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"but- But- inflation go brrrr πŸ₯ΊπŸ‘‰πŸ‘ˆ"
  • And most franchises are required to purchase their raw ingredients from the parent corporation, which means that even if they choose to be flexible on their prices their baseline costs are still set by a global conglomerate.

  • Trump supporters call for riots and violent retribution after verdict
  • I wouldn't expect people who don't have the self-discipline needed to cook a frozen pizza in the oven to be capable of organizing a large-scale national rebellion.

  • Have you ever bough an external hardrive only to take the disk out of it?
  • If you look around and are informed then you can easily purchase drives that are designed for Nas use. I shucked three eight terabyte Western digital external hard drives and they were all WD reds, but because of the deal they were running they were $60 a piece cheaper inside of the shell than they were outside of the shell.

  • Use volcanic ash to reverse global warming
  • And, just like people who install solar panels on their homes tend to use more energy than people who do not, finding a tricky way to buy additional time for us will only exacerbate and prolong how long we are destructive as a species to the planet that we live on.

  • Man accused of using generative AI to create virus in Japan 1st
  • You are correct, but I hope we can all agree there is a special place in hell reserved for people who interfere with health workers and cause death in the process.

    That's right on par with raping a nun, or a priest diddling a kid in my book.

  • What's something weird and mostly useless that you can do with your body?
  • I can move my fingertip joints without moving the rest of my finger.

  • What's something weird and mostly useless that you can do with your body?
  • I can also ear rumble, it is not tied to my blinking at all, but if I vibrate my eyes while my ears are rumbling they both move at the same ~60hz frequency.

  • Have you ever bough an external hardrive only to take the disk out of it?
  • It's called shucking and it happens a lot especially in the home server home lab community.

  • What song insinuates itself into all your playlists and why do you think it's there?
  • What happens when the heart just stops by the frames. Went through a breakup not too long ago, just feeling The vibes now.

  • Centaurs have 2 sets of ribcages & internal organs, which make them more resistant to organ failures/heart attacks.
  • Good point! I was thinking kind of like giraffe, they obviously must have some sort of like very long breathing tube to make it from their head to their lungs.

    Maybe centaurs have like some sort of gill system or whatever that would be for land walking mammals?

  • Centaurs have 2 sets of ribcages & internal organs, which make them more resistant to organ failures/heart attacks.
  • There's no way that a human heart would be able to pump enough blood to supply the full vascular needs of a thousand pound centaur.

    Most likely, the human halfs heart is more of a vestigial organ or more of an assisting organ to help ensure that even under strenuous cardio that the brain receives enough blood flow to operate optimally.

    The lung system though is definitely a weird one. I would be more inclined to believe that there are no lungs in the centaurs human half, maybe the areas that are lungs in a human would be something like a cud sack or some sort of extra biliary devices to increase the amount of acidity to break down their largely herbivorous appetite.

  • EcoFlow’s $200 PowerStream is so clever, you might buy a $4,000 solar generator
  • That's a pretty standard issue with grid tied solar systems. You save a lot of money by not having batteries, but when the neighborhood goes down you go down with it.

    Plus you don't want to be pumping electricity into a downed power system, you could actually end up hurting a line man who is working on the system.

    However, and both of these issues can be resolved by adding in a generator and a whole house cut off system.

    In a power outage scenario, all you would have to do is throw the crossover switch and crank the generator. The generator would produce enough energy to reactivate the solar system.

  • EcoFlow’s $200 PowerStream is so clever, you might buy a $4,000 solar generator
  • The first problem is solved by line sensing technology. If there is not power coming in and off of the switch then the inverter will not pump energy back into the system, at least on the ones that are not $12 cheap Chinese junk off of taobao.

    And rather than suicide cords they generally have an IEC connector (standard rhombusy shaped computer power connector) on one end and a normal prong on the other.

    But you are right that it is dangerous and not recommended to anyone, especially the people that are not smart enough to take the appropriate concerns and considerations into mind before using it.

  • EcoFlow’s $200 PowerStream is so clever, you might buy a $4,000 solar generator
  • That happens quite a bit in a lot of areas. It sounds stupid but your toaster does not care where the electricity it is using comes from.

    As long as the sine waves are in sync with each other then you have nothing to worry about.

    It's probably not standard in America because the technology is newer and the regulations haven't caught up.

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  • Like I said. You're wrong.

    I definitely understand how women would be afraid of encountering a random man in the forest. I also understand that the advantage of encountering a bear is that they would know to immediately run the fuck away. And I can understand how that scenario makes them feel.

    Just because I can see the other side does not mean I endorse the other side. Broaden your mind

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  • I have no dog in the fight. I'm merely a spectator commenting on what I see.

    So you can draw whatever conclusions you wish about the side that I'm picking in this debate and you're going to be wrong.

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  • It's a fallacy to put one vs many in an argument like this.

    Individual men were hurt by feeling classified as more dangerous to a random woman than a bear in the woods when their lived experiences place them well below that threat, even though they are aware that there is a portion of men who are more dangerous to random women in the woods than the average bear, but their responses were taken as an attack on women rather than an expression of personal indignation and further proof that men are dangerous.

    Individual women got to express their experiences and opinions in a way that got through to a lot of men and other women what they felt as a whole, but since groups are unable to address individual responses eloquently and on an even level, they trampled over a lot of innocent men.

    There are no winners in scenarios like these, and anything you add or subtract from the argument paints you in a bad light.

    The only winning move is not to play.

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  • I wonder if that's not cherry picking because the man v bear argument was literally designed to initiate controversy and discussion, it's a very polarizing question.

  • Conservative cell carrier Patriot Mobile hit by data breach
  • Every once in awhile it crosses my mind that if I just gave up my morals I could make so much fucking money.

    The difference between me being a middle-class American and me being filthy fucking rich is every day I wake up and I choose not to defraud every single person I possibly can of their money.

    I feel like I should get a little thank you now and again, because I could be the greatest monster you've ever seen but instead I'm just a nobody and I don't think I get nearly enough appreciation for my service.

  • Do you ever go back and reread your own posts and find yourself wondering how the hell you managed to say the words that you said?

    Like sometimes I'll make a post and I go back and I reread it and I'm like somebody way smarter than me wrote this, and sometimes I'll go back and reread it and wonder how the fuck was I so stupid as to write this?

    Is that the way it is for you also, or am I just weirder than the average person?

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    for your opinions that are unpopular @kbin.social Bizarroland @kbin.social

    I think AI replacing artists is going to be a good thing in the long run.

    I think AI replacing artists is going to be a good thing in the long run.

    Right now, if you want custom artwork made without the use of AI you have to either criminally underpay an artist on Fiverr or pay an artist hundreds of dollars to make one piece which you may not like.

    I think the cat is out of the bag on AI generated art pieces and there's no way to put it back in, and so future artists will use a combination of their actual art skills and their ability to work with an AI system to create entirely new and currently nearly impossible art pieces, and there is an entire field of unexplored possibilities waiting to be tapped by Future artists.

    AI can't make new art.

    All it can do is repurpose pieces of art other people have made, just like Auto-Tune can make you sing on pitch but it can't make you a good singer.

    \#unpopularopinion

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    Arduino ecosystem @kbin.social Bizarroland @kbin.social

    Default setup and screen display code for Ideaspark ESP8266-096OLED

    Hey, I bought one of these off of Temu a while back and started playing with it, but the online code tutorials didn't work. The ESP8266 would connect to the web but I couldn't make the screen display anything.

    After a lot of trial and error I was able to track down the listing and find the missing pieces, which were these steps:

    1: Install CH340 driver 2: Install ESP8266 Board 3: Select board as NodeMcu 1.0(ESP-12E Module) 4: Install the U8g2 library by oliver 5: Set the board properties: Upload Speed 921600 Flash Size: 4MB (FS-2MB OTA: \~1019kb) (The other defaults were fine)

    And then here is a sample code that will re-create the default screen display when flashed from the Arduino IDE:

    \#include \<Arduino.h\> \#include \<Wire.h\> \#include \<U8g2lib.h\>

    U8G2\_SSD1306\_128X64\_NONAME\_F\_SW\_I2C //u8g2(U8G2\_R0,/'clock='/14,/'data='/12,U8X8\_PIN\_NONE); This is what was in the listing, but it didn't work. The next line corrects that. u8g2(U8G2\_R0,14,12,U8X8\_PIN\_NONE);

    void setup(void) { u8g2.begin(); } void loop(void) { u8g2.clearBuffer(); u8g2.setFont(u8g2\_font\_6x13\_tf); //This sets the font u8g2.drawStr(0,10,"Hello,ideaspark"); // (X pos, y pos, content) u8g2.drawStr(0,26,"ESP8266"); u8g2.drawStr(0,36,"ESP8266 0.96"); u8g2.drawStr(0,46,"ESP8266 0.96 inch"); u8g2.drawStr(0,56,"ESP8266 0.96 SSD1306"); u8g2.sendBuffer(); delay(1000); }

    Hopefully that helps someone!

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    Grandma's cat, 1957

    She doesn't remember his name, only that he was the biggest cat she ever had and that he scratched her piano

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    If you had a one-way ticket to Jan 1, 1999 that departs on Jan 1, 2024, and you are allowed to bring whatever fits into a backpack with you, what would you bring to use to take over the world, and how

    Assume that the future can change based on your actions, so any historical information that you bring along with you from the intervening 25 years may quickly drift out of the new realities history.

    Edit: also assume that you can be given a healthy 21-year-old body if you want or take your previous self's place.

    Further, identification will be provided for you if you were not born at that time.

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    Are there any good Black Friday deals this year?

    Feel free to share links and talk about what's good about the deal

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    Ca(rule)pet

    Fresh out of the devil's playbook

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    for your opinions that are unpopular @kbin.social Bizarroland @kbin.social

    We shouldn't rush the gates to try to make kbin just like Reddit.

    We shouldn't rush the gates to try to make kbin just like Reddit.

    Sure it might help people migrate but it well ultimately cause this site to stagnate because people can see the exact same things on Reddit that they can see here, but with a lot more engagement on Reddit.

    Whenever possible you should try something new.

    \#unpopularopinion

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