Movin’ on up the flagpole!

I don’t think he is or was a nazi. I think he made lots of dark fucked up jokes like many other major youtubers. For example: iDubbzz, Filthy Frank, and h3h3. I think he regrets it like many of his fans who laughed at those dark jokes. I laughed at lots of fucked up shit I find very distastful now. People grow up, people change.

Funny thing about that: it doesn’t actually matter what he intended or if he self-identifies as a Nazi or not; the shit he did radicalized people into Nazis all the same.

I mean, they fucking named the phenomenon after him, so it’s hardly as if he’s a marginal example of it!

or lemmings jumping off cliffs

Yeah, what ☝️he said!

Is it a TDI?

I think there’s a key distinction to be made between a “tutorial” and a “vlog.” Some videos you watch to learn things, and other videos you watch to be entertained by the struggle.

(Admittedly, for the latter the examples I have in my head are all makers/artists, not programmers, and I’m not sure I’d be as entertained watching somebody fuck up a software config as I am watching them panic as their epoxy resin pour goes wrong.)

I was gonna write “keep in mind that most canned tuna is skipjack, which is the smallest tuna species, so each fish only produces a relatively few cans.” Then I did the math, and found out that even a skipjack has about a hundred cans worth of muscle on it!

Good point. Uncertainty over the magnitude and longevity of the heat source, and therefore how big to make the turbine and whether it would remain in operation long enough to exceed the payback period of its cost, is definitely a valid reason not to bother attaching a steam generator to a thing.

If you’re not sure how the fire works, it seems kind of stupid to build a turbine for it.

Leaving the arguments up to this point aside (because I am not agreeing with or supporting @DarkCloud), your comment on its own doesn’t make much sense. In general, the beauty of of a steam turbine electrical generator is that you don’t have to care how the heat gets generated. You can swap it out with any heat source, from burning fossil fuels, to geothermal, to nuclear, to whatever else and it works just fine as long as the rate of heat output is correctly calibrated for the size of the boiler.

You’re not actually trying to paint that as somehow a good thing though, are you?

They claim they fall under the Presidential Records Act, but they’re lying.

“Ew” what? The fighting over MBFC was a big deal for a long time. If he was here, it’s hard to believe he wouldn’t have noticed it.

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LOL, not a chance unless you were straight-up absent that whole time.

The way Kroger works is that they absolutely ream you with the price-gouging if you don’t let them track your purchases through your “kroger plus” card. It doesn’t matter if you pay with cash or not.

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And Honda was working on hydrogen nearly 30 years ago now, which seems poised to suplant batteries (again, maybe).

LOL, no. Hydrogen has never been anything but a greenwashing scam. Even if it were all produced from electrolysis (and to be clear, it isn’t – the vast majority is produced from fossil fuels), it would still be stupidly cumbersome to deal with compared to adding some carbon to it to make synthetic gasoline.

The fascists are already dismantling the CFPB. I’m sure the FTC will be on the chopping block soon, too.

So who’s going to stop them when they flagrantly ignore the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act and refuse to honor your warranty for having your car serviced somewhere other than a dealer?

I’m not a lawyer, but I’m also not entirely unfamiliar with this sort of thing. In particular, I remember Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org and thus do not accept at face value the notion that the data in question being “summaries and explanations of cases” necessarily means Westlaw is in the right. Even if the Westlaw materials aren’t “officially” incorporated into the law itself the way Georgia did, that doesn’t mean Westlaw should necessarily be entitled to monopolize them, especially if the judicial system is heavily leaning upon them to inform its decisions.

Ah, fuck, is that what the case is about? That sucks; that’s the kind of case where they both need to lose:

• The law shouldn’t be copyrightable
• AI companies shouldn’t be allowed to ‘launder’ copyright (and more to the point, copyleft) by reproducing chunks of copyrighted works divorced from their license

If I were more conspiracy-minded, I would almost think that somebody intentionally decided to resolve this case first in order to guarantee that they set a disastrous precedent.

…Oh no. I just checked, and some of the TVs that did have Amazon listings as recently as a month or so ago (which I think was around the last time I mentioned this sort of thing) are no longer available, e.g. https://www.amazon.com/Sceptre-U550CV-U-Ultra-2160p-60Hz/dp/B01CDC49E0

There are still a couple of “Komodo by Sceptre” TVs left, e.g. https://www.amazon.com/Komodo-Sceptre-KU515R-Ultra-3840x2160/dp/B07W68VFGL , but that’s it. I hope they aren’t in the process of exiting the market entirely, but I’m worried! 😟

Ah, that’s unfortunate, and another good reason to consider resorting to a commercial display.

'Course, it’s also possible that a commercial display is so much more expensive/a hassle that it might be worth figuring out how to buy a Sceptre TV in a country where it is sold and then importing it yourself.