[-] I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Can the Native Americans freely leave the reservations?

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submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world to c/askscience@lemmy.world

Is it just a matter of not being worth it? I see cooling towers releasing what appears to be a ton of steam, pretty high up. If that steam were captured at the top and allowed to condense, wouldn't that result in a ton of water with a lot of gravitational potential energy? That water could then be released and used to power water turbines. Maybe I'm overestimating the amount of water being released as steam, or underestimating how much is needed to spin a water turbine to get a meaningful result, but it seems like wasted energy to me.

[-] I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 145 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Here let me fix the headline for you:

US Senate ~~to vote~~ will vote no on Bernie Sanders-led effort to stop arms sales to Israel

There. That way people won't get the wrong impression, like that any of this fucking matters.

[-] I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 82 points 8 months ago

If more people acted like Everett True, we'd live in a much nicer world. We've given assholes far too much free reign.

[-] I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 143 points 8 months ago

My friends, there exists premade maps of labyrinthian proportions that twist and turn, with multiple larger and smaller rooms, shortcuts and hidden passages, and yet still in a format that encourages a natural flow through the area.

It's called IKEA and you can use their floor layouts to trap your players in an inescapable hell.

[-] I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 75 points 9 months ago

Doesn't matter, go fucking vote. Vote like your life depends on it; depending on your demographic that could very well not be hyperbole. Vote like it's a terrifyingly close election, because despite all the polls and the analysts, this election is still going to come down to razor thin margins. It is VERY hard to compete with the sheer fanaticism of Trump's base; a large number of them literally think he's the Messiah or that Harris is the antichrist so they feel justified in all sorts of batshit actions.

[-] I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 88 points 10 months ago

Vote early. Almost every single area in the US has early voting at least 2 weeks before elections. People complain about long lines and lack of ballots on election day. You know what you get if you stumble into a polling place before that? A couple of bored poll workers in an otherwise empty building. You get your ballot, fill it out, and leave within 5 minutes. I seriously don't understand why this isn't used more.

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[-] I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 100 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I think it's important to note that if you only read headlines here, you might think there was overwhelming disapproval from the firefighters union. If you get your news from right wing rags, you don't hear the boos, you only hear the cheers. I'd say it was pretty mixed listening to the video, in fact more cheers than jeers. Of course that's all meaningless as we have been digitally editing crowd reactions for years now and news agencies cherry pick what they want you to hear.

The point is, go out and vote. Don't you dare think this race is in the bag, it is a hell of a lot closer than articles like this would make you believe and the actual hatred for the right is WAY less than you might imagine.

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I'm moving across the country in a few weeks and am trying to plan my route as I'll be driving a moving van with a car towed behind it. The entire drive will be 16-17 hours.

Google maps seems limited for searching everything I'd want to take into account for the route (pull through gas stations, height requirements, avoiding mountain highways, etc.) and was wondering if anyone knew of a better way to plan out the trip?

[-] I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 93 points 10 months ago

A reverse image search shows this picture posted on several tweets in the last month. Safe to say, this guy made up a story and probably doesn't have a wife.

[-] I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 86 points 1 year ago

In this setup, opening the drawer would wind up lowering the blahaj to the ground.

[-] I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 92 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I won't quote all of that part

I will, because not everyone has the time or the desire to go to a news site and get blasted with ads and tracking cookies for an article they are only marginally interested in. So here's the rest:

“I wasn’t in on the joke, so I had no idea. Then we get into the car and my colleagues are like, ‘Robbie, do you know what that means?’ And I’m like, ‘No, what are you talking about?’ They tell me and I’m like, oh my God, thank God I didn’t know because had I known, I for sure would have gotten angry. There’s no question I would have gotten angry,” Kaplan said

[-] I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 233 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This comic is from 2009, over 14 years ago. Good thing we took action and have made great strides towards combating climate change during that time. Could you imagine how screwed we'd be if our world leaders had sat on their asses and did fuck all instead? /S

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