The ceilings here are super high. I wouldn’t be able to reach it. Would a heated ceiling be all that efficient?

I am not on the ground floor, and I thought maybe it would be some under-floor heating thing like you are saying, but I have walked all over the room in bare feet and felt no heat in the floor.

I’m not sure how else it stays that warm when it is below freezing outside.

Gen-X here. We had to figure out acoustic modems and we didn’t have internet, we had local BBSes.

We also had to figure out the C-64.

LOAD “$”,8,1
LIST
LOAD “WHATEVER”,8
RUN

You don’t already?

Do you even want that IT job?

You’re fooling yourself. They were living in a dictatorship, a self-perpetuating autocracy, in which the working class dinosaurs…

Just because T-Rex has those little arms didn’t mean it wasn’t good at typing!

Are you saying his theme song is a lie? Because it says he’s going to take pollution down to zero!

Same thing you can do with half a hole. Fix it to keep your mind from wandering.

I had to explain to someone here on Lemmy that Satan in Job is a rival god, rather than the Satan Christians think, of since it came from before Judaism was monotheistic. The word literally just means ‘adversary.’ Job is about two gods having a wager. But Christians (and the rest of the western world by extension) are ignorant of the fact that the largest role anyone called Satan has in the Bible has nothing to do with Christian mythology.

And then they decide to conflate the serpent in the Garden of Eden with Satan because reasons.

Edit: Note to self. Do not try to write longer posts with your phone.

I’m not sure you want to take the advice on how to not anger the gods from a scroll from Herculaneum.

Unless you do the opposite.

I’m thinking “black” is kind of an important word in a lot of scientific applications that have nothing to do with medicine or biology.

I would almost guarantee that the NSF requires you to publish in English.

We just emigrated to the UK and my daughter is having trouble finding friends… she finally met a kid her age and the kid told her that the N-word isn’t offensive in the UK.

Fucking what? (Yes, I know it is just as offensive here.)

And we lived in Indiana, the Middle Finger of the South, where the KKK was re-formed in the 1920s.

So now she has to start all over again finding friends. She was pretty upset and I don’t blame her.

What’s really fun is that “gypsys” can refer to two entirely different groups of people, both hated out of pure bigotry.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romani_people

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Travellers

Yeah, I clearly have a good reason to lie about that, which is stuff. Either that or things. Or maybe because shut up.

I think the people we’re renting this from would not want us to do that, but I’d just like an answer.

Possibly. I honestly would not know how to tell.

I stop noticing it after I’m in there long enough, like after a shower, but that may just be length of exposure.

Tar and rubber and asphalt all seem like they could be elements, so yeah, it could very much be that.