evasive_chimpanzee @ evasive_chimpanzee @lemmy.world

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Ah, that makes sense. It's like when the car dealer shows you the version of the car you want with slightly different features since the one you want isn't on the lot yet.

That's an attack sub (for attacking ships/other boats), not a boomer (which have nukes).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_syncretism

Basically, people combine religions way more than they pretend to. Think about a holiday like Christmas/Yule. It's allegedly a Christian holiday, but somehow there are elves, reindeer, evergreen trees, and gift giving involved.

Throughout history, religious conversion wasn't really about personal belief. There have been political conversions where a leader has "converted" for an alliance or marriage, and therefore a whole kingdom is allegedly a new religion, even though the people are still doing what they always have.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianization_of_Kievan_Rus'

There have been crusades, Muslim conquests, and colonization forcing conversion at the end of a sword. People kept practicing their existing religions during all of these.

Eventually, public and private religions, religions of neighboring people, etc. blur together.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folk_Catholicism

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messianic_Judaism

Weird that they specify "conventionally powered" in the Canadian article since this is a nuclear powered sub.

The way people should think about it is not whether or not they break even compared to having not purchased the house. The real comparison is if they end up better off than if they paid rent that whole time instead.

If you bought a house for $300k, paid $420k for it over 30 years, and sold for $320k, you could think of it as a $100k loss, but you'd still end up $420k ahead of someone who had the same monthly payment going to a landlord.

I can't think of a time I've ever had a landlord fix a problem. I wish I lived somewhere that you could just deduct repair costs from the rent, or otherwise withhold rent.

If the hose-to-drain route isn't feasible, many dehumidifiers come with a built in pump, so it will pump water out when the tank is full. These can go against a hydraulic head, so you could even put one in a basement with no plumbing, and run the drain line upstairs to a drain.

Also, you probably know this, but for anyone else, don't bother with any dehumidifiers that run on a Peltier element instead of a compressor. They will be slightly cheaper, but they'll use the same amount of energy for like 1/20th of the capability. They advertise them as "quiet" or "compressor free", but just don't do it.

I'm generally not a fan of IoT devices, but I know some people with a water metering device that will detect any leaks, and can be configured to easily shut water off in the event of detected high flows indicating a burst pipe. You can also shut water off when you go on vacation so you don't have to worry about it.

Homeownership is man's continuous battle against water.

Yeah, a heck of a lot of household troubles can be put on the backburner, but anything involving water intrusion needs to be fixed right away.

One of my problems with phones over the last few years is touchscreens that go all the way to the edge combined with UX elements that require swiping from the very edge. It basically becomes impossible to use if you have a case.

In engineering speak, that's referred to as "percussive maintenance".

I had a situation ten or so years ago working on a machine that displayed an error code i didn't recognize. I looked in the manual, and it had descriptions for error messages like (E1, E2, etc.), but the message was a couple numbers higher than the highest error in the manual (and as a side note, it's really dumb to program a machine to give an error message without a corresponding key).

I looked through the handwritten old log book for the machine, and found someone referencing the same error code in the early 90's. The error back then occurred after the machine was moved, but it cleared up after being moved again. We guessed that the issue was a loose connection that got jostled back into place. The machine had just been moved slightly again before our issue, so we assumed it was the same.

We ended up opening the machine, and just poking around until we hit the right wire that reconnected itself and cleared the error message. We wrote that down in the log book as a "digital re-alignment" (digital as in fingers).

Looks like you are stuck with fruits, grains, herbs, and ornamentals in the front yard, then, lol.

Only congress can declare "war", but as far as I know, that hasn't happened since WW2. The president just does what they want.

If they are re-investing revenue, it's not profit. I would want them to be able to expand, pay employees better, etc. What I wouldn't want is for them to make money and just pay dividends to shareholders.

It's like these people forget they have to breath the same air as us.

It's quasi-public, which is weird. It is subsidized, but just barely (they have like 95% farebox recovery), so i don't think it's even responsible to call it subsidized like road and air travel.

I bet if there was enforcement of train priority laws, they could even be a revenue generator. Philosophically, I dont think they should be, though.

I haven't read the exact statutes, so take what I say with a grain of salt.

Some compounds, like phosphates and nitrates, are well studied, and so experts can put limits in place that they know will result in good outcomes. Unfortunately, there are an infinite number of potential contaminates someone could dump into a body of water, so for anything less well studied, it's really hard to make limits. The EPA apparently just set a backstop that said something along the lines of "whatever you put in the water has to still result in good water quality".

Now that the Supreme Court has shut that down, a polluter can put anything in the water that isn't specifically disallowed. For a (fake) example, maybe Forever Chemical x2357-A is shown to hurt wildlife at concentrations over 2 parts per billion (after lots of expensive, taxpayer funded research), so the EPA rules that they have to keep it below 2 ppb. The company could adjust their process so their waste is Forever Chemical x2357-B instead, and they can release as much as they want.

The EPA basically just gets forced to play whack-a-mole spending lots of money to come up with specific rules to the point that they can't actually do their jobs.

My manual says:

DO NOT USE IN CARAVANS, TENTS, MARINE CRAFT, CARS, MOBILE HOMES OR SIMILAR LOCATIONS

So i guess you can use it indoors, but I definitely don't.

Yeah, I want one of those, too. I think it fits different needs, though. Stove vs grill.