Similar to this, I expect.

Do you weigh several thousand kilograms?

Believe it or not the headline says “sunCREAMS” but I also read it as “sunscream” and thought maybe it was a knockoff Decepticon.

Hydrogen infrastructure can be built out similarly to petrol infrastructure, whereas EV infrastructure requires a robust power grid. That is, it would be easier to set up hydrogen refueling in some of the places Toyota operates than EV charging.

The good news is, Toyota isn’t doing hydrogen combustion but rather power generation. So they’re still relying on EV motors, just powered by hydrogen fuel cells rather than by batteries. In fact, they can be called FCEVs (fuel cell electric vehicles) as opposed to BEVs (battery electric vehicles).

I don’t think there’s anything wrong with multiple solutions. BEV makes far more sense for me as a consumer than a hydrogen vehicle would, but that doesn’t mean there can’t be a place for hydrogen.

The sector where I think FCEVs could be most useful (in the short term anyway) is trucking. Refueling at speeds similar to petrol or diesel, but the torque advantages of electric motors. And building out infrastructure for trucking is an easier proposition than for everyone driving a car. Refueling of long-haul trucks is done already largely separate from the average car.

What the fuck?

If I had to take a guess, it’s about perceived tone. Connotation becomes extremely important in online discourse.

Rather than “No. Here is the rest of what I have to say,” I recommend “Nah, here is the rest of what I have to say.”

It’s a lot less forceful, more conversational.

I dunno, have you tried the Reese’s collab?

Honestly? Once you acquire a taste for it, I recommend reading Discworld in publication order. You’ll catch more of the cross-references, more inside jokes, and the books consistently get better and better (until The Embuggerence, which did diminish quality a bit).

But it is quite the undertaking, and not for everyone.

She resembles the cat from Dungeon Crawler Carl, which is an audiobook you should very much listen to. (The book itself is good, but the audiobook is one of the best I’ve ever heard).

You mean Gravy Boat?

What about Princess Donut the Queen Anne Chonk?

Man, after playing with the Steam Deck I have a hard time imagining any handheld PC that doesn’t have Valve’s phenomenal trackpad. It’s the only way I want to use a mouse cursor on a handheld now. So I definitely won’t “upgrade” to the Xbox-branded thing (even if I have been an “Xbox guy” since forever).

Oof. I’m sorry, that sucks. Now that I’ve neutered the LG it’s a great TV. Just sits there doing what it’s told, turning on and off with the receiver and never changing input.

why would fan works not be under fair use as long as it’s not for profit?

That’s something that fan-fiction authors cling to, but it’s not accurate. Even if it doesn’t make money it’s still infringement. It just means there’s nothing to go after, so IP owners tend to leave them alone.

I factory reset my LG TV and refused to give it the WiFi password when they said they were going to use AI to analyze what people were watching on the TV to know best what ads to show us. Fuck that.

The TV is excellent as a dumb TV. Don’t need internet access.

Fair enough 😂

Last Christmas. Hate it so much.

Also Independence Day by Martina McBride, but my reason for hating it is silly.

Honestly the song, about a woman escaping domestic violence, is fine. But there is a line that frustrates me.

The chorus goes like this:

“Let freedom ring
Let the white doves sing
Let the whole world know that today is a day of reckoning
Let the weak be strong
Let the right be wrong
Roll the stone away, let the guilty pay,
It’s Independence Day!”

This got used by Rush Limbaugh for his awful radio show. And that penultimate line infuriates me, because it illustrates how evangelicals do not understand their own religion, which has led to them embracing vengeance, power, and fascism. (Not that the song led them to that, it’s a symptom.)

The stone rolling away, referring to Jesus’s resurrection, is very clearly described in the Bible as the sign that sins are forgiven. That’s the whole point of the religion, that everyone is a sinner and in need of a savior. The stone rolling away means the guilty don’t pay.

But evangelicals have twisted their religion so much they think the important part is about punishing those who don’t follow their rules. It’s about worshipping power. So the stone rolling away means Jesus is about to kick some guilty ass or some nonsense.

Additionally, because irony is dead, I wouldn’t be surprised at all to find domestic abusers belting that refrain at the top of their lungs, not knowing what the song is about, because of Rush fucking Limbaugh.

How can you hate Jimmy Buffett? Dude seemed like a genuinely nice guy. I can understand not liking his music, but “fuck that guy, he sucked” seems harsh for someone as chill and selfless as he was in life.

I’m not saying you’re wrong, because we all get to have opinions, but I can’t disagree with you hard enough. The “goes on forever” part is glorious jamming. I love that song.

The constant asking for it was boring, I agree.

Paracetamol was being given to humans by the end of the 1800s. Don’t spread misinformation. There are plenty of legitimate reasons this announcement is bullshit.