Contemporary cars are mass-produced and have impractically many special and unrepairable parts. They're a real patchwork of different technologies that will become obsolete when switching to other fuel sources.

Also stamps and cash. Intricate prints meant to dissuade counterfeiting, which will be replaced by digital technology.

Getting paid for ownership.

Why then are all living things trying to work against entropy?

I am not just talking about human intelligence or behaviour, but every single living thing is trying to organise chaos into a habitable frame for themselves to survive and expand. Survival of the most symmetrical or whatever.

The point is... Why did every atom in the universe arrange to make cells to make organisms to make life to make intelligent life to counter entropy, if it was just entropy happening? Some say that life is just a temporary disease, but then why do these functions even exist, if they're not "supposed" to be used?

I don't think "the universe" has a say. Shit just happens, and it doesn't have an explicit reason to be chaos nor structured. Both are extreme cases of idealistic outcomes. If we assume that either will succeed, we have to ask what happens "after" and also "before" the universe.

I used too many double quotation marks. That's because quite frankly, I think it's a contemporary lullaby storyline. We won't ever know.

It is not though. All three words are of much older origin than English, and the connection does not exist in etymology.

To be fair, some of the institutional investors are part of the 20% who demands answers from Shell, perhaps because their own investors require them to make more environmental friendly investments.

It's a double edged sword. They need to have stocks to have a say. Arguing from outside only gets people booted off the premises.

I still have my doubts if the tactic of changing Shell and others from the inside works in any meaningful manner. My pension company say that they're using their investments to influence the companies, but it won't change anything unless they can form a majority on the boards. 20% is impressive but apparently not enough to sway the cold dinosaurs.

Personally I have chosen for my pension funds not to be invested in fossil fuels at all. It may bring a smaller return right now, but even strictly financially considered, I really don't want my money tied to fossil fuels in light of the quantity of electric cars being sold. Those customers simply aren't coming back to the gas station. Fossil fuels are no longer a safe investment long term. They'll be fighting to stay relevant for a long time, but it's only going to get more difficult for them as time goes by.

What can I say, I like it hot. Hotter than public saunas.

I was chilling in a sauna in a holiday resort, when some guy opened the door poking his head in "Phew, it's warm in here. Hey kids come over, they've got a sauna!". He stood in the door waiting for the kids to come around. "Oh my good it's unbearably hot, let's let some of that heat out, so we can breathe." "But dad, we don't want to go to the sauna ". Leaves without closing the door.

The top poster's wife is correct. Electronegativity is the key. It seems kind of intuitive, but very difficult to explain.

One definition is that metals can conduct electricity - as in exchanging electrons.

The periodic table is two dimensional. The vertical axis or rows tells how many shells or layers or orbits of electrons an atom has. As we go downwards in the table the exchangeable electrons are positioned further away from the protons, so the electrons are less attached and more likely to be exchanged by close proximity of other atoms.

The horizontal axis is the number of electrons in the outermost orbit. The rightmost ones have full outer orbits and don't have vacancies to exchange electrons, but as we go left, the atoms are more and more short of electrons to fulfil the outermost orbit = electronegativity= missing some electrons.

Combining this shows that the atoms most likely to exchange electrons are in the bottom left corner of the table, which is also the previously mentioned definition of metals.

Someone else pointed out that the actual distribution of atoms is very much not metallic. In the entire universe there is 73% hydrogen, 25% helium and only 2% of everything else including all metals. Even on a planet consisting of "everything else" very much, it's still rare to come by metals, hence their value.

The reason why metals take up so much space on the period table is simply that metals have a lot of different configurations which need to be described because they are different from each other.

I would've thought the AI could have come up with a better logo than a blue circle

I went to dog training and the coach was this old military kind of guy with cargo pants with one pocket full of sausages cut into pieces, all serious about dog communication.

The day before our "finals", he tells me: "You talk too much to your dog.", which I found hilarious.

I'm an introvert. I can easily go through an entire day without uttering a word, but he was right in some way. He would probably have preferred the dog to follow implicit commands just by look and sausages.

I don't do that. I don't demand blind obedience.

Just talk normally to your dog. It'll get it.

When my friends and I walked home from school, we'd always check the bushes behind the church for empty bottles. The refund from one glass bottle was enough to buy 4-10 pieces of candy from the pick'n'mix jars at the grocery store.

I find it interesting that people can have so very different experiences on this network.

Anyway, to delete your user, you'll probably need to do it in a browser instead of through an app. Login to your instance feddit.nl through a browser.

The "hamburger" menu in the top right. Click your username. Choose settings. Scroll down. Delete user.

Who carries the stick?

When I started working in the late 90s early 00s, every company had their own It-department. These days it's just some consultant or subscription to another company offering their consultants to do specific tasks.

This thread reminds me of why having an IT department makes good sense financially - today.

You can add up all the salaries, equipment and training costs and it'll still be cheaper than wasting time and money in meetings with consultants trying to either explain the task or moan about pricing.

Shit doesn't work, because they aren't paid to make shit work.

I can make code that works for me and I can make code that works for you. The price is different, but you also need to know what you actually want it to do, and I don't know how much money you are willing to sacrifice for us both fumbling around in that equation.

What he said is that he does the majority of his hobby on a Mac, but also installed music apps on Linux.

Apple managed to grab a good chunk of the market by making some well-functioning creative apps early on, but I'm not sure if they really have any advantage over Windows anymore.

Music production on Linux is still somewhat behind, due to limited software. People get paid for making that stuff on other platforms, so Linux developers are scarce.

Some of it is also moving to tablets and phones these days, so the kind of person to buy a Mac only for easy music production will probably just get a dongle for their iPad.

You'll still need a pc/mac for the full studio experience. Not because of software, but because its difficult to rig an entire music studio into a touchscreen with a single usb port. I mean, sure it's possible, but you don't want to. Latency, multiple monitors and a shit load of controllers make it physically impossible unreliable.

On the bright side for Linux, music production is actually very low demanding, so it makes perfect sense to run an old laptop with a low spec distro and still have the same options as the state-of-the-art rig. Young starving artists will probably go that way instead of buying Mac.

It's existentially dreadful.

Wasting your life commuting just to sit in a chair for 8 hours only to get paid barely enough to pay your bills for existing in the first place is a convoluted prison when you know that you have so much more potential, which again is also hindered by the same mechanisms that allowed you to turn on the TV and pretend that you lived today.

Sometimes you need to break out of the comfort zone and find another job or take some risks by stirring up trouble where you are. It usually pays off better to do so either way, instead of pretending that the comfortable job gives any kind of job security. There's really no such thing as a stable job. You only work somewhere until you don't.

They usually show up after I made a purchase. How many times do they expect me to be interested in buying this buy-it-for-life-product.

Putin says a lot of shit.

The attack is a fine excuse to get support for drafting more people to their wars. Couldn't have happened at a better time for him.

Meanwhile, Islamic state is posting videos of 4 guys celebrating their success all well and alive. They're not to be trusted either though.

When Putin says they're caught, it only means that he won't spend any time trying to catch them. He already found the rabbit that he wanted to find

Not UK, but I remember a cringy clip where a journalist attempted to interview the prince of Denmark (not the current king, his younger brother), and the prince keeps interrupting the journalist by saying "let's try that again" because the journalist used "you" in singular form.

Yes it's a furious courier transformation.