If the 20x is correct, you may be talking about the difference between $50/year and $1,000/year to operate it, so after five years you could buy quite a nice new fridge with the savings.

What’s the advantage? It sounds like you’d need significant air clearance all around (including in back) instead of just the back?

I can’t tell if these are meant as messages or just observations

Edit: I had not considered the third possibility: shitposts

Yeah but if the work were bad, she probably would’ve included that in the criticism, because it’s a way better criticism

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A few small commercial gyms have implemented this, as well as the gym at Brown University. Brown estimates that the power generated by its 50 machines is about comparable to what’s generated by the solar panels on the roof of the gym. So it’s not nothing, but gyms tend to be cavernous and expensive to run, so it’s a drop in the bucket, unfortunately.

More unfortunate still is that the takeaway is almost always, “ugh don’t bother, it’s basically nothing” and not, “wait, why are we burning so much fuel to power this room?”

We definitely underestimate the unseen value of real relationships with the people we work with. Of course, some employers aren’t interested in nurturing internal culture beyond mandating office time, which just amounts to a front row seat to the same old toxicity. So it can be a healthy thing…with a healthy company.

Probably the latter, because we don’t really know. It’d be a tough one to study properly. The prevailing hypothesis (which is nonetheless only a hypothesis) is that pooping stimulates a cat’s vagus nerve, causing “fecal elation,” a.k.a. poophoria.

There are still many companies in many industries that remain business formal all the way to the tippy top. I’m sure this is changing in some sectors, even highly visible ones (like tech and finance) that may lead business fashion in that direction over time. But it isn’t universal.

There’s an undeniable racial component, yeah, but there’s also the very real fact that those suffering past abuses were broadly in a different category from the majority of ordinary (white and white passing) American citizens, creating the illusion that they themselves were safe, or could choose to be safe by keeping their heads down.

As soon as the victim is in a position that you yourself could easily find yourself in (like dropping your kid off at school in a residential area), and you can imagine that you might make the same choices (like trying to leave a dangerous situation safely), your own safety is under direct threat.

A lot of people were sad, angry and outraged before, but now they’re scared.

She wrote a book a couple years back that explains where she vanished to. It’s good.

No, not morally. What? The Luddites have not always been wrong about the adoption of a particular technology ultimately being a net negative on society/individuals/humanity. Citing their “failure” as a reason to blindly champion any use of technology is kind of weird.

Luddites “fail” to hold back technology insofar as many technologies are indeed adopted, but that doesn’t mean their message of temperance has never had any effect on how technology is adopted, or that all technologies have improved life on Earth. And of course not all technology has taken off. Yes, it’s hard to stop a moving train once an idea is getting popular, but we all get to choose whether to climb aboard. I wonder why it seems to ruffle your feathers to hear from people who don’t.

Ludditism always fails

But not necessarily because they were wrong.

Why does her button look like AI tried to finesse the letters so you can’t even read IWUA anymore?

Yes. And the second best time is now.

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Still ought to be discounted since it’s eliminating jobs.

More than one thing can be bad.

And/or they will starve, even.