orange bastard’s best efforts…

Consumer consumption per capita is also a useful but in this case somewhat misleading statistic - I really wish I could cite sources on industrial vs consumer power consumption to explain because it’s really very interesting, but those data sets were killed by Elon when he murdered the EIA (along with the rest of the US stastical core).

(edit: wtf is with the formatting here, it keeps sticking random HTML tags into this comment. My apologies if this looks weird)

105 million barrels of oil/day globally, which is weirdly missing from that article. China consumes 16.189 mil b/d, 3x more than the 3rd place consumer India (5.271 mil b/d)

As feels all too normal these days, US consumption is difficult to know - Trump/DOGE have utterly destroyed the agency responsible for calculating it after they reported a reduction in consumption. Most estimates put it at around 19 mil b/d, based on the increase in US EVs (7%) and the sharp reduction in driving due to the high price of oil as a result of the iran war.

Oh thank you, it’s pre coffee and I was really struggling to work this one out.

Mmm yeah baby, slurp off all that sloughed skin for mommy ;)

Oh christ this was really popular for a hot minute. IIRC it’s potentially deadly - getting a sunburn on your anus, which is skin that can burn in a few minutes it’s so sensitive, comes with an incredible risk of infection.

I wish you were representative of the voters they’re trying to influence :/

Most have experienced traumatic brain injuries and returned to duty, according to public statements from military officials.

I suppose we’ll see how true that is - it wouldn’t be exactly surprising for them to be sending wounded personnel back to work when they’re still recovering, it’s not like they care about their own troops any more than they do Iran’s…

(Microsoft bullshit survival tip: You can start a new instance of Excel by right clicking it’s icon and, while holding alt the whole time, selecting something to open (“New workbook” or w/e shows up on the right click menu this week…). This separates the action history, so ctrl+z no longer jumps between workbooks.)

Oh noo, an opportunity to share specialized knowledge with my community, that’s my least favorite thing in the woooorld!

If the rod looks like its ribbed for their pleasure a washboard on the surface, that’s a totally normal issue with ferrocerium rods. It’s caused by inconsistent pressure when scraping, youtube has some vids on technique that are hilarious for the intensity with which the presenters treat the subject - but the fix is just to get a nice metal file and smooth it back out (!!! DO NOT DO THIS OVER A FLAMMABLE SURFACE !!!)

Kinda agree with Hannity on this one, that seems like some pretty far-fetched polling from fox. Fear mongering to get the conservative turnout, perhaps?

They’re a troll - and fundemental to being a troll is taking positive reinforcement from negative reactions. Thats more or less their whole thing. This guy keeps doing it because posts like these keep demonstrating that he is getting attention paid to him - as do things like his posts getting copious downvotes. Ignoring trolls really is the best way to handle them.

Moral ambiguity as evaluated by Roman Culture, not by modern standards. They minted coins depicting the rape of sabine, it wasn’t viewed as a shameful or evil act.

I know it’s a joke but she-wolf iconography was very common in rome:

She was one of the great symbols of rome, but wolves as a whole were seen as complex entities embodying both good and bad, and adopting ‘moral ambiguity’ as a symbol of your nation is honest not the best brand image. Plus, since rome’s whole thing was stealing accomplishments wholesale from the greeks and pretending they’d been rome’s all along (early reddit!), they really needed to adopt a symbol of Zeus for… tedious theo-political reasons, which is why we wound up with the Aquilla.