WagnasT @ WagnasT @iusearchlinux.fyi

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Yep, I think you can donate plasma more often as well. Oneblood will give you giftcards and swag for whole blood, not nearly as good a payout as plasma but it's also like 15 minutes where my experience with plasma was a couple hours, they did set me up with netflix during the process so I think it's worth the extra bit of time.

PFAS is everywhere at this point. Unfortunately they're reeeeeally good at what they're designed for and they're cheap. We'll need viable alternatives so they can be phased out. I think they should be banned from products that don't really need them like dental floss and hopefully we come up with an enzyme or something that can cheaply break it down in the environment.

Side note, there has been at least one study that shows that donating blood regularly can reduce the amount of PFAS in your blood. This doesn't solve the problem of the stuff being everywhere but it's good to know you can remove it from your body over time.

In my head I thought of it like a psuedo su and thought sudo was clever, then learning it is like soodoo and I'm highly disappointed. I still say it like psuedo in my head. I use arch btw.

You can get paid way more for plasma, the places where I live take hours though so it may not be worth it. I just donate whole blood and Oneblood gives me gift cards and swag, the double walled water bottles last time were surprisingly good quality, and probably lined with pfas.

Many places will give you gift cards, donating plasma also has the effect of reducing pfas in your blood (allegedly) and you get real money.

Not to downplay that this is terrible but you should know there have been studdies that show you can reduce the amount of forever chemicals in your blood by donating blood regularly, among other health benefits like getting paid for it.

yes, i think they're working on support for custom games though

Yeah, i remember it being pretty bad and fighting with my boss at the time because they were all in with lenovo. Even after I showed them the articles about the malware they wanted us to push out lenovo's bloat on all machines (like the stupid battery monitor) because they liked how it looked better. I got a new job shortly after.

This is not how I pictured the verification can...

I sure want them to try though, fight for my money!

Back in 2015 or so Lenovo was pre-installing superfish spyware on some systems. Whether this was an accident or intentional is up for interpretation. Whether 8 years is enough to earn back trust is up to you. Personally I re-image anything that's mine because I don't need the vendor's bloat that just does the same things windows already does. I don't really use windows much anyway these days for my personal machines but I'm probably not going to buy anything from Lenovo any time soon.

That's not how the verification can works, you have to dance for it.

Florida Dept of Education: Write that down!

can you launch it from the command line and see if it spits out any useful info before the crash?

Job hopping again for this reason. Really wish employers would pay people to stay, unfortunately employer loyalty is non existant.

is it all GoG games or just this game? afaik each game script can be different.

l'm plenty open to evidence, it's just every time I look at some it shows a new lie that nukebros tell.

That's not very open minded. I'm all for vetting your sources and skepticism, but going in with your mind made up is close minded.

it requires holding more than one thought in your head at a time

Look my dude, you're clearly here to fight not discuss, and that's fine we absolutely need to fight against the establishment, activisim is important. Fighting against your allies is a pro gamer move though.

Even if you are too allergic to nuance to understand the real solution

And thus you have shown that your mind is made up and no amount of evidence will sway your decisions. Good day.

I mostly agree except transmission is not cheap, and further I'm not convinced transmission across a continent is even possible even with crazy high voltage DC lines which currently don't exist. The current massive projects are going to take several years for just a few lines, it would take an insane ramp up in production to do the entire continent. While we're working on that nuclear can be built reasonably fast without political hurdles blocking every step of the way. That's not to downplay the need for recycling the waste which will need to be invented regardless because the waste already exists. I'm also not convinced renewables can ramp up production on a scale that would be able to replace in excess of 100% of the demand within a few years, but I guess I'll have to look that up. Your concerns about nuclear are valid, but rebewables won't magically solve all the problems of reliability and scale, we're going to need a baseload and nuclear has proven for decades that it can do the job.

I guess we can talk about transmission then, yes if you can get enough renewable energy across a continent then in theory you can transmit it to where it is needed, however you would need a LOT of transmission capability that is not currently available. The current interconnects can handle an impressive amount of load but you're not going to transmit enough power for all of sweeden from spain. There are some massive transmission projects underway that should help address this but they're still not going to be enough to cover a 100% outage for most places. So a cost analysis would have to be done to determine if massive transmission projects are better than building nuclear plants. Keep in mind, these same transmission lines can transmit nuclear power as well so they should be built regardless of what energy source you use.