I wish this worked, but it only does for things that are popular.

As it stands I think I’m just going to have to back up my entire media collection for fear of not being able to get a copy during retirement - when I plan to watch a shit tonne of TV.

We have 2 ceramic water fountains that don’t have these problems.

The pump is hard to clean, but it’s worth it for the amount of water our little guy drinks.

No downvotes recorded my end. Maybe they miss-pressed? I fat finger the votes all the time.

Yes. Yes it was.

Ah very interesting, and yes theoretically I believe. Some people are experimenting with other gases due to the price and low availability of Helium.

Rebreathers are becoming a lot more accessible these days and so are making dives much cheaper, but they’re still $20k so it takes a while to recoup the cost.

https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argox

At a stretch perhaps, but it’s more recreational - I liken it to going to visit a castle, or going on a safari…just underwater!

Most welcome! I can talk endlessly about diving so welcome the question.

I added an edit with some more information incase you’re more curious.

Reducing the amount of narcotic gases in your mix so you don’t act like a drunk idiot when in a life threatening situation.

Those narcotic gases are nitrogen and oxygen (although there’s only so little oxygen you can have…and also only so much!)

Edit: extra info: oxygen and nitrogen are narcotic at depth, nitrogen is better understood and so often we talk about nitrogen narcosis, which tends to start hitting people after about 30m, but each person reacts different and to different degrees at different deaths. I personally notice it at about 50m or so. If I was more relaxed while diving it’d probably hit me sooner.

As a software person i have to protest at being called out like this. It’s the fucking weekend man…stop picking on me for just one damn day.

Perspective my dude. An insignificant small amount is spent on vanity.

I’ve used more helium on a single dive than I’ve ever used in balloons in my entire life.

I mean it is expensive, it’s just the amount required for a balloon is insignificant and thus seems cheap.

As a diver who uses helium I can tell you it is, compared to air, so much more expensive they actually charge me for it (rather than just rolled into the cost of a dive) - to the sum of about $300 a dive - depending on depth.

Wheat is an amazing “invention” because it is so calorie dense compared to other crops, I would imagine (just guessing, no expertise in the area) that plants that grow with less sun don’t get to be as calorie dense because they have lower input energy - and ultimately the conservation of mass/energy is a physical law.

Maybe I’m miles off with this guess - so don’t take it as fact.

Huh I prefer my kitchen being cut off from the rest of my house.

Ok I’m probably just a simpleton who doesn’t get it…but is this comic really suggesting that HTML5 I’d a negative thing, and worse, is the drumbeat of a tyrannical web?

I mean really…HTML5 is one of the best things to happen to the Web and the W3C is imo the essential glue holding things together.

Browser inconsistencies are so few and far between now it makes building an inclusive Web much easier, you can almost do it by accident.

Have you re-read your earlier message yet? People in glass houses…

I use a spell checker in my IDE. It would catch this.

Poe’s law

I don’t get it, what’s cringe about making a joke out of people’s selfish and exaggerated behaviour?

You must be fun at parties.

Who hurt you?