benjohnson

Only if they have a breakthrough infection - and that is very rare.

That is low for an off-road vehicle where civilisation could be quite far away. My Suzuki and Chevy off-road vehicles are calibrated the same. My Buick thinks low is 24 miles of range.

No - on a local level, people of goodwill from both parties can do meaningful good for all our citizens.

This doesn't have to be a R vs D issue.

Locally, I live in a very diverse area, and the typical customer has skewed much less 'good-old-boy' in the last two years.

The 'good-old-boys' are generally very happy with this and love to see new people of all backgrounds take the first steps toward citizen ownership of firearms. While there may be other disagreements on a political level, those barriers seem to be forgotten when people of good will help each-other out.

That's an interesting point - if indeed Facebook is providing a service, then using that logic they can't discriminate on providing that service for a protected class engaging in speech if they provide the same service to the public.

If we are going to be consistent on what a service is, and what speech is allowed on a service, this could get really interesting.

The federal fuel economy standards have a weird calculation that incentives vehicles with a large footprint. It's the ratio of footprint to MPG that's important to the feds.

I'm very pro covid-19 vaccine - it probably saved my life.

I am however uncomfortable with the idea that the state can compell an individual with incentives or the implied threat of travel curtailment to accept any medication.

Especially when those of us who do not want to get Covid-19 can get the vaccine and leave the others to their choice.

While the "slippery slope" is a logical fallacy, it's also an observation that often rings true.

My view as an American:

I trust my sketchy neighbor with a gun much more than I trust the government with a gun.

Perhaps it's the same trend. Citizens having control over arms is a classical liberal idea.

For me, there's a difference between boycotting a powerful corporation by not buying their products or services and starting an angry Twitter mob to badger someone so much that they quit a large aspect of their life to protect their friends and family.

Neither tactic is exclusive to the left or right certainly.

There's an economic problem with well made smaller homes - they have all the detail of a larger home without the square footage. Hence the cost per square foot is much larger than you would expect.

It's good business to keep your customers alive.

For me, I stopped watching TV twenty years ago - but then transfered my neurotic novelty seeking behavior to the internet. But because I quit once, it made it easier to reign in my mindless internet consumption. And then stop any mindless book consumption. Then mindless video-games.

So for my - "No TV" is a easy way to express "I'm trying to maintain a ballance between living a vigorous life and consuming meaningful media"

Keeping me and my family from a horrible death is good enough motivation for me to keep working.

And that's ok. When I work, I also provide value for others and they give me valuable things in return - like money for food.

Yes. Private school do have 'propaganda' - but that's perfectly ok if it aligns with the parent's wishes. As the parents, we have the right to chose how our children are raised.

Agreed. Whistle-blowers are a needed if we want to be able to correct the course of our society.

If the weird offspring are really bitter, stop eating them!

You probably won’t die but you’ll be quite miserable. Apparently, once a gourd starts not breeding true, it can revert to a form with way too much bitterness - we humans have trouble with the chemical and get quite sick.

https://www.anses.fr/en/content/beware-inedible-gourds

That's....not your fault.

There should have been a label on the computer near the keyboard jack written by the people who knew about the problem.

If you didnt make a label afterwards yourself, the next keyboard-based outage would be your fault :)

I'm glad it worked!

As I understand it, marking your check "paid in full" combined with the cover letter is what potentially worked for you. Simply writing "paid in full" on the check generally isn't sufficient.

More info form real attorneys (unlike me)

https://www.lawyers.com/legal-info/consumer-protection/banki...

You may not be interested in the culture wars, but the culture wars are interested in you.

-Lean Trotsky (paraphrased)

I was left unsatisfied, but also grateful that the author is capable of being vulnerable by being forthright in their introspection.

May I have that courage if needed.

It's a very unique universe that quite a bit different that ours - It would require an infinite amount of energy to communicate that call leading to infinite entropy. Given that the moves happen instantaneously, the first guest to arrive would instantly cause the heat-death of this universe.

Thanks for answering! I think I get it.

Any idea on if directing guests to move randomly would work as well as directing them to move in patterns?

I think this is a fair point - if there's a one person to one room correlation, then moving people around isn't exposing any additional empty rooms.

It seems we're using the 'hey-everybody-move' as a buffer to accommodate new guests.

Two questions:

Is it ok to think because there's an infinite amount of moving, this buffer is infinitely large?

Why can't we tell guests to just keep moving to random rooms? Would that also solve the problem? If you say no - random moves don't work - then I would propose that some of those random moves would fall into the outcomes of Hilbert's formula. Is that not sufficient?

Because they were caught in the act as they were doing it.

I suspect it's just more quantum trickery that we're seeing a duplicate.

I keep an old phone around with a duplicate Authy setup. I also photograph the 2FA code or QR code and print it to a safe place.

If you're referring to the Christian tradition that the author brings up - it's usually men that are admonished by that tradition explicitly, because men need to hear it. Generally, it's considered that women and mothers don't need as much instruction being a later (or more fulfilled) act of creation than men.

It's also why the deceiver focused on Eve first - if she fell, Adam would surly follow.

Can confirm - recently was in a 1970 GM car and the windshield was covered in dead bug guts at the end of the drive. On the way home, my 2008 GM had nothing.

This is a good fun - but there is a 13th century painting that does make you wonder a bit:

https://home.ubalt.edu/NTYGFIT/ai_03_illuminating_love/ai_03...