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Cake day: October 6th, 2023

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  • So are people treating this as a generalized sign of inflation, or are people actually worried about eggs?

    Because if you’re treating this as a gauge of inflation, it’s a bad one, as there’s a bird flu outbreak greatly affecting egg prices.

    And if it’s just concern about eggs… I don’t get it. I mean, I think our household eats a lot of eggs, but a lot is like 2-3 dozen a week. And if eggs cost $2 more than usual, well, that’s $6 a week. Meh? I doubt this is breaking the bank for many people.



  • I also learned that PC’s draw a lot of power lol. I used to sit on my PC all day, now I know how much it cost. Even the monitor turning off splits the power draw by half.

    My state has a green energy initiative that gives us free home energy audits, mostly it means we get a lot of free led lights. But it also got us these nice automated power strips, you plug one item (the pc) into a control socket, and when that device turns off, it cuts power to the other managed sockets (monitors, speakers, etc). A really simple solution that must save a bunch of power.


  • Yeah, I’ve actually been pretty disappointed as of late with the power consumption of my custom PCs. I actually can’t remember the last time I had a PC with sleep states that actually work, maybe it was 8 years ago?

    On my last motherboard, whenever you woke the machine from sleep, some board modules wouldn’t power up correctly, you had to restart to get full functionality again. I have a second PC as a home media server, that one never fully wakes up from any sleep state (luckily it’s a server, so it’s always on). My current gaming PC regularly crashes whenever the machine is (ironically) at low processor load. (That’s the amd automatic energy saving features totally failing)

    I don’t know whether to blame the motherboards, the processors, or the OS, but any way you slice it, my computers are only happy if they’re consuming 300 watts all the time…

    And on the other hand, I gather chest freezers are actually decently efficient.





  • It sounds like we all agree. Despite all the rightful cybertruck hate and despite the garish gold color, this driver was not even particularly persecuted. He was just living the life of a normal Bostonian (which always includes other drivers cursing at you, cause that’s what we do here).

    So… This is actually just a non-story. The headline could have been “Ridiculous gold cybertruck exists in Massachusetts, driver treated normally”

    Or perhaps,

    “Driver of ridiculous gold cyber truck somehow still isn’t getting enough attention!”












  • You should care. We should all care.

    The big problem we have in this country isn’t just a radical right, it’s extreme divisiveness. Foreign and corporate powers have done their best to divide the US populace and pit us against each other. Why? Because that makes us easier to control, easier to manipulate, easier to deceive, easier to advertise to. And one of the keys goals they have is a complete breakdown of communication. At this point we’re essentially speaking two different languages and don’t even understand each other any more. As soon as you stop talking to the other side, you’re letting the corpos and the despots win, because that’s what they want. If you don’t even care what the other side thinks, you’re essentially giving up on the whole idea of these “United” States (and you’re wandering ever closer toward another civil war).