Pat @Pat@qoto.org

@2ck @namark

We can't even detect or understand the communcations of most other earthlings who are not human, let alone ETs, so it seems to me that it wouldn't be too hard to avoid detection.

Also, they probably aren't using EM radiation, but most likely something involving nonlocality so they don't have the huge delays.

Also, they may not even have hands.

@Acer

>"Should I use the word "laggy" or "lagging" to describe a virtual desktop if it is very slow?"

The virtual desktop is latency-ish.

(That's a joke, don't actually do that.)

@trinsec

>"The mere fact you know your posts have grammatical errors isn't making me jump up fast to correct you."

The errors are genuine. I usually find them after I post, or when I proof the toot before posting. Plus I'm sure there are many more that I don't catch or that involve rules that I'm completely unaware of.

@Sphinx

@Sphinx @trinsec

I did that intentionally. Many English speakers would not know either.

(I'm sure your Chinese is better than mine!)

@Sphinx @trinsec

Pedantry is baked into my personality, but I'm not an equestrian so hopefully I don't get too high.

I put a note in my profile awhile back inviting folks to correct my grammar, but so far no takers...

#germany #nordstream2 #russia #ukraine #oil #heat #water #fuel #gas #energy #science
#nato #eu #europe #driving #electric #car
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Energy saving tip number 11
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Save on hot water heating…

- Use cold water for all clothes washing. It works just as well with modern laundry detergent.
- Wash your hands using cold water and soap instead of hot water.
- Use an electric shower head. It’s much more efficient than using a central water heating system that loses heat in the pipes.
- Replace a storage tank system with an instantaneous (on-demand) water heater.
- Set the water heater to the lowest temperature that you can tolerate for your applications. If you find yourself adding cold water at the tap to get the right temperature, then it’s set too high. You can usually set the temperature lower in the warmer months.
- Insulate the hot water pipes that run from the water heater. (This is often very inexpensive and easy to do.)

If you must use a storage tank water heater:
- Cover your hot water tank with an insulating blanket and mylar over the blanket to prevent heat loss. Make sure the blankets don’t get near any heat source, though, like the burners or the exhaust flue.
- Shut off the water heater when you are not going to use hot water for more than a day. This prevents it from wasting energy as it constantly tries to heat the tank. Most systems can get the water up to temperature in about 15-30 minutes when you are ready to use hot water again. (Note: The water will stay “warm” in the tank for a few days, so if you don’t need “hot” water, you can wait and just use “warm” water until you are ready to turn it back on again.)

(Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lavage_de_mains_%C3%A0_l%27eau_au_robinet_dans_un_laboratoire_au_B%C3%A9nin.jpg, CC-BY-SA-4.0)

@trinsec @al1r4d

My comment was metaphorical and general.

To the specific issue, there are plenty of ways to design competitions to make it more fair: relay races, team sports, handicapping, sports that don't rely on strength, etc, etc...

Or activities that don't need to be competitive at all, like dance, figure skating, etc...

@lupyuen

They're pretty easy to spot, at least here on fedi.

@trinsec @al1r4d

It's not who wins or loses, it's who they let play the game.

@Acer

People who use Linux prefer nano over vim.

@Acer

Maybe Stackoverflow had a stack overflow...

@trinsec @2ck

Make sure you get the optional extended warranty.

@trinsec @al1r4d

I didn't see anything wrong with it, either. But there are a bunch of trans-phobic comments at youtube for the video.

>"Why they do this?"

To get people to unwittingly react to it, and post it all over the place, so they can sell more shoes.

@trinsec

It's kind of counterintuitive to think that a heater can cool the air, but once you understand that it's not actually heating anything (much), it's just moving the heat from one place to another.

@trinsec @Sphinx

Feel free to correct my grammar. Most of my recent posts have grammatical errors, if you need the practice.

@Sphinx @trinsec

I believe it would be grammatically correct as written, if you were responding to the question, "Is that snow outside?"

Maybe that's why the checker missed it.

#germany #nordstream2 #russia #ukraine #oil #heat #pump #fuel #gas #energy #science
#nato #eu #europe #driving #electric #car

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Energy saving tip number 2
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Replace your oil or gas-powered furnace with a heat pump…

A heat pump runs on electricity and works like an air-conditioner, but in reverse. An air-conditioner takes heat from inside and moves it outside so that it is cooler inside. A heat pump does the reverse, it takes heat from outside and moves it inside to make it warmer inside.

Even if it is below freezing outside, a heat pump can take energy from the outside air and move it inside to make it warmer. This is much more efficient than burning fuel to make heat and it doesn’t burn any oil or gas. It only uses electricity, which can be generated from just about any source.

A heat pump is relatively inexpensive, easy to install and usually pays for itself in about a year or two.

(image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mitsubishi_Heat_Pump_interior_air_handler.agr.jpg, CC-BY-SA-4.0)

The word "Youtube" is in quotes, which means it's referring to the word "Youtube" and not the brand or the service itself.

CRT can mean "Critical RaceTheory" or it can mean "Cathode Ray Tube". In this case it means the latter, even though there is a pic of some Critical Race Theory stuff in the toot.

The word "tube" was slang for an old-style television, because TVs worked by using a cathode ray tube, which was a special type of vacuum tube. (The word "tube" was used for vacuum tubes because of their usual shape -- a glass tube, even though a cathode ray tube is not shaped like that.)

When Youtube was started, it used the slang word for a TV, "tube". So the brand name "Youtube" is derived from "cathode ray tube", which is abbreviated as CRT.

#TruthBeTold
#critical #race #theory #CRT #school #science #protest #antitest #vacuum #video #phosphor
#DontReadWatchTheTube #burnbooks #flyback #transformer

The truth is...

"Youtube" is derived from CRT.

#TruthBeTold = A statement that is logically or literally true (or partly true), but seems to imply something that isn’t true or is just plain weird. (for rhetoric, logic or propaganda studies… or just for fun)

(image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Critical_race_theory_book_display.jpg, CC-BY-2.0)

@icedquinn

>"people dont usually get along with transhumanism"

Transcendence was a box office flop for that reason, I think. It was one of the better films of this century, but people didn't understand that he was moving to the next step. Movie critiques were complaining that what was going on was beyond the laws of physics, without understanding more advanced tech will use quantum to, e.g., implement programmable matter.

(sorry, spell-check is on on fritz, you'll have to live with my dyslexia for now)