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ArcaneGadget

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ArcaneGadget 136 points 2 years ago

Almost no matter how you do it, it's going to be a horrible waste of good drinking water to try to extract cooling from the temperature of the water. If you are in a dry climate, make a DIY swamp cooler. Otherwise shell out for a small AC unit.

Also; using your free lease-included water for stuff like that, is probably the quickest way to no longer have water included in your lease...

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ArcaneGadget 93 points 2 years ago

"The Ocean Cleanup" is a great effort and I support their mission wholeheartedly. BUT looking at the bigger picture; it seems completely asinine to fish garbage put of the ocean and call that the solution to pollution, instead of preventing it from getting there in the first place. This is not meant as a criticism of "The Ocean Cleanup", but of global society in general. One minute you see them removing the Pacific garbage patch and the next you see whole rivers covered in plastic waste flowing out into the ocean from certain countries.

Edit: Fishing it out of the rivers before it enters the ocean is also a good effort. But it doesn't address the underlying problem any better than cleaning ot out of the ocean. Also; some people seem to think I'm bashing "The Ocean Cleanup" and similar organisations. I'm very much not. They do great, necessary work. I'm just frustrated that said work is needed, and more importantly; that it doesn't seem to be on track to stop being needed anytime in the near-ish future.

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ArcaneGadget 80 points a year ago

Welcome to the field of engineering! Your first lesson will be; "Tolerances and you"!

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ArcaneGadget 74 points 2 years ago

"Just stop being sad!"

If only it was that easy...

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ArcaneGadget 62 points 2 years ago

No fucking way. I ain't gonna' die fighting for the inflated egos, of the morons in charge of the world powers and their ass-lickers. I'd gather up my loved ones and leave in a heartbeat, if my country started forced conscription. I'm not enough of a nationalist to die "for king and fatherland", no matter how much i like this little country.

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ArcaneGadget 60 points 3 years ago

I for one would welcome our neighbours into the union!

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ArcaneGadget 57 points 2 years ago

I also identify as a 1x38B. My pronouns are Error/Failure

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ArcaneGadget 57 points 3 years ago

TIL: the Brits call the sidewalk "pavement". I thought this was completely unreasonable at first...

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ArcaneGadget 52 points 2 years ago

That's so on brand that I can't even be angry.

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ArcaneGadget 51 points 2 years ago

Because it's in England, and the XJ220 is objectively the coolest car to come out of said country.

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ArcaneGadget 50 points a year ago

To be fair; of all the large cats to try befriending, a cheetah is probably one of the least bad options. Contrary to panthers and leopards, they don't have the ambush instinct compelling them to attack you when your back is turned.

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ArcaneGadget 45 points 3 years ago

Comb the dessert!

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ArcaneGadget 42 points 2 years ago

There is some bullshit going on with the "rediscovery" -part... It's like, smack on the mountainside. You can plainly see it from the nearby town. And there are houses within a couple hundred meters of the site in the other direction...

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ArcaneGadget 39 points 3 years ago

What a retarded, fear mongering headline. Nothing even happened! A tiny amount of water has sloshed over the edge of two fuel cooling pools INSIDE the containment area. During a freaking earthquake. I'm pretty sure that is entirely expected and within operating parameters for a plant like this.

Now I'm not really a big fan of nuclear power in general, but this is dumb...

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ArcaneGadget 38 points a year ago

Russia says; they just want Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, Crimea, and a guarantee that Ukraine will never be part of NATO or the EU, then there will be lasting peace.

This article here just further confirms how much of a blatant lie that statement is. Anyone who believes, that a peace treaty granting Russia those territories is anything but a respite for Russian rearmament, needs their head checked...

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ArcaneGadget 37 points 2 years ago

They are for making "smørrebrød" in commercial kitchens. Basically nobody has these at home. We use normal hard boiled eggs, like everyone else. These exist solely to minimize waste when the "smørrebrød" needs to be "pretty", with no slices of egg without yolk. And to save labour on peeling eggs.

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ArcaneGadget 36 points 8 months ago

Yeah, that would be a Grimm fate...

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ArcaneGadget 35 points a year ago

Coconuts of course.

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ArcaneGadget 33 points 2 years ago

I don't know what the fuck they were expecting?

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ArcaneGadget 31 points 8 months ago

Marking Denmark down as "pork" is going to ignite civil war...

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