I drove a lady home from a party in NYC at like midnight, and I said “Oh, it’s only five miles that won’t be bad”

It took an hour to get there and back. I wasn’t really mad because she was cute and maybe into me but we could have walked that distance in the same amount of time.

They’re boosting their sign up numbers by putting porn behind it. I bet it’s not even that racy, they just know that humans are motivated by something potentially titillating

Not just Little Ben, but also Medium Ben and Not-Quite-As-Big-As-Big-Ben Ben

Nobody is going to re-certify a plant built on 1960s technology

Yeah, that’s why they’re re-starting one built on 1970s technology

I wouldn’t build a new power plant, but reactivating existing ones makes sense and is cheaper per GW than solar and reactivation has insignificant emissions.

I don’t think nuclear power was killed by NIMBYs, at least not entirely. In the 1970s and 80s the financial world started taking a much more short-term view. Nuclear power plants have such a huge up-front cost that you aren’t going to see returns for decades. When the market wants numbers to go up every quarter they’re not going to finance something that won’t make a profit for 20 years.

There are a few stations near me that have E85, “88 octane” (which is just 12% ethanol), diesel, and three grades of gasoline. Since you can’t mix those other fuels with gas the pump has four hoses and you still have to select the grade of gas.

Yeah, but that’s not the decadence they’re talking about. They mean things like “feeling like yourself” and “having good sex.”

True, but my car needs 92 octane

I didn’t know this before and it adds credence to my feeling that it’s better to let my tank get below 1/4 full before filling it up, rather than continually topping it up.

Imagine thinking decadence is a bad thing

Kbin

I remember those days. Except back then you had the added challenge of finding space for it on your 1.2GB hard drive

You know what would make a twelve-hour fantasy movie even more fun? No pausing for bathroom breaks!

I can be at home, but it’s not until I’m in comfy pants, on the couch, with a drink in hand that I’m home

I’ve worked for a couple startups and you’re absolutely right. If you make a profit you pay taxes on that money, so startups like to spend most of the money they bring in. They also want to show revenue growth, since that’s what investors like to see. You grow revenue by getting more paying customers. And you do that by doing what your customers want.

When you go public, your goal is to increase shareholder value. So you do this by reducing costs and finding ways to wring customers out of revenue. You find ways to nickle and dime customers out of revenue so much you develop an entire branch of law devoted to you suing your customers

Also if I made something with “federation” I wouldn’t be surprised if a bunch of Trek nerds showed up

MFW I show up in proper obscure cosplay

The closest thing I have to a worst enemy is the mother of my children, but my kids also really love my cat so I don’t know how I’d answer.

Mattermost has voice chat now so you can ditch Skype