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'Unprecedented' and 'Very Dangerous,' Hurricane Beryl Explodes Into Category 4 Storm
  • Hurricane Beryl continues to defy all known logic, now becoming the first June Category 4 hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic Basin. I can't even stress enough just how completely absurd that storm is.

    But that just means we have room for new records, like first cat 5 storm in June! We wouldn't want to stop making WRs, right? /s

  • Heatwave is no joke...
  • Yeah, there was definitely a point where I'd have thought the same. Then I started shifting the setpoint up little by little. It's something that takes time. But if you spend a lot of time in a place that keeps it way too cold all day, it's harder to adapt. I guess you could just intentionally overdress, so you are a bit warm despite the cold temperature, but that seems like a waste.

  • Uber and Lyft now required to pay Massachusetts rideshare drivers $32 an hour
  • Because part of the time they aren't being paid at all for their work and a good chunk of that money goes into the vehicle and fuel itself. After accounting for all the unpaid labor hours and expenses, it probably still comes out sub-minimum-wage.

  • To serve his country, Donald Trump should leave the race | Editorial Board
  • Biden being replaced by a progressive like AOC or Sanders isn't even remotely likely though, which is why I didn't mention all of the people who won't vote if they're not motivated to who'd come out for someone like AOC/Sanders/Warren/etc. And replace him with a "moderate" who didn't support Israel, and you'd get a lot more votes from people who are alienated by that issue.

  • To serve his country, Donald Trump should leave the race | Editorial Board
  • I’d love to see a true progressive, but there are an awful lot of people who simply won’t vote for one. So I’m sticking with Biden and hoping for the best.

    There's an awful lot of people who also simply won't vote for someone in Biden's physical condition. Don't even need to replace him with someone progressive. Most of his voters are "blue no matter who" people who wouldn't care if he was replaced.

  • Custom Linux Distribution just for Gaming
  • On one hand, I think some data is better than no data, so I think its fair to say that there is a lack of evidence for it being better in terms of in-game performance after setup based on it and that should just be the null assumption anyways.

    On the other hand, its been over a decade since its been pretty well known that average FPS is not necessarily reflective of overall performance and throwing the frametime data into a spreadsheet and doing =percentile([range],.99) and =percentile([range],.999) and then dragging it to neighboring cells seems like a pretty minimal extra work for a commercialized channel. For niche testing like this, I'm less bothered by it because having some results seems better than nothing, but its still nice to see it pointed out.

  • Heatwave is no joke...
  • Acclimation just takes practice. Its not like southerners are genetically different. And plenty of southerns have the same problem because they're willing to pay like $500/month to keep their houses an icebox in the summer and don't spend time outside in the summer...

  • Meat is expensive.
  • I drank like a gallon of milk a day before I went vegan and products containing cheese, eggs, or chocolate were a good chunk of my diet. I lost a lot of weight changing diet because there was very little left to eat out of my already very limited diet, so I just didn't want to eat. Also, I never really considered myself a vegetarian before going vegan... like I didn't eat meat, but like I also didn't really eat vegetables for the same reason.