To clarify, that’s outdoors. If you buy a steam combi-oven (fancy tech for food nerds), it has a wet bulb thermometer in it for cooking with steam. You can easily hit wet bulb temperatures in the 90C+ range (100C just does not work due to the lack of pressure seals).
Instant Pot could do wet bulb temps above 100C if they actually had a temperature probe inside the pot itself. They tend not to bother, for cost reasons.
The bike argument always forgets people with disabilities, older people, people with health conditions, people with kids.
You’re not going to the grocery store and shopping for a family of 5 on a bike, regardless of whether it’s the middle of a blizzard or a perfect sunny summer day. You’re not picking up Billy at violin lessons and Sarah at karate lessons and Jim at swimming lessons at 3 different locations spread across the city on a bike.
And then there’s just the issue of commuting to work. People generally already live as close to work as they can afford. People who can afford to bike to work are doing so by choice.
As far as “a society that focuses on this or that,” that’s the hard part. Getting society to come together and solve an issue, any issue, is the hardest thing to do in life. Nearly all the problems in the world exist because we can’t manage to do that. The fact that some societies, such as the Netherlands, manage to beat the odds is basically a fluke. And NotJustBikes knows that! That’s why he gave up and moved there.
That’s simply not true. We don’t even have the technology and resources today to achieve a zero carbon economy. We need a ton of new investment across a ton of industries.
I think the average person believes that we can just switch gasoline cars over to EVs and we’re done. That’s not even close! Less than 1/6th of emissions come from transport (all cars, trucks, trains, and ships combined).
Since CO2 emissions grow by about 0.9% per year, even if we eliminated all emissions from transport overnight (but did nothing else) it would buy us less than 20 years before emissions were back where we started.
There’s no silver bullet that billionaires are somehow hiding from us. Curbing emissions is going to take huge investments across many different sectors of the economy and new technologies in many different industries. Take solar panels for example. We could not have achieved their modern levels of efficiency and production capacity without going through decades of advancement in semiconductor technology. No one was holding that technology back. It has seen enormous investment since the mid 20th century for the development of faster CPUs and GPUs. Solar simply rode on the coattails of the computer revolution. It could not have advanced the way it has on its own.
Oh yeah. Never say “hi” back right away! Always wait at least 5 minutes!
And pay a $15 subscription for the poop cloud service.
Just reply “hi” then set your status to away and go grab a coffee!
That explains everything! I guess I came across it too late…
I have my own espresso machine and make various drinks for myself as a hobby. That’s actually the easy part of being a barista. The hard part is keeping up with a high pace of orders during rush hour. I would not want to be a barista either, specifically because of the stress of that work.
The other commenter is right about the good coffee though. Making really good espresso from fancy light roasted single origin coffee is extremely difficult.
Yes, but have you seen how Geordi treated Dr. Leah Brahms?
It’s not hypocrisy to enjoy a cozy blanket and a hot beverage any time of the year. It just turns out that winter is a lot more enjoyable time to enjoy those than summer!
None of those preserve the shape of Antarctica!
We didn’t have a steampunk society at the time the transistor was invented. We were already post-steam with internal combustion engines dominating the vehicle market, including on rails with diesel-electric locomotives (diesel-powered internal combustion generator that produces electricity to run electric motors in the wheels).
The problem with steam is that it’s highly corrosive. High temperature boilers and steam parts and fittings require a lot of expensive maintenance to repair pinhole leaks that cause loss of steam power and pressure. Internal combustion engines don’t have this problem because they keep the heat contained inside the engine cylinders which are surrounded by a jacket of constantly circulating water-based coolant (that sheds heat through the radiator). The useful power that leaves the engine is purely mechanical, transmitted into the crankshaft and then the transmission and driveshaft. These parts are lubricated with oil and low maintenance due to the low temperatures and low friction of the system.
That’s a really good point too. Belief in conspiracies and other junk beliefs can be a surrogate for agency.
For some reason thats always how it is.
I think it’s because the obvious answers aren’t interesting. A big thing for conspiracy theorists is that they are part of a group who knows the real story. It’s as much about feeling like they belong to something important and exciting as anything else.
It’s like the people who believe the apocalypse is coming soon. Well if the apocalypse happened 1000 years from now that would be pretty soon (a geological blink of an eye) but it wouldn’t be anywhere near to falling within the lifespan of the believers. That doesn’t work! These people need to feel special, to feel important, to believe their life is meaningful for no other reason than to be alive when an important event happens.
And that’s fine. I’m not going to criticize the author for having their own style and sticking with it, not caving to pressure.
My critique is just a question of goals and what is most effective for conveying the intended message. I am not an expert though, so maybe a focal point like that is a conversation starter rather than a distraction.
The noses are quite distracting aren’t they? It leaves me wondering if the author actually intended that. Do they want people discussing the noses every single time they release a comic?
The rural areas sure. Edmonton and Calgary are not. They’re the stronghold for the provincial NDP. Wasn’t too long ago that Alberta had an NDP government on the strength of their support in those two cities.
I think you’re always going to look smart if you cherry pick the things said by different members of a large group. I can go back over that same timeline and find Apple users criticizing everything the company has done, all the way back to and including the Mac.
People criticized the original Mac for having a paltry 128K of non-upgradable ram and being basically obsolete within 6 months, after Apple released the 512K “fat Mac” and developers wrote software that used more than 128K of ram. People also criticized the Mac for not having colour (unlike the Apple II), and for breaking backwards compatibility.
That last point became a recurring theme throughout Apple’s history. People have been endlessly critical of Apple for it and Apple in turn has maintained a consistent contempt for backwards compatibility.
People criticized the lack of focus and the bewildering array of model numbers during the 90s. People criticize Apple every time they discontinue their favourite model.
People have criticized their butterfly keyboards and their stupid touchbar and the damn PowerBook 5300 battery fires. They criticized the cracks in the G4 cube’s case corners and the ducking iOS keyboard autocorrect! They criticize Apple’s forced software updates and their skeuomorphic designs and their use of colour and their taking away of colour and their damn one button mice!
On and on and on it goes! The point is that large groups of people don’t have consistent opinions. Heck, even individuals don’t have consistent opinions over time!