And then there’s fabrication. Where are you going to build your components and assemble the products?

That’s optimistic.

In reality ot would make the people who control the government VERY rich.

People online actually exist and aren’t just a simulation.

Progressive talk radio on in the background at all times?

What you’re interested in is actuarial science. It’s an interesting and complex field. Pretty much every insurance company is built on the backs of a few talented actuaries.

So… to answer the first question: as I said in a different response recently, questions are just questions. They might be asked out of ignorance, curiosity or malice, but the question itself should never be considered stupid.

As for what lemmy.world is: it’s an online service managed by a small group of people that enables users, and users of other lemmy servers that have an agreement with it, to post information in sub-forums, which can be up and downvoted by the users of the forum community; those votes and their effects can be managed based on the rules of the specific community.

[email protected] is one community; I’m part of it, even though I’m not a member of lemmy.world, but of lemmy.ca, which is federated with lemmy.world. This means that when I access/post content on lemmy.ca, that gets shared across to the other lemmy servers like yours that hosts or carries the communities I’m involved in.

So… single platform, multiple instances, which have different peering agreements with each other to federate content.

To complicate things further, Lemmy is part of the Fediverse, a larger group of online services that share the same federation structure and much of the same network code, but are designed for different purposes. Lemmy is similar to Reddit, Mastodon is similar to Twitter (ability to broadcast short messages that go into subscriber’s feeds and get aggregated), there’s one specifically for sharing video with others, etc.

This only tangentially answers your questions, but I felt like it was a good idea to get the foundation concepts out of the way first, after which others can reply to the particular bullet points.

Questions are just questions. How they’re framed can be inappropriate or unwelcome, but the question itself is just a question.

Asking a question that’s already answered isn’t asking a stupid question, just inappropriate. Same goes for asking a question where the intent appears to be to demean someone else or push an unwelcome viewpoint.

And bars/pubs used to be fine with the regulars hanging out in the corner, only buying a pitcher of beer each per night.

Likely the nozzle then.

Is it plugged into a socket rated for 120VAC/20W? Is there a ground fault on that socket (a fault, not a GFCI sensor, although that’s also a consideration)?

Is it connected to a rigid hose (not one of those collapsible ones)?

Have you tried using it with the motor turned off? Do you get a steady stream of water with no air bubbles?

I’ve been using that phrase with people I’m talking to in a different time zone for years.

Sounds good to me.

I get to keep the same salary and just use AI to make my work easier, right?

Right?

Third option: the thief wanted it for themselves and has no plan to sell.

This explains RT’s hard pivot.

I support an interim ban on global thermonuclear war, too. And on time travelling flowerpots.

When I went to university, some professors were just starting to distribute material in postscript; TeX was brand new technology. PDF had just been accepted as a standard. The world wide web was still mostly local to NCSA, and Gopher was the preferred method of distributing electronic academic material.

Today? There’s no reason not to use PDF or ePub. There’s less and less that should require a trip to the library unless you’re studying pre-turn of the century literature of some sort.

The likes of Elsevier and HarperCollins Education should not exist in 2025. But they do, and so here we are.

Yes; the bigger question is: has Friendlybirdseggs heard of capitalization or abbreviation?

Only if you have hardware that can handle it.

Don’t run Windows 11 on ARM.

But they put other people on those rockets, not themselves.

It shows how durable their product is… when stored in an enclosure designed to protect it. The SD card probably didn’t even experience an increase in air pressure.