I was thinking of central heat and air conditioning accessible to the masses for home use. But you are right that the history of HVAC goes back much farther than that.

Oh, and salmon sushi was invented in the 1980’s by the Norwegian fishing industry. Before that, no salmon in sushi.

https://www.npr.org/2015/09/18/441530790/how-the-desperate-norwegian-salmon-industry-created-a-sushi-staple

You know how you can push some buttons on your wall and your house magically warms up or cools down? I know people who were alive before that existed.

—Eminem

Relevant quote from St. Basil:

"Who is the covetous man? One for whom plenty is not enough. Who is the defrauder? One who takes away what belongs to everyone. And are not you covetous, are you not a defrauder, when you keep for private use what you were given for distribution? When some one strips a man of his clothes we call him a thief. And one who might clothe the naked and does not—should not he be given the same name?

The bread in your hoard belongs to the hungry; the cloak in your wardrobe belongs to the naked; the shoes you let rot belong to the barefoot; the money in your vaults belongs to the destitute. All you might help and do not—to all these you are doing wrong"

Okay all you generative AI image hobbyists, let’s see Legolas with big, shiny eyes!

Ethics? That’s for philosophy majors. Science and engineering majors already have too many other credits to complete.

No no no. “Un” means “one.” They are building the first in a series of forts. Canada is constructing its own version of the Maginot Line, but unlike the French they are extending it all the way to the sea (on both ends).

Wrong community?

Plemmy is a Python library that might be helpful for building a bot: https://github.com/Fedihosting-Foundation/plemmy

Also this Lemmy API reference: https://lemmy.readme.io/reference/post_community-ban-user

-cartilage in joints can regenerate

-body can synthesize its own vitamin c

Other species already do these things smh.

Pick a few Lemmy instances and look at their instance block lists. Compare the lists and pick out the commonly blocked instances. Within that select group you will find some radical free speech places where anything goes. Be warned that they tend to be cesspits.

I was just going to say the Saturn and Dreamcast are in the next graves over, forgotten forever.

Me, today, using the 3D printer at work to print knick-knacks for my kids.

I thought it was a typo, but no. They really are releasing the 2023 annual report in the last few days of 2024.

Started lifting 3 days a week and all the little everyday aches and pains disappeared. 10/10 would recommend.

Windsor, ON has entered the chat

I’m hoping for the faint smell of old cigarette smoke that’s permanently baked into every surface.

How large a flag are you flying? Simple window mount flag holders should work for flags up to about 18" x 12". For a bigger flag, if you have a trailer hitch installed you can get hitch mounted flag pole holders.

Nice flag, btw.