Ahh, the ol put the rum in the banana shipment from Karamja method. A classic.

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“If we block the people calling for death, they’ll kill us!” 😵

It’s shorthand for The Original Series, which a lot of trekkies use when talking about the first show with Kirk and Spock.

Kudos for inventiveness, though! Thoracic outlet syndrome got me 😂

Never played that one, but I gotta admit it looks pretty fun on youtube

The Voyager Elite Force games are pretty excellent if you enjoy FPS games, and the TOS point and click games, 25th anniversary and its sequel are extremely well made too.

Regarding decentralized internet, your idea is being enacted! I posted a couple short docs about that over on !breadtube@slrpnk.net

Here’s the first one, I’ll go hunt down the second.

Edit: found it!

Oh lord, if it’s single pane with those temps, I can see why you’d be willing to try it 😬

I was able to find a video that does a decent job of showing roughly what you might be able to expect from the cellular shades. For his house, the shades were able to reduce the inside temp by 3 degrees fahrenheit, with a 15% reduction in energy used by his AC. His house had double-pane windows already, so he had a decent starting point to begin with, and you may experience slightly higher reductions since you’re starting with single pane.

If you end up going that route, I’d be interested to hear how much they helped in your apartment!

I don’t see that as any more desirable than a US or Russian CEO doing the same. It’s all wage slavery for the people generating those profits, and it’s all gravy for the CEOs to funnel into offshore accounts. Only funding a worker coop would make it more ethical and desirable, regardless of geographic location/regime, IMHO.

Wouldn’t the surplus profit just go to the CEO of the company? I can’t imagine there’s much difference for the average worker in China between mass manufacturing PC’s for direct sale vs. Mass manufacturing for another brand.

I don’t believe there are many worker coops building PCs, unfortunately.

Matrix is the closest replacement, and XMPP can replicate some functionality too.

I believe the effects would stack. A tint will reduce heat transfer somewhat (though can be damaging long term to a double-pane window, so be sure not to tell your landlord you’re using them if you have double-pane), but it won’t be as effective as a low-e window. The cell shade’s additional insulation should still provide a noticeable improvement, and help keep the cool air inside, making the AC more effective.

If you have an IR thermometer gun, you could buy just a single shade and test how much it reduces the temperature of a single window compared to a non-shaded one.

Alternatively, since I think you may have to permanently install a cellular shade, you may want to opt for a heavy insulated curtain if you don’t plan on staying in that apartment long-term.

Also @jol@discuss.tchncs.de & @RageAgainstTheRich@lemmy.world

As a cheaper stopgap until you’re able to move or motivate your landlord adequately to replace your windows, installing cellular window shades would add significant r-value (insulation ability/thermal resistance) to your windows. A good brand can nearly double the r-value of a single-pane (or failed double-pane) window. Keeping them closed in the summer on sun-facing windows will drastically reduce heat intrusion, and keeping them closed on non-sun facing windows in the winter will help retain the heat inside the home (you’d want to close them on the sun-facing windows after the sun goes down too).

You’d probably enjoy his normal content then! He makes great stuff.

If you’re not sure what StopKillingGames is about, the creator of the campaign, Ross Scott (of Freeman’s Mind fame) made this short video to give the rundown.

Fahrenheit 451 is certainly worth a read. I read it late in life, and could see immediately why it’s so often read in schools. Very well written, and a compelling story.

Another book that you may find quite personally compelling is The Chrysalids by John Wyndham (Archive.org has a free audio book version), due to the themes it covers.

Those are pretty terrible options to surpress, since once they are made subsonic to avoid the supersonic crack, they have little energy to actually inflict wounds due to how light the bullets are (still deadly, just very underpowered). He would’ve been better off with a 9mm or a 45, but both would’ve been a little harder to conceal.

A British gun nut wrote to Fleming about how terrible the .25acp is ballistically, which is why Fleming later made bond use a Walther PPK in a .32acp. The gun nut also inspired him to create Q.

A big enough surpressor combined with a subsonic bullet actually can make a gun movie-like whisper quiet, and even can be ultra quiet on a pistol.

But most of the ones used in movies are small enough, or used on a semiautomatic, to where they would be louder than portrayed.

So myth half busted!

Smaller farmers and operations can often invest the time and money to do what’s necessary to produce clean unprocessed milk from healthy cows in a clean environment.

At least in my case, the local small farm I was buying my raw milk from ended up having extremely unsanitary conditions inside. They would open an entire vat of milk inside the barn where the cows were kept (and where flies were buzzing around) to ladle out the milk into a jar. It suddenly made sense why a family member had e-coli poisoning not long before.

I stopped buying raw milk after that, though I can see how, if done in a sanitary way, it wouldn’t be quite as dangerous as my local farm ended up being, but I think state inspectors might’ve had the work cut out for them, or maybe it wasn’t strict enough?

I slightly prefer Joe’s brand of humor, and I think he’s doing well on his own, but the two had great chemistry, and complemented each others style.