I have a 7mo baby who craves entertainment.

I keep making up lyrics to the theme from Ponyo.

He doesn’t have that kind of money.

He owns stock valued at insane prices. No one will buy 6B worth of stocks. Trying to crank it out on the open exchanges would make the value dive.

I think I’d be able to macgyver enough to get by for some weeks

The only prepper thing I have is an alcohol camping stove.

I have ~250Ah worth of charged lead-acid batteries in the garage. The only way to charge them would be my car.

I have a 50 liter compressor fridge/freezer that runs off 12V. It draws maybe 4Ah, so perishables would do fine.

Heating is en electric heat pump, so that’s a no go. I have an inverter ready to hook up to the circulation pump to keep pipes from freezing. The Mrs has an obscene stash of tea candles, so I guess I’d pop some of those under some radiator pipes to heat that circulating water.

The water tower in town would dry out in a day or two. We’ve got a well with our neighbours for watering, but it’s drinkable. I’d have to borrow the inverter for the pump to fill up jugs.

buy a hooker. smoke crack once. gamble $10k at one sitting.

Sure, but where do I go from there for my next high?

I’m not talking about substances, but things just don’t give the same highs as they used to.

Getting a new Nintendo game as a kid and you’re giddy all the way home, reading the back of the box.

Last time I bought a game I had been looking forward to for years it was lying in a drawer for a month before I even installed it.

I had my first kid this year, and it’s probably the best thing to have happened to me in the last few years. But I don’t think the joy I felt compares to that new NES game as a kid. I wish I still would get that kind of highs.

I’m pretty sure the last good day was sometime in 1996.

Ah. Yes.

June 26th 1996 while watching CBS 60b minutes. What a day that was.

Yeah, in the past I would have. I wish it still were viable.

With securitynet and banking apps refusing to do their thing on rooted devices it’s just too much hassle to pass the wife test.

The opening scene of Hackers (1995). Poor kid can’t use a touch tone telephone or computer until his 18th birthday.

That’s like taking away Mozart’s piano.

I open a can of jolt cola every time I get in. That’s why I’m so fat.

My wife has the 4a. She’s happy with it. I love how it fits in my hand.

But, I’ve been pushing her to upgrade because it’s been out of security updates for over a year.

I like The Yule Fiddler.

And Rush Coil’s mega man-inspired album.

If you visit a representative of the Finnish government in their office, you need to check in and your visit gets put on a list that anyone can request.

The same thing should be done for phone calls. If spend all your day talking to tobacco companies while being the head of healthcare, maybe you should be scrutinized.

Stock ownership should be public information as well.

Yes.

Mine does.

You can digitally “lend” a movie for a week and stream it once during that time. It’s free, but more cumbersome than the high seas.

There’s a lot of atheists in this thread.

The question was: what’s your religion?

Atheism is as much of a religion as ‘off’ is a radio station.

I do it for Mario platformers. I just can’t get any precision in my jumps when using my right thumb if it’s already busy holding the run button. It looks weird, and it feels weird. I’d rather remap run to one of the trigger buttons.

When I was a kid, we played pacman. A literal puck who eats pixels and takes turns chasing ghosts. We turned out fine.

It’s not like that’s what caused us to go to rave parties, listen to beepy music and pop ecstacy pills.

The EU has strict climate goals to push away from fossil fuels. The current goal is to ban the sale of new combustion engine cars by 2035.

The fuel here contains a bit more renewables, which also costs more o produce. Still, more than half of the cost of fuel is tax. They had a nice tax break for buying a new electric car for a while, but that window has passed.

Over in Sweden it would be hard to replicate these results. Gasoline is ~18SEK/l ($7.5 per gallon).

My electricity production cost changes by the hour, so I can steer my cost by charging when it’s costs are low. Taxes and transfer costs give me a minimum of about $0.07/kWh. A smart charger that picks when to charge based on price can probably average you a cost of $0.10/kWh over the year.

All rooms have their own thermostat. 19-21°C.

I’d go colder at night, but we have a newborn who doesn’t do blankets yet. Need to keep it kind of even for her sleeping bags.