Out of curiosity, what source do you use for gun violence data? The Gun Violence Archive puts the number of non-suicide gun deaths at almost 19,000 in 2023. I'm sure there are other groups running their own estimates though, and I'm curious how the methodology and results differ.
Does your client allow sorting by controversial/score/down votes? I haven't seen that option, which on one hand I'm happy for (one of my self-destructive reddit habits) but is also sometimes is so satisfying.
If you're measuring the temperature in the room currently, you could try trending it yourself. Start the heater, and see how quickly the temperature rises (e.g., degrees per hour). Call this Rate 1.
Then turn off the heat and see how quickly the temperature drops. Call this Rate 2. For the formula below, make it a positive number.
Assuming the weather conditions are similar and the room temperature doesn't change too much during data collection:
Rate of heat loss = Heater power * Rate 2 / (Rate 1 + Rate 2)
This number could be impacted by the weather: temperature, wind and insolation (affected by time of day, time of year, latitude, and cloud cover). It's also impacted by room conditions (temperature, slade position, how many times the door is opened), so you'd need to do a few trials to get a sense for thr impact of different variables.
You've probably already thought of this, but your strategy is going to result in noticeable swings in temperature in the room, because ypure going to do a lot of heating at once when prices are cheap, then turn off the heating and let the room cool. Compare that to a thermostat that tries to maintain a constant temperature.
Sounds like a fun project - good luck! I'd love to hear updates here as you go.
It's not even close. Passenger cars crash so much more frequently than planes (and other forms of transportation) that the rates of death are much higher.
Maybe they're saying that using the second meaning in the original phase ("How do nonbinary people hurt each other? They/them") doesn't stand on its own as a coherent thought. As you pointed out, it's a pun, but the pair of sentences only makes sense using the first meaning.
Compare that to the watch example: plugging in either meaning of "time" makes the sentence meaningful.
Perhaps serious joke researchers should distinguish between weak puns, the "they/them" example, and strong puns, the "time" example. Weak/strong here are used in the mathematic/scientific/philosophic sense, not passing judgement on aesthetic quality.
I'm not sure how much it matters to anyone else - might just be something that I do. I'd be interested to hear if anyone else adjusts grind based on weight of beans, though. Or maybe it's more common just to always brew the same amount with a particular method?
Thanks for starting this. I almost exclusively brew light roasts via Chemex. I'll vary my grind slightly depending on how many cups I'm making, but for my standard two cup (32g of beans) recipe: 20 on Encore for Chemex.
When making one cup I'll use ~18, and for three cups I'll use ~22.
Something you may find is that your coffee will lose flavor over time - for example, we get 2lb/month from a local roaster (usually ~2 days off roast) and there is a noticeable (to me) decrease in flavor by the end of the month.
If that's your experience as well, you can try buying smaller quantities, using a vacuum jar to store coffee, or freezing the bulk of the coffee and only taking out what you need for a shorter period (read up on best ways to freeze coffee first).
I'm not judging you, but to offer another perspective to anyone reading this thread: I am a parent of two young children, and have never not returned a shopping cart. I take the kids with me when I return it.
As a parent, I realizes that it's harder to do things with kids than without, but I go out of my way to not pass that burden onto others.
There are many ways our situations could be different that would make it harder for you to do this than me - your reasons are completely your business.
The most intuitive analogy to federation to me is email. You may have an account with one provider (gmail.com in the example of email, or lemmy.world in the example of Lemmy) but you can send emails to other providers (email example) or post messages to other instances (Lemmy).
Just like with email providers, a Lemmy instance may decide not to allow communication with another instance - this is "defederation." Instances that allow communication are "federated."
Just like email, you don't normally need to worry much about whether you are on the same instance as a particular community or user - it just works.
This is a simplification, but for me is a good working model.
Fair enough - thanks