Victory bell is probably based off of highland pitchers (Nepenthes). Fun fact: In some parts of the world they're called "monkey cups". I don't know if the monkeys actually drink out of them or not but that's where the name came from lol.
The audio book is fantastically done and it's written well enough. Characters are fleshed out and interesting, the universe makes sense.
Again: I really enjoyed it I just don't think it really put anything new on the table.
Edit: wanted expand on both the good and bad, no spoilers.
The plot is nifty enough but you could guess it from start to finish with like 2 cues (and you get those pretty early). There's really nothing challenging there we haven't seen before.
That being it said plays out well. The "big" plot elements you'll see coming but the little things and character reactions are why I say it's well written. I may have seen this movie a bunch but I liked watching these characters do it.
I'm just going to give a quick overview of what wastewater treatment is and does.
The basic idea is that you can have something like a can of 7-up, it looks clean, but would kill a fish dead. It's got loads of dissolved sugar, and if you dumped it into a river, microbes would go nots on the sugar, sucking out all the oxygen as they grew, and causing a boatload of other problems.
But you can't filter dissolved sugar. I mean you can but it requires a highly specialized filter that would imeaditley foul is wastewater. And we're not just talking dissolved sugar, there's a whole range of everything in there.
So we do something very simple: we let the 7up grow moldy. 7 up would go through a coffee filter, but mold wouldnt. We let the mold suck up the sugar, then seperate that.
In reality it's a bit different but that's the idea. We grow a ton of microbes, let them suck everything out, then move them to another tank where they all stick together and settle to the bottom. The result is that the liquid at the top of the tank is clear, and free of anything dissolved as the bugs ate it all. (how we then get rid of all of that bug mass is whole other thing but basically we squeeze all the water out we can and it becomes dirt).
The problem with stuff like pfoas or any other micropollutant is that the bugs aren't that interested. And they're at such a low concentration it's incredibly hard to get such a small amount out of millions of gallons every day.
Wastewater treatment was meant to mimic natural ecology so that when it was discharged we didn't overwhelm the environment. If you poop in the woods, it's probably not a problem. If everyone poops in the same area of the woods... The woods are going to look different and not in a good way. We solved that problem, but not the one of what to do when the poop is "radioactive".
One last note: what I described above is secondary settling (letting the bugs settle and taking the liquid off the top). There ARE filters to seperate the bugs from the liquid, but they are no where near selective enough for specific compounds. Again, think coffee strainer.
Bare with me here because I am not an expert. I think what they're getting is the same as how gravity doesn't exist. Vsauce did a great video on that, but the general notion is that because space time is curved, objects traveling in streight lines will appear to be drawn closer to one another. "Gravity" isn't fundamental, warping spacetime is. Nothing changed but our understanding of it, which does matter for some more complicated areas.
I think this is similar. Just like gravity "doesn't exisit", it's just an emergent phenomenon: they're saying so is time. They're saying time isn't fundemental, except that it's an expected phenomenon that would arise from other factors, those factors being proposed to be some entanglement crap I have zero ability to talk about.
And I'm putting some words in their mouth with "time isn't fundemental". What they're really doing is proposing a new definition that better fits observed phenomenon/models.
And still, none of this explains why we still have daylights savings time.
Wanted to add to this: if it can't go away, it's likley you can set up quite a long repayment at 0% interest. It will still hurt but at you can spread it out
All I know is I appreciate their slow roll. Everytime they break something I replace it with the non-Google option. I've got a small nuc as my main HTPC tied into my plex. Been waiting for an excuse to swap my first Gen Google hockey Puck from like 2012 in my bedroom.
OK, I'm going to save you time because I do some controls and totally get how "easy" demand management should be given how simple most devices are.
But WHAT?! Thats all built into the grid over there??? That's AWESOME. Let me see if I have this right: there's essentially a small transient frequency modulation in the 60hz(?) in the grid that allows devices to receive a "off" signal?
I could be wrong but I'm 90% sure we've got nothing like that in the states. MAYBE there's something like that for communicating with the meter itself but certainly not past the meter.
The only crash like I said was almost certainly due to a multi-monitor display and one monitor disconnecting and reconnecting. I didn't even bother submitting a report.
And yeah there's definitely going to be a few extras. Its wild, like I never play games at launch, specifically because they always ship broken, and here this thing is with the stones to call itself early access when it's so polished narcissus would gaze at himself in if.
I hear you, but I caved lol. You will NOT be disappointed. EA is such a weird choice for this one. It's where I'd call it well past beta (a true beta, not the marketing betas that we usually see where there's no time to fix anything). Like it truly is "early access" but we're so used to that term meaning "somewhere in dev".
If they're targeting 2025 release this thing will be incredibly polished by then.
I don't know when the person above you played, but I didn't notice any of that (got it last week, binged it, 35ish hours). I didn't notice any missing graphics, and yes there are some spots where you can tell somethings coming, but it doesn't feel janky, it feels exciting. With game loop being all about upgrades, you can tell there's a few that aren't available, but there's so much meat their absence feels like part of the loop not part of the dev cycle.
The voice acting is all there, the mechanics are all there. I think I had like... One line of repeated dilouge? There's a good breadth of characters and they've got that same slow, well thought out progression they did in Hades I. With only one exception that I can't mention due to spoilers, you could tell me this a complete game with free DLC inbound.
Bug wise it's almost entirely free. I had some crashes but I think that was due to a bad HDMI cable repeatedly becoming unstable, and making the game freak out as to what screen it should be on. I haven't had an issue since I fixed the cable and it's the only bug I encountered.
Absolutely. But that also skirts the fact that the economy, globally, depends on rent in Manhattan being high. Like as shitty as the rent is, the bigger problem is how much of that "you're paying someone else mortgage" thing is true and wayyyyy over optimized.
Roll into that the fact that the whole rising/uninsurable thing in Florida is come for literally everywhere near sea level... Which is every major metro in the usa... It's a problem.
Lol, a bit late but a certain degree yes. Like as a libertarian Ill never be able to square taking money from someone's paycheck in NYC for subsidizing internet in Montana.
But... No one actually cares about that... Eve libertarians, because it's peanuts next to a shitty new f-30whatever that will ever fly.
It's by no mean perfect, and has been massively corrupted by whatever the hell we have going on right now in the US. But the principle of "if it doesn't affect anyone, stop talking to me" is a good one, and at least it's a stated one.
So yeah, I do kinda think people should have the right NOT to make cakes for gay weddings. Sure. Do I care when they're forced to? Ehhhhh. You were going to be out of business soon because you're a godamn asshole sooooo not really no I don't care lol.
So no, the gov should subsidize wifi, but they also already subsidize all sorts of shit, so youre damn right you have to service those folks. I guess that's the thing, libertarianism neccesaties egalitarianism, and nothing else does.
Look I'm happy for you, but I'm from an area where this is all very different from where I ended up.
Im sorry, but I do think thats a massive part of this conversation. There are plenty of places where housing is still affordable, but relocation is a thing, and more importantly, so is the tie to pensions funds and investment in major metros.
All of that to say, I'm glad to say it worked out for you and yours, but it's just not relevant in this conversation, at least as long as social security requires people changing tires in Atlanta Georgia.
I'm not attacking you for something that worked for you, but trying to offer perspective.
Do you know that medical debt doesn't show up on your credit score but does show up on a mortgage?
But more important: imagine you're a nurse living paycheck to paycheck in a major metro. You'll never be able to own where you live.
OK, so move to demoines, we'll, if they all do that the realestate prices collapse, and it's in such a situation that the 401ks for people in demoines nose dive... That's where we're at.
So you got a zero percent loan requiring no collateral for a piece of land? I'm happy for you, but you do realize how few people that's available to right?
Victory bell is probably based off of highland pitchers (Nepenthes). Fun fact: In some parts of the world they're called "monkey cups". I don't know if the monkeys actually drink out of them or not but that's where the name came from lol.