And it’s not even a good search engine either. It just spits out sarcastic jokes from barely up voted reddit posts.

Yes, because the shareholders want bigger returns on investment that the idealized ~2% rate of inflation.

Shareholders demanding ever increasing profits quarter after quarter is the definition of infinite growth. It’s not enough that a company makes a hundred million dollars in profits quarter after quarter. That number has to keep getting bigger. So yes capitalism as it operates todau does actually require infinite growth.

Personal injury lawyers might not be as big as they are, but lawsuits in the US are kind of important for more than just monetary compensation, it’s to have case law and in essence introduce new regulations. McDonalds didn’t just have to pay medical bills for the Hot Coffee lawsuit, but McDonalds also had to change how they serve their coffee. Its part compensation and part making sure it doesn’t happen again or if it does, there is a clear path for what needs to happen. As awful as it is to have something bad happen, it’s worse if we don’t learn and change from it and our system of incorporating case law is pretty decent at that, if imperfect. No legal system can cover every scenario, but if it can adapt as new scenarios arise then it is all the more resilient (although that does kinda assume our Judiciary is truly impartial and there are no cronies trained by think tanks to give the illusion of impartiality)

So a lightyear is an acceptable non-cancelation of units [(m/s)*year] but kilowatt hours [(j/s)*s] isnt. Got it.

It definitely does provide information as my 50 watt lightbulb will run for an absurd number of years when hooked up to a nuclear generator and will be completely vaporized by the nuclear bomb.

Also keep in mind your average person likely doesn’t remember their physics classes and how joules, time, and watts all relate to each other and that introducing new names to something just creates more confusion and headache and dumbasses phoning into their electric companies about how “my lightbulbs don’t take joules they take watts and why am I paying for joules when I want watts.”

kWh conveys the relevant information without introducing other names that can create confusion among the stupidest and most karen-like people you know.

The important thing is that leaving units uncanceled is a valid way to communicate the relevant factors of what a number represents.

Yes technically kWh cancels down to joules, but that doesn’t communicate the relevant info of how a device uses that energy during a period of time. In other words Work (Watts) multiplied by Time (hours).

Uranium has 2x10¹³ joules of energy stored. You can use all that energy at once in a bomb and explode a city in a second, a lot of Work done very quickly, ooooor you could put it into a reactor and power a city and do a lot of Work during a much longer time period.

Glad to see reading comprehension is at an all time high and I definitely didn’t explain how total joules doesn’t actually mean anything for something drawing power in relation to the time its drawing power. And I didn’t make any comparison about how a 2lb lump of uranium contains the same energy whether it’s detonated in a bomb or slowly released in a reactor.

Because the power draw of appliances is measured in watts, so a 60 watt light bulb when lit draws 60 watts of power over the course of one hour. So if I have roughly 100 lightbulbs at 60 watts hooked up to my house, then I’ll be using 6 kW of power each hour.

It tells us more information about the rate of use of that energy. It’s like the difference between a 2 lb sphere of uranium being exploded in a fraction of a second vs 2 lb lf uranium fuel in a reactor operating for however long that much fuel lasts for. Both contain the same amount of joules of energy at the end of the process, one just uses all of those joules in one go and the other slowly releases that energy over a longer period of time.

I could imagine a scenario where gal/ft² is useful. Like with grocery store shelving figuring shelving and product stacking. If liquid storage containers are stackable then you have have more gallons per square footage of shelf space. Or of they’re not stackable, then taller containers would hold more liquid in the same shelf space than shorter containers with the same footprint.

Yeah it seems odd to represent something as a volume/area, but that is the relevant information you’re comparing and it’s intuitive how that number changes based on changes to volume as projected onto an area. Bigger number points toward a more efficient use of shelving.

In general it’s asking another person to change their appearance to suit your preferences rather than just respecting whatever mood they’re in or how their naturally resting face just looks, it’s a dick move. Forcing a smile also sucks. It takes some amount of conscious effort to maintain a forced smile and smiling does engage quite a few muscles in the face, about 43 different muscles to make a smile.

Combine all of that with the history of women very much not having any kind of power in our society, and it takes on a more sinister tone when directed at women, hinting at the idea of someone’s only valuable because they have a pretty face and it should be pretty all the time.

Oh I’m sorry I didn’t realize you could just read my mind. I must have been mistaken.

Fuck off dude, no need to be a cuntnugget.

That’s where the doctor in charge of care says “nothing we can feasibly do will bring this patient to a better state.”

Sure, in a big 3d animation team, I’m basically a solo animator working with the tools I have immediately on hand. If I had a 5000 GPU Render Farm, then yeah, a Mac as a work station might work, but I’d still rather have a beefier customizable workstation than a Mac.

CPU isn’t the only specs I’m looking for, supporting a beefy graphic card for 3d rendering is also a must, at least for me to quickly get renders done, and dollar for dollar, getting a customized computer running windows will take me much farther and faster than any Mac will.

Sure the CPU might be amazing but CPU isn’t the only important part of a computer.

The problem is that the hardware is fairly underpowered to effectively use for any kind of demanding visuals.

Like if I were rendering out a big 3d scene, I’d want something with a fairly beefy GPU to crunch through the renders relatively quickly.

The “luxury” space. It’s overpriced hardware with an honestly relatively pretty aesthetic and the OS has so many guardrails they’re hard to really mess up, and when someone does mess it up, apple stores are ubiquitous enough that its a pretty quick trip to get it fixed. Perfect for people with a bit more money than sense who don’t want to or have the time/ability to figure out how to properly use a more flexible OS that requires a bit more knowhow to use and not break.

Boss make a grand, I make a buck, that’s why I’m stealing the catalytic converter off the company truck.

/j

Boss makes a dollar, I make a dime, that’s why I shit on company time

It’s worse they’re scared the government will go after their families. It’s not fear for themselves.