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[-] PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 3 points 20 hours ago

According to Wikipedia, that slur is really only used in the US and Canada. If you go to the UK and say it, they will hand you a cigarette.

[-] PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 1 points 20 hours ago

Fucking good. I so hate Harleys.

Hopefully the incel crowd will succeed in branding them as 'too woke' or whatever and once the boomers are all dead, that's it

[-] PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago

Having been banned from every subreddit I ever subscribed to, this sounds about right.

Then you message the mid, nothing.

My favorite was when I posted one comment on some obscure have subreddit about the Ukraine war.

Then I was immediately bagged from like a dozen other subreddits, many of which I had never heard of. Reasons included violating political rules .. on a gaming subreddit about a game that simulates war between Russia and NATO. Go figure.

[-] PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 1 points 2 days ago

Where in the world is that? I have never heard of renters paying for maintenance.

In fact, every single rental agreement I signed over 25 years said "contact the landlord if there is a problem" which was backed up by state law.

[-] PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 2 points 2 days ago

Houses are not "one time labor.". Housing requires constant scheduled maintenance and upkeep over time.

Not to mention the financing required to pay for it all,which is normally spread over 30 years.

[-] PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee -1 points 2 days ago

Landlords also do repair and maintenance (jokes aside) to maintain the property in good working order / habitability.

At least, they are generally required by law to do so. Your laws may vary.

Landlords also prep the unit for habitation between tenants and handle all of the paperwork for rent and utilities (depending).

Maintaining housing is very expensive, and many people cannot afford to just drop $25,000 to redo a kitchen or reroof a building when it is required.

So landlords are basically the middle manager between your living at the property, and all of the maintenance and financial details. You pay rent to them for that service.

[-] PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 0 points 3 days ago

Old school sun block was mostly zinc oxide in paste form, so not really cancerous

[-] PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 1 points 3 days ago

People have been making clothing for ~5 million years or so.

[-] PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Have you ever seen an Australian rancher? They look like boiled lobsters

When you get old and spend a lot of time outdoors, you look like a dried up prune. Regardless of skin color, typically

[-] PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago

No one is running 450 km to hunt though.

[-] PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Another factor is, with endurance hunting, you will need to carry the carcass back to home base. So let's take am antelope, which weighs 125 kg. You need the hunters to bring that all back to base, AFTER the multi kilometer hunt is over.

However, as far as portaging, women are very adept at that: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head-carrying

Olympic shooters would make the absolute worst hunters, have you actually seen them shoot? It's a test of hand eye coordination to hit a paper target.

[-] PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago

Women have a higher pain threshold, and may be able to handle long distance endurance better. However, judging by existing tribal groups in Africa who still practice endurance hunting, that really isn't the case so it's probably bullshit.

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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.world

The first commercial PV solar product was nah just in 1909.

See story above, and original article in Modern Electrics magazine in 1909:

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015051407073

EDIT

Since people didn't read past the headline, the article is about a startup company in 1905 that developed a commercial electrical solar panel by 1909 and was worth 160 million in today's money.

In 1909, the inventor of the solar panel was kidnapped and ordered by his kidnappers to destroy all information about this solar panel. He was eventually released, although he did not destroy the solar panel or his documentation, he did shut down his company.

So this is a pretty fascinating development considering that at this time period we actually did have early production electric cars that were manufactured in larger quantities than gas vehicles, and now we learn that solar panels were commercially available, at least for a short time.


And the solar panels could generate a fair amount of electricity:

500 volts per 10 square ft, and a smaller demonstration panel that was 3 ft x 4 ft could generate 60 watts of power (10 volts @6 amps).

Additionally, the panels were designed to charge a battery backup system.

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Foreign LLC continues to acquire land in California critical to energy and national defense.

FAIRFIELD, Calif. (KGO) -- The United States Air Force is investigating a company that's purchased $800 million of land near Travis Air Force Base, one of the most critical military bases in the U.S. But after eight months of investigation, government officials have been unable to identify who's behind it nor rule out any threat to national security.

Flannery LLC was founded 4 and 1/2 years ago and was registered to a Washington DC-based law firm.

There is no information about the actual ownership of this LLC. The previous Reddit thread from 4 years ago has some interesting tidbits of information that you may be interested in reading in addition to the new article.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Sacramento/comments/c96bkb/a_mysterious_corporation_has_quietly_bought/

What's additionally interesting is that the land that they acquired around Travis Air Force Base will be bayfront property with future sea level increases of between 3 to 5 ft. NOAA has predicted the sea level increase will blow by that with a 7.2 ft average global sea level rise by 2100.

So either we have a secretive Chinese back shell company acquiring critical infrastructure and land for spying on American military assets, or a very optimistic wealthy investor with way too much money and is getting creative in what kind of investment schemes they park their money in.

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