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It’d mostly be in 16s in the supermarket. So each pack is probably 2 days at the max dose.

It is probably just a video he’s making about how to self-host a 3GW nuclear power station, so that you can self-host a hundred million raspberry pi cluster.

I think in UK paracetamol is sold over the counter in 28 x 500mg tablets most commonly. Larger packs or higher strengths are prescription only I think.

So 1 pack should last 3.5 days at the max adult dose of 8 per 24h - but I think it’d recommend seeing your doctor if you get into a second pack and you’re still using that maximum dosage.

Generally shops will limit sales to 2 packs, but it’s easy to shop around so that’s no limit.

As of now, I find very few apps beneficial, convenient or time savers - maybe I’m a weirdo luddite. Most apps seem to be for pastimes anyway so saving time seems odd - I prefer to take time to savour my pastimes. I think mp3 player app, and organic maps are the real ones that I actually find useful.

But refusing GPS/microG and therefore Microsoft Authenticate will become a problem for me quite soon I think. For now a phonecall still works, but I think it’s only a matter of time. Once that goes I might have to quit my job, and will struggle to find one in my field that doesn’t require it, so I guess I’ll have to look for less skilled work or retrain, and I’m far too old for that shit. That’s where it’ll get constraining, when the tentacles of bundling enwrap and bind many other aspects of real society.

I really hope the EU keeps on at MS for bundling and other market power abuse, it seems so obvious that they’ve effectively ignored the fines from the old Internet Exploder case, and ramped up their misbehaviour regardless.

Of course the twats where I live are easily radicalised against EU regulations (or any regulations really) , so I’m probably still fucked. But at least someone needs to stand up for consumer rights and competition and keep kicking MS in the balls every time they pull their dick out to fuck consumers. Ideally kick them harder and harder too, ‘punitive damages’ are more than justified due to them being a repeat offender.

Are there any flies buzzing around?

Oh, I know full well what a fucking spad is.

I just fucking hate them collectively, individually and linguistically.

They really should learn how to run their vertical axis down to zero . I see no need to risk the accusation of using graphs with a lie factor. it’ll still look a dramatic increase starting a zero. They can even add a horizontal line at lowest recorded level if they want to emphasize that difference. They’re also open to a bit of criticism on the time-axis about the difference between lowest ‘directly recorded’, and other longer term estimates of the range of atmospheric carbon dioxide.

I think it is better to acknowledge those estimates and refer to the available evidence on how different the world was and what types of life and ecosystems seem to have been most common. Otherwise they can get "Well akshually it might be ‘uncharted’ but it’s probably not ‘unprecedented’ " . . . . https://paleo-co2.org/co2pip

Based on these estimates it seems plausible that early primates experienced atmospheric carbon dioxide levels higher than today. The important part is that they’d not have lived very similar lives to modern humans, maybe like small lemurs or something.

Spads.

A appropriately ugly term. It conjures images of them being cut into long chunks and deep fried in oil. Either that or some archaic, non-PC term for a person with some mental deficiencies

When something like python tries to force readability into your code without your consent?

That’s why I always use a nonsensical class structure with stupid names; it’s my chastity belt.

exactly, democracy needs checking not just because of cronyism, but the fucking morons that keep getting elected by an ever diminishing share of the population. 1997 was the last time turnout was over 70%. In most UK general elections since then, the winner has not beaten abstentions. My ‘protest’ non-vote should count.

I’d like MP voting power should be scaled down somehow by actual vote share (including abstention), for many votes - maybe not some essential ones - but with the same absolute threshold to pass a vote. You’d probably have to do that at party level to avoid under-representing some constituencies. Hardly anyone trusts these fucks so their power to fuck things up should to be limited to when even more of them agree cross-party.

As for other layers, I’d quite like some sort of randomly changing jury based tier to rule on some things with cases and evidence presented like in a court. Probably with some sort anonymity layer - where some third party only knows the identities of the jurors.

Lords should maybe be “qualified expert” level tier - but it’ll always get cronyist to some extent. That said if they’re in as a supposed expert accountant, and they don’t pay tax - they can fuck off. So the need for “expert” credentials could provide a basis for challenge. Certainly my random jury level tier could have the power to kick out lords if their credentials were challenged.

I think there should be a “equivocal” vote.

I think that’s what boost was supposed to be for, or was that just on kbin.

Down votes are useful for estimating the exactly how badly damaged the sense of humour in the community is.

Down votes are troll treasure.

Here, have a downvote for your collection.

There are other better answers here already.

But you got me wondering, how red are red dwarfs really? Maybe they’re just like a few % more red than our sun, but I bet they’re still quite broad band.

So you maybe could have a similar range of colour reflection and absorption. And maybe there’s enough R,G,B to saturate the receptors. I assume white is just that, when all color receptors are near saturated.

The eyes might not need to differ much, the brain can probably do everything in post processing anyway. All evolution needs to do to your eyes is to gather enough raw data that your brain can learn to differentiate, food, water, danger, things to breed with, and so on.

Maybe reduce the sensitivity of red receptor a wee bit, or maybe not, if plants are still absorbing lots of red, and we live amongst plants . . .

I think you mean “involuntary manslaughter children” not “murder”.

Involuntary manslaughter just requires negligence, and cars and roads seem like tailor made environments for drivers to be negligent.

I know people here like to throw the ‘murder’ accusation around but it is a totally different level of intent and culpability - and it’d be hard to prove it beyond reasonable doubt.

In my country though there is special laws for drivers , death by dangerous driving, and death by careless driving - so as long as you use a car, the normal rules for manslaughter don’t directly apply.

I think , here, if you’ve killed someone it is hard to defend against a death by careless driving charge, as our highway code is very clear on duty of care towards vulnerable road users. But ultimately it’d be jury’s decision on “reasonableness”. I can’t see how no charges would be brought though - as the jury has to determine it, and any death must be taken seriously.

Prosecution should just need to show that there was a hazard (pedestrians, children, in this case the corpse should do the trick) and that a reasonable driver could have done more, say slow down to less than 20mph.
“no evidence of speeding” might be enough for some jurors, but that should be their call.

Our problem over here is more on the punishment side. The punishment for death by careless driving seems lower than other forms of negligent killing. Many will get away with a small fine/community order and a 12 month ban from driving. So i think a lot of people probably plead guilty to avoid the fine and get away with a 1 year ban.

Weak punishment, but there’s at least an acknowledgement that they did something wrong.

Back to this case it seems crazy (to me) that there is not even a question for the court to determine whether the driver was negligent. Maybe the driver was reasonably attentive and had taken all reasonable measures to keep other road users safe, but surely they should be made to demonstrate that to the court.

All of the sweet, sweet gross domestic product statistics. Mmm I love GDPness.

Hey it’s just south of Orkney. Small world.

I was thinking about blendOS at some point - it seemed like a decent proposition the best way to stick with arch, but have the declarative and atomic bits, without going to a new nix thing that sound like a more extreme nerd cult.

But I never did, I’m still mainly on Arch+XFCE or arch+kde, or debian+kde, or debian+xfce in my house.

I think I didn’t do it because I’ve never really heard of BlendOS , no established track record. No one ever recommends it. So it might not still be there in 5 years, so I’d have to be sure it’d all still work if the project ended. Meh, too much bother to figure that out.

If this promised deluge of PCs comes along soon i’ll maybe try it on a spare machine.

I think most people will say go fedora due to track record - but i never liked it when i last used it - a long time ago.

Kids these days think they’re going to get a date without building a medieval hampster wheel powered trebuchet first, our education system has failed.

That’s alright, when the 100% chalk contraceptive pill and the polyethylene ‘super sensitive’ condom hit the market I think they’ll do ok.