opossum: The American one.

possum: Could refer to either kind of animal.

Failing to acknowledge that it’s like that in reality will only cause further confusion.

It’s hard to believe it’s as low as that but then I should’ve hesitated more to believe the much higher estimate from the first website I saw making a guess. If he’s done better in life than I had thought, my apologies for repeating such slander.

It’s Neelix, obviously. Although technically I guess he outranks the captain.

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The “shower thought” version of this should be more like “I should verify my friend’s key fingerprint today.”

(Signal calls it a “safety number.” If you want real security don’t use Whatsapp.)

Statcounter, huh. I’m guessing “unknown” means Windows 11 but they haven’t updated their software to recognise it yet.

the vast majority weren’t going to buy a simple ‘leave it in the ground’

Well then, the vast majority are in the wrong. It happens sometimes. This is one of those times. It does not mean you should join them.

There was a big online debate about it maybe 15 or 20 years ago and I spent some time looking into the details. It’s not a bad idea in principle, but at least in the US and Canada they often take it to crazy extremes in order to hide price inflation.

They might for instance fail to adequately account for the high prices paid by early adopters of something new being representative of something other than the inherent merits of the new thing. Today’s cars and vacuum cleaners are indeed better than their 1980s equivalents in many ways, but imo they’re not better by nearly so much as to explain the “hedonic” adjustments that have been made.

If social media feels like work, you’re doing at least one of them very wrong.

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The system looks so irretrievably broken that I can’t help but think that regardless of how they get the money, someone really needs to come up with a way to arrange elections where the winner doesn’t depend on who has the most money.

Weird. Is this a typo? They must’ve written “mandate” where they meant “prohibit” or something.

I was into fuel efficiency for a while, yes I too was fooled until about 2007, so I can tell you that gasoline-powered cars are more efficient at 90km/h than they are at 100 but typically they’re most efficient somewhere below 60km/h. Probably lower, depends on gear ratios and such. That they went with 55 instead of 40 is just because nobody would have accepted the latter. In fact they largely didn’t accept 55 either in the long run, as we know. But such technical details don’t matter a whole lot at this point because fossil fuels should not be burned at all by anyone.

Fuel efficiency standards: Demonstrating the Jevons paradox and distracting everyone from the urgent necessity to stop burning fossil fuels, since 1975.

Mine only cost $300 sometime in the late 80s. Computer prices kept on declining all the way from 1950 to 2016.

(edit to make a better guess at start and end years — 2016 because it was the year of the 1080ti)

“Instead of constantly making futile attempts to control the weather, we should adapt to the ever-changing climate that has existed since time immemorial. After all, climate has always been a reality that impacts humanity from the outside, and we must align our actions accordingly.” — from Google’s translation of the AfD manifesto

Huh. I knew they were pretty openly fascist, but didn’t realize they were climate deniers too.

Why vote NDP? Because even if we concede that all your criticisms of the party are exactly right and unchanged under its new leadership, that still makes them the best of the main parties available to vote for.

SearxNG is the only way I know of to get reasonably good results.

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I block them if (f * t - p - e) / q * r passes a certain threshold, where f is the frequency of posting, t is how annoyed I am by the general theme or topic of those posts, p is the cuteness of their profile pic, e is the amount of effort they put into each post, q is the overall quality of the posts, and r is a random number generated by my subconscious.