Yeah:

I remember the polls were reporting that after the 1st few poll-stations reported, then suddenly ALL the poll-stations were reporting that 2/3rds of the votes were for the guy who won, & there was no variation anymore.

You can’t get more fake than that.

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Obviously, the EU hasn’t the spine to eject Hungary, so Putin’s Ally/Representative in the EU will remain disabling the EU’s strategy, in all ways possible…

I wonder how many extra thousands of EU troops will die in the escalations of Russia’s aggression, through the next decade(s), as a result of their current-spinelessness?

( remember the English appeasers of Hitler helped the Nazis, & remember that Stalin was providing supplies to the Nazis right up until the day they invaded Russia. Having spine enough to do what is correct/proper isn’t common-enough )

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1 is narcissism/cult-of-personality,

the other is cult-of-institution/inertia.

They are not identical, and not even functionally-equivalent.

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Justin promised it, iirc…

… and never delivered,

& may lose control of the country, due to his refusal to impliment it.

WE lose, much more than him, though.

Just like Biden would, in the US of A??

Ego’s narcissism is … difficult to resist, the evidence shows, for Grand Poobahs of countries…

By definition evidence-based-medicine is supposed to be evidence, not belief, based.

Criminalize all authority-based medicine gaslighting about being evidence-based medicine,

criminalize ideology-contradicting-evidence based “medicine” being state-backed.

criminalize scientific-fraud, too, or the other-2 don’t even have any valid basis.

IF you want to do your belief/ideology/authority based “medicine”, then you pay for it out of your own church or your own pocket.

Get all ideological gaslighting out from government-services!!

0.0000000021g/kg

or 0.0000000000021kg/kg, if you wanted the same units both sides…

( I’m presuming this was your last-line’s request )

IF you’ve a high-efficiency charger, then I’d say it’s probably more-efficient to use that charger.

The warmer you run your computer, the less-efficient it becomes, & the shorter the lifespan of the hottest chips in it ( this effect shouldn’t be significant )

e.g. increasing a CPU by 10Celsius should cut its lifespan in half.

by having more heat-generating-stuff going on in your computer, you impair the cooling of your CPU & GPU ( slightly, probably ), & that may affect your computer’s time-to-failure.

Fan-bearings may dry-out sooner, too.

hth, eh?

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We’re already IN the 6th great extinction: humans ARE exterminating the marine & terrestrial ecologies.

The amount of power you could pull from a single square metre of solar on the roof wouldn’t increase your range meaningfully.

What it would do, is that you could possibly keep your starter-battery from going dead-flat if you left your car alone for a 1/2 month, in the summer ( snow would cover it, obviously ), & since bringing a lead-acid battery to dead-flat permanently-damages it, this would prevent costly problems for the car-owners.

( this happened to a friend with a Prius: had to replace the battery, and the damned thing was inside the rear wheel-well??? in a little compartment.

Origami-engineering’s … simultaneously incredible & stupidly-frustrating )

I’ve held for years that they should be doing it to keep the starter-battery trickle-charging, but … why make the customers have fewer costly/frustrating problems?

some brain damage: malnutrition tends to aggravate or cause brain damage.

I’m a brain damage survivor: it sucks, it takes decades to undo ( neuroplasticity takes time to do rewiring ), and life is never going to be what it could have been.

Don’t damage people’s brains.

'tis a good rule, eh?

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Canuck is what we call ourselfs, eh?

: P

Depends on the religion, I’d say…

to me, though, it’d be a mental-illness to want one.

Space-suits must operate this way, if inadvertently…

The number of decibels at the rocket-nozzles is waaay higher than what it would be “at the top of the candle”, but … there’s pretty-much nothing in Nature as loud as those things are, except meteorites, maybe some volcanoes, being inside of lightning, etc…

The problem is partly that the entire-framing of what a working government requires is wrong…

A political-party with a leader…

that isn’t working, never has worked for the best of any first-past-the-post country, & never will.

Just as the Indigenous peoples often had different kinds of Chiefs for different dimensions of their lives…

• Peace Chief for maintaining proactive/strategic harmony
• War Chief for dealing with existential threats from others
• Shaman for dealing with the deep end of reality
• Grandmothers for dealing with the questions that neither males nor young-people were competent at understanding … etc …

What the world actually requires is a system whereby the different kinds of leaders required to competently lead a country ALL get put in place.

Jugmeet Singh’s a people-person, and he could be there both for, & with, people better than anybody else I know-of in Canadian federal politics…

but he isn’t the guy who I’d put in charge of Strategy, or the person whom I’d put in charge of Implimentation, or the person I’d put in charge of Emergency Services & Military…

the right-framing would require a team, not an individual.

There’s a book “Rocket Fuel” which is on how nearly-all businesses get 1 thing wrong:

most businesses mistakenly ignore that a visioneer usually isn’t an implimenter.

Implimenter’s closer to bean-counter.

Visioneer’s closer to … lunatic.

The book Change Intelligence identifies that people-people are 1 of 3 major kinds of leaders required…

the other 2 being thinkers/visioneers, & the implimenters…

You REQUIRE all-3, or you’re not having enough traction to accomplish what you’re supposed to be doing!

The business-culture’s incompetence, however, is that it presumes that the COO of a company ( who is an implimenter ) ought be the next CEO ( which is kinda what happened to Beoing: they ended up with no engineer-visioneer, only bean-counters, & the whole religion of the company became poison… NASA did the same thing when it compromised engineering for “business” culture, with the Challenger shuttle )

The problem is that you can’t put a person whose nature fits only 1 of the required-roles, into a different required-role.

NONE of our countries bothers differentiating between the required-roles & then works to get the right person into each of those roles, none!

That is, at global scale, Darwin Award territory.

We KNOW the more complex the leadership, or management, problem, the better-quality the team required, we KNOW the structural-diversity of the team is key to having it be more-capable in different ways…

we won’t do what’s required??

( PS: never expect any political-system to tolerate required-evolution.

World-death would be preferable to political-motivation, compared with actual transformation to a different apolitical kind of system,.

Sad but true. )

Keep in mind that some people just have brain-defects.

I’m defective for social-process ( if I could live somehow where I never had to meet another human-being, or never had to even be within 100km of any human-being, only interacting online, … for the rest of my life … lower stress … yeah : )

but not defective for some other things, maybe.

Some people are color-blind, some dyslexic, some are screwed for spelling, some for grammar.

Diversity’s more real than I’d ever understood, when I was young…

Evolution’s concerned with getting the average right, right?

The individual can be … chaotically a mixture of better-at-this & moar-worser-at-that, while still keeping the average … average.

: )

The “stubby” bottles were replaced with tall “classier” bottles in a surge of … fashion-moment, or something.

I remember somebody did a news vid, or documentary on it, & the industry lost usable-storage-effectiveness when they went with the taller bottles, and there’s more glass in them, too…

They said if they’d known what the actual results would be ( it didn’t alter the market to increase the percentage of the population which is always buying beer, for some reason… ), they wouldn’t have done it.

Well, Duh…

“never believe your own hype” IS a rule, because when you’re believing your own marketing-bumf, then you’re not competent at calculating any sort of project balance-sheet, right?

Power-consumption.

Also, the vibration produced by the 2.5" drives is less, but they’re more-sensitive to it, to begin with.

I’d not even consider spinning-platter drives, nowadays, though:

SATA SSD’s for a NAS strike me as being the sanest choice.

Samsung what are those called, Evo drives?

excellently-high MTBF, ultra-short ( compared with rotating-platters ) seek-time ( literally orders-of-magnitude quicker ), etc.

I don’t know of ANY reason to go with spinning-platters, nowadays.

( & I’m saying that as a guy stupid-enough to have not realized this in time, & who spent money on such a thing, when SSD’s really were the answer )

My experience is that USB storage sometimes breaks-connection for no discernable reason.

That if one REALLY wants to do USB storage, then put it inside the housing, and don’t use one of the external-connectors, use something you can permanently-fix, so nothing can even sneeze in its direction.

This mayn’t help you with your puzzle, but it’s bedrock and unchangeable, in my experience.

USB-storage is an unreliable joke.

ANY revision of it, that I’ve tried.

hth…

They are creative, though:

They put things that are “near” each-other into juxtaposition, and sometimes the insights are astonishing.

The AI’s don’t understand anything, though: they’re like bacteria-instinct: total autopilot.

The real problem is that we humans aren’t able to default to understanding such non-understanding apparent-someones.

We’ve created a “hack” of our entire mental-system, and it is the money-profit-rules-the-world group which controls its evolution.

This is called “Darwin Award territory”, at the species-scale.

No matter:

The Great Filter, which is what happens when a world-species hasn’t grown-up, but gains adult-level technology ( nukes, entire-country-destroying-militaries, biotech, neurotoxins, immense industrial toxic wastelands like the former USSR, accountability-denial-mechanisms in all corporate “persons”, etc… )

you have a toddler with a loaded gun, & killing can happen.

“there’s no such thing as a dangerous gun: only a dangerous man”, as the book “Starship Troopers” pushed…

Toddlers with guns KILL people in the US.

AI’s our “gun”, & narcissistic-sociopathy’s our “toddler commanding the ship” nature.

Maybe we should rename Earth to “The Titanic”, for honesty’s sake…

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