You might want to check out the Multiselect for YouTube extension if you use Chrome. The “move” functionality doesn’t actually work (unfortunately) but y You can select multiple videos and mass delete them.
Edit: apparently they’ve fixed the “move to playlist” functionality. Yay! I know what I’ll be doing on the weekend…
If nobody comes back from the future to prevent me from doing it, how bad of a decision can it possibly be?
Boris Johnson got married at Westminster Cathedral in London: the most Roman Catholic edifice in Britain.
The Roman Catholic church are having quite a problem with this because his previous 2 marriages were not in RC churches overseen by their members, and are therefore ‘not valid’ in their eyes.
Because of the previous 2 invalid marriages, they see this one in a similar light.
It’s like if you buy a car from a dealership but don’t have it serviced by them. Your warranty is void and they won’t protect you from any further work done even if they do it.
Radio Frequency math is hard.
The Jetsons takes place in 2062. George Jetson is 40.
Somewhere, right now, George Jetson is being conceived.
#flyingcars
Can you blame yourself for choosing a spot to hide something that’s so good that you think you lost it?
Back when we were discussing Avengers: Infinity War, I said this about Thanos’ mission:
Infinity War has a different Thanos. He’s seen first-hand what uncontrolled population growth will do when there’s finite resources, the same concern we have right now on Earth. For example, Lake Mead is estimated to go dry in 2036 and Las Vegas is already looking at getting a pipeline run to a different aquifer 260 miles away. But when no more water can be diverted from other areas to support it, Las Vegas will become a ghost town.
I was off by a decade. Lake Mead has dropped 130 feet since 2000. Lake Powell, which feeds Lake Mead, is at 34% capacity.
A state of emergency is expected to be declared later this year. Water restrictions will be first placed on farmers and businesses. One farmer says he expects to lose all of his water by 2023. Read the rest of the article if you’re interested.
Since so much water is being taken out of the Colorado River, usually barely any of it reaches the Gulf of California. Desalinating ocean water to make it drinkable is one solution to problems faced by Las Vegas and the surrounding areas, but there’s already concerns about if that happens too much and too many glaciers, which are comprised of fresh water, break off into the ocean, it will muck up the ocean’s balance.
I talked in the past about Fuji Water, which is bottled in Fuji and then shipped thousands of miles to the U.S. I’d forgotten about Perrier. As of 2013, it has been sold in 140 countries with sales of almost 1 billion bottles a year. If all 1 billion bottles are the 330mL size, that’s 87,177 gallons of water a year being shipped hither and yon, plus all the glass bottles, plus diesel and gasoline burned to transport it.
But one thing that I don’t think gets a lot of coverage is the water that’s converted into different forms during the manufacturing of products, where it’s locked into a solid substance and can’t break down back into water very easily or quickly. That’s more of an unrecoverable loss of water.
You know, if there is an alien species out there with optical receptors on our planet, all they’d have to do is wait a while to see if we finish doing ourselves in.
1,000,000,000 x 330 milliliter = 330,000,000,000 milliliters = 330,000,000 liters times 0.264 liters/gallon = 87,120,000 gallons
That… is scary. And nobody seems to give a rat’s ass about that.
In Port Elizabeth and surrounding areas people are not 100% aware of the problem with the feeder dams close to going dry. Already the political parties are havening a field day, trying to blame the other party for waste of money and other resources…
Asking the farmer to curb (or completely cut) his water consumption is just plain crazy - what about food security?
The majority of the problem lies in city dwellers, they are accustomed to open a tap and water comes out, and little thought goes into conserving water, or limiting water usage.
It took us 5 years of living without running water to really, really appreciate the luxury of running water, and we have learnt how to use water sparingly. But not everybody is aware of this, or how to do it ~ because of the luxury of running water.
Whenever I drive past huge warehouses etc, I think of all the rainwater that goes to waste - these guys can get a couple of tanks to store rainwater in and lessen their dependency on municipal water.
I have submitted a suggestion that the company do the same - look at procuring two big tanks for rainwater harvesting, and using that water for flushing the toilets.
Flushing a toilet is a huge waste of drinkable water. Especially with one dripping/leaking all the time.
There are green alternatives - we are using a compost toilet, using sawdust instead of water, and it works quite well. No smells, and when the stuff have decomposted nicely, you can use it for compost.
Other, more advanced toilets can actually recycle the water and you can use the compost in solid form, this makes use of bacteria to digest and break down the waste. Not cheap, but effective.
Chemical toilets are not good, because of the chemicals used.
So we will have to change our mindsets wrt water usage and consumption if we want to survive.
I think I owe @dakboy thanks for this tip from years ago, but I (indirectly) resolved an issue due to http://neverssl.com that had been annoying us for literally months. (A lot was due it being an Admin for a VP who wanted to be involved and didn’t listen to advice.)
Municipality in PE have been installing restrictor discs at hoouseholds with high water usage. You can’t take them to court as you got served a notice that you have to reduce water consumption, but you still have water for daily use.
These high-water usage properties can suck it up, I feel no sympathy for them.
I did the math and 50 liters is approximately 13.2 gallons. Who uses that much water in a day? Maybe my perspective is skewed because I’ve lived almost my entire life in a section of the US that has been prone to drought for most of my lifetime, so conserving water is kind of baked into my psyche.
Of course what happens is that the water authority tells us to conserve, so we do, and then they realize there’s not as much revenue coming in. So they raise the rates.
13.2 gallons is about 6 flushes of the toilet. 1 run of the dish washer uses about 10 gallons. Washing machine probably uses about as much. If you water your lawn (which I have a neighbour that does) there goes all of that and more. A shower can take that much if you’re not careful or take a long one.
We probably do 3-4 loads of laundry a week minimum. More if there’s stuff like blanket that needs to be cleaned.
For a lot of areas everyone’s home usage is up as they’ve been home for a year, too.
Paintball gun/marker or blank gun…
We are havening a wee bit of a hassle with baboons at our house, and somebody suggested purchasing a blank gun (like a starter pistol) which will shoot only blanks.
I will wander off to the shops later today and have a chat with the assistant, want to see how the blank gun operates etc. If you’re able to shoot a couple of blanks off in quick succession, and (if possible) also have it shoot some sort of pepper projectile, then I’ll definitely be interested.
A normal paintball ball will make the baboons go meh, but if it is a pepper ball, they will be put off by the smell (and taste) of the pepper ball.
Decisions… decisions…
Why arnt track ball mice more popular? Personally they are rather comfortable, and allow for larger movements with out having to swipe my mouse across my smallish desk space.
Right? We used to have the Logitech Trackman hamster and I loved it. It was super awesome when I was playing Wing Commander on the 386.
I’m using one of these as my primary these days:
It’s a full-on trackball with the feature of being able to switch between three different devices quickly. Style-wise It think it’s a knock-off of a Logitech design.
It looks fairly close to my Logitech trackball. I have one of the fancy ones that tilts and lets my hand rest at an even more natural angle.
I think we had Trackball Thursday over on the Discord (disclaimer: may not have actually been a Thursday) and @sig had good experiences with a similar design as well.
Jelly Comb is kind of my weird “I know it’s probably not great” brand for peripherals. I ended up not needing it but I also got their folding BT keyboard for use with my Raspberry Pi emulator box in case I need to do CLI stuff that is difficult with controllers.