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Cake day: July 18th, 2023

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  • hey, I’m being more of an asshole because you’re being an asshole, and I thought it’d be funny to reply to you saying nobody cares because it seems like you care

    does your manual say to drive “extremely slow” or does it say to keep the RPMs down and go easy on the throttle for a few minutes? because those are very different things and I’d give you my rebuttal to your points if you’re open to debating without being assholes to eachother

    and if not, I’m not dying on this hill




  • have you actually read your owners manual?

    this isn’t worth fighting some rando on the internet over. nothing I say I going to change your mind, and that’s fine, not my car not my problem.

    for others that see these arguments - don’t listen to the armchair mechanics online, read your car’s fucking manual. typically the goal is to get your car to operating temp as fast as possible, and most modern cars are designed to heat up as fast as possible under motion. heating your car at idle takes forever and spends more time operating with parts not at their optimal tolerance.

    but don’t just listen to me, read your car’s manual.


  • What makes you say that?

    I’m in no way here to defend blue orgin, but the capsule does apogee “just above 100km”. It’s pretty clear getting above the karman line was their main goal.

    If we’re gonna throw shade we gotta be accurate. Lets make fun of them for being suborbital and for making the most phallic launch vehicle ever.







  • Wow, great to see a government encouraging it instead of saying you can’t do it! I’m also right next to the Rockies just far south of you in Colorado, and we get very different messages.

    It is weird. Like if every house had 200 gallons of storage, that could add up to a small dam’s worth of storage at almost no cost to the government. It makes more sense to me to encourage houses to store it.

    It really might come back around to blame capitalism - since like 90% of water is used for agriculture here maybe the downstream money makers are the ones yelling the loudest.



  • Oh boy - it’s a rabbit hole. As much as I like to blame capitalism for things, this one kind of stems earlier than that. Water rights and usage in the Western US is pretty fucked, and it’s only going to get worse with climate change.

    I have some hot takes after reading Cadillac Desert and some other books on water rights. I’m going to lazily link to another comment where I wrote a tiny bit about this book. What’s fun is lots of river water allocations in the Western US were written in times of excess and aren’t even remotely accurate for normal times let alone times of drought. The Colorado River has only flowed through to the Pacific Ocean like once in decades (citation needed) and Mexico doesn’t even get their allotted share. It’s mouth to the Pacific is mostly a dry bed of dirt 🫠.

    My house is in the watershed of the South Platte River, so Nebraska is the one who’d get mad if I put out a 3rd 55gal drum rain barrel. There’s a fun 100 year old compact that says Nebraska is allowed to seize land to build a canal to take their full allocation - a couple years ago Nebraska started to threaten to inact on their rights and Colorado’s just like ‘good fuckin luck’

    We’re closer to playing out Mad Max in my lifetime than I’d like. Sorry to bring down the vibe in Gardening 😂



  • lol unprecedented? The entire country of LA would not exist without the early-LA government buying up water rights in the eastern sierras to pipe to LA, and then telling the local farmers there they were shit outta luck the first time drought hit.

    If anyone is interested in Western US water rights - Cadillac Desert by Marc Reisner is a great book. I usually recommend at least the first quarter of it, as it gets pretty dry and repetitive in the second half. But the first couple chapters talk about the first expedition down the Colorado River and early water rights, which was super interesting. Second half of the book mostly goes over large water projects like dams and aquaducts.


  • …what are you even talking about? “better” lighting is completely subjective, I am happy with what my lights do and they are already LED, so there is no more efficient way to get the effects that I prefer.

    It’s ok if you prefer different things, but you’re just crapping on other people’s subjective preferences as if your preference is the only right answer.




  • Earth’s natural satellite can serve as a valuable research partner in measuring the sun’s oblateness. This is due to a phenomenon known as “Baily’s beads,” which are the tiny flashes of light during an eclipse that occur as solar light passes over the moon’s rugged terrain of craters, hills, and valleys. Since satellite imagery has helped produce extremely detailed mappings of lunar topography, experts can match Baily’s beads to the moon’s features as it passes in front of the sun.

    The way I’m guessing this works is: Baily’s beads will be detectable on shitty cameras since they will be distinct flashes of light, and since we have very detailed information of the moon’s topography they can determine information on the sun based on your phone’s location and the timing of the flashes of light.

    And if that is how it works, that is fuckin rad. A+ science.