PersnickityPenguin

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[–] PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I thought critical thinking was communism?

[–] PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 29 points 4 weeks ago

When I was first teaching my son the alphabet, we got to “W” and, before I could say it, he called it “two vees!” It was so cute.

[–] PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 5 points 1 month ago

Supposedly the shipping companies had already jacked up prices per container from $3000 to $30,000 this past month.

[–] PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

You think trump is really that thoughtful. I swear he just word salads his way through the day. Just like his social media posts.

[–] PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Honestly, boobs are not that exciting.

Have you ever been to a topless beach? The novelty wears out after about 10 seconds and then it becomes a boring norm.

[–] PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee -2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

So you feel that women should be arrested and prosecutable if their nipples are exposed?

That's very misogynist. And no, you can't argue for the law to "save the women" from all those perverts. Because the whole point of this is to free women from the bullshit laws that allows society to prosecute them while pulling double duty by effectively shaming their bodies.

Most women are not going to run around topless voluntarily. But, even if they did - say a group of girls or women decided to go skinny dipping or whatever at a lake, do you really believe they should go to jail for that?

Don't mansplane and tell everyone these laws are for women's own good, because they aren't. Inventing this bizarre photographic scenario is just bizarre. It's a fiction of your imagination and is a straw man argument.

You are correct that the true problem is men, but not how you think it is.

[–] PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 38 points 1 month ago (8 children)

Incel detected

[–] PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Otoh, not everyone wants to work from home. I did that for 2 years, and while I would like a hybrid or occasional schedule, in burned out from it.

I also feel like it isn't healthy to go 6 months without seeing another human aside from a 200 pixel wide zoom feed.

I would need to drop at least $50k on a house expansion just to fit a functional home office anyway.

[–] PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

According to Wikipedia, that slur is really only used in the US and Canada. If you go to the UK and say it, they will hand you a cigarette.

[–] PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

Fucking good. I so hate Harleys.

Hopefully the incel crowd will succeed in branding them as 'too woke' or whatever and once the boomers are all dead, that's it

[–] PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Steam deck has an emulator so it should

[–] PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 6 points 1 month ago

Having been banned from every subreddit I ever subscribed to, this sounds about right.

Then you message the mid, nothing.

My favorite was when I posted one comment on some obscure have subreddit about the Ukraine war.

Then I was immediately bagged from like a dozen other subreddits, many of which I had never heard of. Reasons included violating political rules .. on a gaming subreddit about a game that simulates war between Russia and NATO. Go figure.

 

The first commercial PV solar product was nah just in 1909.

See story above, and original article in Modern Electrics magazine in 1909:

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015051407073

EDIT

Since people didn't read past the headline, the article is about a startup company in 1905 that developed a commercial electrical solar panel by 1909 and was worth 160 million in today's money.

In 1909, the inventor of the solar panel was kidnapped and ordered by his kidnappers to destroy all information about this solar panel. He was eventually released, although he did not destroy the solar panel or his documentation, he did shut down his company.

So this is a pretty fascinating development considering that at this time period we actually did have early production electric cars that were manufactured in larger quantities than gas vehicles, and now we learn that solar panels were commercially available, at least for a short time.


And the solar panels could generate a fair amount of electricity:

500 volts per 10 square ft, and a smaller demonstration panel that was 3 ft x 4 ft could generate 60 watts of power (10 volts @6 amps).

Additionally, the panels were designed to charge a battery backup system.

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