Yay! More ugly landscape-disturbing things helping only during certain hours, compared to established nuclear technology, or still-in-research fusion technology.
PS, the usual peeps downvoting not just me: Sure, let your emotions guide you, don't care. My comment above is not offtopic.
"Ugly" is an opinion, which means it's neither true nor false. Me, I like them, but I know that me liking them doesn't invalidate your dislike.
And calling them "landscape-disturbing" is true, but so are all other things — I've been to some wind farms, they are much less disruptive to the environment than the nuclear reactors I can only see from a distance. Sheep grazing under and around them, for a start.
> I've been to some wind farms, they are much less disruptive to the environment than the nuclear reactors I can only see from a distance. Sheep grazing under and around them, for a start.
Huh? Every nuclear reactor I've seen has ended up surrounded by a de facto if not legal wildlife preserve.
I agree with you, they have a big impact on several levels: noise, landscape, soil, wildlife and even local economy (would you like to go on a rural escape to a beautiful mountain village full of roads and metal giants)?
Where I live in Spain there are several associations trying to prevent the installation of wind turbines in many of the beautiful mountains that are otherwise going to be industrialised [1].
I recommend joining local associations if you want to prevent wind turbines from being installed on your home.
What kind of definition or distinction do you apply for deciding what is meat?
Because I personally struggle to find a reason for why fish should be an exception, and at least Wikipedia also defines meat as "animal flesh that is eaten as food".
Usually cost and availability. Poultry and (if near water) fish are a fairly regular part of the diet, whereas meat, due to its cost is something for the well-off, or special occasions.
Ah, Fury. One of the most historically correct American war movies made. /s
(The Tiger ambush scenwas their 2nd most laughable one, as they were told to not turn 131 in oder to protect its drive train, and so got shot in the ass. Besides that, Panzerfuehrer were trained to go for first and last tank in a column to block movement, and especially if one is a Firefly!)
>> Pool considered Richards one of the best tank drivers in Europe and always called him “Baby” when issuing driving instructions over the tank’s intercom. Richards was only five feet, four inches tall, but Pool bragged that Baby could “parallel park that big Sherman in downtown New York in rush hour traffic.” Bert was called “Schoolboy,” since he was just 17 years old, “still with peach fuzz on his gentle face.” Del was known as “Jailbird” since he was given the choice of the Army or prison after a manslaughter charge. Oller was known as “Groundhog” because of the stains on his face from constantly wearing tanker’s goggles. Pool stated Oller could “shoot the eyebrows off a gnat at 1500 yards.” According to his own account, Pool was called “War Daddy,” a name later used for Brad Pitt’s character in the feature film Fury.
This scene as shot was beyond idiotic. Never would have a Tiger left its hiding to drive straight(!) towards 3 remaining Sherman. He could just have picked them out using his superior optics, and relying on frontal glacis armor.
(...rounds don't ricochet off fields, kids! This is supposedly timed as spring '45)
But "uh hu, we got permission to use 131 in a movie, so we definitely need to show it driving around!" With the museum's explicit restriction of not turning, as to save wear on that precious (it is!) final drive, so there you have it: an idiotic "leave-perfect-hiding-drive-fwd-drive-backward-and-lets-just-outturn-the-Fireflys-turret-by-turning-ours" game.
I mean... you don't really need to pick on their tank battle tactics. The final scene was at least 5 times more ludicrous. "I'll just stand up on top of this tank and none of the hundreds of Nazis will be able to hit me for at least 5 minutes". Ok.
I thought it was a decent film until they massively jumped the shark in the last scene. Someone needs to do a "sane edit", then you can complain about the tactical accuracy.
>> Murphy mounted the abandoned, burning tank destroyer and began firing its .50 caliber machine gun at the advancing Germans, killing a squad crawling through a ditch towards him. For an hour, Murphy stood on the flaming tank destroyer returning German fire from foot soldiers and advancing tanks, killing or wounding 50 Germans.
Right, "their 2nd most laughable one". "Heroically mow down waves of made-inept SS" is and will stay obviously number one.
Can't praise vintage ("Liberation") and current ("Pavlov's 28") Russian WW2 movies enough, while the later ones do have their holes ('inept German conscripts"), at least the props are always alright, acting is top.
Does anyone have / setting aside the space for Kbd's like the Ergonomic? There are way better designs available than this plastic bomber from ~two decades ago.
There are plenty of other ergonomic keyboards than those of Microsoft, but all of them cost many times more than a Microsoft keyboard and they are also hard to find at any shop in many places.
If you are willing to pay over $100 for a keyboard, then the existence of Microsoft keyboards becomes irrelevant, otherwise they have been a very useful option for many.
> fixed global warming
Sir, the correct term du jour is "climate emergency". "warming" is not to be used anymore since expected natural developments started to contradict the yearly proclamations made by Gore et al.
In dense cities? Yes. You don’t need a car to transport a load of groceries if there’s a grocery store on the 20 minute walk home from work. For larger trips, backpacks, rolling folding grocery carts, or even wagons do nearly everything a car can do. I used a car sharing service, as needed, for most of my adult life. Having moved to a city with shit for public transit, I miss the hell out of that.
I think the concept of not doing a months worth of grocery shopping for a family of four at a time is w what's foreign. going to the store for pasta and eggs and toast and nothing more is a waste of a grocery trip in some people's eyes. Those people love to shop at Costco and Sam's, and have a SUV's worth of groceries each time they do a trip. It's not a wrong way to live, but if that's how you live, not driving a vehicle with enough cargo space to hold a large body around means it doesn't make sense how you'd get any groceries. Doing that large a run is exhausting, so you don't do it very often, which means when you do go, you have to do a huge run which makes it suck. Smaller more frequent trips is shorter and mute frequent, which has its own, different problems.
Agreed. Even then, I used to take the subway to a regional big box wholesale club to grab stuff that made sense. If I lived nearer to a Costco, I’d take advantage of their fantastic sustainable fish program. Lot’s of good quality stuff has a totally worthwhile price point at those places. There’s a lot of room for different approaches, even in dense cities. Most people in cities don’t even have room to store that much stuff. I never did, and I didn’t miss it.
Everything about dating, sexuality, having fun with typical life things finds the wrong audience here, where people love to dwell in front of their terminals.
PS, the usual peeps downvoting not just me: Sure, let your emotions guide you, don't care. My comment above is not offtopic.