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  • That last paragraph. It just shows that your therapist sucks. Or you aren't doing therapy right. But oh my, I'm sure you're now walking around telling everyone how therapy saved you and how they all should do it to.

  • This automatic faucet that need the hands to be between the wall and the water to turn on.
  • You have correctly identified that it's not a lack of technological advancement that is holding our society back.

    Now go solve social sciences, economics, psychology, and neuroscience. Come back and we'll talk about how to design a world where nobody happens to install a motion sensor with a wrong range.

  • the wisdom of a Danish & German apartment buildings replacing coin-fed laundry machines with the cloud (yikes!)
  • OP blocked JS in the browser like a complete caveperson and came here whining.

    FK u and your attitude OP. You, and those overly active pensioners is the reason laundry machines still operate on coins.

    Your CC got blocked, call your bank and solve it. When everyone else goes to the laundry and doesn't have the right coins they should do exactly what? Take a trip downtown to the bank? Your local cigarettes shop isn't obligated to break you a 20.

    Also, explain this to me: I barely use cash and my payments always work. Much less frequently I cannot pay for digital reasons than for "oh fk, I forgot to withdraw cash again". I remember that being a weekly problem. Nowadays I can withdraw a 100 and not worry about cash for two months. What am I doing wrong that digital payments always work for me?

  • Embarrassing coal
  • Follow-up: http://kycoalmuseum.southeast.kctcs.edu/about_us/index.aspx

    The Museum's founders were very much aware that a large majority of mining communities around Appalachia and, indeed, around the state and nation no longer exist. Many individuals who grew up in these coal camp communities now have sons, daughters, and grandchildren who have grown up hearing the stories about what life was like in the coal camps. However, for many of those people who want to share that coal camp experience with their own children and grandchildren they cannot go home again, because so many of the state's mining communities have been abandoned and torn down. It was with this thought in mind that the Museum's collection was assembled and is housed in the wonderfully-restored Benham company store.

    The goal in the development of the Museum, was to tell the story. It is the story of coal in Kentucky, and the story of the thousands of workers, most of who came from the Deep South and Eastern Europe to escape poverty, and build a better life for their families. Their stories are told at the Kentucky Coal Museum, perhaps as well as they are told anywhere in the world.

  • Embarrassing coal
  • It's a museum. It doesn't say "coal mining is a great technology of the future". It says "here's this thing of the past we used to do". Or do you also expect a paleontological museum to only employ dinosaurs?

  • Straight to Quantum
  • Because you will suffer and then you will be corrupted by the demon of shortcutting and never really understanding anything. Yes, embrace the evil! Or resist the temptation and train your spirit (nothing trains the spirit better than abstract infinite vector spaces).

  • Opt out? Opt in? Opt Green!
  • Because: 1) fairtrade, 2) less revenue from selling you a new device in two years once this one gets obsolete, 3) costs of long-term maintenance, 4) small volumes.

    You ever compared a price of fairtrade coffee vs normal one? Yeah, x2. Why? No slave labor, no burned forests, sustainable water usage. But ofc, why would you buy it? It's double the price.

  • A call to replace air conditioners with heat pumps in California
  • Most modern ones are. But the old models don't have a reverse cycle built into them. Also, for efficient heating in low temperatures you might want a different gas. Maybe not as relevant in California, but normally you wouldn't be able to use your AC as a heat pump in below 0 celcius.

  • Millennial powers
  • No amount of radical activism will significantly change the political landscape in most EU nations. In fact, the activism is on the rise, and yet far right is winning big time. Soon in your EU parliament and bye-bye combustion cars ban. Expect abortion bans instead. And we aren't even talking about the fact that most pollution now happens in countries that would be impossible to change to sincere green policies. Although the EU supply chain initiative is a step in the right direction, and yet just a drop in the bucket.

    Your species are gone. And so are about a few billions of people in the developing world. The timer is some 10-30 years (90% prediction interval).

    Exactly what am I supposed to do? My radical proposal is we develop some infertility drug and start putting it into the waterways. Do you know enough biochemistry? I'll be the driver. On a different topic, instead of recycling my plastic bottles, I shredd them and flush them into the toilet. In the name of humanity and species diversity.

  • Millennial powers
  • I only have a bachelor's degree, I'm in Europe so no dept, I made enough right after college to live on my own. I definitely don't need to get a second job or move in with my parents. What am I doing wrong?

  • Shrimps
  • Oh boy (or whatever), OP, have you walked into the wrong neighborhood. Half of the userbase is trans, 99% are feminist. I'm not entirely sure how you got this 80% upvote ratio.

    anyways, get the f out with your boomer jokes.

  • Streaming Services, need a new map!

    It used to be that simple: r/plexshares, click any link, join the server, watch all you want.

    Well, they really cracked down on that. Plex purged the servers en masse, my server switched to some obscure emby, r/plexshares is closed for good.

    I'm in a need of a new server. Where do I even go? What platform is best to sail the seas now? Jellyfin?

    P.S. my torrent days are over, thanks. I'm not interested in self-hosting anything either, again, thanks. 10$/month is a reasonable subscription fee for an all-you-can-eat streaming service

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    Permanent Voltage Drop

    I understand that the battery degrades over time.

    However, without any apparent reason I found my scooter does not charge above 51.6V while a full charge used to be 55.9V. (I own a Zero 9).

    It hasn't been used for two weeks before this happened, but I left it roughly half-charged, which should be ideal for a long-term idle time.

    Any clues on what's going on?

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