Fire dragon here and yeah, sometimes Google won’t even let me log in either.

Yes 3 of the 5 last presidents from '46 (Biden is older than that).

I was trying to make a dumb tiny hand joke because did you even see that “handshake” in the picture?

Seems like it could be real based on hand size alone.

Why don’t they have free will?

I’m so sorry you had to go through that. Here’s our gray cat making our pup feel trapped.

How about: there’s no difference between actually free will and an infinite universe of infinite variables affecting your programming, resulting in a belief that you have free will. Heck, a couple million variables is more than plenty to confuddle these primate brains.

Seems satisfactory to me.

To a significant extent, they do, contracting for construction of generation and transmission (very often renewable), at least at the largest scale.

But, it’s (mostly) all on the grid.

With demand like that, it’s not like there isn’t significant negotiation with the local power company, especially because they’re frequently built a significant distance from existing large power infrastructure.

Heck, all the big 3 cloud providers signed deals for nuclear generation in the last few months. https://spectrum.ieee.org/nuclear-powered-data-center

Here’s just one more article about these sorts of investments: https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/clean-energy/google-has-a-20b-plan-to-build-data-centers-and-clean-power-together

Just about nailed it! Missed the ground beef, and it is wild rice, a Minnesota staple.

If you’ve never tried it, I highly recommend.

https://nativeharvest.com/products/wild-rice-manoomin

I also feel seen in a really weird way. That Corelle, the gray hot dish, the lump of “salad”. Except the french cut beans. Mom never sprang for that. Dad did sometimes though.

It’s a dish served hot! As opposed to those crappy cold cuts they usually serve.

I thought the system was to dump the barrel out at the top of a hill so you can proclaim how much you’re doing for the thirsty person at the bottom.

Trickle down, but for voting too!

Oh, and I guess that’s what Trump literally did with the water in California, except they were different hills altogether.

Re “a drink”: That’s maybe a little dangerous advice.

A standard daiquiri is going to be 2 full shots of rum, plus about ¾oz lime and simple, add some muddled strawberry to make strawberry. Just as a 7.5% IPA has much more alcohol than a 4.2% Guinness/Miller Lite.

IIRC, that puts a daiquiri at 2 “regular” 5% beers, or a bit more than 2 “domestic” lite beers. And that’s assuming nobody used an overproof rum.

For a lightweight, that’s a drink to sip slowly.

The faster you drink, the more and longer it affects you.

Just finished watching the 24hrs of Daytona where they use that infield track layout this week. It’s free on YouTube from IMSA!

3 classes of cars fighting for places through traffic for 24hrs. It’s absolutely wild, and the commentators are definitely fighting fatigue with sometimes extremely random sidetracks too.

Oh, I know.

Cops of Lemmy?

I assume so, but obviously I hope not…

Lol, thanks!

Can we all agree to switch the word order like we do for “the labor dept” etc, and call them the GED squad? Or hell, Musk’s ED problem?

http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/04/alot-is-better-than-you-at-everything.html

I drink all the fancy bourbon I can buy (near MSRP). Never once thought about selling a bottle. Even pour an ounce of them into my infinity bottle (yes, there is/was a few ounces of pappy in there).

The only bottles I didn’t open immediately for a sample when I got them home are the ones I got signed in person by Jimmy Russell (Wild Turkey, Rare Breed) and Victoria Butler (Uncle Nearest Master Blend).

Taters can lick my taint.