"Thanks in advance" has changed meaning.

It used to mean: "I appreciate your effort into this, no reply needed".

It now means :"Fuck you if you don't do this, and I expect this done without complaint."

What's the child game called where you put one hand on the table and the other person puts their hand on top and then with the other hands and then pull out the first hand again?

Despite being a shitty president and an overall fool, he actually had a way with words. Remember 2017?

>Former President George W. Bush reportedly thought President Trump’s inauguration speech “was some weird shit.”

It would be nice if it was possible to simply go to a website, check off on the stuff you want and then get a full package.

I liked the idea of AV Linux, because it comes in a bundle of stuff that I need, but it also comes with a lot stuff that I don't need, and I'm not sure the desktop is my choice. It also didn't really work at the time I tried it.(Some years ago).

So.. if I, a stupid user, could simply go to a website, check mark at the desktop, check off which office package, music apps, browser, etc.etc. and then get a download of that in one go where it's all set-up and works, it would be a lot easier than having to go through the process of installing the OS and then installing/removing apps, and then making it work..

Like, let's say I want a PC just for music creation, I should be able to download the the OS with the DAW of my choice, all the VSTis and potentially also the most common free sound banks. In one file.

If I wanted an office PC, I should be able to get the OS, the office suite of choice and all the misc. PDF tools, email client and whatnot of choice. All in one go.

Windows and macOS sort of came with everything before, but these days they're just as annoying to set up as any Linux distribution. Linux as a whole could take advantage of that situation by offering a prepackaged but custom installation.

Of course it would also help if someone made a Linux installer for windows, so users didn't have to use windows to create a bootable USB. I think this is the step that normal users hesitate on. I don't know if it's possible, but it ought to be possible from software to partion the disc and install dual boot or something.

Not OP, but I think it's a statement on all the useless "let me explain" videos on YouTube.

If you end up watching "explain" videos on celebrity gossip, you should walk away because you have reached the end of the internet.

Yo dog, I heard you like assumptions.

It's an interesting place in history, but the origin of the name is undetermined. It has nothing to do with jam or raspberry.

In Danish the Island is known as "Sild" meaning herring and in German it's known as "Sylt" which again used to be an old Danish word for low land salty marsh, which it very much is (or at least used to be). The herring is part of the coat of arms of the island, so it's likely that Sild and Sylt are the same word.

The viking invasion of England set out from this island around year 450. With the Nordic population moving to the British isles the island was left uninhabited for hundreds of years, until the Frisians moved there around year 800, naming it "Söl". Again, this is prior to written definitions, so it's likely that Söl is the same word as Sild and Sylt...

In 1362 the entire area was flooded in The Great Drowning of Men, changing the landscape to it's current island form.

Denmark lost the island to Germany in 1864 and despite the island having its own Frisian dialect it took the official German name "Sylt".

Looks like those are crisps and not chips.

Crisps could theoretically be made from fries, chips cannot.

In order to be a chip, it literally has be a "chip" of a potato.

Crisps can be made from anything.

They took a $300 000 flight to Australia. I guess that's the price when you order on the same day, but what's the hurry?

Sure, I understand the desire to get the fuck out of UK after so many years, but I suppose he'll be checking in to some hotel on arrival anyway. Asking for crowdfunding for a flight seems a little out of touch..

Early EVs and horse carriers had large wheels because the roads and paths where dirt or cobblestone.

My point is that, if they had simply said "okay, that is the condition that we need to accept, adapt to and solve" like we do today with tarmac roads taking for granted, they could have developed a vehicle to do that. It would probably have larger wheels and soft suspension, but the only reason cars are shaped as they are today is because they didn't solve it back then.

What happened instead was that low torque combustible engines were subsidized and rolled out on the condition that tarmac roads were also provided by the state. This was largely due to bitumen being a biproduct from petrol production. The oil industry pushed for both combustible engines and tarmac because they could supply both.

My previous rant is basically just entertaining the idea of what we'd do today if posed with a similar challenge. Roads are absolutely taken for granted and tmwe will never be able to undo that. It might be relevant if we ever inhabit another planet, but the last I read was that road planning had already begun on the moon..

Yeah tires is probably one of the worst inventions ever. It spreads microplastics everywhere. The main purpose is traction.

Tarmac is bad too. Roads as a whole is a pretty bad solution.

It's almost as if railways had everything right from the start.

The following is me ranting about a rather obscure theoretical idea, so please bear with me, or quit while you can.

Now, if we were to reinvent the entirety of transportation. Let's imagine we rewind time to just before cars, but keep our current knowledge, are cars really the way to solve transportation? No. Just no. Imagine landing on a pristine foreign planet and the first thing we do is to pollute everything just to pave a road for transportation that also requires more pollution to use said road. It is just not right. The idea of "road' comes from the predecessor of cars, carriages, and people sort of took that idea for granted and developed from there. I don't even blame them.

Let's go back to the imaginary planet, and rethink it without the idea of "road'". How would we solve transportation? By redesigning the wheel. In order to make a wheel that could drive over off-road, we basically need something a lot more solid and durable than rubber. And we'd need engines that could easily and swiftly apply the correct force to the drivetrain to circumvent the uneven terrain. With current technology that would be solvable.

Guess what the first cars were? Electric and with huge solid wheels. The paved road and rubber tires are the result of a push towards combustible engines made by the oil industry. The 1800s electric car manufacturers were actually on the right path, they just didn't have the technology or money to do it.

Pop() one lever from each set.

Yes, sure it can. Mashed/blended spaghetti bolognese or lasagna are available as baby food.

Baby food products are basically just ordinary food blended and packed in smaller convenient portions. Simply look at the package to see what it contains.

Cat and dog foods are completely different kinds of food, which is often made from animal biproducts and not suitable for human consumption.

Contemporary cars are mass-produced and have impractically many special and unrepairable parts. They're a real patchwork of different technologies that will become obsolete when switching to other fuel sources.

Also stamps and cash. Intricate prints meant to dissuade counterfeiting, which will be replaced by digital technology.

Getting paid for ownership.

Why then are all living things trying to work against entropy?

I am not just talking about human intelligence or behaviour, but every single living thing is trying to organise chaos into a habitable frame for themselves to survive and expand. Survival of the most symmetrical or whatever.

The point is... Why did every atom in the universe arrange to make cells to make organisms to make life to make intelligent life to counter entropy, if it was just entropy happening? Some say that life is just a temporary disease, but then why do these functions even exist, if they're not "supposed" to be used?

I don't think "the universe" has a say. Shit just happens, and it doesn't have an explicit reason to be chaos nor structured. Both are extreme cases of idealistic outcomes. If we assume that either will succeed, we have to ask what happens "after" and also "before" the universe.

I used too many double quotation marks. That's because quite frankly, I think it's a contemporary lullaby storyline. We won't ever know.

It is not though. All three words are of much older origin than English, and the connection does not exist in etymology.

To be fair, some of the institutional investors are part of the 20% who demands answers from Shell, perhaps because their own investors require them to make more environmental friendly investments.

It's a double edged sword. They need to have stocks to have a say. Arguing from outside only gets people booted off the premises.

I still have my doubts if the tactic of changing Shell and others from the inside works in any meaningful manner. My pension company say that they're using their investments to influence the companies, but it won't change anything unless they can form a majority on the boards. 20% is impressive but apparently not enough to sway the cold dinosaurs.

Personally I have chosen for my pension funds not to be invested in fossil fuels at all. It may bring a smaller return right now, but even strictly financially considered, I really don't want my money tied to fossil fuels in light of the quantity of electric cars being sold. Those customers simply aren't coming back to the gas station. Fossil fuels are no longer a safe investment long term. They'll be fighting to stay relevant for a long time, but it's only going to get more difficult for them as time goes by.

What can I say, I like it hot. Hotter than public saunas.