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Card Catalogs were these index-cards we kept in a cabinet that helped people look for a book. And don't say "word of mouth", because card catalogs didn't help with that. Card Catalogs helped you go from "Author or Subject" to "Book", so you were literally trying to figure out a book you already "had an idea" about.

Tell me, how do you look for new books today? Do you use Amazon's search engine? Google's search engine?

Internet Directories were these lists of webpages that we used to organize. It was before webrings. The gist is that an internet directory is a list of cool websites on a certain subject, and we can keep those lists organized. Alas, no one used them after good search engines were made.

Curated TV Networks are losing out to Netflix, Youtube, and TikTok. All of which are search-engine based media consumption technologies. All hail the algorithm.

Now tell me where "search" is actually losing in our society. Maybe Google isn't as dominant as it once was, but Netflix is still a damn search bar.

Maybe TikTok is finally something different: you don't even search anymore. The algorithm assumes it knows what videos you like and shoves the next video into your face.

As someone who has grown up watching Card Catalogs lose to electronic search, Internet Directories lose to electronic search, photo albums lose to electronic search, Curated Network Televisions lose out to ellectronic search, large-scale advertising lose out to electronic search...

I don't know. But whatever it is, 20 years from now, we'd say "Why didn't you have a search engine that could do that for you?"

It means the ones on the fence can make big asks / get concessions from Mike Johnson.

I'm about 50/50 myself. Sometimes I'm in the mood for it, sometimes it feels forced and unnecessary.

And I know some friends who absolutely will stop watching something if there is even one sex joke.

So I try to collect different shows with different levels of sexual humor.

DanDaDan is really popular right now, so participating with the overall anime community with an ongoing show is a worthwhile experience. So long as you're into missing penises and Ghost curses eating alien dicks for power ya know?

I joke a bit but... Not really. Lol. There's nothing explicit in DanDaDan but the imagery and implications make it clear what they're going for. The main characters are actually really wholesome. But the horror elements definitely go places.

I 100% recommend DanDaDan btw. Probably the anime of the year, no joke. Just as long as your sexual humor tolerance is high enough to accept this stuff.

How's your sexual humor?

Konosuba and DanDaDan are sexual comedies, really good ones that likely tickle your dark / black comedy tastebuds.

Overlord starts off a bit sexual for some random reason but focuses on Dark Fantasy. It's about an Isekai where an ordinary human from Earth suddenly turns into an Elder Lich level 100 (his character he used to play in a video game).

One major leader is Albedo, a succubus (aka sex demon). So the sex jokes revolve around her or Shaltear (the vampire). Otherwise it's pretty good dark fantasy + comedy IMO.

He is kind of horrified at the transformation but the army of demons and vampires look up to him, so he's kinda... doing his best to lead them?!?!!?!!?

Certainly got black comedy here, but also dark fantasy as he commits atrocities.

Most dark fantasy anime have elements (or even huge focus) on sexual humor. That's all.

We can go to like Ranking of Kings which IMO is really solid but it's more of a melodrama + shonen. Almost no sexual humor at all, really solid.

OddTaxi is another favorite of mine, a Noir-like murder mystery except the main character is a Taxi Driver who is thrust to the center of the mystery. He has a perfect memory however so all of his customers, when taken together, basically allows the Taxi Driver to solve the mystery.

I mean, supervillains often turn into anti-heroes. Even Lex Luthor has some 'good guy' arcs. Some like Dr. Doom are the mythical benevolent dictators.

Mexico is just as pissed at Guatemalan and Venezuelan migrants as the USA, is not more so.

Remember that Mexico has had such a booming economy that net-migrants are emigrating (leaving US) and returning to Mexico for ~the last decade or so.

That's what's so stupid about Trump's plan vs Biden plan. Biden was working on building Mexico's southern border to help stop migrants, helping both of our countries. Trump on the other hand is too stupid to figure out this simple solution.

Netflix has a substantial number of caching boxes owned by Netflix on the edge.

This means that a neighborhood has a cache server with 20TB of video serving everyone in the neighborhood (and maybe also the next 3 or 4 neighborhoods). So if everyone watches the same episode they only pay for one cloud download / bandwidth cost.

Netflix outsources cloud for their core infra but then runs very very heavy edges around the world. It's backwards but if you think about Netflix and the watching pattern of neighborhoods (ex: neighbor likely tells friends a new show is good, then everyone watches it) it's to the benefit of Netflix to run their infra like this.

I wouldn't be surprised if these caching servers help each other out like BitTorrent either to avoid central cloud bandwidth costs.

That's the point.

Musk already got his NASA contract money for SpaceX, Tesla and so forth. He wants to keep the money despite his rocket programs literally blowing up in everyone's faces

The easiest way to do that is to shutdown the government employees who run NASA, SEC, NHTSA and so forth.

L2 charger at work returned 3.4mi/kwhr !!!!!

L2 charging at 50F (and below) is clearly way more efficient than L1 charging.

With this, I can safely say that L1 chargers should be avoided if possible.

2.87mi/kwhr is the final number for 50F test.

That's +38% range. Or conversely, a 28% drop during freezing conditions. Or 72% efficiency near freezing compared to 50F.

Measured from Kill a Watt and therefore still a L1 charger that may have other inefficiencies.

Huge differences between 50F and 30F. Very curious indeed

I have a test reporting 53mpg. You do not.

Everything else is just a weird internet ego shitstorm. But at least my numbers are backed by reality. Yours are not.

So as I've said many posts ago, bugger off until you do tests yourself.

I have driven this car on pure gasoline.

That's the fucking joke you nit. It just doesn't match the temperature conditions so it's not apples to apples.

The 53mpg number stands unless you do your own test and report back to me. Yes it was a small test but I actually have hard and real data.

You think you can sit there on the internet and pretend to tell me how I've run my own test? How fucking arrogant are you?

Unless you have the XSE or XSE premium model and not the SE.

You don't even know what trim I have. This discussion is a waste of time.

You are reporting higher stats on the fuel and lower stats on the electric than toyota report.

Welcome to ICE cars dude.

https://pressroom.toyota.com/toyota-prius-sets-guinness-world-record-for-highest-mpg-for-a-coast-to-coast-drive/

Earlier this summer, Gerdes drove from Los Angeles City Hall all the way to New York City Hall in a Prius LE and achieved a staggering fuel economy average for the entire trip of 93.158 MPG combined. This smashed the previous record which was in the mid-70s MPG combined.

The actual 'perfect efficiency's Prius driving is 93MPG right now. Seeing 53 MPG practical is kinda normal for this car.

Now if you haven't driven this car yet, you can go bigger off. I've got initial stats suggesting 53MPG.

I’ve lost trust and faith that you and I could have a reasonable discussion.

        Look man, under no uncertain terms I’ve stated the following:

    I’ve lost trust and faith that you and I could have a reasonable discussion.
    I’m willing to insult you directly to make the point#1 crystal clear.

  

Look man, under no uncertain terms I’ve stated the following:

        I’ve lost trust and faith that you and I could have a reasonable discussion.
    I’m willing to insult you directly to make the point#1 crystal clear.

  

Holy shit. You seriously don't get it yet. Okay, lets go back to the basics then.

Fuck you. I don't trust you for this discussion.

Today was 50F (10C) and I'm estimating closer to 3mi/kw-hr.

Or in other words, warmer weather is close to +25% more range and efficiency compared to last week's cold weather test.

Note that this number is very preliminary (ie: reliant upon Toyota's battery measurements) and I'm currently recharging my car with the Kill-a-watt to verify my initial estimates. I've also got a work meeting tomorrow morning, but I'll try to write down the results of today's warmer weather test and report back to you.

Alternatively, if I forget to write down the Kill-a-watt results tomorrow morning, I'll just repeat the test again on Wednesday or something. It should be warm weather all this week.