The caps was a problem yes. Not just littering, but also in sorting for recycling, where they’d often end up in the wrong place.

It obviously depends on where and how it’s done, but the thing I’ve heard is that due to (the lack of) weight and size the bottle caps would end up in the paper badges, which would ruin the paper from being recycled. It’s better if it follows the bottle. PET bottles (including caps) are shredded, washed and used for new bottles.

Same thing happened to the pull tabs on aluminium cans. Those used to be separate too.

I feel the same way about Charles Bukowski. I can read, understand and appreciate the books without liking the guy. He also paints himself in a negative picture, but the thoughts are still worth considering or just knowing of. Whether or not it’s intended, I think it’s okay for litterature to provoke the reader to think that the author is wrong or plain crazy, because at least it makes me think about stuff instead of just entertaining my existing views.

I did read Lila 25 yeas ago, but I hardly remember it. It’s been a long time since I last read any books at all. Perhaps I ought to give it a second chance.

It’s worth a read.

I think it’s often frowned upon for being somewhat of a naive juvenile pocket philosophical rambling, or the dairy of a madman, but I’d say that it introduces some valid points about the concept of quality that you can then think about yourself.

It’s definitely on my top 10 list of books. Not because it’s great, but because I can often relate to it in miscellaneous situations even 30 years after reading it.

Retirement age was recently raised to 70 in Denmark, but I’m honestly not even that pissed off about it, because I think it might finally be the key for people to understand and act upon something that is much more important:

Retirement is not and has never been the carrot on a stick that excuses wasting most of your life on working.

There’s no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow for those who choose to endure 50 years of wage slavery. The cake is a lie, and if you didn’t get it before, you’ll surely get it now that the promised retirement is getting pushed further and further away. Fuck retirement. You’ll likely never get to it, so you need to live now.

You need to make your life worthwhile through the entirety of it. If that life includes paid work, you need to make paid work worthwhile.

Sure, it’s a lot of work in itself to make the conditions for your paid work better, but we have to start demanding just that and it’s really easy to get started: Join a union.

The mentioned cars are somewhat outdated.

You might also want to consider newer models like Renault 5, Skoda Elroq or Hyundai Ioniq.

People do that.

https://www.instagram.com/p/ChSBFN7vK7P/

Sometimes hundreds of snapshots a second.

That’s a pretty neat FPS for a tv.

Yes patterns, but also basic physical resonance.

Sounds in harmony creates more powerful standing waves which will affect your cochlea more than noise.

Whether that is also more pleasant will depend on context, but music will definitely get your attention more easily than random sounds due to this basic physical property.

Pretty much everything in the universe are frequencies. Things that resonate are simply more powerful better than things that don’t.

McCockNugget

It would be interesting to follow them. Find out where they live or where they go in their off time. Then call the ICE on them.

If you use 3 slices of ham in a regular sandwich, you will need 9 slices to create the scaled version of the pictured sandwich.

In comparison to an ordinary sandwich.

Ordinary sandwich: 2 bread 1 ham. Pictured trianglewich : 3 bread 3 ham.

The postal service in Denmark was opened in 1624.

It was privatized in 2009. It will shut down at the end of 2025.

Probably more than that.

There’s 50% more bread, but 200% more ham.

My guess would be yes, somewhat, probably. but maybe not much. As he says in the last part of the video: If it gets hot, you have a problem.

Better ask an electrician.

The devices sold as “EV wall chargers” are not really chargers. They’re simple power suppliy units, whether or not it has bells and whistles to time the charging and what not.

The actual battery charger is in the car. It will attempt to suck as much energy from the PSU as it can and it will itself balance the load and all that. Having a separate unit also trying to regulate the load seems like something that will inevitably create more heat than necessary somewhere in that chain.

Generally speaking you do not need to protect the car from unstable supply. It will protect itself.

I will still recommend getting a proper “EV charger” to ensure that it can utilize all the phases unlike a regular garage plug. Also to ensure that it is properly grounded, which can be an issue for some cars.

At least here in Europe, where we have 3 phases. It’s much better to have all 3 phases wide open and let the car suck a little on each, instead of having it overloading a single phase through a granny plug.

I know the American 2 phase circuit is different, but I still believe it’s better not to put any more heat inducing obstructions in the chain.

It’s not fucking overkill. There’s no such thing.

I’m really disappointed with the video. That dude usually knows his shit, but he’s way off the mark here. It’s just plain wrong.

Getting a smaller charger might save a few hundred, but it will also increase your chances of burning the house down. Good fucking advise, huh.

Fuck that. You’ll always want to charge as fast as your main circuit breaker will allow.

Most modern cars have hill assist, but it might still be a help to use the handbrake when starting on a hill, or at least know how to do it.

The birds are watching you.

Try leaving bird seeds. They’ll know instantly, because they’re always watching you.

If you don’t leave bird seeds they will find your car and shit on it.

Ultima IX: Ascension (1999)

I genuinely enjoyed the game. Fans of the series claim that it destroyed the franchise. Perhaps they’re right, but the franchise was pretty fucked up to begin with.

it took an entire fucking war to end slavery in the United States.

Well… how’s that going?