ChaoticNeutralCzech

I thought the regulators count their energy consumption in the weird, ambiguous unit of “gasoline gallon equivalent” = 33.4 to 33.7 kWh.

Umm… I don’t? I pay for electricity in kWh. This is about electric cars.

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Good but does anyone outside the US even use equivalent gasoline volume to measure electrical energy? Ergo, how much is that in kWh/100 km?

Cannot extra precautions be taken such as the jury connecting via video-conferencing from another room, with only the judge being able to see the screen?

Not a computer game but Tetris-like, Lonpos Cosmic Creatures had me thinking which of the irregular pieces fit allong any jagged edge for a while.

Obviously not the first but might win a “most basic browser currently maintained” competition if it qualifies (not if HTML rendering is a criterion).

I have never used iOS but I’d guess that makes browsing on it a little less convenient than on a terminal with curl.

Which Truth?

Campaign donation loophole

That’s why “availability” is a core tenet of security (according to some cybersecurity course I took). It is easy to prevent unauthorized access to data if you have no requirements on authorized access.

Cool. I wonder what it would take to make a traditional 2.5D one but it’s not worth it, it would look out of place.

If it’s as sturdy as it looks, you’ve got an excellent shed for years to come. This is way better than what people in my country usually build for similar purposes. You should not compare your DIY work with the mass-produced designs.

Yeah but he entered office 7 years ago. I guess he was less senile back then but idk, I have rarely heard him give non-scripted speech. But anyway, I concede that I had him stay on topic for uncharacteristically long.

— Mr President, we can get you a stamp that says 🅁 for “read”.
— Meh.
— Or a roll of golden 𝗧𝗥𝗨𝗠𝗣 stickers.
— Yeah, I’d like that, that would be really cool. Make sure the letters are sticking out, like pushed up from the paper. And make them look like the letters on Trump Tower, I really like that. You know what, I’d like a hundred, no, a thousand of them, I’ll just try them out – you know, I’ll see if they are any good.
— Great! Anything would be better than you destroying the documents you’ve read.

(A week later, various items in the White House have one or more embossed 𝗧𝗥𝗨𝗠𝗣 stickers over them. The Oval Office carpet is still piling up with torn paper.)

— Mr President, we thought you would use the stickers to mark documents you’ve read.
— Well, I think they’re really nice on the table, and the drawers, it definitely looks wonderful.
— I see, maybe we could try a hole punch. We could do any shape. Or how about an “out” tray?
— You’re trying to tell me how to do my business? I’m a great, great businessman and I have always done this. For decades, and I’ll tell you: it’s a power move. You must show them what you think about their poor little reports, stupid little briefings, assessment portfolios… They need to have them printed, and I just go over the page, look at the pictures, and I have it in my head! When you do business, you can’t just put paper in your bag, like a wimp. And guess what? It works, it really damn works. I’m a great businessman and I’ve had some glorious success making deals, all kinds of deals. I’ll be listening to your business ideas when you have your own 100-floor tower in Chicago.

They are also used as parking ticket machines (in Europe we don’t have parking meters, you buy a ticket and display it on the dashboard, or in some places get a virtual ticket for your license plate). I don’t think the company exports these outside the Czech Republic, and Euro coins are not magnetic. So I’m afraid you’ll have to find another magnet-related exploit (maybe this)?

Here is a datasheet of one / photo. I don’t have the video of me fishing coins, I probably deleted it because it was unwatchable (it’s hard to fish coins while filming covertly!) but about 5 coins fit into the space behind the keyhole before they start being visible. The front panel is non-magnetic, unlike CZK coins, and the sound of fishing them out is very similar to throwing them in, so there is little suspicion unless you are at the wrong-gender toilet. Unfortunately, 10 CZK coins take effort to jam into the slot, so almost only coins up to 5 CZK ($0.25) get accidentally thrown in. Still, pays for my bus home.

A common public toilet till machine has a keyhole that looks like a coin slot. Turns out, HDD magnets are the perfect shape to fish out any coins mistakenly thrown in there.

🇭🇺 Sült tea / 🇨🇿 Pečený čaj

The name means “baked tea” and it is just as popular on Christmas markets in the Visegrád countries as Glühwein (mulled wine) is in Germany. It probably isn’t sold where you live but you can make it at home.

• Sterilize some jam jars.
• Take all sorts of warm wintery fruit (apples, pears, oranges, plums, raisins, grapes, strawberries, cherries, mandarines, blackberries, blueberries, currant, raspberries, figs, anise, lemons) and chop it into small pieces, like 8x8x8 mm at most. Remains from juicers are OK. Add sugar (300 g/fruit kg) and cinnamon (1 tsp/fruit kg), perhaps some spices (such as clove).
• Preheat your oven to 180-220 °C.
• Bake in an open roasting pan for 30 minutes. Stir every 5-10 minutes.
• (Optional) add 100 ml/fruit kg rum and mix it in while the fruit is still hot.
• Fill the jars, wipe their edges, screw on the lids and leave them to cool upside down.

To make the tea, put 1-2 tablespoons of the mix into a mug with 250 ml of hot water. Once you’ve drunk the fruity tea, use a teaspoon to eat the fruit.

You may argue that it is actually food, and point taken. However, for some reason this is the thing I think of when someone says “beverage”.

Some name brands still just rebrand white label products. Look if the same form factor appears on Ebay or has been reviwed by a YouTuber. Most will internally deinterlace the video with a terrible algorithm.