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  • Getting a small chest freezer from a family member who just upgraded theirs. Tips on what to/how to store food?

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  • While that's what people I've seen tend to do for convenience --- using chest freezers in out of the way places because they already have a combination fridge/freezer in their kitchen, in terms of energy cost of opening the door, it's the other way around. Opening a chest freezer doesn't cause as much loss of cold air as a side-opening freezer. The heavier cold air doesn't spill out the side.

    kagis

    https://www.sustainability.ucsb.edu/blog/just-facts-labrats/chest-vs-upright-freezers-which-more-efficient-lab

    The way that these freezers open also impacts their energy usage. When the door is opened in an upright freezer, large sums of cold air are let out and heat is let in which draws more energy to re-cool the system. Whereas with a chest freezer, there is less cold air loss when the door is opened, the larger depth of the freezer also helps reduce cold air loss, resulting in less energy being needed to restabilize the cold temperature in the freezer.

    If you have room for it in a kitchen, it'd be totally reasonable to use a chest freezer for day-to-day use. I wouldn't have space for one, myself.

    EDIT: To extend the analogy, the upright freezer is more like a small internal solid state drive on a SATA bus that came in a desktop from the OEM --- you probably already have one, but it has limited capacity and there is a higher access cost --- and the chest freezer is like NVMe.

  • Disney reportedly lost 1.7 million paid subscribers in the week after suspending Kimmel

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  • If it's Linux, sounds like it should just work out of box, at least for a while longer.

    https://www.tomshardware.com/news/linux-to-support-firewire-until-2029

    Linux to Support Firewire Until 2029

    The ancient connectivity standard still has years of life ahead of it.

    Firewire is getting a new lease on life and will have extended support up to 2029 on Linux operating systems. Phoronix reports that a Linux maintainer Takashi Sakamoto has volunteered to oversee the Firewire subsystem for Linux during this time, and will work on Firewire's core functions and sound drivers for the remaining few that still use the connectivity standard.

    Further, Takashi Sakamoto says that his work will help users transition from Firewire to more modern technology standards (like perhaps USB 2.0). Apparently, Firewire still has a dedicated fanbase that is big enough to warrant six more years of support. But we suspect this will be the final stretch for Firewire support, surrounding Linux operating systems. Once 2029 comes around, there's a good chance Firewire will finally be dropped from the Linux kernel altogether.

  • Pete Hegseth tells top generals "prepare for war"

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  • Newsweek is just using a clickbait headline. Hegseth hauled in all the top brass so that he could impress everyone with the fact that he works out.

  • Pete Hegseth tells top generals "prepare for war"

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  • Hegseth told senior military leaders that he no longer wants to see “fat generals and admirals” or overweight troops in combat units.

    “It’s completely unacceptable to see fat generals and admirals in the halls of the Pentagon leading commands around the country, in the world, it’s a bad look,” Hegseth said.

    For people who are actually engaged in combat, okay, but usually generals are not going to be personally engaged in physical combat. If they are, things have probably gone rather wrong on other levels. Like, we're theoretically choosing people at that level based on ability to coordinate and plan, not to look sexy on TV.

    The Defense Secretary pointed to his own regimen as an example. “It all starts with physical fitness and appearance,” he said. “If the Secretary of War can do regular, hard PT [physical training], so can every member of our joint force.”

    Every time I think the cringe bar cannot go lower, this administration manages it.

  • South Africa's ambassador to France found dead in Paris

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  • Oh, damn. I assumed that this was another headline trying to play up a heart attack or something, but this, in fact, does not sound good:

    The Paris prosecutors' office said Mthethwa had been reported missing by his wife on Monday evening after she received a text message from him that had worried her.

    The prosecutor's office said Mthethwa booked a room on the 22nd floor of the Hyatt Regency hotel in the 17th arrondissement of Paris and that a secured window had been forced open.

  • What food do you enjoy eating but hate the smell of?

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  • wet, microwaved dogs

    Honestly, that's not helping me much as a reference point.

  • What food do you enjoy eating but hate the smell of?

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  • Could be, but I haven't tried that one myself.

  • QAnon shaman sues Trump for $40 trillion

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  • I see that someone has a bone to pick with T-Mobile.

  • QAnon shaman sues Trump for $40 trillion

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  • QAnon shaman sues Trump for $40 trillion and targets Musk, T-Mobile and Warner Bros in rambling lawsuit | The Independent

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  • He has named...the State of Israel... in court documents.

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

    The 1976 Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act generally bars suits against foreign governments, except in cases where state immunity is waived; in certain admiralty claims; or in claims involving commercial activity, a tort inside the United States involving death, personal injury, or damage to or loss of property (such as a traffic collision), or expropriation of property in violation of international law.

  • QAnon shaman sues Trump for $40 trillion

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  • one-ounce gold coin, valued at $40 trillion

    Trump was claiming that the reason that he wanted to stop minting the penny was because the metal was worth more than the value of the penny (while true, that's not where the real cost of the penny comes from; it's rather from the handling and processing costs). I assume that that was to pander to someone, so I'm wondering if maybe there's a segment of the MAGA crowd that's obsessed with the metal value versus face value of coins.

  • QAnon shaman sues Trump for $40 trillion

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  • He’s either a fucking moron or trying to drum up publicity for something.

    Not necessarily mutually-exclusive possibilities, I would note.

  • QAnon shaman sues Trump for $40 trillion and targets Musk, T-Mobile and Warner Bros in rambling lawsuit | The Independent

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  • According to the article, he did, but then Trump didn't release the Epstein files, so now he says that he doesn't like Trump.

  • QAnon shaman sues Trump for $40 trillion and targets Musk, T-Mobile and Warner Bros in rambling lawsuit | The Independent

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  • The QAnon shaman would also print a one-ounce gold coin, valued at $40 trillion, to pay off the country’s debts.

    QAnon shaman sues Trump for $40 trillion

    This is a man with a lot of enthusiasm for $40 trillion.

    In the lengthy complaint, Chansley states that he is the “true” American president and that America should only have two laws: the Bill of Rights and the original U.S. Constitution.

    In QAnon shaman dude's defense, if you figure that Trump is in the business of saying outrageous stuff as President to keep people focused on whatever he's saying rather than actual policy, this guy sounds like he might be better at it.

  • Gasoline Rationing Introduced in Russian-Occupied Crimea Following Ukrainian Strikes on Oil Infrastructure

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  • I wonder if that's because they're exporting gasoline rather than making it available there.

    kagis

    No. Apparently a few days back, the Kremlin also banned exports.

    https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/25/world/russia-export-fuel-ban-ukranian-drones-intl

    Kremlin bans fuel exports until the end of the year as Russia’s supply is disrupted by Ukrainian drones

    So I assume that they can't actually even produce enough for domestic use at this point.

    EDIT: Nah, the shortages are specific to Crimea, so it's probably a logistics breakdown there. Looking back over the article:

    As The Bell notes, Crimea is also facing additional challenges due to severe weather conditions near the Kerch Strait, further complicating supply lines and exacerbating the fuel deficit. This is the first time such restrictions have been imposed on fuel sales to private individuals in the region.

    This was from a month back, saying that at that point, they had a 20% margin and that if there was actually a domstic shortfall, then they'd expect rationing:

    https://carnegieendowment.org/russia-eurasia/politika/2025/08/russia-war-gasoline-problem?lang=en

    On top of this, annual gasoline production in Russia exceeds domestic demand by up to 20 percent...

    If the worst comes to the worst, a crisis measure would be gasoline rationing.

    You'd expect nationwide rationing rather than just rationing in Crimea in that case. Has burned through their supply for export, though, or they wouldn't have cut that off.

  • What food do you enjoy eating but hate the smell of?

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  • Yeah, came here to say this. East Asia has a whole collection of sauces based on fermented fish that taste amazing and have no offensive smell when cooked, but dear God, the smell of the stuff before it's cooked is horrifying.

    EDIT: I guess I should clarify, for anyone who hasn't had it. It's not so much that fish sauce itself tastes delicious alone, but it has a ton of umami flavor. Same sort of stuff you get from, say, powdered boletes mushrooms or MSG. It makes savory dishes just taste way better when you add it to them.

  • Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme crushes Apple M4, Intel, and AMD in new benchmarks

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  • Ah. Thanks for the context.

    Well, after they have product out, third parties will benchmark them, and we'll see how they actually stack up.

  • Britons believe the UK is seen by the rest of the world as ‘weak’ and ‘soft touch’

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  • Just 1 in 4 Brits think the UK is viewed positively on the world stage, with most wanting their country to play a large role in international affairs, exclusive poll shows

    I --- American --- view the UK positively in international affairs, but frankly, if you're comparing the UK to its recent history:

    The UK itself has grown, but a lot of international influence came from the UK being, globally, at the leading edge of the Industrial Revolution. That's a discovery-of-fire level event, a pretty rare situation in human history.

    That was a major part of the Great Divergence; the UK was highly developed, and pulled wildly more than its weight in per capita terms.

    If the bar that a Briton is setting is relative to the UK's international role over the past couple centuries, that's a high bar to set, because the UK had extraordinary influence in the world in that period. That's not because the UK's economy has become weaker, but because the world has been economically converging; less-developed countries have been catching up. I'd say that the UK definitely punches well above its weight in population terms internationally today, and is probably relatively-engaged. Could it do more? Well, I'm sure it could. But I don't really think of the UK as especially isolationist. Name another country of 70 million that independently has as large an impact internationally.

  • Embedded video in online articles is totally broken.

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  • If these news organizations cannot fix that embedded video behavior, then just download the clip, credit the poster, and cite the link at the bottom of the page. It’s public domain when it’s posted, so I don’t understand why that’s not the standard.

    Posting something does not place it in the public domain.