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Captain Aggravated @sh.itjust.works 4d ago

That's something I've noticed in the US as well; gas stations are all over creation, easily visible, they have giant signs along interstates. I'm familiar with several long stretches of major highways and interstates, I could not take you to a charging station off the top of my head, nor do I think I could find one by highway signage like I can a gas station. I'm sure they exist but they haven't called my attention to themselves.

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Captain Aggravated @sh.itjust.works 4d ago

Or because he's a cat that is near lemons. Citrus is very bad for cats and they HATE the smell.

Captain Aggravated @sh.itjust.works 4d ago

Oh man, reminds me of kissthisguy.com. Back when the internet was still run by humans.

Tell you one I recently realized: Chattanooga Choo Choo. I don't know who the "original" artist of that one was, it's been a country-western staple for awhile. Came back into my attention recently because I was rewatching Hyce & KaN's Let's Podcast of Railroads Online, and one of several backing tracks is an instrumental version, so the song got stuck in my head. Singing it while doing dishes, I got to a lyric I never understood, and looked it up.

The lyric I heard:

There's gonna be a certain party at the station
Satin and lace, a hustacauphanie face

I...didn't know what "hustacauphanie" meant. My brain did that thing where I assume a word exists I'm not familiar with. Like, you know how sometimes women's skin is compared to alabaster? Hustacauphanie might have been dead people talk for some luxurious or exotic material or...something. So I looked it up. The actual lyric is:

There's gonna be a certain party at the station,
Satin and lace, I used to call 'funny face'

The songwriter managed to pack the entire second act of It's A Wonderful Life into half a lyric. We don't have compression algorithms that good anymore.

Captain Aggravated @sh.itjust.works 4d ago

I was actually aiming for "auk" but it was late and my linux brain took over.

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Captain Aggravated @sh.itjust.works 5d ago

awk

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Captain Aggravated @sh.itjust.works 5d ago

Point of order: That was Microsoft rather than Google.

Captain Aggravated @sh.itjust.works 5d ago

must be chewsday, eh bruv?

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Captain Aggravated @sh.itjust.works 5d ago

GPS itself is a one-way technology. On a basic level, the GPS satellites broadcast their precise location in space, and a very accurate timestamp from an onboard atomic clock. By comparing the difference in timestamps from a few satellites, you can determine how far away you are from each, thus deducing your own position. User devices only receive broadcasts from the GPS constellation; they don't transmit. This is by design; GPS originated with the US military who wanted a navigation system usable anywhere in the world passively. You can use GPS without giving away your position by transmitting radio waves.

The privacy nightmare is when you mix a GPS receiver in with all the other sensors, storage and radios found in a smart phone. How many apps on your phone have GPS privileges? Why does it want that?

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Captain Aggravated @sh.itjust.works 5d ago

If we're doing 2000s nostalgia, I guess hip hugger bell bottoms and translucent plastic is gonna be trendy?

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Captain Aggravated @sh.itjust.works 5d ago

Are Metallica gonna release a godawful album with shit production quality?

Captain Aggravated @sh.itjust.works 5d ago

I was promoted from Commander Aggravated.

Captain Aggravated @sh.itjust.works 5d ago

Then we tried to buy California from Mexico. Which didn't go as smoothly, but the sale occurred.

Captain Aggravated @sh.itjust.works 6d ago

Are you replying to me?

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Captain Aggravated @sh.itjust.works 6d ago

There are entire youtube channels about unclogging culverts and storm drains. It's genuinely a thing someone would just do, because people just do it.

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Captain Aggravated @sh.itjust.works 6d ago

Are they shipping Graphene for the 10 now?

Captain Aggravated @sh.itjust.works 1w ago

Printables added incentives. They've gamified it, there's badges and ranks and you can earn Prusa Points to redeem for filament or, if you collect enough, 3D printers! They have a marketplace where you can sell your STLs for actual money.

It's also full of slop. They ran a "Valentine's Day" contest, so it became impossible to browse through pages and pages of red benchies with hearts added or flexi dragons with hearts added or any other stereotypical 3D printer shit printed in red with hearts added. Scroll past that, through the 67 memes and anime titties and you hit the thick layer of random geometric shapes.