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Cobra1010 posted...

When Americans say Harry in Harry Potter. It just sounds like they are saying Hairy Potter to me.

"airy pot'ta" doesn't sound much better

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British people intentionally decided to mispronounce aluminum because the correct (american pronunciation) didn't sound posh enough.

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Nuclear power is the way to go. Fossil fuel and wind farms have too many downsides. Geothermal and hydroelectric are cool tho. Wish they were more widely available.

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eh, she's fucked, for the rest of her life whenever you google her name this will come up, and will do nothing but ages more poorly as time goes on.

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Bio1590 posted...

There's really no evidence this would benefit the "common man".

While the prices for the consumers would remain the same, the extra money would go right into developer pockets. Ideally this would push developers to less aggressively monetize their games. Probably wont happen, but the possibility exists.

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Choco posted...

WTF

I derive zero enjoyment from games of this style. It's just not fun for me.

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Nothing because smash is not a game I enjoy or would ever play again.

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Vicious_Dios posted...

Idk, but judging from what I've seen, he's very friendly.

https://youtu.be/a4ysejgZiuE

You really think celebrities don't act differently when they know they're being recorded vs when they're behind closed doors?

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v60 brother

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Vicious_Dios posted...

I'm quite partial to Congratulations. Dude's a chill guy, and he's from my metroplex. Nothing but support from my end.

According to a tech youtuber who did a collab with him, he's a bit of an unappreciative shithead.

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Mine is still grinding super evenly 3 years into me owning it, but when I do need to replace i'll def look into it

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https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1296134869320380419

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Giant_Aspirin posted...

big +1 to using filtered water. once i switched over to using that in my coffee i immediately noticed a difference.

i have the Virtuoso and it's real nice. i went with the Virtuoso b/c of the slightly better burrs.

recommend buying a scale to measure both beans and water

Virtuoso's are crazy good wish i could have afforded one at the time lol

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Yeah it's not the most space conscientious thing in the world, it also requires babysitting and making sure your water ratios are balanced

EDIT: I will highly recommend my grinder though, it's a Baratza Encore. No frills, but it's highly regarded due to it having a much more expensive grinding element than what you normally get at this pricepoint.
https://www.amazon.com/Baratza-Encore-Conical-Coffee-Grinder/dp/B007F183LK

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WilliamPorygon posted...

Well that's just letting the haters win

Nah, they were right. I just chose a tweet at random from the ones i was seeing.

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Also, here's my setup


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sLaCkEr408___RJ posted...

Can you say what pour over does better worse. I chose French press thinking it was the most basic starting point.

It's a great starting point, and how I began.

Pourover produces a lighter tasting cup of coffee vs a baser tasting one that you would get from french presses. If I had to describe it, it'd be like tasting the topings of a pizza vs tasting the crust.

Here's a good video to get the gist of it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcQZ7sdcTK4

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Apparently even churches are closing their doors to people looking for warming shelters.

https://twitter.com/stevanzetti/status/1361461223200555008

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Perascamin posted...

If you're a furry you should just not try to point out issues because you're a massive laughing stock

It's too expensive of a hobby tbqh.

I changed the tweet to a different one.

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Trumble posted...

Cherry-picking is a hell of a drug, but it's all people like OP have.

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miko has superchats, suisei has zero monetization right now I thought

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I'm guessing she's a classy lady.

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Who woulda thunk it
https://twitter.com/stevanzetti/status/1361432440598900738



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Congrats on graduating from using coffee makers.

Personally i'm a pourover fan because of the brighter flavor profile vs immersion brewing like french presses, but really, as long as you're not using a machine, you're already ahead of the curve

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lol i'm so clever

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Spooking posted...

That should have always been the case.

Just like how people get saddled with incredible debt by doctors who saddle them with air ambulance charges while they're incapacitated.

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Ushiromiya posted...

A lot of high school **** thats easy to avoid even if you follow a good number of smaller/indie virtuals.

I just like that twitter account since it makes identifying the ones to avoid ezpz.

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I've been following that twitter account for a few weeks now. The small indie vtuber community is batshit insane. That's why i'm happy to stick with hololive and like, a couple of the other big big vtubers, and that's it.

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The weather has been absolute shit the past few weeks in a lot of the country, so people are staying home too.

Kinda makes me wish the gov't actually had a weather control device so they could have done this all along.

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What is even going on with the indie vtuber scene? They seem to have collectively lost their minds

https://twitter.com/VTuberCringe/status/1361713411629993993

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https://twitter.com/tomsegura/status/1125460350583943169

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TheGreatEscape posted...

if it's a low density area, small busses or even minivans work just fine. and yeah your area seems to have a pretty specific set of issues, but what i've said still applies to the vast majority of suburbs and cities in north america.

1,060.6 people per square mile in my area, it's just a terrain issue and the fact most of our roadways were originally set up in the 1800's, and "modernized" for cars in the 1930's-1950's.

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Antifar posted...

Again, the natural gas has been faring worse.

All the more reason to faze them out in favor of nuclear power.

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They would have to be small busses. At least up here in the northeast, the majority of non-main roads are almost too tight for your standard school busses. At least in my area, putting sidewalks in would be a massive undertaking due to how the roads were laid down. Hundreds of miles of retaining walls and whatnot would have to be built in as our terrain is not level.

Personally I would love to see it happen, but I doubt it ever will.

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Dude is taking his shot

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pick4six posted...

still won't make a dent in your 3 year canned food ration, but cozy up by the fireplace to burn out some logs and read another nice book k

I mean, if we lose power, we have a generator, so it'd all be good. Hell, all my computers/network equipment are on UPS's so I wouldn't even notice if the power went off if it wasn't for the warning beeps when the power gets switched over lol

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It's not just cities, but the entire country has been designed in a way where public transport is not feasible for the vast majority of people. For example, the nearest bus stop in my town is a almost a 1 mile walk, and the return trip would be all uphill with no sidewalks available. You effectively need cars to get anywhere around here and no amount of city planning will fix this. Even starting fresh with a brand new town, the terrain here doesn't allow for that kind of thing in a reasonable manner.

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If it makes any of the butthurt texans ITT feel better, looks like we're gonna get almost a foot of snow (in addition to the 18 or so inches we've gotten over the past two weeks), this Thursday up in the northeast.

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TheGreatEscape posted...

the western world is lacking in good science communication. it's easy to just blame people for not understanding how modern nuclear power works, but these people live with preconceived (and sometimes justified) ideas that no one bothered to try dismantling. just dismissing these people and their fears as invalid isn't a way to convince them that nuclear power is the way to go in the relatively near future.

in any case, i firmly believe that easiest way to avoid power issues is to reduce energy consumption to begin with, but that's probably an even less popular solution somehow

With electric cars becoming mainstream on the horizon, reducing our overall energy dependence on large powerplants is not feasible at this point.

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I don't think calli knows what she's getting herself into. Guilty Gear's execution is aimed at Japanese people with crippling mental issues.

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Antifar posted...

Note: Texas' biggest problem has been the natural gas

https://twitter.com/sethriklin/status/1361538737268797444?s=19

Rational people lost faith in natural gas energy a long fucking time ago. This is why I support a massive nationwide initiative to begin the process of bringing nuclear power up replacing our current energy generation infrastructure.

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I still say CT drivers are the most aggressive, Massholes are just a tad more oblivious to what's around them.

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TheGreatEscape posted...

US nuclear power still relies on ancient technology compared to what's being done in France and some other countries. Catching up would take a ton of money, and eventually all those old and poorly maintained reactors will have to be upgraded and/or shutdown, both options being extremely costly. i'm not expecting the federal or state governments being very willing to sink money in this

As Biden said the other day, China will 'eat our lunch' on infrastructure. We need to bite the bullet and actually massively spend on our infrastructure.

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KiwiTerraRizing posted...

The only reason Texas is struggling so much is infrastructure, why would you spend millions on trucks and salt for something that almost never happens?

You can get a foot of snow in the Midwest and NE and shit is fine because they have an armada of plows and stock sand and salt all year.

I have lived in the Midwest, Houston, LA, New Jersey and Vegas and they all have advantages and draw backs. But no matter where you go we all agree people in New England are assholes.

We're also the most aggressive drivers in the country, but that's just an extension of our asshole culture.

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Jabodie posted...

Isn't there a lot of political resistance to clean energy in Texas from oil lobbies? Look at this take smh:

https://twitter.com/JohnCornyn/status/1361658427395747842?s=19

I bet he's not even getting paid that much. I saw an article a while back about how cheaply these politicans can be bought. Hell, i'd be surprised if he was even getting even close to the 6 figure mark from the oil industry.

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harley2280 posted...

Can someone explain to me why this weather would cause an issue with Wind Farms? There's plenty of wind this time of year.

They're freezing over and mechanically failing. Best case they just need to be deiced, worst case, internal components failed and need to be replaced.

Either way, they're not generating energy in a crisis situation when they're needed the most

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COVxy posted...

Not sure this is the type of thing that make anyone want to drop wind farms, unless you already were holding that opinion to begin with.

Though we should almost definitely be heavily investing in nuclear power.

I was on the fence about them previously, they do have many benefits, but the cons are numerous as well, this example of a catastrophic failure pushed me over the edge.

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BeyondWalls posted...

Is it good? No.
It it cheap? Yes.

With that logic, you would be better off just buying pizza bagel bites.

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