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Desserts aren't my specialty.

Day 3 was busy as hell. But it was still rather nice! Even if it was raining because living right next to the Tennessee River more or less secures a bunch of rain when it's not sunny.
I also learned that eating Sonic with your boyfriend in your car in a parking lot is quite the fun date.

For anyone who can't contextualize how much driving delivery trucks do in a day, I notice that datasheets for the trucks at my FedEx facility will go from anywhere from 50-120 miles in a day, at least typically. Some go into Tennessee, which definitely adds to the higher end of that portion. Highway or even regular street driving doesn't kill fuel economy (or electric mileage) nearly as badly as constantly stopping and going every... 50-200 feet? Which is definitely something a USPS postal truck is doing comparatively to even a FedEx or UPS delivery van.
Having to constantly dig into the torque range versus being able to consistently (or even somewhat consistently) ride at a steady pace murders any gains in range and overall efficiency. 300 miles is 300 miles, but 300 miles means nothing without context in how a car is driven.

The point is that 300 miles while it sounds like a long distance when your going from point A to point B, is not that long if you are traveling twisty windy roads to every nook and cranny in a town which a mail truck does.
My own neighborhood/block is a giant loop, Ive found biking around it, it is ~1 mile. If you bike down all the culdesacs, its ~2 miles. If you take the "Mail Truck Route" you end up traveling 3 miles. - Why? Cause you gotta go through the loop twice, to deliver to the people on both sides of the road.

The mileage adds up a lot faster then you initially think. Apparently the highest mileage mail truck got 402,000 miles in ~10 years?
That said... Apparently the longest mail route according to some quick googling is ~187 miles, and is not ideal highway road.

 

You're the one who brought up the distances that can be traveled. You said that a Tesla can cross Iowa on a single charge. The route a postal truck takes is not across a state, and it's definitely not at highway speeds for the majority of the trip. 
I'm done going back and forth about this. Find someone else to argue with. 

Electric cars are overrated and their ecological benefits are greatly over-exaggerated.
 
Everyone is just "muh torque" and "wow how it accelerates in hyper ludicrous mode" and those same ignore the fact EV's are significantly heavier which means faster deterioration of roads, most of world still gets electricity from coal and gas, battery manufacturing is a rather dirty process of a lot of transportation of materials around the world, a lot of the world isn't sunny California and we have subzero temperatures for a big chunk of the year, charging is still garbage, charging stations and moronic app system is unbelievably retarded compared to gas stations, a lot of people have no means to charge them at home or near home and everyone is praising how batteries can magically be 120% recycled yet we don't know what will happen when entire world runs on batteries and they all suddenly start getting decommissioned after they get used up. And I didn't even touch things like power grid load when everyone is hooking up cars that charge at 50kW or more down to how governments will tax it all. Governments get huge tax money from petrol. Currently everyone is praising low cost of electricity just because governments haven't dropped that sweet petrol tax. Guess what will happen when petrol is sold in small quantities or stopped being sold entirely? You can bet your ass governments will shift petrol tax to electricity tax. You all should damn well know it'll happen. Oh and I didn't even mention the pricing. I know pricing and purchasing power is different in every country, but in mine, EV's are pretty much twice the price of petrol car. You have to be stupid to go into debt for EV or you're loaded enough that you just don't care.
 
There is just so many issues and if's with EV's that I'm just not buying it and jumping on the bandwagon. And so too many people just glance or ignore them and parrot same stupid overhyped talking points and ignoring the actual reality of EV's.
 

That definitely can't be said about the LLV, that's for sure. 

So far, this week's been pretty damn good! 

I get a good chunk of my furry porn from Twitter.

The last time I ate out with my boyfriend was in November 2019 and then a day later I broke my hip. The next time we had a meal together was on his 24th birthday.
 
We haven't seen each other since due to COVID and me being at risk. It sucks a lot, but at least we can still chat with each other on Telegram and we can hang out and do things in Final Fantasy XIV.

Water. Drink lots of water.
Coke
Coffee
Milk
You and I probably wouldn't get along  😉

Day 3 was busy as hell. But it was still rather nice! Even if it was raining because living right next to the Tennessee River more or less secures a bunch of rain when it's not sunny.
I also learned that eating Sonic with your boyfriend in your car in a parking lot is quite the fun date.

We were going to Anthro New England and needed something to eat, and there just so happened to be a Dunks behind us. I can't actually eat anything there tho so I just got a soda.
 
This was before Dunks started offering oatmilk as creamer nationwide, so I couldn't have the coffee either. In retrospect it probably woulda made me more alert while at the con lmao

I'm actually a fan of optical media as if it's stored properly, it's even more resilient than tape.

Read/Write is slower though and I think they top out at 100GB? For a BDXL archival disk. which is kinda small if im honest.

Cheaper than tape drives and tape though.

I think we just gotta take the broadly applicable part of it as good and just nod to the rest of it :p.

Summary
An advancement in optical disk writing significantly increases storage capacity while greatly reducing energy consumption and cost.
 
Quotes
My thoughts
Any breakthroughs in technology which increase capacity and decrease cost are welcome with open arms. I think this particular development in optical disk writing could have the greatest impact for platform gamers. As game graphics continually improve and game mechanics/dynamics become increasingly complex, the demand for next generation optics with the capacity to store these gigantic game files greatly rises. The industry has been shifting to allow players to download these files over internet connection as opposed to buying a physical game disk, but downloads of these games can take hours and eat up many gigabytes of precious local storage. Even game disks often only contain basics of the game and still require hours-long downloads before playing. This nanoscale optical writing could introduce physical game disks that are able to hold entire AAA games thus saving valuable time and storage.
 
Sources
Lamon, S., Wu, Y., Zhang, Q., Liu, X., Gu, M., 2021. Nanoscale optical writing through upconversion resonance energy transfer. Science Advances 7, eabe2209.. doi:10.1126/sciadv.abe2209
https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/7/9/eabe2209.full

That is... a sentence... even my EE background is having trouble parsing all that at once...

Context is a tremendous help.
Besides if we didn't pay attention to the details, the forum would be a free-for-all 😉
 
 
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Just to clarify (for those that may not know) report messages just need to be a brief but concise summary of the issue. No need for finger pointing or opinions. We just need to know what is going on so we can make an unbiased judgement and then act appropriately.

Yes :^) it sure is perfect for us 😛 

Nothing says "fancy date" like eating Sonic in a Kohl's parking lot in a Saturn wagon. 
Then again, it's perfect for the both of us.

Day 2 was a resounding success, even if @pinksnowbirdie almost lost his wallet lmao

Nothing says "fancy date" like eating Sonic in a Kohl's parking lot in a Saturn wagon. 
Then again, it's perfect for the both of us.

Nothing says "fancy date" like eating Sonic in a Kohl's parking lot in a Saturn wagon. 
Then again, it's perfect for the both of us.

Yeah, that's why I wanted to meet her sooner rather than later. I felt like after talking so much over the last few weeks, it was really important to know if we were compatible IRL to see if we could actually build something. I think it is abundantly clear we can.
 
We met on a dating site and neither of us had ticked the "Looking for fun/dating" box, we both checked the "Looking for LTR/Marriage". So we are both looking for the same thing. Neither us are looking to get laid or have a fun time. We both want something that can lead to a lifelong relationship. 
 
Honestly, we haven't even talked on that dating site for a couple of weeks now. We just totally moved over to direct texting and phone calls. So I think that is a pretty good sign. 

Like you said above, if it's online dating... things be wild and not really seeking a relationship, even if they might state that they do.
Else, its good if both got a refreshing start and enjoyed your time. While nothing ever lasts forever, it's a great way to know that both care and could build something together? 😜