Ok you got me there

Procrastination protecting them from losing their money! Is there anything procrastination can’t do?

That’s not an unusual emergency plan, just unfortunate the only available emergency landing area was full of rush hour traffic.

In my experience, runways often end at the sea. Better that than having planes crash into houses or offices.

Ah, from this comment:

Sunscreen works, just not if you buy it from shady manufacturers that try to maximize their profits and care about nothing else.

I thought you were saying "don’t buy knock off brands and you’re safe. When actually you’re saying everyone is cutting corners.

Unfortunately the independent testing here happens infrequently (no more than once a year), and it’s different brands failing each time.

In general, the failing brands are testing as much lower than their stated SPF ratings. As a consumer, the best chance is probably to buy the highest rating you can find so even if it’s lower than stated it’s still pretty good.

In New Zealand we have much the same problem with the sun as Australia (thanks CFCs), and a company here does regular testing of sunscreens. Brands fail to live up to their ratings all the time, including big name brands.

NZ Post has done this too.

Imagine fucking up so badly you have an xkcd made about you.

I’ve just straight cross posted from a Lemmy.ca post, resources included, as it seems like important world news.

I have a theory that this is all planned. Tank share market, buy lots of shares, in a few years they get all their wealth back and more.

We never have any issues, why do we keep all these IT people around? Let’s get rid of them.

NZ here, shows:

You might be right. Looking close up the edges don’t stand out as being faked, I just didn’t look that close before. Though the arm on the right (his left arm) is full in focus and the box right next to it is very out of focus.

To be honest it’s been so long since I’ve seen a photo that wasn’t autocorrected up the wazoo that I can’t remember what things are supposed to look like anymore.

Isn’t it just the thing that smartphones do these days where they slightly blur the background to make the person stand out more? Like you might do adjusting the focus, but faked.

My thinking was more about the initial heating of the water. What happens to the steam after it’s used to turn turbines? Does it float back down to a settling area ready at 50°C or something ready to be picked up for another loop, or is the water lost and and endless supply of new water is pumped in? If the latter, you could save on fuel by using the data center outflow as the inflow of water to the system (starting from 40°C or something, instead of from room temp or colder).

It seems both types exist, though the ones that reuse water do so by feeding cooler water into wet cooling towers and cooling the steam with some new water. I don’t think having warmer starting water would help here, most likely it would be bad.

The kind that use a continuous supply of fresh water do exist and are common, but it seems like they don’t build them anymore due to environmental impacts. There’s possibly an opportunity with existing ones to build a data center next door and pump the warmer water to the power station for reduced fuel usage in heating the water?

Something else I have seen is building a data center next to a water park, using the warmer water to provide heated swimming pools. I thought that was a brilliant way to reduce energy wastage.

I mean there is possibly an opportunity to use water from cooling data centers to feed back in to steam powered power generation (like nuclear or fossil fuel stations), or is that not how it works?

How do people keep up with all these petty laws? If my country banned hotdogs there’s a decent chance I’d miss the announcement and accidentally put a frankfurter in a bun. I could miss it completely and I have internet! How does your average person on North Korea find out about this ban on putting sausages in bread?