Is this all elected officials? I’m confused where these numbers are coming from.

Keep in mind that Dune 2 didn’t benefit from minivans full of kids showing up to see it.

That is Javier Bardem, but I can see the resemblance in this particular shot.

Yes, it is worth the 3 hour watch time.

I’ve been saying since EVs hit the market that I couldn’t wait for them to be cheap enough used for me to justify purchasing one. That hasn’t happened yet. Most I’ve ever spent on a car was $7k.

Weese

This isn’t my POV, this is the reality of the performance conversations I’ve been involved with.

Pick one
I upvoted your comment for being insightful, not trying to dismiss what you’re saying. I get where you’re coming from, and I agree that what you’re saying is likely true for most businesses, but there are other people who’s reality of conversations they have been involved with resulted in being fired unfairly.

I could have gone my whole life not knowing that and you just walked right in here and said it.

This reminds me of that one Jimmy Neutron episode.

I bit my nails my whole life. One day I tasted lime. I hadn’t eaten anything with lime for 3 days. I had wiped my ass maybe 10 minutes prior. That experience yucked me out of biting for good. Been over 2 years now since I’ve so much as nibbled.

If we weren’t addicted to scrolling social media and were esthetically blind, most of us wouldn’t immediately realize it if we were transported back in time.

I don’t know about that. We didn’t even have a public radio station in the US until 1920. Television didn’t come around until 1925. Frozen food in 1929.
The simple act of driving to the store to get shopping done for dinner would be quite different.

To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand cropped memes. The humour is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of memetics and linguistics most of the jokes will go over a typical reader’s head. There’s also the high contrast color pallette, which is deftly woven into the message. Lemmy users understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of these jokes, to realise that they’re not just funny- they say something deep about LIFE. As a consequence people who dislike cropped memes truly ARE idiots- of course they wouldn’t appreciate, for instance, the humour in longing for the bottom half of the text, “Join our Discord”. I’m smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as the meme’s genius wit unfolds itself on their smartphone screens. What fools…

Fine, I’ll say it. Doritos and peanut butter go well together.

The real question is whether sustainable jet fuel can melt steel beams.

Flintstone

Lots of people saying this isn’t uplifting enough. If this was my dad, I’d feel a lot more than just uplifted.

The more people who come around to reason, the more people will be exposed by proxy to a healthy perspective. This is absolutely uplifting, even if it’s tragic we are in this place to begin with.

If only there was a word that meant we used the path of least resistance.

The US used over 3.6 million gigawatts hours of energy in 2020. If you round down, and assume no increase in the last 4 years, that’s over 9800 per day. 30 is a drop in the bucket. We have combined cycle natural gas plants, along with other green options to pick up for dips in production exactly like this.

A better question is how much energy we gain from solar if losing it for a couple hours once a decade or so is such a big deal.

Was the shade in your lens at least 12 I hope?

Huh, TIL. I’ve donated at blood drives in the past and got a cookie but that was it. Must be different.