I just don’t eat till the evening.
Hunger triggers a caveman response of “you need to work to get food” which keeps me productive.

Read world news for a couple of minutes. That’ll get you down.

Unless you’re China.

At least you won’t have to deal with end-users on site.

sudo systemctl poweroff  

OH FUCK I was in an ssh session!
*Puts on scuba gear

That’s a good point. Maybe not cool, but it would warm the water less.
(I’m guessing solar cells reflect less energy back into space than water, since they’re specifically designed not to.)

That’s true for a lot of customs.

As a kid, I used to leave the best (the meat) for last, so I first ate all potatoes on the plate.
Then my mom thought I didn’t like the meat, so she gave more to my brother and less to me, and I was too timid to complain.

A couple of Louisiana’s citizens (i.e. the politicians who agreed to this) will get a lot richer.

It’s a great password.

• too long to bruteforce
• too many variations for a dictionary attack
• satisfies all character requirements
• easy to remember
• easy to type
• discourages revealing it to anyone even under pressure

Yes, Lemmy is famously full of royalists and capitalists, and it has nothing to do with how your idea of selling a gold hat to solve homelessness is unrealistic.

For a skeleton watch, yes.
For a mechanical watch, also yes.
Unfortunately, prices have gone through the roof in the past few years.
Now I don’t think there are any nice quality watches left in that price range.

You can still get a Vostok Amphibia for that kind of money, which is entirely hand-crafted, definitely interesting mechanically, and will last decades. But buying from Russia at the moment (on a Russian website), waiting a month for delivery, and getting the Vostok experience isn’t everyone’s cup of tea. Also, I don’t think it’s even possible to get them shipped to the US.

Even a nice Quartz watch like a solar-powered Citizen Eco-Drive will be slightly out of your budget.
If you still do want a mechanical watch, look for Seiko, Citizen and Orient. Those are the best budget offerings.
Chinese Red Star watches also fit the budget, but they’re also not for everyone.

The pranks magicians play on each other in the backstage area during breaks is something else.
Basically testing their newest tricks on the hardest possible audience, too.

So… how do manufacturers of hydraulic brakes do this?? Or any other safety- critical part on a car?

Yes, but those are things that can be designed to last decades, at very little cost.

Fewer wear parts and fluids to change sounds pretty nice, actually.

It would be trivial to keep the car from starting if the brakes don’t pass a system check, and make the main electric motor of the car apply maximum regen braking if the system fails en route.
And you’d have one motor per wheel, so if one fails you still have more than enough braking power.
In principle, a system based on electric motors should be a lot more reliable than one based on hydraulics.

Unless they deliberately put in a part designed to wear out in 5 years, there’s really nothing in an electric motor that would.

They’re as hard as a Nokia brickphone now, but that’s not something you want in a tire.

I still have Nokia tires in my garage (but I won’t use them anymore).