Tropical smoothie is a perfect example here.

They use less fruit, don’t freeze the fruit. It’s mostly ice. Then they add sugar.

It’s wayyyy cheaper, but it’s just blended sugar ice with some fruit, not a real smoothie.

But then places that make real smoothies can’t make them as cheap Because they have to deal with frozen fruit Logistics and need more fruit

It’s way better, but they can’t compete with tropical smoothie

Some ion trajectories involve constant low acceleration. It really adds up time. You accelerate halfway there, then decelerate the rest of the way.

The dawn spacecraft mission to ceres has 48,000+ hours of gentle acceleration under ion propulsion. That’s 5.5 years of firing. But it gets over 38,620 km/h of delta-v (acceleration).

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-dawn-spacecraft-fires-past-record-for-speed-change/

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They are great.

Learn how the government works if you’re gonna prescribe how it should act. The Democrats have no power to 25th him- only his hand picked cabinet can do that.

Now they DO need to be filing impeachment every time he does something wrong and just add it to the growing list and make them have to go through all of it every time. That’s all they can really do.

My sweet summer child, how could he possibly change the course of history any more? You think the legal system would do anything more?

Genuinely curious what you are talking about. The ACLU is already involved doing everything they can.

To me, it died when they allowed users to hide their post and comment history. Enables bots and bad faith behavior.

That misses the point of the post. They have actual uses; just not what they are hyped for.

I, for example, have a mixed receptive-expressive language disorder.

LLMs have been life changing for me. I can write out rambling scrambled attempts at saying things, and ask it to reword and make it concise and clear. Or I can ask it to analyze something I wrote.

But I always write it first, then have the LLM do a pass, then I come behind and study/correct the output.

So not every use is dumb, just like lasers are useful in science.

This is a male XLR. You can’t plug into a microphone. You can destroy your preamp, interface, or mixer though.

Hell yeah, I went with Oiltism.

Disappointment gang gang

Disability issue. Some people need special bottles. Money getting in the way of access, again.

For real. Nintendo 64 was not a niche hobby, and the games were still 70 to 80 bucks. That’s like $160 in today dollars. It shows, too. We got all this technology, but the care, polish, attention just isn’t there.

thank mr skeltal

Damn, I misread this and went looking for mine like crazy. I need some sleep

Today is Autism zoo day, Which is a good networking opportunity for other people in the community. Good Social practice. Good people.

But I’m going to be late because there’s a public mountain bike ride and I’ve always wanted to do a mountain bike group ride. I usually have to go by myself because I don’t have a group. I have a lot of difficulty with language, and it makes it hard to find people. My dyspraxia/apraxia makes it hard to keep up with “serious” riders, but I’m too intense for most beginners to keep up with me. Today, I’m going to try to go with the advanced group and see how they do it.

That’s the traffic offense. It’s the ticket you get when you rear-end someone. They aren’t trying to throw the book at the driver. It’s a routine citation.

Whoever wrote it just called a traffic ticket an “investigation” to make it sound dramatic.

That’s the traffic offense. It’s the ticket you get when you rear-end someone. They aren’t trying to throw the book at the driver. It’s a routine citation.

Whoever wrote it just called a traffic ticket an “investigation” to make it sound dramatic.

Oiltism

An old SMBC skit where a couple reluctantly hires a given plumber...who works as though he's starring in a porno, and demands the occupants watch. They can't really turn him down, since he's the cheapest and most qualified in the area.

What the fuck is the point? Even if you were trying to be ruthless or just protect some rich asshole, it makes more sense to get the guy that’s the actual threat. You can’t look for the right guy if you’re too busy locking up the wrong guy.

Infighting and bitching about each other and blaming a straw man for not stepping up instead of stepping up.

Go run for office. Go join a campaign. Go donate or volunteer. They are like you. Act.