Da Bird
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A return to meritocratic hiring has never been more necessary. Atlas is shrugging.
Breaking911@Breaking911
🚨 BREAKING: At least 35 passengers are missing after a bus plunged into the Padma River at Daulatdia Ghat in Bangladesh. Two bodies have been recovered so far as search and rescue operations continue.
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🚨 BREAKING: At least 35 passengers are missing after a bus plunged into the Padma River at Daulatdia Ghat in Bangladesh. Two bodies have been recovered so far as search and rescue operations continue.
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@I0C0NN0R1 @AkkadSecretary How shit is your wiring? You all still on knob and tube or something?
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@RavenComplex @AkkadSecretary Dying in a electrical fire like a MAN
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American tourist defeated by the on/off switch
Luna Stratton@lunar_light3
Okay, I think I found my problem. Every outlet has an on/off switch and they're all off. Why? Why is this a thing? Also, where's the stove one? *more confused American noises*
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@Panagiotou90St He shouldn't be involved with anything beyond a Ball and Cup toy.
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Am I the only one thinking that Stephen
Colbert shouldn’t be involved in anything that has to do with Lord of The Rings?
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@Panagiotou90St I heard once that Greece has a culture of patriotic tax evasion because it was once a way of saying "fuck the turks".
Is that still a thing?
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The idea that Greeks are generally lazy is a myth. Greece's problem is its lingering statism and a skepticism towards entrepreneurship. This attitude maintains completely inefficient structures that make those who do work having to even work more to sustain the rest.
François Valentin@Valen10Francois
A myth shatters. The Germans work less than the French, who work less than the siesta enjoyers in Spain, who work less than the Greeks.
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A friend of mine just made a funny recommendation to me, let me know what you think:
We start judging candidates who want to run for office in Texas by how many days you think they could survive in Texas if they were time traveled to 1835.
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@NextDefault_ @AkkadSecretary Yeah, we have those, really useful if you have a lamp in the corner or something. But usually, the switch is not part of the receptacle, it's usually on the wall with the rest of the switches.
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@RavenComplex @AkkadSecretary Its not mandated, just most do. Theres no reason you cant have a non-switched one
Im pretty sure it dates back to the dawn of electricity into homes so you could like turn lamps off or something and it just stayed because it means you dont gotta pull the plug
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@cartalic @BigNewPrinz @AkkadSecretary We don't have to switch any of our receptacles, no matter the voltage or amperage. GFCI maybe, but not switched.
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@BigNewPrinz @RavenComplex @AkkadSecretary americans simply cannot understand the raw power of our 240v outlets
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@BigNewPrinz @AkkadSecretary Over regulation is gay, why are the receptacles switched? That's not any safer.
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You may remember this design from Helios 1 in Fallout New Vegas, they are real and sit on the California side of the border in the Mojave.
Like everything California, looks fancy but they are a design failure.
producing 40% of expected output at 20¢/kWh at 29% efficiency for almost $3B.
Which is why next to it and on the other side you see normal solar plants, Copper Mountain Solar 3 at 22% the cost to construct produces 77% the output of all the towers combined.
TLDR the design seems shit
Volcaholic 🌋@volcaholic1
China’s solar power plant in Dunhuang uses around 12,000 mirrors to focus sunlight onto a central tower, heating molten salt to extreme temperatures. That heat is stored and used to generate electricity on demand, including after sunset.
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@Sargon_of_Akkad At the start of each level, does the protagonist have a 41% chance of respawning themselves?
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Looks like the story is about a guy who was radicalised by commie propaganda on his phone and then goes on a killing spree.
Halftone Gaming@halftonegaming
The Trailer for our new game, Too Many F*cking Nazis, is live now. Check it out and wishlist over on Steam
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@HLC_actual I've seen enough videos of chinamen get mulched by industrial machinery to be in favor of OSHA as a concept.
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All I’m saying is this country built a lot more cool shit before osha existed.
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@cfdownes_ As a palantir investor, I love this, line goes up.
As an anglophile, why are you contracting our defenses companies to spy on you?
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Britain should be building independent tech capabilities, not relying on foreign war profiteers like Palantir (which already has contracts with the NHS, MoD, and Home Office).
LBC@LBC
Palantir has been awarded a contract by the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to analyse internal intelligence data. lbc.co.uk/article/palant…
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@MurphyOfMercia @cfdownes_ Better late than never.
We're saying the same thing about our oil production and, more importantly, microchip manufacturing.
Y'all should be doing the same thing, tap into the North Sea deposits and ramp up domestic production.
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@cfdownes_ Is the cat not out of the bag and this should have occured 5 to 10 years ago? How do you suggest we catch up?
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@the_christnats "I didn't murder him your honor. He wasn't new to the concept of death so flaying him alive then roasting him over a fire was perfectly normal for him."
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His son groomed and raped a 13 year old child in Rotherham, UK.
He says he doesn't see it as rape because "she wasn't a virgin or new to sex".
These are dangerous people.
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@stilljneal Nah, I still think international law is fake and gay. The UN isn't going to step in and stop anything, only more bombs will.
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The “international law is fake/theres no such thing as war crimes” crowd after they catch a generational asskicking:
𝐓𝐌𝐓@TMT_arabic
🚨 BREAKING Israel appeals to the United Nations Security Council, requesting an emergency session and accusing Iran of using banned cluster munitions.
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Absolute desperation. The US is deploying slow, unstealthy Cold War-era A-10s to the Strait of Hormuz to fight fast attack boats. These planes are sitting ducks for Iran's advanced air defenses. The Pentagon is sending pilots on a suicide mission.
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@MattisRedacted I will say this is kinda a "live by the sword die by the sword" moment. If you are going to rise up, expect to be martyred for the cause. I know Middle Easterners understand this, they still have honor based cultures for the most part.
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“There’s literally a clip of him hacking an SS officer to death”
Now do you see how stupid you sound?
Mohanad@MohanadElbalal
There’s literally a clip of him hacking a man to death.
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