As an update I have since started using standard gas as the manual recommends and think the performance might actually be better now

I use it in my 50cc motor scooter since it’s got a barely 1 gallon tank that lasts me ~2 weeks a fill, so the price difference is negligible

I figured the higher octane would make a noticeable difference since it’s such a small engine

But reading this thread I’m now thinking maybe I shouldn’t do this?

it brings me genuine glee to see a Technology a Connections link replied to a Climate Town link like those are two of my favorite things

Mainly that they adopt popular writing and editing conventions and do them well, so that they’re genuinely captivating in addition to being educational, thus making the info more accessible

That’s the first book I ever encountered with an ending that made me angry.

i wonder how much of the Empathy for Cute Animals but Not Humans effect is due to not many people having bad experiences with cute animals but plenty of bad experiences with humans

I, however, have the unique privilege of having had a sister who owned a deranged rabbit that she let roam the house. I once woke up from a nap to it biting me hard enough to draw blood. That thing was a furry asshole.

What little unrepressed memories of Watership Down I have seem to corroborate that rabbits are surprisingly violent…

I’m mildly fascinated by diprosopus and found ye olde depictione of it on the wikipedia page

couldn’t you argue that’s the meddling sun and not the computer

oh god i’m so sorry guys i would have tried to tidy up a little if i knew you were coming over

11/10

i’d bet it’s entirely possible Samos can yell loud enough to knock an eyeball askew

i am the trash

heineken light is also impressively satisfying for a lower calorie beer, gotta say

i had some good times squeezing every last package down to the bare minimum and watching my RAM and CPU utilization approach 0% via the resource monitor widget for tint2

only to have the laptop crash from tying to get a little too creative with fractals in Synfig :]

my body

do you have any recordings posted anywhere? i very much enjoy bluegrass

so many confederate flags

A brown bear and polar bear case the joint from across the street, taking notes. Their black bear accomplice rejoins them with a gummy grin. “These idiots are a good mark. They don’t know to fight back!”

me, who definitely knows how to and in fact totally prefers to build everything from source: [nervous laughter] yeah what kinda dingus exclusively uses .debs amirite?

Is knowledge better if it serves a purpose, like improving your art?

In my opinion knowledge that serves a purpose (improved art, medical science, applied engineering, take your pick) is better than “trivial” knowledge, but even trivia has purpose (it can entertain and inspire) and sometimes converts from trivia to “useful” knowledge when combined with new science and tech. A good example is pure math, here’s a stackechange thread about mathematics areas that were found to have applications well after their discovery, by mostly mathematicians doing math for the sake of math.

Should art serve a purpose? Is beautiful enough, or should it be useful?

If you mean its physical form has a function other than to be perceived by humans for entertainment and inspiration, then sure, why not? But maybe not always. :) Also of note, not all art is necessarily beautiful. I would say a fair bit of “useful” or otherwise multipurpose art is quite ugly. Shock films, muckraking journalism, and hostile architecture come to mind as examples.