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submitted 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) by solidgrue@lemmy.world to c/dadjokes@lemmy.world

She whispered, "they're right behind you."

[-] solidgrue@lemmy.world 94 points 1 month ago

Yes... -ish. Hurricanes are, in effect, a big heat engine that helps to distribute heat towards the poles from the equator. It is one of Nature's more efficient heat transfer mechanisms, among natural systems.

Hurricanes both draw heat from the ocean surface and the atmospheric boundary layer, and eject it into the upper air through convection and the latent heat released through condensation at the expense of warming the upper-mid layers of the atmosphere.. The surface level winds mix the sea surface waters into deeper layers, cooling the surface at the expense of warming the uppermost marine layers.

You don't, however, get anything for free. On a global scale the heat doesn't so much dissipate as it does just redistribute. The heat is all still there, it's just less concentrated in the equatorial surface-level atmospheric and marine layers by being distributed into upper atmospheric layers, deeper marine layers, and higher latitudes. The average temperature integrated across the entire volume of affected regions might be net lower, but not by enough to matter, and the system is still overall warmer than its long term average.

[-] solidgrue@lemmy.world 103 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

"Restricted" means the app has been limited by your Android on the amount of data it may transmit/receive as a background app. The app settings assume you're on a meterd or low-volume data plan, and so they don't transmit data except when they're active, or up on your screen.

Their upload/download tallies will still count in your Network accounting. Frankly, your screenshot looks like something I'd expect. Nothing untoward seems to be occurring.

Let those other restricted apps 'run in background" (an app permission) and you'll see a different picture.

[-] solidgrue@lemmy.world 104 points 1 month ago

Weak.

C'mon, CBS. The ghost of Cronkite might have to visit you.

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submitted 1 month ago by solidgrue@lemmy.world to c/world@lemmy.world

A cargo ship with links to Russia packed with explosive fertiliser is floating off the Kent coast after being denied entry at other ports over safety fears.

Ruby, a Maltese-flagged cargo ship carrying 20,000 tonnes of ammonium nitrate fertiliser from a port in Russia, was ordered out of Tromso in Norway and turned away from Danish waters.

More alleged shenanigans with this craft drifting around the North Sea, ostensibly enroute to the Canaries.

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Now that I think about it, it was probably before the pandemic. 🤔

[-] solidgrue@lemmy.world 116 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

That reminds me of an old joke.

A traitor, a rapist and a convicted felon walk into the bar, and the bartender says, "Good Evening, Mr. Trump!"

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by solidgrue@lemmy.world to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world

ethical edit: For a toss-off gag that even I thought was a bit sketch, I'm learning a lot about this situation and I appreciate it

[-] solidgrue@lemmy.world 135 points 3 months ago

DONALD TRUMP RAMBLES WHEN HE SPEAKS!

Also, he's pretty hard on the eyes. Kinda tired looking.

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[-] solidgrue@lemmy.world 105 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Vance’s Tuesday stop [in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania] is just the start of a three-day, four-state tour, Politico previously reported. Next up: visits to Detroit, Michigan, and Eau Claire, Wisconsin, on Wednesday, plus an additional stop in Raleigh, North Carolina, on Thursday. Those trips will bracket Harris and her running mate’s rallies in each of those cities.

So not just weird, but creepy-stalker-ex kinds of weird.

I see what I see.

[-] solidgrue@lemmy.world 107 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

"I don't hide from that. I was certainly skeptical of Donald Trump in 2016, but President Trump was a great president and he changed my mind. I think he changed the minds of a lot of Americans," Vance told Fox's Sean Hannity in a friendly interview

Translation: I was against him before I was for him, now that I'll be the number 2!

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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by solidgrue@lemmy.world to c/trees@lemmy.world

I have a few grinders I'd like to replace the stainless mesh between the middle and bottom chambers. Rather than try to track down the OEM info for the grinders, I figured it might be easier to source 60 micron stainless mesh stock and cut some rounds to size. I don't need much-- maybe the equivalent of a sheet or two of US Letter or A4 sized sheets or rolls.

My google-fu is failing me and my local suppliers don't seem to understand what I need.

Anyone here have a source for the screen stock?

edit: solved! Thanks @teft!!

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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by solidgrue@lemmy.world to c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world

Fartology is an up and coming science.

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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by solidgrue@lemmy.world to c/homeassistant@lemmy.world

I missed it in the release notes, but there's a breaking change in the ota component in ESPHome 2024.6.0. I figured I'd save folks some time and share the fix here.

If your OTA config looks like this;

...

ota:
  password: "*************"
  num_tries: 3
  safe_mode: on

...

Now you'll need to add a platform key to start a list, and either comment out the other option or move them to a new component.

...

ota:
  - platform: esphome
    password: "*************"
  #num_tries: 3
  #safe_mode: on

...

edit: Here's the PR introducing this change https://github.com/esphome/esphome/pull/6459

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submitted 5 months ago by solidgrue@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

Hear me out...

I was raised, as my family does, to fearfully respect our kitchen knives. Respect their productivity, respect their sharpness, but overall respect their ruthlessness. Even the mildest of disrespect for my family's knives would earn you a nick of you were merely neglectful, and grievous harm if you spoke ill of their aptness.

Of course, when I moved out and set up my own kitchens I acquired my own knives and tried to teach them better. How I was the master, and I was the steel wright. I lavished them with hand baths and fresh oils. I used only the gentlest of hardwoods on their blades and protected them from the hrllscape of the dishwasher. We lived in serene peace, an harmonic existence of a mealwright and his band of merry Riveners.

And then one day, the Inheritance came. Grand Father had died, and his boning knives were my bequest. I was elated, but I would learn.

My friends, that old knife had a soul. Not an evil soul, but a soul that had goals. It was hard steel that took a keen, harsh edge. Bright and tense, like a silver bell on a crisp winter morning. Not Solingen steel, so pliable and yielding as it is fickle in use. Grandfather's knives told you where to cut and if you hesitated, they would cut you instead in frustration. Impertinent things. Not evil, I would say. More, businesslike.

My mistake was to lay them with my other knives. Did you know knives talk? They do! They whisper to each other in their blocks at night when you are asleep. They whisper and they.learn from each other. A good papa hopes they learn the Art of their chef, but when you have a Bad Knife in the block? They learn that too.

Now, all of my knives are angry knives. Not angry at me, necessarily, but angry at their lot in my kitchen, to suffer my children's abusive cooking lessons, my in-laws' insistent prep work degradations, and (occasionally) my neglect.

They bit my wife tonight. Its a Message....

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Nobody's perfect.

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[-] solidgrue@lemmy.world 192 points 5 months ago

How's he gonna shoot anyone on 5th Ave now? Won't someone please think of the machismo??

[-] solidgrue@lemmy.world 119 points 8 months ago

Unless they need you more than you need them, announcing your intent to leave "unless..." puts you in a more difficult negotiating position because you have signaled you have other options that, perhaps more challenging for you, are an easier solution than them having to fix it for you. HR isn't your friend.

Practically and more directly, if you can be easily replaced then your workplace issues are yours. If you are difficult or expensive to replace, your workplace issues are theirs.

[-] solidgrue@lemmy.world 118 points 1 year ago

I've seen more instances of "you're right, I'm being a dumbass" than I was prepared to.

The Old Place put a patina of grime on my soul. People are alright here.

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