Radar traps. They only snap a picture if someone is going above the speed limit, in a wrong lane (e.g. bus lane) or over a red light.

Any arguments against them are usually analogous to sugar companies opposing a sugar tax because it would lead to poor grammy being unable to afford to sweeten her morning coffee anymore.

Should’ve read the article more closely I guess, it says exactly that very clearly lol

Eh, it’s probably more effective to ban payment services from performing transactions. Doesn’t stop crypto currencies but it would still be 99% effective.

If you (or anyone else) wants to check their understanding of voltage as the difference between two electric potentials, here’s a couple exercises I stole from a text book:

(Note: Electric potential is also measured in Volt.)

A battery has a constant voltage of 1.5V between its plus and its minus pole. What is the electric potential of the minus pole compared to ground potential when:

1. The battery is on an electrically isolating mat?

2. The minus pole is connected to ground?

3. The plus pole is connected to ground?

4. The plus pole is connected to a generator producing an electric potential of 10,000V compared to ground?

Genuinely think you’re arguing about semantics with the love/attraction thing. Like, you can profess your love to someone despite no romantic relationship existing yet.

It’s honestly irrelevant what term OP uses to describe their feelings.

Though I do agree with the 2nd paragraph.

Gotta get down on Friday!

How so? You cannot be forced to accuse yourself. If your self-hosted data is on encrypted hard drives then they can’t do anything about it.

Except in the UK where you can be forced to provide decryption keys.

This has that weird AI thumbnail vibe I’m recently seeing everywhere.

Vinegar?

Proper pipe cleaning is done using a sodium hydroxide solution. Plus, it causes permanent blindness if it comes in contact with eyes:

Other common uses of sodium hydroxide include: […]

• as drain cleaners that convert pipe-clogging fats and grease into soap, which dissolves in water

Like other corrosive acids and alkalis, a few drops of sodium hydroxide solutions can readily decompose proteins and lipids in living tissues via amide hydrolysis and ester hydrolysis, which consequently cause chemical burns and may induce permanent blindness upon contact with eyes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_hydroxide

It’s genuinely dangerous, don’t handle this stuff if you don’t wear proper eye and skin protection.

Use decimal but with 10 different bend angles per finger.

Why would you be heating at night?

Like seriously, I don’t know anyone who doesn’t turn their heating significantly down before going to bed. You only need to heat the bedrooms which are also generally colder.

Same with air conditioning. It’s primarily needed when it’s actually hot, which - as it turns out - is when the sun is shining and energy prices are low.

Besides: It completely ignores decentralized energy storage. Households with batteries can just let them charge when energy prices are low and discharge when prices are high.

There’s a reason smart meters are starting to be mandated. People will need to adjust their habits slightly¹ but that’s just the price to pay for sustainable energy.

¹Like very slightly. As in checking the energy price forecast before doing laundry.

Edit: A couple basic introductions to the topic to read up on if you’re interested:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_meter (also read up on AMI)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_grid

Supply controlled energy grid.

Money is extremely good at influencing energy demand. If your power bill increases tenfold per kwh at night then you will do your laundry during the day when it’s cheap. It only requires smart electric meters which are starting to be the norm.

Electric cars can further function as home batteries if they support bidirectional charging.

Nice! My ratio is a little fake, like 30 TiB are from public trackers (for example, I mirrored a couple Anna’s Archive torrents for a while).

Edit: Also the “active” torrents number is misleading because a bunch of torrents are force-started.

Surely that isn’t anatomically accurate, is it?

Also, do ducks even have balls?

Eh, voting is free, library cards are not (over here).

The police don’t hunt you down unless the victim filed a criminal complaint with them first. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antragsdelikt

Except for politicians, for some reason they’re exempt though there seem to be plans to change this because it’s incredibly unpopular.

it’s a civil violation

Over here it’s very much a criminal offense, so this only applies to some countries.

Look at the size of that needle and you’ll understand.

Sadly that’s not it, I was using offline maps.

I’m not entirely sure what’s the exact issue, but it only really occurs when trying to change LoD quickly. E.g. clicking on an inter-city bus route and zooming out to see it in its entirety or zooming back in. From 10 km to 500 m can take 3-4 seconds which is enough to feel sluggish if you’re doing it often.

Probably not the most popular use case but it can get frustrating after a while nonetheless

My problem with OsmAnd is that it’s so very slow. Like, you zoom in and it takes seconds to display the map.