I absolutely believe this

God the more and more I hear about China the more based it is.

President Xi Jinping save us all

authoritarian— but I know you’re apathetic towards authoritarianism

All governments/states are authoritarian. That is their nature. No government is excluded from this.

The difference with some governments over others is who wields that authority: the majority of working class people, or the minority of capitalist class people.

I’d prefer to live in a state that advocates for my best interests as a working class individual rather than submit to capitalists that want to extract everything that I’m worth for themselves and hoard for no good reason.

Many areas are more open and progressive.

See Chengdu for instance.

Source: https://skepticalscience.com/print.php?r=505

Mandating solar PV in all building codes nationwide, and incentivizing onshoring of all of the processes that go into manufacturing solar PV panels (including using trade protectionism practices such as tariffs AFTER WE ALREADY HAVE PROCESSING AND MANUFACTURING CAPABILITIES IN THE USA) will do wonders for helping average people transition away from fossil fuel Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) cars to EVs.

Many people who cry foul about EVs and renewables adding too much load to a grid that is too old and just can’t handle it forget the main counter to disarm their arguments: colocating generation with utilization.

Having solar PV (and other renewable) generation closest to where that power wants to be used is the best for the grid infrastructure (maybe not the grid investors) because it reduces residential/commercial load while maintaining the needs of the original giga users of the grid: Industry.

There are solutions to SO many of today’s problems. We just have politicians that are bought and sold by billionaires and their corporations who won’t do the public’s bidding. Voting progressive politicians in, and preferably ones who vocally claim they’re Democratic Socialist or similar, is the strongest way we push back against Big Oil, Big Coal, Big Tech, and all the other mega industries.

Coyotes are also present in many places in the US, and birds of prey can harm pets too.

No excuse for eliminating a healthy and necessary species from the ecology. Human ego trumps all

Ban lead bullets then. Allows people to keep hunting while preventing more pollution in the wild.

Plenty of time after that to ban other things.

ecologically necessary

Not if wolves were reintroduced to native levels.

As soon as you convert from an .XLS file to a .CSV file, the data and sig figs used to display that data are saved while the math formulas used to calculate that data are erased.

This means that when you try to go from .CSV to .XLS, Excel doesn’t know the original formula that created the data to then be able to display more decimal points. The formula is absolutely necessary to change sig figs of displayed data.

The only other way I can think of that would allow one to change sig figs in .CSV data is if the .XLS file was converted with like the maximum number of sig figs displayed, or let’s say 10-20. Then in a .CSV, you can modify the sig figs to something less, like 0-20.

But I want to say that if you save that .CSV file after the sig fig change, where you original converted it with 10-20 sig figs but then changed them to 0-20, the .CSV overwrites the data and you lose the sig figs that you concatenated.

Result: adding decimal points in a .CSV isn’t possible.

Same bro!!

The use of the word “explode” is misleading. It’s definitely misinformation.

Here’s an arborist talking about it, but basically:

Trees move sap and other liquids up and down their trunk from the soil underneath regularly. For trees like maples, this is where maple syrup comes from, except you have to collect a lot of sap and reduce it down to syrup.

The arborist claims that these liquids present in the tree when the temperature swings faster than the tree can respond expand due to freezing, which buckles tree trunks causing the outer bark to crack open and separate. The cracks can be from the ground up, or they can look like gashes in the side of the tree. There’s moisture in the soil too, which can shift tree roots and cause similar cracking.

People say “explode” because there’s usually a popping sound when this happens.

In other contexts, people call this frost upheave. Engineers know about this phenomenon, and try to bury equipment like pipes and cable and conduit below the frost line so frost upheave doesn’t crack and break that stuff. With trees, this frost upheave just takes place inside the trees themselves.

The trees don’t actually explode. They crack open.

Words are meaningful

Since 1789

USB is a smart way to go!

Do you have a Nvidia GPU btw?

Linux has two major offerings for display servers: X11 and Wayland.

X11 is old asf and uses TCP/IP to send your data from the GPU/CPU to the monitor.

Wayland doesn’t do this I don’t think… But I believe it’s been known to have issues with Nvidia graphics cards.

Hope Wayland development picks up because last time I checked it still has a lot of bugs that X11 just doesn’t.

That’s a good angle. Lots of my family members have their old laptops and desktops.

If I can boot a fresh install of Linux Mint on each other those, then they’ll likewise have the option to try it out if Windows fails that (which imo is inevitable).

The added performance will be a plus

Normies hate choice.

Normies hate choice until they’re forced into it. Windows is doing that to more and more people every single day.

Don’t see the harm to having the fall back ready.

But you’re right about W10 IoT LTSC. I’ll keep that in mind as an alternative

Honestly based!!!

I’ll have to try this out on my Steam Deck first to get the gist.

Thanks!

Bro that’s fire, will definitely consider!