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T-Sidious Rex!

Well, once you ionize it air is a great conductor ;)

Or a new kind of Physics.

Uuh, nice - that sounds like it would work.

Well, it's not actually a "biological" mechanism, though by some definitions of the word one might call it a "natural" mechanism ;)

Pure water is a terrible conductor, but water with dissolved ions is a pretty good conductor, and that's mostly (maybe always, since things like Sodium an Potassium ions tend to be pretty important in various processes, though IANAB so maybe there are exceptions) the water inside living beings.

Mint?

Maybe Arch or even Ubuntu?

Is there actually any biologic mechanism to generat and conduct electricity at a high enough voltage and current that it can ionize air over a distance as large as that (looks like at least 1/2m) without damaging the actual animal doing it?

Looking around, electric eels can do 860V, which is well short from the 15kV needed to gap 0.5m of air at sea level, plus that animal's skin would need to be crazy insulating for all that power to not just go down the most highly conductive way possible (all the nice conductive water all the way down to the ground contained in the animal itself) instead of having to ionize 0.5m or air.

I mean, we can always claim it was possible but lost, but then again we can also claim that for magic or animal teleportation.

It’s not the official language though so all documents and legal stuff would be in Dutch.

Well, sorta.

If you're an immigrant there, the Vreemdelingen Politie and other authorities specifically dealing with immigrants will send you the documention in English if you prefer.

Also banks will communicate with you in English if you want.

However, you can forget all about getting anything in English from, for example, the local authorities.

Mind you, it's actually fun to learn Dutch IMHO, though I wouldn't recommend reading official documentation as the best way to do it ...

Things like simple microcontrollers with only USB 2.0 support are still the cheapest around plus they have other upsides over the stuff supporting USB 3.0 - namelly being simpler, less powerful and hence consuming less power, so for some things they're the best option because you don't really need the processing power of an ARM core - and then there are all sorts of hardware single purpose integrated USB 2.0 and even USB 1.0 microchips (which implement a single, hardcoded, part of the USB protocol), so it makes some sense for the cheapest devices to not have support for USB PD charging or other USB 3.0 functionality.

From my experience with Chinese suppliers (ages ago) it's almost the opposite of what you say: the competition over there is crazy and almost always price based, so they'll do crazy shit to shave some cents off the price of their hardware, hence all sorts of cheap hardware from China which comes with a USB-C connector but really only supports USB 2.0 or earlier charging, hence USB-C is realy doing stuff the same way as in the USB-A times.

Also a lot of small Chinese electronics manufacturers aren't exactly sophisticated in their in-house design capabilities, IMHO: there are a lot of cottage factories over there doing simple electronics like keyboards or mice (or even simpler) were most of the complexity is in some easy to use integrated circuits that somebody else designed (and then right next to those guys there are others designing their own Single Board Computers or Smarthphones)

Have you tried another USB-A to USB-C cable?

Those cables are cheap that it's maybe worth a try, IMHO.

If I remember it correctly the only thing any USB-A to USB-C adaptor has to have to properly allow backwards compatibility is 2 resistors, which are stupidly cheap components (yeah, it will never be able to support things like USB PD charging - which can do all the way up to 100W - but it should still handle about 4.5W from a USB Host device and up to 15W from a dumb charger, which should be more than enough for a wireless keyboard).

Portuguese only has ç - same as Spanish - no č.

Agree on it being a fiction language ;)

After an update and having been a while since I played it, I was running a nice solo session of 7 Days To Die offline on my machine and get some wierd message.

Turned out the thing wasn't offline and, worse, it defaults to online public server with no password no nothing, and somebody had joined my session and blew up my base when I was away from it. They kept trying to chat to me afterwards - can only guess they wanted to gloat, and didn't see the point of enhancing their experience by giving them them that - but I just stopped the game, searched around, found that the thing had defaulted to online public and switched it off.

Handled the whole thing like as if it was some kind of random challenge the game had thrown my way so I had to rebuilt my base (one of the core game mechanics is that every 7 ways the game throws a massive monster attack at you) just in time for the next attack, which I succeeded in doing, so ultimatelly I turned that person's attempt at griefing into more fun for me, though in the few minutes in my game they destroyed hours of me building the original base.

Anyways, wtf stupid decision from the gamedevs was that to silently default a game which is just fine solo offline, to public online. Have those people never played anything online and have no concept of griefing?!

On the upside, it's like going to the circus every time when you open Lemmy and this circus doesn't have firebreathers, trapeze artists or lion tamers, it has clowns, only clowns.

The corporate greed and the terrorist being in power are also related things.

She said it has 35% cane sugar, which pretty much means 35% of hydrocarbons just from that (if the sugar is refined, down to 32% if it's totally unrefined) plus about 8% of the powered milk is also hydrocarbons, so let's say it's 40g hydrocarbons per 100g of product which is very bad for diabetics.

And this is without going into the total caloric level, which must high, not only from all that sugar but also because cocoa butter is pretty caloric.

There's 100%-cocoa chocolate (or even the 90% one) and that stuff is very sour, so totally different.

This is fine for kids, because it avoids artificial ingredients, but it's not for diabetics.

The lady doing the presentation said that it has 35% of cane sugar.

Also behind her you see "hecho con azúcar de caña" which means "made with cane sugar".

Cane sugar is generally at least a bit refined merely to purify it (so unlike High-Frutose Corn Syrup it's not made by chemically transforming something else).

That said, it's unclear if they use unrefined sugar cane, though that stuff is a complete total pita to work with hence I doubt it's not in the least bit refined.

Mind you I looked around and the info on this is all over the place: like for example saying "no added sugars" but then a bit further it turns out it has "cane sugar", which does mean that sugars were added (as the cocoa plant doesn't produce cane sugar, that would be the sugarcane plant).

Mind you, by all indications this beats almost all North American chocolates, but that hardly a tall barrier to overcome. It's pretty common to find similar stuff in European supermarkets.

I'm Portuguese.

Portugal fell so far down that in the XX Century until 1974 it was under a Fascist dictatorship and was so poor it got food help from other nations in Europe (but the dictator sure liked to celebrate the "Time of the Discoveries").

In our divergence of opinion, at least specifically when it comes to the timing of the fall of the US from its peak, time will tell.

PS: I don't think the destruction due to internal unrest is merely from economic disparities - that's just one of the symptoms. I think it's mainly social, cultural and structural factors that create downstream problems like said economic disparities and keep on doing it because the problem is structural, not merely economical, and those things sustain themselves (for example, corrupt politicians aren't going to put in place structures to fight corruption, quite the contrary). The fall is not merely from economic disparities, it's because the whole society has grown "fat and lazy" - the spirit of people and, maybe more importantly, of the power elites who control how the country operates, is that they are "winners", but all of that is anchored on the successes of their ancestors (in the US case, one example of that is American Exceptionalism), and that kind of posture doesn't self correct and the nation itself is too big and powerful for it to be corrected by external actors. The whole thing is a bigger version of the very commonly story told all over the World in various variants about how Wealth goes in cycles of 3 generations: the first builds it, the second consolidates it and the third blows it away - having been brought up in wealth the third generation doesn't have the same spirit as the people who built the wealth in the first place.

Anyways, this is just pseudo-Philosophical thinking and, as I said, time will tell.

On that last point, Rome, Greece, China, Egypt, Spain & Portugal (from the Discoveries time), several Middle Eastern nations several times (from the Babylonians to the Persians and even the Arabs - back in the 12th Century the most advanced people in the World were Arabs, then known as Moors) and so on (if I remember it correctly the Mayan civilization fell before the Spanish Conquistadores got there, which would make it yet another one that fell to internal problems rather than external factors).

It's a pretty common dynamic.

There is not a single competent politician with a history of working for the good of the many in an electable position in the US at the moment.

The closest was Sanders and you saw what the Democrat Establishment did to make sure he was stopped.

Also, I'm sorry but I was in investment banking at the time of the 2008 and after seeing how he unconditionally saved the worst abusers in that industry, I don't think Obama counts as a good guy, so Bush to Obama wasn't really a pendular move between extremes: by the time of Obama the choice for anybody other than the well-off and the rich had already been reduced to Greater Evil vs Lesser Evil. Obama was a masterful speechmaker, but when it come to actual policies he was just another neoliberal working for the 1% and once in a while making a show of throwing some crumbs to the riff-raff.

IMHO in terms of working for the many, America hasn't had anybody anywhere close to Eisenhower as President since JFK.

Expecting that there will be a white knight president elected this time around given the state of Politics in America is pure Hope with almist nothing to back it (the closest is the guy who won the Democrat Primaries for NYC Mayor, and he hasn't even been elected yet and we're talking about a major city filled the people far more educated and worldly than the average American, so it's unlikely that his likely victory will translated to anywhere else in America than maybe one or two other similar cities).

I think the problem this time around is systemic and "bipartisan" (in that both main parties stopped representing most people and just use different styles Propaganda to herd the sheep or just turn people of from voting altogether) and also linked to the natural end of the period where the US was the dominant nation (basically, in the schedule of the Rise and Fall of Empires, the US has already been long enough in the peak dominance period to have reached the Fall stage) and as I meantioned in my last post, if you look around at other nations that were once great, they tend to fall quite a lot and then stagnate for a couple of centuries before they start recovering and none ever gets back to its peak.

This isn't really an America-specific problem it's a much broader Human Societies problem, and whilst the details are different the general pattern is the same (corruption, pretty much all of the elites making money of unproductive activities and political connections, people in general having delusions of superiority that vastly exceed the actual present day achievements and so on).