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Cake day: June 17th, 2023

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  • It’s more like 6ml (264172/166100000 gallons), and considering the average man produces between 800 and 2000ml per day, that’s like a 0.5% spill rate.

    Also it says nothing about the rate being evenly distributed over the days, it could be that the average guy spills a fraction of a liter in one slip up every couple weeks, not 6ml every single day. Plus the young and elderly likely throw off those averages.

    Lastly, your assumption that most drops go on the pants ignores the whole point of the new design this article is about: the splashback. They claim most of the urine that misses a urinal splashes out in microdroplets.



  • Siemens also makes high speed electric trains and some of the most reliable car chargers.

    Getting mad at a company that automates away meneal jobs because capitalism forces people to depend on doing shit work for the rich in order to eat is kinda short sighted imo.

    Like yeah, if everything had to be done by hand it would put more money into the hands of the working class, but it would also make it harder for them to afford a decent lifestyle because everything would be more expensive; automation offers the potential for everyone to live better, we’re just using it in a system that privatizes the gains into a small pool of wealthy owners.



  • Consecutive hottest years on record
    Increases in wildfires and hurricanes
    Accelerating sea level rise
    Persistent droughts

    But it’s ‘doomsday bullshit’ because checks notes some ice in Antarctica got thicker. Got it.

    I don’t even see how it’s doomsday stuff, we just gotta live better. Lower meat consumption, more renewable energy, less car-focused living, more sustainable construction and consumption. It’s entirely within our ability to prevent the worst case outcomes. It’s only giving up and pretending we have no power that would make it a ‘doomsday’ scenario.





  • I’m not saying you don’t own the data, I’m saying it’s more expensive than storing it yourself. Obviously it depends on the purpose and budget; if you need it to be highly available and secure, and you have thousands of dollars to direct to the project, the cloud is great. If you want to make a backup of all your DVDs that fits on a single disc, it might be overkill.

    The sort of data suited to discs like this is probably pretty different than the sort of data suited to an S3 bucket. It could make a decent tertiary backup though, a local copy of your data stored on offline media can be a lifesaver.

    This isn’t a competing technology to the cloud, it’s complimentary.