mipadaitu 19h ago • 100%
Uhhh, that's kinda how she describes herself. Proudly.
mipadaitu 19h ago • 100%
My only problem with him is he just LOOKS like a meathead. I wish they'd dress him a little more baggy sometimes just so I can realistically see him as the character he's trying to play. But he's always wearing stuff that shows off his toned bulk.
Or maybe I'm just too gay for him and need him to tone it down a bit so I can pay attention to the story.
mipadaitu 19h ago • 85%
Nope, it's real time travel with no FTL. The reason it's "finished" is that it takes hundreds of real life years to get anywhere, so they have plenty of time to populate the world's before the first players arrive.
mipadaitu 19h ago • 100%
TV show was quality. The end of the series was about as good as anyone could hope for.
mipadaitu 1d ago • 100%
Payment up front, in non negotiable bearer bonds.
mipadaitu 1d ago • 100%
Dr. Strange had his injury in 1963, he probably went through medical school in the 1950's and has been studying magic, not medicine ever since. His techniques and knowledge are extremely out of date.
mipadaitu 1d ago • 100%
Depends on which season. Are you extrapolating current JD? Or can we pick season 1 JD, where he has a lot of knowledge, but very little experience, and wasn't a very good doctor yet?
mipadaitu 2d ago • 100%
January 30th, 2025 release
mipadaitu 2d ago • 100%
What a coincidence? I backed up your DVDs to my Plex too!
mipadaitu 2d ago • 100%
If the us economy crashes, then it doesn't matter what you have for investments.
It's all tied together into one global market at this point.
mipadaitu 2d ago • 100%
Chocolate maker dreaming of being a retired farmer who is dreaming of being a chocolate maker who is dreaming...
mipadaitu 2d ago • 100%
If you think this is new, you haven't paid attention to history.
mipadaitu 3d ago • 92%
We got both a sticker in the mail, AND we dropped our ballots off at a polling location so we got a DIFFERENT I voted sticker.
So I got two different voted stickers for one vote!
Suckers!!!
mipadaitu 3d ago • 100%
Voyager kind of did that with Species 8472.
mipadaitu 3d ago • 100%
Depends on the writer, but they handwave a lot of those problems by the fact that replicators need a lot of energy to work (voyager explicitly said they didn't have the spare power and used hydroponics and trade to supplement), and a lot of critical components couldn't be replicated (dilithium, and antimatter containment parts. Also the isolinear computer chips were non-replicatible). I think you'd also struggle with any weapons systems, which might include shields.
Essentially you could build the hull and most of the mechanical parts, but not the critical systems.
mipadaitu 3d ago • 100%
Sounds like it's time for a credit card chargeback
mipadaitu 3d ago • 100%
Yes, it's called a paper copy of the vote cast. The problem isn't technical, it's a trust issue.
You can't trust an entirely digital process for voting, because either it's not independently auditable, or it's not anonymous. Our current system of vote counting requires an independent group of people counting a subset of the ballots in order to ensure the voting was done fairly. You can't do that if the process is entirely digital.
The people in this thread aren't just jumping on a Musk bandwagon, the dude is a moron and he is trying to sow doubt in the process.
I myself support the current scantron style system that we use in our local election offices here. You get the instant electronic counters, and you get a paper ballot that can audit that the electronic counters did their job correctly. There are many other ways to have a perfectly valid system, but this one is extremely robust against any sort of tampering.
mipadaitu 3d ago • 9%
To be fair, I wouldn't trust a computer program for voting either, but I would trust and ride in an autonomously landing rocket.
Which is why I much prefer the scantron type fill in the bubble ballots, you get a full digital count with an easily cross referenced ballot.
mipadaitu 3d ago • 100%
Literally happened at my local fire station. They were doing a pancake breakfast fundraiser and some kid accidentally hit the fire alarm, dispatch paged out the station to itself.
mipadaitu 3d ago • 100%
I understand what you mean, but every building has at least a few places in it where a fire can start and nobody would notice (obviously.)
I have an indoor/outdoor thermometer to keep track of how hot the back of my Expedition gets. I drive pretty regularly with two dogs in the back, and over the summer and winter the temps can get a little extreme. I need to be able to take it out to keep an eye on it remotely (it has about 1/4 mile range) but also have it not rolling around while I drive. There was a coin holder there that I popped out, and used as a template for an insert to keep this mounted semi-permanently. Printed with kinda crappy Amazon Basics PETG. If it holds up well, I'll reprint it with better quality black PETG so it matches the car better.
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Tips to keeping your identity secure, and protecting other members of your community from being accidentally doxxed or forced offline. Extremely useful, especially for people who coordinate larger protests or online communities.
Neat time lapse video of a bunch of different plants (and fungi) growing from seed to flowering/fruiting.
We planted a variety of plants, at different stages of growth. After a bit of experimentation, cosmos grow extremely well. These were cuttings we put in just a couple weeks ago, and they're already bigger than most of the other plants that have been in there for over a month. The very young plants did not survive, but the larger ones did. If they're too small, they just get swallowed down into the cups by the bobbing of the water. Seems like the plants need to be large enough to reach all the way to the bottom of the pots, and still stick out enough. Going to be interesting to see what it looks like at the end of the season.
The experimental mat has been out for about a week now, but extremely high winds during a storm last night pulled up a corner of the mat spilling out the contents. Luckily the majority of the plants were able to be saved, so we have one empty spot now. I added some weights to the four corners to hopefully prevent this from happening again. This is why we're experimenting! Learning what works and what doesn't with the setup.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/15830343 > Our retention pond in our neighborhood has a lot of algae and problematic plant growth due to the surrounding farms and lawn runoff, so we're experimenting with a floating island to pull nutrients out before they can cause problems. This will also provide some interesting flowering plants, and more fish habitats. > > Will be an interesting experiment to see what survives and what does poorly. > > Zinnias, sunflowers, marigolds, and a few others are in net pots, inserted into cutouts in EVA foam mats. > > Design is from: > http://www.beemats.com/ > > More reading: > https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/02/flowers-grown-floating-on-polluted-waterways-can-help-clean-up-nutrient-runoff/ > > https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666765723000637?via%3Dihub >
Our retention pond in our neighborhood has a lot of algae and problematic plant growth due to the surrounding farms and lawn runoff, so we're experimenting with a floating island to pull nutrients out before they can cause problems. This will also provide some interesting flowering plants, and more fish habitats. Will be an interesting experiment to see what survives and what does poorly. Zinnias, sunflowers, marigolds, and a few others are in net pots, inserted into cutouts in EVA foam mats. Design is from: http://www.beemats.com/ More reading: https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/02/flowers-grown-floating-on-polluted-waterways-can-help-clean-up-nutrient-runoff/ https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666765723000637?via%3Dihub
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Really important step towards expanding our research on the moon, is creating highly detailed maps of the entire surface. China is doing some great work on building out infrastructure and studies of the moon. They're the only country that's brought back any moon rocks in decades. Space Race 3.0 is on, and we'll see how different approaches to the research and manned missions will move forward. The US is currently building out an extremely upfront cost heavy project, but with a lot of long term benefits. China is building a more straightforward moon project, but with higher ongoing costs, as much of the infrastructure is disposable (more like Apollo).
Jeff from The Float Life pushes it over 40MPH on a VESC'd OneWheel.
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The amount of detail in these pictures is amazing. You can really see the texture in the nebula, and the features are so crisp, it kind of looks 3d.
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Pretty interesting topic, would be interesting if it could be used to move satellites to a "parking orbit" once they run out of fuel. It's unclear just how much movement in an orbit that can be done, as it says it needs to be in the same energy level. Source press release: https://www.surrey.ac.uk/news/new-technique-uses-knot-theory-create-tube-map-around-planets-and-moons Source journal article: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42064-024-0201-0
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If there’s a Holy Grail on Mars, it’s probably a specific type of rock: A rock so important that it holds convincing clues to Mars’ ancient habitability. Perseverance might have just found it.
Float life takes the custom onewheel mod board for an endurance ride and pushes it out to 32 miles without turning it off, or charging it.
Dude in Australia heavily modified a GT-S with a 24s2p battery to run at just over 100v, but way more power to push it faster and further. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aH6BL9mg8Q0 Jeff at the Float Life shows the board can freewheel at 64mph (over 100kph!!!), and he personally rides it at about 37mph before deciding it's a bad idea to run it any faster. Interesting custom build.
Didn't work out at all, but wanted to share a conversion of a dobsonian telescope into a horseshoe mount that I built a while back. Was a completely failed experiment, but it was also kinda fun.
There was an issue on Reddit a while back where people would post some hateful stuff, and of course lots of people blocked them. After a while, anti-trans, racist, and far-right-wing stuff were only seen by non-logged in users, other bigots, or new people, and they weren't getting the downvotes they deserved. Is this going to be a problem on Lemmy too? I'm worried that if we're all blocking shitty users that we're just hiding the problem from ourselves, not fixing it.
This was a fun project, I had to measure and figure out the iottie thread pitch and then create an adapter to go from a phone mount stand to a backplate on my wireless camera screen for a backup camera on a trailer. Basically replicated the back plate from the original phone mount with the same tolerances and spacing. Took 2 test prints to make sure the threads and spacing was right, then I printed it out of PETG. Seems to hold up well, but I might end up adjusting the design over time if it has a weak point.