[-] Smoke@beehaw.org 11 points 6 months ago

The author is the host of Behind the Bastards, and produced a pair of episodes to accompany the article on the same subject: https://pca.st/episode/96a1d3d1-7966-412b-bc8b-492c817b9f93

[-] Smoke@beehaw.org 8 points 6 months ago

Funny, I remember nitrogen gas being promoted as far more humane than lethal injection or existing gas execution. For years it was touted as the solution no one was using because of I guess sadism. Now someone is using it, and of course it's instantly denounced. You just can't win...

[-] Smoke@beehaw.org 18 points 7 months ago

And I'll throw in that no, Alex Jones didn't break Epstein either. He first mentioned him re. the Virginia Giuffre lawsuit, and subsequently claimed to have always been talking about him to make his "Globalist" narrative more credible.

[-] Smoke@beehaw.org 9 points 9 months ago

It was originally an edutainment show for history and science, and had a strict policy of no kissing, no bad language, and no bloody violence. They still keep to the last two.

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[-] Smoke@beehaw.org 12 points 9 months ago

I swear the courtroom sketch artist has a grudge, he looks downright ghoulish in the article's picture.

[-] Smoke@beehaw.org 39 points 10 months ago

This wasn't a huge surprise, punitive damages aren't dischargable through bankruptcy. It's not supposed to absolve bad actors and let them start scamming again, so if they've fucked around it's more than willing to keep letting them find out.

[-] Smoke@beehaw.org 7 points 11 months ago

'Oh I see, the driver had a shotgun so he was pulled over. Bull riding though...oh, it must mean the bull sign on the radiator' I think as I squint at the thumbnail. Opens link 'Wow okay no that title was much simpler in retrospect. Very straightforward.'

[-] Smoke@beehaw.org 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

FWIW, I used to have an ebike that went up to 70, as an adult, that I used to commute to work and do shopping. New regulations came in restricting all new ebikes to 25 km/h, and now a shopping run takes an hour one-way.

[-] Smoke@beehaw.org 8 points 11 months ago

But why a Google/FB/MS account? Why isn't an email account from an established provider enough, why centralise to three megacorps?

[-] Smoke@beehaw.org 14 points 1 year ago

In future, drop by the PC Gaming Wiki first - it's a great resource for exactly this kind of question.

Skip Larian launcher on startup

[-] Smoke@beehaw.org 42 points 1 year ago

Not just evil, it's dangerous. This is how we get prions, like the one that caused Mad Cow Disease and subsequently tainted an entire generation of British people who can't be proven not to be carriers, and forced an enormous cull of affected livestock.

[-] Smoke@beehaw.org 9 points 1 year ago

My first reaction would be that static panels aren't efficient at collecting energy relative to the space they take up, compared to one that follows the sun. From the picture you could get one panel facing south at most, one facing straight and one facing the wrong way - and that's if the canal's route allows for facing south at all. This is the same issue that killed Solar Roadways.

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