Iron_Lynx

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Iron_Lynx,

I hope you stub your little toe twice today.

Iron_Lynx,

My gf does not like the texture of onions.

The taste is fine with her, so I think I’m gonna have to get used to cooking for her with minced onions…

Iron_Lynx,

I like to apply some business logic to it.

  • I expect to use the product or functionality provided by x on a regular basis
  • The use of x has no added utility
  • The functionality and/or feature set (e.g. content) of x may degrade significantly without warning and/or recourse
  • Unavailability of x is likely to render it completely useless

If most of these conditions can be regularly sufficiently true, then searching an alternative that incorporates proper ownership is a good course of action.

Iron_Lynx,

Hold my shitty dishes, I’m going in!

Iron_Lynx,

skeleton crews

I’m not a manager, but if I had a business critical three person job and some busywork, I’d schedule four people minimum. Probably five if the busywork is important at the time.

Iron_Lynx, (edited )

Even better solution though: (re-) build the street at a school zone so that no driver more sane than the most insane Florida Man would not fathom driving any faster than 20 km/h, no speed cameras required.

Iron_Lynx, (edited )

It’s simple. If you design the road to be wide, straight, with wide, clearly marked lanes, clear sides and a smooth surface, people will naturally be inclined to drive faster. This is based on experiences with forgiving design. For motorways, this is fine. But for residential neighbourhoods and school zones, it’s a bloodbath waiting to happen.

So out there, you do the exact opposite. Make the street so narrow that anything bigger than an average pickup truck barely fits in a lane. Make it out of brick and don’t mark the centre of the road. Surround the street with shrubs and other obstacles, and stick it full of sharp chicanes.

This is the deliberate inverse of forgiving design, called traffic calming.

Iron_Lynx,

And maybe also, wierdly, the possibility “I need to get up and having a wank seems like a good way to get the systems starting up.”

Either way, they all fall in the category of, what I’ve come to call, the Keine Lust Fap, named so after the Rammstein song. You’re fapping, not because you’re horny, but because of other reasons.

Iron_Lynx,

They’re pretty interesting. Look one up if you have the time, like during a break at work

Iron_Lynx,

The only car I can name that is fuelled like that is the Trabant, and that thing is old and long out of production. And also crude as all hell, but that’s a story for another comment.

Anyway, the real answer is already elsewhere in the comments.

Iron_Lynx,

Y’all think your cat is a loaf? You’ve got nothing on OP! This… is a loaf.

Iron_Lynx, (edited )

Look mate, if you’re going to shove the “tHe stATeS arE ToO bIG, thus wE cANNot SOlvE The transIt ProbleM” rhetoric on us, please find another place to wallow in your lack of trains while assuming car industry rhetoric as undeniable fact.

Also, your claim has been debunked and reclarified so often that I’m not going to begin to explain just how wrong you are.

Iron_Lynx, (edited )

I’d call them less a solution, more an attempt at harm reduction.

And the only things they’ll properly resolve are tailpipe emissions and idling noise. At least one of which is of no concern when dealing with the externalities of car traffic.

If you really want to solve the environmental impact of transportation, you minimise the need for transportation. Put homes and workplaces close together, offer mass alternatives for the pairs where you really do need motorised mobility solutions, and minimise the number of situations where it’s more convenient to take a car. Ban on-street parking and heavily tax off-street parking. Need to park your car in the city? Hope you can afford to pay an arm and a leg. Oh, you can’t? Looks the Park & Ride at the train station two towns over is the nearest alternative. Don’t worry though, the trains go six times an hour and a day ticket is, like, four quid max.

Iron_Lynx,

He popped to my mind very quickly as well. Let’s go down the list:

  • Significant talent, dedication and skill

Would say, though I’d say he especially shines in composition and getting the right people to shine.

  • Write music across a bunch of different contemporary genres

Basing yourself on prog metal is kind of cheating in that respect xD

Seriously though, the genres within albums, or sometimes single songs, of his can be a bit of a rollercoaster. If another reader is still drawing a blank, The Day That The World Breaks Down

  • Draws from the work of others

Isn’t that basically the standard for most musicians? And also, in the aforementioned track’s clip, he specifically refers to a few inspirations. And moments when he let his collaborators do their thing and shine. "Hey Mike, here are your lyrics: 01110100 01110010 01110101 01110011 01110100 01010100 01001000 00110001, go nuts!"

  • Shitposting and odd outfits

Have you been at Live Beneath The Waves? His girlfriend got an applause, his brother was heckled & booed, and his keyboard guy was called a LUL by the entire audience. All at his request.

Arjen checks the boxes pretty well.

Iron_Lynx,

Thank you for making me picture the American wall outlet as a femboy, and the German Schutzkontakt outlet as a Giga Chad.

Iron_Lynx, (edited )

I heard/read a story somewhere once, where there was a statue somewhere of someone who’s better off not glorified. The statue was defaced regularly, and every time it was defaced, there’d be someone cleaning it up.

Over time the statue went on to look worse for wear until one day, the authorities decided it was better to remove and replace the statue.

It turned out the guy cleaning it up was always the same guy, who hated the subject of the statue with a passion, and alway used salt water to clean it, hoping to corrode & wear down the statue. Some people suspect he and the vandal were the same person.

Iron_Lynx,

how certain are you that this will truly block them all? Many of these things may have a “Legitimate interest” thing going on, and I do not trust those prompts to object to that by pressing “reject all”

Iron_Lynx, (edited )

Water cooling at what kind of scale? Since you can engineer a system with the final heat exchanger to the environment stuck in a river. Is that air cooling with extra steps?

If we’re talking PC’s though, yes. You’re right.

Iron_Lynx, (edited )

Lithuania is one of the Baltic States, conveniently squished between Russia & Belarus to the east and the sea to the west. Across that sea is Sweden. You’ll usually see three countries be the parts of this set. Lithuania is the southernmost of these three.

Iron_Lynx,

Oh, that’s a good one, I’m saving it for my software engineer housemate.

Iron_Lynx,

Because:

A: the system is able to elect candidates who win despite only getting a minority of the vote. This problem becomes worse the more parties participate.

B: in order to maximise the chance of an acceptable compromise taking office, very fringe groups must vote for a very mainstream party. Usually that leaves only two parties that make sense.

C: as these parties become the political space, voting for a specific interest can erode support for the nearest main party, guaranteeing a victory for the other main party.

Bonus: D: growing comfortable with their voter base, it is in parties’ interest to grow more radical.

In fact, without McCarthy and the Red Scare, I would find it strange that the American political scene has developed a nationalist “Republican” party and a moderately conservative “Democrat” party. Many more sane parliaments and governments develop their left to be a socialist or labour party.

Iron_Lynx,

Even some non-EU places are part of Schengen. Notably Norway and Switzerland.

Iron_Lynx,

And in Germany, in many places, that speed limit is not a limit. This is the sign for speed limits you see when you enter Germany. Notice that the “130” is inside a blue square, instead of a red ring. That means the 130 kph speed is only a recommendation.

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