Wahots

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[–] Wahots@pawb.social 1 points 20 hours ago

Looks pretty good, though the lack of particle effects is a bit odd. There are no decals from skidding tires either. Perhaps just alpha footage.

[–] Wahots@pawb.social 1 points 4 days ago

You gotta use washcloths or scrubbers on your body! In conjuction with soap, that will help remove dead skin, dirt, sweat, etc.

[–] Wahots@pawb.social 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Towels one week. Bedding and pillow cases every two weeks. Pillows every 3 to 6 months, or if they start to smell kinda musty, whichever comes first. A little bleach helps keeps my bedding and towels super clean.

[–] Wahots@pawb.social 17 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Ubisoft left steam? Didn't even know it, their games have gotten terrible reviews for so long, and their uplay platform is so shitty, I have skipped them until they fixed their game dev or cancelled uplay, haha.

[–] Wahots@pawb.social 5 points 5 days ago

Russia is just pushing their thoughts and beliefs on poorer countries to radicalize them and extract wealth from them, whether that's politcal capital for stuff like UN votes, or raw materials and valuable resources. I wouldn't be surprised if they started building them ports and railyards with financial strings attached to help them funnel resources towards Russia. Instead of more valuable things like schools, hospitals, and sewage treatment facilities in impoverished areas.

[–] Wahots@pawb.social 3 points 5 days ago

They don't really make much of a difference, imo. There are wearable products out there that can add a texture difference, but they are incompatible with condoms if you are trying to reduce the risk of STDs.

That said, there are many ways to spice up sex in new and fun ways, even outside of condom choice :)

[–] Wahots@pawb.social 1 points 6 days ago

Even just food aside, we use so much plastic for things like LED light bulb packaging, toys, packing materials like bubble wrap and air bags, monobags for clothes, plastic shrink wrap or uncuttable plastics at hardware stores, markets, etc.

Like, outside of sterile single use plastics for keeping needles clean at the doctor, and maybe certain biohazards like raw meat juice, we don't really need most plastics in consumer applications. Balsa wood, cardboard, metals, glass, rubber, paper, and waxed paper can do much of the heavy lifting.

[–] Wahots@pawb.social 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

While true, it's way better better for a power source to be inefficient than all consumers using inefficient/dirty appliances.

Once the aging coal plant is decommissioned in favor of a new nuclear reactor in a state like Wyoming, anyone using stuff like electric water heaters, heatpumps or electric bikes/buses/cars/scooters is instantly using 100% renewable power.

Even in screwed up states like Texas, there is so much load on the grid (and the fact they cannot buy power from other states) means that cheap solar panels, battery storage and wind are way faster to put up than expensive methane/natural gas generators.

[–] Wahots@pawb.social 20 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Excellent! Now, please ban single use plastics in most consumer packaging. We devised solutions to many of these for centuries or longer before most stuff went to plastic unnecessarily. Very little actually requires single-use plastic.

[–] Wahots@pawb.social 1 points 2 weeks ago

Probably used when someone is saying "oh shit, shit, SHIT" but the data only scraped the first two uses. That's my guess, anyways.

[–] Wahots@pawb.social 2 points 2 weeks ago

We have two rates, this is if you are using over 10kwh per day, the maximum rate: $0.1372 per kwh

[–] Wahots@pawb.social 3 points 2 weeks ago

It might also be for a radiator to cool the battery and/or act as a heat pump for the AC/heat. At least, I hope they are using a heatpump.

 

Please vote in the general election this fall! 54 people in the state determined the outcome of the primary!

This is the person who controls all five million acres of public lands and forest fire management.

 

RealPage, maker of YieldStar, is almost singlehandedly the ones causing rent to skyrocket across much of the United States.

One of the algorithm’s developers told ProPublica that leasing agents had “too much empathy” compared to computer generated pricing.

You can learn more about them here and why this antitrust case is so important:

https://www.propublica.org/article/yieldstar-rent-increase-realpage-rent

 

Perhaps we shouldn't start deep sea mining yet.

 

There are geothermal solutions for geothermal features near the surface already. This article is about advances in deep geothermal solutions: 15,000+ feet of pipe, deep into the earth. Utilizing the falling cost of horizontal drilling equipment from the fracking industry, there are now solutions to drill 10,000 feet down, and 5,000 feet sideways to improve the likelihood of running into superheated rock. Currently, drilling will be limited to geothermally gifted areas of America, but may be able to expand to less fortunate areas as the technology improves and gets even less expensive.

 

For context, a water main blew, and the city of Calgary has been under strict water rationing for the past handful of days. The new pipe should arrive later this week from California :)

https://www.calgary.ca/emergencies/critical-water-main-break-june-2024.html?redirect=/16avewatermain

 

It's pretty cool that the government has a department that can delicately extract damaged money and return new bills to people. I wish this article went into the process of how they do it!

 

They found a plant thought to be exinct in the area, and got super excited when they found it. Seeds have been forwarded to a seed bank. The article is worth a read and is fairly short :)

 

They found a plant thought to be extinct in the area. The article and people involved are extremely excited about their work. Well worth the read!

 

It was a very unlikely win. Some, if not all players on this team have day jobs.

Paywall free version here: https://archive.ph/uQcS4

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