Yeah, I read them as a teen and really liked them, so read them (well, the Belgariad, at least, then kinda stalled on the next series) to my daughter more recently and didn’t find them quite as enjoyable. They were still fun but full of a bunch of questionable shit. I’d say it was very boomeresque with a lot of its humour. Also the weird recurring “oh drat, you have out-negotiated me again, Silk!”

They have developed technology that allows data centres to track people even more effectively than covid vaccines.

I have a feeling he would be very opposed to losing privacy on all of his sources of income and/or gifts.

Yes, the barbarians famous in part for their architecture.

Bigotry and tribalism are unintentionally pretty funny sometimes, or would be if they didn’t act as an excuse (in the minds of violent bigots) for violence against people that likely had nothing to do with whatever sparked the anger in the first place.

Which makes me wonder now if that is an intended layer to the joke in the comic, first layer being agreeing with the dad that the kid is useless (boomer humour vibes there), second layer is that the dad is an idiot because none of those things are relevant to each other and he’s basically just complaining that she has “bad” interests while doing poorly in a class.

Yeah, also why it isn’t hard to outdo fast food with home cooking. The sauces might not be as good (since the food industry has those down to a science) but I made homemade meatballs on a whim last night and they were somehow both kinda bland as well as way better than any chain burger and comparable to premium burgers just from the cooking quality (despite the circuit breaker going off because my air fryer and freezer cycled on at the same time and having to guess at how much time was left on the timer lol).

Though IMO McDonald’s has the lamest patties out of all the fast food places. No idea how they got and stayed so big based on them. A&W and Wendy’s have far better burger patties, though even they are still a far cry from good homemade ones cooked well (but not well done).

Consistent but low quality is so boring.

There’s peltier devices, too, which use heat traveling via different metals and maybe some sort of sorcery to generate a voltage.

Also teslacoils use a different mechanism (friction I believe), though that’s a static voltage.

In theory, you could translate a magnet through a coil instead of just rotating it to produce a current. Lol spinning a ring magnet through a rounded coil could be a different way of using spinning magnets (assuming it isn’t already done).

Makes me wish producers were in the game to sell good products rather than to sell as much as they can of anything they think will make a profit.

My guess is dark and medium roasts are more common than light roasts because it masks low quality coffee beans better.

Not sure why you got downvoted. D&D is a medieval fantasy; I’m not familiar with any campaign set in our world let alone a historically accurate version of our world. And the goth movement of today is an aesthetic that I’m not sure even has a direct link to the Goths that challenged Rome, just like someone going around destroying shit wouldn’t have a direct link to the Vandals or maybe even know that the crime is named after the people who sacked Rome.

Fair enough, I thought we were talking about the heat lol.

Thought your request to back it up was in response to the parent comment saying that condensing the water defeats the purpose rather than the first paragraph.

The laws of thermodynamics? Can’t create or destroy energy and overall entropy increases over time. A closed loop (or any cooling system) just moves heat away from the hot thing. So yes, they can be used as much as any other cooling system but it won’t stop the issue of “generating lots of heat”. That heat still needs to go somewhere. Dumping it into the atmosphere might be the best option if there’s nothing in the area that needs heat. Should probably build them next to steel plants or something like that. Then a closed loop would be better.

Someone should have stuck one of those shot pouring nozzles in there, would have been pretty funny.

Sometimes I notice my work laptop’s fan going when it is supposedly sleeping. So I’ve started unplugging its power to make it choose between keeping battery or doing whatever bullshit it is up to. Also helps with the coil whine it sometimes has from charging.

Agreed except I don’t recall a time that subway didn’t toast their sandwiches, though you had to ask specifically of you wanted the veggies toasted since they usually just did the meats and cheese.

Ah lol. What about the peel? The zest is delicious but the white part is awful. You normally gotta be careful if you’re using a shredder or microplane when zesting because if you go too deep it tastes pretty bitter. Though the texture is also not very appealing, though I do wonder how much of that is from the flavour.

One of my usuals was a prime rib with this sauce that I can’t even remember other than it was delicious. I think the other one I used to get was a phily cheesesteak, though can’t remember for sure. They were very popular around that time, I remember McDonald’s actually had the best philly cheasesteak sauce at the time from the ones I tried, but Quiznos would have had a better overall sandwich if they did do one.

Or they might see it as the infection is spreading and it might be safest to eliminate it now.

Interesting, steam charges taxes on my purchases. Though I believe it is due to Canada doing digital sales tax laws a while back.

Aren’t they the same substance used in the white part of the peel below the delicious zest? Though I might be thinking about clementines and the white stringy bits that run from top to bottom along the centre. Been a while since I had a proper orange but don’t they have even more of that white stuff?

I think the membrane that surrounds the little juice packets is also bitter, if you separate it from the good parts.