Endless Sky is a solid space trader and combat game, free on f-droid
Frozen Bubble is a pretty fun ~~bubble bobble~~ Puzzle Bobble clone, also on f-droid
Arx Libertatis allows you to play the full version of Arx Fatalis, a super in depth underground RPG inspired by Ultima Underworld. You need the PC game files to transfer to your phone though.
Handlebar mustache Riker.
There really oughta be a hurricane-proof trend, like dome houses, and for the coastline, domes on stilts.
I love Carlin, but he was an awful defeatest, any sliver of hope beaten right out of him, which he admits himself.
Education is, genuinely, the prime issue. Where I agree with Carlin is that better education can't fix our system, because the system itself is fundamentally broken. It'd be better with smarter people, but ultimately would still be corporate captured and self-serving.
What a highly educated populace could mean is a rejection of the current system entirely, in favor of building a new one in its shell cooperatively, with horizontal, decentralized power and the wholesale rejection of profit-motive being the prime focus.
I suspect Carlin would assume humanity is incapable of that, but then again he probably wasn't super familiar with how that actually happened in the Spanish Civil War.
If we manage to pull it off, Carlin would've been happy for once, begrudgingly :p
In the case of refrigerators, there doesn't need to be any trade-off between efficiency and heavy duty. The main thing determining efficiency is primarily where the heat exchanger is positioned (top mounted is the most efficient, but uncommon), and the thickness and quality (R value) of the insulation.
If you add extra insulation to an old heavy duty fridge, it increases its efficiency by 50% or more (depending on the thickness of insulation).
The extra insulation, as a side effect of better efficiency through better temperature retention, will also extend the lifespan of the compressor, which will need to run half as much as normal.
The main reason this isn't done from the factory is cost, and to reduce the physical dimensions of the fridge.
It's rather distressing, to put it mildly.
it is as batshit as it appears.
But for us at least, it is quite sinister as well, since Trump it quite literally attempting to instill himself as a dictator to avoid prison, and this is being facilitated by white nationalists, religious zealots, tech billionaires, and an easily decieved under-educated populace that are acting against their own interests.
Yellowstone would only immediately kill people within a certain radius. overall it would be pretty survivable.
And, at least from what I recall, the incentive for bell to toss that excess money into research, is the corporate tax rates were so high it would've been taken from them if not spent anyway.
Yeah not the best for sure. It seems to work okay-ish if it's something common and in stock, but it does produce some funky results.
The Documentary 'Take Me To Pitcairn' fits the bill, I think. It's about a guy who really wants to visit a super remote island that's difficult to get passage to. Some private boat captain plans to go there, and signs up a bunch of tourists to fund the trip, including the filmmaker.
The whole trip is a giant shitshow from start to finish, and it's oddly compelling to watch.