Canadians must be doing well.

No, we aren’t. We are just suffering from regulatory capture and really, really wealthy home builders that buy up local politicians like they’re penny stocks.

We desperately need to import the Vienna Model, but then those brainwashed by Cold War era shite will start screaming “communism!!1!”

Lots of bad fumes and dust.

Can’t recall where I saw it, but I have run across a welding helmet that doubled as a respirator for exactly those conditions. Looked kinda like a full-face respirator only with a permanent clear plastic front and a welding mask that was in front of that and could be flipped up. Capable of working with beards, positive-pressure so no shroud needed over the nose and mouth that would otherwise muffle the voice.

Now granted: stupidly expensive. But the filter was on the helmet, not on the back or the waist (no hoses to get in the way). And it had a normal power-tool battery slot with adapters for the common ones like Milwaukee or Bosch.

And if they are near ovulating, they go freaking bonkers for shaggy facial hair.

Are we of different species?

I let my beard grow out in the winter, it is not thin or patchy in the least, and since my late 20s I have noticed that I get less attention with a beard than without.

Like, I can grow into a full “mountain man” beard, which matches my stature quite well. Yet… nada.

Now granted, I have also been in a singular relationship since my mid 20s, so I have been thoroughly off the market and not interested in the least in catching the attentions of other women. But I’m taken, not dead. I can still observe reactions and always appreciate positive attention; I just won’t act on it.

Science has shown that how easily you become wealthy determines how likely you are to shift conservative.

Boomers - in America and Canada, at least - grew up into adulthood during the most expansive period of the middle class in human history. There has never before been a time where someone with an 8th grade education could find high-paying employment and become moderately wealthy off of it with just a few basic financial techniques. It really was stupidly easy to live a comfortable middle-class life. Show salesmen and VCR salesmen could do this without any serious financial stresses.

So yeah. While some resisted the shift right, many did not. They climbed the ladder, and upon reaching the top they pulled the ladder up after themselves and told the younger generations, “fuck you, I’ve got mine”.

That’s what “starter homes” go for in my region. In CAD, but still.

Rent goes up faster than taxes.

And isn’t it fun when rent goes up even when the mortgage does not? And especially when the mortgage is fully paid off?

I was also told that about conservatism. Actually understanding conservatism and capitalism - and how fascism is essentially the corporate state - has bodily yeeted me so far left that I’m two shakes away from being an anachro-communist.

This is so stupid of that teacher. Because what is debt, if not a negative number? You use $1,400,000 from a bank to get into an entry-level, 50-75yo shitbox of a home in an old neighbourhood which missed gentrification, and what does the bank have on your balance? A negative number that you have to fill back in.

I have always wondered if some griefer could find an exploit that leveraged the ban hammer… and used a script that just banned everyone.

Like, literally everyone. All at once. Bots. Humans. Mods. Admins. No distinction. If you log in using the front door, the account is banned.

I’m not much for chaos, but abrupt chaos at a deserving target would be enjoyable to rubberneck at.

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In the shower?

Nah, man. I do that to my wife as a power move when I step out of the shower.

Even in this day and age, when furniture is being mass-produced, there is still a niche for those who create furniture by hand, without the use of assembly lines and CNC.

The same goes for software development.

The downside is that you need to become the creative, the “ideas man” that can come up with that bespoke solution that AI can never truly provide. And you likely have to do it on your own, or if you are lucky, in a small company whose entire identity relies on bespoke solutions and high-quality, high-cost work.

The vast majority of software developers will never be able to make that jump, just like how hundreds of thousands of furniture-makers in the early 20th century, across North America, were also unable to make that jump. Those turning out bespoke furniture today represent an almost-unmeasurable rounding error compared to the same numbers of craftsman a century ago.

But they still exist. They can still make a living. And so can software developers with the right skills and attitudes.

Cave bears used to make polar bears look small.

Oooooohhhhh…

Thank you for the patient explanation. No, I am about as Cis as can be, a full Kinsey zero. But I thought that my time of running across strange phrases I completely fail to understand would come when I am considerably older. Not in my sixth decade. While I am not “with it”, to spindle grandpa Simpson’s quote, I do try to at least keep my head above water. At least I know what this euphamism is all about, now.

😄👍🏻

I’m a service top

Sorry, a what, now?

Don’t you mean a foodie?

Can’t fleece us enough with stupidly-expensive junk food, now they’re also cramming advertising down our howling pie hole

the planet will live on and heal.

Unfortunately, this line of thinking ignores the elephant in the room: inertia.

There have been prior climate change events that have gotten up into the +8-12℃ range (which, BTW, means palm trees at the poles and the extinction of any land species over 45Kg/100lbs), but the difference there is that they have taken many hundreds of thousands of years to get there, allowing whole ecosystems to migrate across entire continents while continuing to sequester carbon.

Our changes to date have - when compared to the very-next-fastest event in history - compressed over 150,000 years of climate changes into less than 75.

This means that not only is there a massive amount of inertia involved with our changes - several orders of magnitude greater, which will force CC to continue on well after humanity completely ceases adding to the problem - but ecosystems are just going to die in place. They simply aren’t being given the time to migrate or adapt, leading to significantly unoptimal/degraded CO2 sequestering, compounding the problem.

Or, in other words, this inertia is destroying the brakes that could slow and eventually reverse CC.

Finally, as the sun ages over the millennia, it throws off more and more heat. The global average needed to cause a runaway Venus Scenario has slowly been creeping down over the last few billion years, and may have already crossed the +12℃ level.

Which means that, even if humanity just ceases to exist today, there may be enough inertia to kick off sufficient feedback loops (methyl hydrate eruptions, permafrost eruptions, etc.) to push the planet into that Venus Scenario, extinguishing all life on Earth.

Sweet dreams.

Source: BSc in Physics & Math, former classmates in the CC & biology fields. I read the pre-print evidence they are collecting and can see where it points.

Don’t sign in with Google or Apple or Facebook. They get data out of it and lock you into their platform.

This is why I have never used some services such as PushBullet. I mean, this service would be absolutely useful to me, but without a direct user login it’s persona non grata.

Said software resides in ROM - Read-Only Memory - and cannot be modified unless the chip is extracted from the phone and installed in a special EEPROM reader that permits/has the capability to write to the chip. The phone’s hardware literally lacks the electrical connections needed to write to that chip. Plus, these chips nearly always had so little extra room (as a cost-saving measure) that something as simple as saved phone numbers needed to be offloaded to the SIM card’s storage - from which it was impossible to run additional apps because, again, that functionality just didn’t exist.

And in many of these older feature phones, the in-memory footprint of actively running software was also well known, so RAM was limited (again, to save on costs) to handle only known apps, thereby leaving vanishingly little headroom and making an in-RAM exploit to piggyback in extra software equally difficult. Finally, most true feature phones didn’t have data connections, making it almost impossible to introduce data into memory.

About the only way data could get in would have been via SMS, and a feature phone has none of the SMS capabilities of modern phones - they could only display an SMS payload as raw text, they had no functionality to interact with that payload in any way, making zero-click exploits equally impossible.

Your concept of the term does not meet the industry definition:

Ultra-processed foods are highly processed through industrial techniques, have little or no whole foods and tend to have lower nutritional value. Their ingredients may include added sugars and salt, artificial colors and other manufactured additives such as high fructose corn syrup. Because of their industrial processing, you cannot make them at home.

That alone means that French fine cuisine is massively different, and wholly inapplicable.

And cutting down starches and sugars is one of the best first steps anyone can make. Especially bread, at least in North America, because there are massive differences between flour here and elsewhere like in Europe.

And a crapton of foods - that you would normally never associate with starch - have an extremely impactful super-starch that goes under many different names, most frequently “modified food starch” (often listed as “modified starch”, “modified corn starch”, or “modified tapioca starch”). Another highly prevalent industrial starch derivative frequently added to highly processed foods as a texturizer and filler is “maltodextrin”.

It is almost impossible to avoid super-starches unless you go on a near-perfect whole-food keto-style diet of 80% fruits and vegetables and 20% meat. And that gets expensive, fast.