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3 days agoThe hypocrisy is the point. Pointing it out won’t stop them. Probably should point it out anyway.
WesternInfidels
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“Frost free” refrigerators and freezers, even residential ones, work by heating the evaporator from time to time, melting the frost that inevitably forms there. This is one reason “frost free” appliances use more energy than the old fashioned ones that have to be defrosted.
2·3 days agoI worked in an American grocery store for a while, and the employees, even the managers, did not take cooler temperatures seriously. They were eager to shrug off, make excuses for, anomalies. Because they were too busy, and a freezer meltdown (which happened as the result of malfunctions more than once) was a ton of work, a huge disruption.
Far from saving money, I’m sure an automatic monitoring and control system that raised an alarm at headquarters would have cost that store more money. But it also would have resulted in better monitoring. It would have done a better job than the people who were avoiding that job were doing.
Much later, I worked at an engineering sub-contractor for a hospital equipment manufacturer. One of my projects included adding automatic temperature monitoring and logging to some pretty simple OR appliances. Humans were supposed to be checking the temperatures of these things on a regular basis, but I got the notion that we weren’t trying to save staffing costs so much as we were trying to make sure the mandated monitoring actually happened. Who really has time to check the temperature of the blood cabinet every hour? When things get busy, that’s the kind of thing that gets skipped first. If anyone was even taking it seriously in the first place.
0·5 days agoYou could say this about a lot of maladies, though.
I never had a migraine that caused me to collapse and lose consciousness.
What is up with the Guardian and initialisms? “FDA,” “TOR,” “BASF” and “EDF” are all caps, but “generally recognized as safe” is just “Gras” now? “Maha” instead of “MAHA?” I don’t get it.
you folks get angry when our governments, food organisations and consumers refuse to buy your food
Pundits and politicians sometimes make a fuss. Maybe some massively rich agribusiness jackasses are annoyed. I don’t think very many real people get angry.
You might say that this outrage is one of our inorganic exports.
…a long-awaited report delivered the official assessment of the US intelligence community: “The available intelligence consistently points against the involvement of US adversaries in causing the reported incidents,” read an unclassified summary.
Of course, if this were the result of some secret Russian beam weapon, “the US intelligence community” would probably want to keep our vulnerability under wraps. So, regardless of whether or not “Havana Syndrome” is the result of an attack, “the US intelligence community” is motivated to say it was not. And they’re the adults in the room, they’re the only authority on the matter.
This is part of why people are so receptive to conspiracy theories.
have prioritized large trucks and SUVs because they get better profit margins
And we have tariffs to thank for that, in no small part.
…it is important to note that shareholder primacy theory was first advanced by economists, not lawyers. This may explain why the idea that corporations should be managed to maximize shareholder value is based on factually mistaken claims about the law.
– The Dumbest Business Idea Ever. The Myth of Maximizing Shareholder Value, By Lynn Stout
To the English-speaking world and probably beyond.
My Windows 2000 machine had 512MB of RAM. With it I could browse the web, run full-featured word processors, scan images, edit images, play 3D games, edit / compile / debug C and C++ programs, and so on.
If memory serves, my office machine about that time only had 128MB of RAM. It was slower, but it could do just about all of that stuff, too.
I’m not sure there are any broad categories of tasks I use computers for today that I wasn’t already using my Windows 2000 machine for back in 2001 or so.
It’s hard to fathom where all the RAM in modern systems goes. A million somethings is a lot. A million bytes is a huge amount of information. War And Peace is under four million characters.
The reality: “Nobody stops to fuel their vehicle taking gasoline, gets out, rushes as fast as possible, puts as much fuel in the car as possible, and gets back in the car and drives away,” Cutler said.
Say what? Outside of a long road trip, that’s very much what I do every time. I haven’t been into the store at my gas station in years. I’m hardly alone, I see plenty of other people fill up and leave.
The “charging problem” is most completely addressed by doing less driving. Obviously.
Piles of LITTER
Paths with questionable DEFINITION
“This is the future and if it fails I stand to lose billions so you definitely don’t want to be left behind, do you?”
“…and that’s why I’ll be voting for some different Republicans this November,” many of them said, probably.
0·14 days agoSo is the problem how he looks in the fedora, or is it just the fact that its a fedora?
¿Por Qué No Los Dos?
Oh NOW you guys want to talk consent huh