Go poop.

Oh no, I was referring to when my foot pounds the floor as I walk across it

If this is the fixed version, “kw/h” isn’t a thing. Well, technically it is but doesn’t mean what you think. The unit for energy is kilowatt hours, or kWh. No “per” to be seen.

Kind of like how torque is measured in foot pounds, not foot per pound.

Sorry, I’m just an EV nerd who sees people make that mistake all the time and gets a little twitchy about it

I’m excited for a banana grown right in Wisconsin 😋

I am subscribed to this community and I largely agree with you. Mostly I hate AI slop and that the human element is becoming an afterthought.

That said, I work for a small company. My boss wanted me to look up AI products for proposal writing. Some of the proposals we do are pretty massive, and we can’t afford the overhead of a whole team of proposal writers just for a chance at getting a contract. But a closely-monitored AI to help out with the boilerplate stuff especially? I can see it. If nothing else, it’s way easier (and maybe better results) to tweak existing content than it is to create something entirely from scratch

Ahhh yes. Of course the US paid millions of dollars to detain hundreds of people, and Kristi Noem went down there to make a point that if you crime while brown, you will end up in this prison because it treats its inmates… Exactly the same as an American prison. Yeah, that makes sense.

Honestly, I SMS myself occasionally 😬

Know any good notes apps?

It’s so perfectly terrible 🥹

I was looking for “buzzword soup website doesn’t say what the product fucking does”

Maybe that wouldn’t fit in a square

Brevity sticks

Oh, for sure. Especially during pumpkin pie blizzard season. Plus they always seem to feed my FOMO with some other flavor so I go twice during that season alone

Here’s the fun part: while you’re all talking about their ice cream, technically it’s not legal to call their product that. You won’t see it anywhere on the menu. I think it has to do with the milk/cream/egg/sugar amounts? There may not be egg at all, but can’t remember for sure.

Anyway, all you’ll ever see on the menu is “soft serve”

The “120 volt cable”, assuming you mean NM-B aka Romex, is rated for up to 600 volts if you look at it closely. It is absolutely acceptable to use that wiring for a 240V circuit, as long as you wrap colored (not green) electrical tape around the white neutral wire to indicate it’s another hot.

Yes, there are 3-conductor (plus ground) wires one can also use for switches and 240V circuits with neutral. That neutral can be used to have 120V and 240V together (your oven may use 240V coils, but the light bulb probably runs on 120). Doesn’t mean you need to have it, if your 240V circuit doesn’t need a neutral. My air compressor is just a motor that can run at 240, no neutral needed, and its outlet is wired up with the same kind of Romex used for a 120 right next to it (with black tape to indicate a second hot)

Dat toaster

If you like both vanilla and chocolate ice cream do you have to prove that?

Eastern Colorado might as well be west Kansas. Both areas I mentioned are in eastern Colorado.

I drive through it a few times a year, living in Denver but have family in Minnesota/Wisconsin. As crazy as it sounds, at least you have small towns and corn fields along I-80. There are some areas in Colorado (stretches of I-76, US-287 between Hugo and Kit Carson) where there’s just… Nothing. Like, you’d be surprised at how much more empty a corn field can be, and it totally does weird you out how far you are from a simple gas station, let alone a familiar McDonald’s (neither of those towns have that; I believe you’d have to go from Limon to Lamar to get from one McDonald’s to the next on that road, which is almost 2 hours)

Especially in the last month or so I’ve been noticing how uninspiring technology has been. I used to love seeing whatever the gadget of the season was at Target while my mom shopped. Now it’s all… Phone cords, and um, printer ink cartridges. The same wireless speakers we bought years ago. Nothing about it is cool anymore!

His Bluesky is also a delight