Skua

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[–] Skua@kbin.social 31 points 9 months ago (7 children)

can always just pump up more oil out of the ground.

No, this is actually exactly the fucking problem

[–] Skua@kbin.social 5 points 9 months ago

Ahh, the good old Camus special. It's remarkably effective

[–] Skua@kbin.social 4 points 9 months ago

Maybe, maybe not. Spruce needles can do the same preservative job as hops do in beer while creating a different flavour, and some regional styles of beer (as in, an alcoholic drink made by fermenting barley or wheat) use spruce needles in this role. In other cases it is something more like this post though.

[–] Skua@kbin.social 13 points 9 months ago (5 children)

If it tastes anything like pine needles smell, I'll probably enjoy it. I live in an area with plenty of conifers and already have plenty of those bottles. I'll try it out next week and let you know.

[–] Skua@kbin.social 3 points 9 months ago

Filtering searches by channel can help a lot. If you're trying to understand how a specific feature works and there's a "rules and mechanics discussion" channel then you can search that channel specifically for the feature. But generally I'm afraid there is not a good answer here. Discord is a lot worse than classic forums at this kind of thing

[–] Skua@kbin.social 64 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Artist Prof. Sam Van Aken took this to the logical extreme with the Trees of 40 Fruit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_of_40_Fruit

[–] Skua@kbin.social 1 points 10 months ago

Germany's electrified highway system looks very promising for longer distance truck transport too. It's basically the same system that overhead electrified rail uses. That way the battery only needs to be able to get the truck to and from that highway, the distance covered on the highway is charging time.

[–] Skua@kbin.social 3 points 10 months ago

He was Arizona's Dentist of the Year 2001 though, so he's basically a war hero

[–] Skua@kbin.social 4 points 10 months ago

It does, but he's a fucking Newsmax presenter so we're operating with a bar so low it's somewhere in the Earth's mantle

[–] Skua@kbin.social 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

At least here in the UK a lot of larger supermarkets give you the option of taking a little handheld scanner with you and doing it as you shop. When you go to the till you just scan a barcode that's on the till and it connects the till to the scanner so you can pay for everything. I don't personally use it because I'm too disorganised a person to pack as I go and also remember to scan everything, but it's fairly popular. It typically exists as an alternative way of using the self checkouts, the option to scan everything at the checkout itself is still there

[–] Skua@kbin.social 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

While this may well be true, Russia has so many nukes and nukes are themselves so destructive that it's kinda cold comfort even if 90% of them fail

[–] Skua@kbin.social 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Not necessarily. We're looking at the second-most taught foreign language, so it could be something like:

  • Dutch areas: Dutch as first language, French as most common foreign language, English second
  • French areas: French as first language, English as most common foreign language, Dutch second
  • German areas: German as first language, French as most common foreign language, Dutch second

This would result in the map above even though all three are different once you look at them. I have no idea if it's actually true of course, just saying that it's possible

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