The stove top kettle might get a comeback since modern induction stoves are faster than an electric kettle. I’m about to get one and look forward to having one less appliance on the table.

Hopefully the system can be changed. It’s evident that it needs to be addressed after the discovery and public rage against the monetary practices.

Yeah, it’s legal to purchase and own a Cybertruck in Europe.

You just can’t legally drive it on public roads, because it hasn’t passed the safety tests.

They haven’t even attempted, because it is evident that it will fail. So, they have not introduced the vehicle for sale in Europe

If you see one, it’s probably a gimmick showcase thing. They did tour a demo model around for tv stations earlier this year, but I’m not sure what the purpose was. It was basically mocked everywhere it went.

It’s possible and perfectly legal to import it yourself and then… put it in a garage or drive around your mansion all day long if you want.

The sand silo heating projects that I’ve read about are used to feed the excess energy from electricity to central heating. The heat can be stored for months, but converting it back to electricity wouldn’t be very efficient. It’s “only” viable in places with district heating.

There are other power-to-x technologies out there, like splitting water to hydrogen and oxygen, and these are all good ways to use excess energy, but they won’t help on stabilizing the electricity production. Hopefully these technologies can create enough demand for electricity that the prices will always be worth it for the producers, so they can begin (over)producing enough renewable energy to cover the baseload at all times.

The gas production in early 1900s sort of did the same. The gas was produced for heating and light, but the byproducts of gas production lead to all kinds of other very cheap chemicals and products. Similarly we need to think of excess electricity as a very cheap byproduct and invent uses for it, instead of attempting to “balance” it.

In my opinion, this shows why privatization of electricity production is an obstruction. It would have been easier to transition completely to renewable energy if it was a state monopoly setting a fixed price to enable overproduction without regard to price fluctuations.

They have $44 billion dollar bills to wipe away the tears.

Yes, for some things. Some tasks are better done summarized. Cleaning generally isn’t, because it easily conflicts with other tasks when not done.

I’m a rather busy family man, so if I have 20 minutes to cook a meal for the family before I have to drive someone somewhere it can really mess up the entire day schedule if the sink is full of dishes and the trash bin is topped up with unsorted garbage. So I try to be on top of it for my own sake. “Keep the tools sharp” goes for everything, even a diaper supply.

If it comes up the basement drain, then the obstruction is further down, and so you can’t really flush it from the drain and out. You need to find the sewer service well further out and flush it from there and in.

It’s likely a broken pipe taking in sand or branches, so flushing it won’t be a permanent fix. A plumber can probably fix it from outside too, so it doesn’t have to be very expensive.

You don’t need to waste your money on snakes and that kind of stuff. If a regular hose on full blast can’t loosen the obstruction from outside, then you need a plumber anyway.

I clean up when I’m done. Never leave dishes in the sink and such. I’m not a cleaning freak or anything, it’s just that I prefer not having to deal with these kind of obstacles before I can begin doing something else in that area.

Jeg tror ikke gør den store forskel i denne undersøgelse. Offentligt ansatte som også er medlem af Lederne er typisk ansat i funktioner hvor de godt kan forhandle om løn mere frit. Det er altså i forvejen en noget selektiv gruppe at lave undersøgelse på. De har mere tilfælles mellem offentlig og privat end de har med alm. lønmodtagere.

Løndannelse indenfor det offentlige er heller ikke så låst som det rygtes. Det er bare meget mere struktureret end i det private. På visse måder er det nemmere at få lønforhøjelse i det offentlige. Det kommer ikke af sig selv, men hvis man tager noget uddannelse, så kan man også forlange mere løn hver gang der deles ud af lønbudgettet.

Americans generate the majority of English-language Internet content.

Doubt.

There are 1.3 billion people who use English on the internet as a first or second language.

The gif is of a 2 year old Indonesian kid who made the internet rounds some years ago for smoking two packs a day and the parents “couldn"t stop him”.

He quit smoking later though.

I doubt that’s deliberate (it’s probably depending on some other task or shit that you don’t even intend to use), but it’s exactly the kind of bloat that turns people away from Windows.

Windows seems to work alright for my work pc, where I’m constantly logged into their cloud, newer switch users, logged in long enough daily to get all the updates and have IT to roll out stuff, so I hardly ever have issues there.

My personal computer is a different thing. I have several users, use it about once weekly, making it basically unbootable. As soon as I open the lid, Microsoft starts bugging me to do a shit load of things and download gigabytes of crap that Microsoft, and not I, needs me to do before I can even use it. More often than not I simply close the lid again.

It’s not unusual to meet people who don’t even have a pc these days. Most people can solve their daily stuff on any cell phone browser. I find it kinda amusing that Microsoft is pushing people that way.

You’re right. OPs second question is more specifically about vision, while I answered more broadly.

Anyway, comparing it to data from a camera is not really possible.

Analoge vs. digital and so, but also in the way that we experience it.

The minds interpretation of vision is developed after birth. It takes several weeks before an infant can recognise anything and use the eyes for any purpose. Infants are probably blissfully experiencing meaningless raw sensory inputs before that. All the pattern recognition that is used to focus on things are learned features and so also dependent on actually learning them.

I can’t find the source for this story, but allegedly there was this missionary in Africa who came across a tribe who lived in the jungle and was used to being surrounded by dense forest their entire life. He took some of them to the savannah and showed them the open view. They then tried to grab the animals that were grassing miles away. They didn’t develop a sense of perspective for things in longer distance, because they’d never experienced it.

I don’t know if it’s true, but it makes a point. Some people are better at spotting things in motion or telling colours apart etc. than others. It matters how we use vision. Even in the moment. If I ask you to count all the red things in a room, you’ll see more red things that you were generally aware of. So the focus is not just the 6° angle or whatever. It’s what your brain is recognising for the pattern at mind.

So the idea of quantifying vision to megapixels and framerate is kind of useless in understanding both vision and the brain. It’s connected.

Same with sound. Some people have proved being able to use echo localisation similar to bats. You could test their vision blindfolded and they’d still make their way through a labyrinth or whatever.

Testing senses is difficult because the brain tends to compensate in that way. It’d need to be a very precise testing method to make any kind of quantisation for a particular sense.

They definitely do show sympathy, sadness, fear and joy, which are unrelated to being rewarded with food and trained behaviour.

I don’t see why they shouldn’t have a full range of emotions. It seems simpler and more natural than developing a transactional response only.

The bigger question is what emotions even are. If it’s a chemical or biological reaction then it’d be weird if other mammals didn’t have about the same emotions as humans.

It’s difficult to see how an animal feels unless you know it well. I can mostly see how my own dog is doing, but I have no idea what mood a random dog on the street is in.

If artificial reservoirs were feasible, they would be better used to flatten the production from renewables.

In practice it is only feasible in areas that have existing natural geographic features.

Germany already have hydroelectricity accounting for 3% of their production, however 3% is nowhere near enough to neither flatten renewable or to modulate flat nuclear production to fit the daily volatile consumption.

It probably depends on the seller. Amazon doesn’t buy/sell everything themselves on their site. Many things are from smaller companies using Amazon as a front end store.

Selling things to US customers can be quite complicated for European sellers and many simply choose not to. The issue being customs fees and registration for individual state sales taxes and such. It’s a pretty heavy and costly process just to send a few products. If it was possible to sell a lot of products that way, Amazon would already be doing it and could easily outcompete their own seller clients.

My work has a EU only webshop and I’ve noticed that some Americans place their orders to be delivered to a German address and get charged German sales tax. I suppose there’s some company forwarding the packages and doing the paperwork.

It is also possible to consciously alter the subconsciousness. For instance, by creating sensory input for yourself by saying things out loud to a mirror. Your ears will hear it, your eyes will see it, and your subconsciousness will then process it just the same as any other experience.

With enough repetition it will make a difference in which neurons are active whenever the brain comes to making a decision on that thing.

I don’t think it’s the brain but rather our consciousness that is limited. Our sensory inputs are always on and processed by the brain, but our consciousness is very picky and also slow.

People can sometimes recall true memories that they weren’t aware of, or react to things they didn’t think of and such.

Consciousness is also somehow lagging behind the actual decision making, but always presents itself as the cause of action.

Sort of like Windows telling you that you removed a USB stick 2 seconds after you did it and was well aware of it happening. Consciousness is like that, except it takes responsibility for it too…

When it encounters something that it didn’t predict, it’ll tell you that “yeah this happened and this is why you did that”. Quite often the explanation for doing something is made up after it happened.

This is a good thing mostly, because it allows you to react faster than having to consider your options consciousnessly. You do not need to or have time to make a conscious decision to dodge a dodgeball, but you’ll still think you did.

One could say that they placed 3 inches of the same area as UK elsewhere.

It’d be nice if they cleaned that shit up.