For what it's worth, I picked up Radio Australia on shortwave from Denver on a recently-restored tube radio (albeit a higher-end one). It was surprisingly clear too!

Ask anyone who works support how fucking stupid the general population

They're going to have a huge selection bias though - much of the "general population" will start elsewhere with things like documentation or brains.

It takes less energy to move heat than it does to produce it. A heat pump basically runs an air conditioner backwards, so rather than moving heat from inside a structure to outside, it moves heat from outside to in. With the right units, this works even in cold weather for the same reason a freezer gets warm on the outside - it's moving heat from inside the (freezing) unit out.

Geothermal energy takes this concept a step further by putting the outside unit underground. Underground temperatures are more stable and moderate, so it's easier (more efficient) to expel/collect heat, but also much more involved to install.

I can understand if you want to call any kind of Fiat currency "fake money" - doesn't mean I think it should be abandoned in favor of some arbitrary metal or whatever, but I can understand it.

That said, any kind of currency works when it's standardized. Obviously it will be regionalized by country or whatever. Making up multiple cryptocurrencies as alternatives to what we have now slides us in the direction of a barter system ("I don't take Bitcoin, you'll have to get that converted to Ethereum. Oh, BTC is down against that? Sucks to suck!")

And let's say the cryptobros get their way and we end up with (whatever crypto you choose) as a standard currency for the country/world/universe. Who would benefit most from that, and why should they? The way I see it, the early adopters would live like kings and if you didn't gamble on the right crypto early, you better hope you can get something for your assets, including the cash of today.

I forgot about that! And most songs sound like ass when you hear it over a phone, especially before whatever they did in the last decade to make voice calls more clear

You know what would make it better? If we had dozens of them!

I don't think that's going to be an unpopular opinion around here. Maybe a little tricky in the logistics of distinguishing between an artist and influencer and finding an artist who you like and can pay for a phone background, but other than that you're not going to find many Lemmings saying "no, pay an influencer!"

Remember when people paid for ringtones? Doesn't mean it isn't stupid, especially as a subscription, but people do stupid things and other people take advantage.

The problem is, I don't believe it's at a minute-by-minute level of granularity. If you're working several hours a day at tipped minimum, and the rest making well above minimum after tips, repeat the above daily and average at minimum wage for the pay period... That's good enough.

Honestly, if Twitter were rebuilt from the ground up, name and all, I could see people moving to it pretty quickly. Like, does anyone (real people. Not bots, not Elon, but real people) actually like X?

Unfortunately, so many local burger joints have a "flagship" burger featuring a Sysco patty, cheese, lettuce, tomato, and onion for $17, sides extra.

When I'd search "(location) weather" on Google (e: in Chrome) and I'd get a really nice at a glance forecast right on top. Do the same thing in Firefox and I'd get a whole bunch of weather websites I could go to. The former obviously being a better, more direct experience. I found an extension that fools Google into thinking it's Chrome and all works fine with that.

I'm amazed if this doesn't violate some antitrust regulation