Tobacco is a vegetable

Lack of sunshine, rainy cold weather

They’re guard dogs

I don’t think that peasant economy was exploitative in the same way capitalism is. Peasants were largely farmers who grew food and provided the landowner with a percentage of their crop. They were integral to human survival and as far as I know the percentage taken by landowners was not comparable to the wealth extracted from workers today.

Alien diarrhea is the real cause of global warning!

Just following up in case anyone reads this in the future. The game is really good. In FPS games muzzle flash obscures the target and there’s a little of this here, and there’s a rhythm to shooting enemies and then stopping when they are dead so you don’t waste ammo. Once you get used to it, it feels like a challenging part of the game. I didn’t find the map key until like an hour ago and I wandered around a lot looking for the next thing. Navigating is a large part of the game, because exits and tunnels are not always obvious. Sometimes it’s irritating especially if you don’t use the map. Movement and the world are awesome

The Demo was great, Im going to play this today

Or just running down the street looking for an electric outlet to plug into

I read that they get artists to sign contracts which prohibit them from playing at venues that don’t have a contact w live Nation. So they use that as leverage to get venues to sign contracts else all of those artists will not play their venue

All races are a race against time, that’s how races work

But since before you were born people knew how long a woman’s menstrual cycle lasts. Most likely the Internet existed when you became an adult and thought about measuring things. The society you lived in had existing calendars that you were aware of if/when you had a menstrual cycle. You’ve never needed to “chart 28 days” but someone who lived long long ago may have wondered and they would have had no frame of reference so they decided to count.

At first I thought the article was inaccurate but It sounds like there has been a huge increase in US Bitcoin mining since 2020.

Some interesting information from their source article:

“The CBECI estimates that the global share of Bitcoin mining occurring in the United States rose from 3.4% in January 2020 to 37.8% in January 2022”

“the CBECI estimates put electricity supporting Bitcoin mining in 2023 at about 0.2% to 0.9% of global demand for electricity.”

You should sell them

You know if you get a 20x20" air filter, the cardboard frame type that are inserted into AC units, and you tape it to a square room fan, it will work far far better than any available air purifier. After tons of research into which purifiers work best to combat asthma, I ended up with room fans and 20x20 AC filters. The filters have different ratings, if they filter too well then air won’t pass through, so you want the next best rating.

I really like that design. But realistically a socialist society would be better off if you integrated the rich into the middle class and forced them into service to society.

AAA says that EV batteries tend to lose power faster in cold weather, getting as little as 50-60% of their advertised range.

“Charging stations around the city are over capacity… Once their car is finally plugged in, it takes longer than usual to power up. “…They tell you it’s fast, but then it takes two hours to charge your car,” Marcus Campbell tells NBC Chicago.”

https://www.pcmag.com/news/dont-buy-a-tesla-chicagos-ev-drivers-struggle-with-sub-zero-temperatures

This weather is a worst case scenario and I doubt schools would be open anyway but sounds like EVs are having a tough time.