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The longer the cord is the more resistance there is; ie the more electrical load on the circuit. As long as you are pulling less than what the circuit and cord is rated for, there isn't an issue, you will just be wasting a little extra power from the extra resistance. The plugs themselves can also have a bit of extra resistance.

Two pieces of advice that will make the biggest difference:

• Keep the total length of all extension cables used as short as is reasonable. Don't use a 20m cable when a 4m cable will do.

• Buy extension cords with higher wire gauges (higher wire thicknesses). A 12 gauge cable (4mm^2^) will provide notably less resistance than a 14 (2.5mm^2^) or 16 gauge cable (1.5mm^2^). The packaging will say what gauge it is. Note, I'm talking about the thickness of the metal itself, not the thickness of the extension cord as a whole. I have seen some very, very thick extension cords with absolute trash wires inside.

Russia shoots down a civilian airliner, killing many civilians, and they have the gall to say shit like this? Have y'all considered shit like this is why people don't like Russia?

Of course they would want to play down speculation on why a civilian jet suffered shrapnel damage while flying in Russian airspace, leading to many civilian deaths. There is really only one way that happens....

Yep. And that hypothesis (evidenced by the shrapnel damage) isn’t even claiming a conspiracy. Merely that a Russian AA crew fucked up….again.

Yeah, I have some EBL brand 1.5v rechargeable batteries since the VR handsets I own are pretty sensitive to low voltage. They were unfortunately a bit more expensive than regular 1.2v rechargeables.

What isn’t racist if even dinner-time is racist?

If you got that 30% haircut just before you needed to sell

Yep. They key part is to invest for 20, 30, 40 years, where those consistent 10-20% gains compound and vastly outweigh the occasional 30% losses. Even if you had invested at the worst time in 2007, you are currently up 285%.

Put money into index funds every paycheck and don't sell them for 30 years. Compounding returns are damn strong. And yes, lots of people do it, it is the most straightforward and common strategy.

Investing money generates more production and profits, it is very much so not a zero-sum game. There is good reason the average standard of living has increased dramatically over history, and it has increased faster in modern economies with strong monetary availability and movement, something investing directly contributes to.

Andor was surprisingly good, and the only thing Disney put out in the Star Wars universe I would ever recommend someone watch.

I know Poland in particular has covertly (and often just quietly) gifted Ukraine quite a number of things. Including tanks and aircraft before anyone else had. It was real confusing for me when Germany was holding off on providing tanks because they didn't want to be the leader/first, meanwhile Poland had been providing tanks to Ukraine for awhile already.

There certainly isn't a 'grand idea' for how the universe looks. Even the most recent trilogy didn't seem to have a grand idea of what itself was going to portray. It fees like Disney is looking at the IP on a yearly or quarterly basis, and not where it needs to be in 5 or 10 years.

My enthusiasm for the IP has been completely destroyed at this point; and I'm not the only one.

The helpful thing is we are at a point people are starting to move over in larger numbers. With every extra person, there is more enthusiasm to get the next useful milestone completed; which will continue to bring in more people. It's pretty telling that the top PC gaming handheld is a Linux offering, not a Windows one. Just a few years ago that idea was unheard of.

As a personal anecdote, I work at a company that releases Windows software. However, in active development we have intentionally decided to not cut ourselves off from Linux and MacOS, and such OS releases are on the order of a month or three of work to make happen, rather than the complete rewrite monstrosity that is the case with our previous offerings.