A modern gasoline ICE is ~20-25% thermally efficient (that is, they extract 20-25% of the possible “work” from the gasoline and the rest is discarded as waste heat). Turbodiesels can get up near 40%. A decades-old, dirty-ass coal plant can get to around 60%, some of the very modern LNG plants can get to 80%. The…

And that’s why EVs aren’t the answer to everything. Reducing use is absolutely an essential part of keeping humanity in existence.

It was mediocre to jank gameplay-wise, and all the updates til now were just band-aids despite whatever the “It’s fixed now/it was always great!”* people will tell you (if that were true, CDPR wouldn’t be doing 2.0). This massive overhaul finally seems like what the game was always supposed to be.

I remember loving JRPGs on the SNES because i only got games at my birthday and xmas (which are two weeks apart).  So i played the hell out of everything and FF4, 6, chronotrigger, breath of fire...that was some play time, particularly in the age before internet faqs (or at least i didnt have the internet back then). …

New Vegas wasn’t made by Bethesda that’s why you can fuck off and do whatever you want 2 minutes after starting the game. You don’t even have to get your revenge.

There’s something mildly disturbing about the Fortnite-ification of the American Military jerkfest that is COD. The game references real life events, conflicts where innocent people lost their lives. Seems to be a cognitive dissonance in my opinion to mix that with hip cartoon characters and pop divas with cute pink…

It’s a problem with the game design, because there’s no real narrative or gameplay drive to finish the main quests:

Having never finished the main quest in Skyrim or any Fallout game, this makes me wonder if that’s my problem with these games. Sidequests are far too distracting for me.

Don’t trust anyone under 30.

IIRC from when I lived near a Kroger, the sushi was made on site. I can’t speak to the quality of the ingredients (or the pay for employees), but I don’t think it was pre-packaged and shipped to stores.

I assume like most people, if there was a $1.50 delivery/convenience fee and then tip, sure, that’s fine. But an $11 delivery fee on top of tip for a $13 plate of pasta from the place down the street seems insane.

Replying to yourself so everyone else doesn’t get the notice to respond to your bad take? Sad.

I like Indian tea (Chai [which means ‘tea’ in Hindi]) myself. Deeper, richer, flavor.

I worked at a big tech company, and one of my jobs ended up being calling a small CAD company every quarter (or whatever), and asking how much we owed them for using one of their tools, cause apparently nobody there kept track of that.

Sounds to me like Boston Market will not survive much longer. Suppliers, rents, taxes not paid, all of that happens in error sometimes (although here too this seems a much deeper problem in this case) or other times gets remedied through some corporate reorg. But unpaid payroll reaches as far down the ladder as a…

This is good analysis. A good crust will cover up a lot of sins. A bad crust doo s you to failure no matter how good everything else is.

I vaguely recall being a kid in the 90s and my dad had to run the heat in his pickup truck on really hot days because otherwise the engine would overheat!

“Honestly, the only kind of steak I’ve truly enjoyed, either at a restaurant or at home, are bacon-wrapped filet mignons.”

Since most raw fish benefits from being frozen to kill off potential parasites and even to improve the texture of the final product, do you really need to be wary if you’re not coastal? You’re far more likely to get a high quality product that’s been frozen than a totally fresh fish that’s been handled properly from…