Luigi, where are you?

It was a different era. Only the poorest women wore only flats, and a large number of women wore heels everywhere except on soft ground. Basically from when they stepped out of bed in the morning until they went to bed at night. Granted, they may not have been particularly high heels, but they were stereotypical high heels.

Congee. It’s a Chinese rice dish. It’s not bad tasting, but it has all the looks and texture of regular boiled rice with equal parts runny snot. It even more closely matches the “runny snot” impression if it’s correctly salted.

Pork Shumai. Also Chinese, but actually delish AF. But like so many other Dim Sum foods, it also looks - if made correctly - like it’s dripping with gelatinous snot.

Chicken’s feet. Also Chinese, these are braised in soya sauce until they look like little clawed grave markers of an incompletely-buried avian body. You’re not Chinese if you don’t eat these with absolute gusto. Meanwhile I’m thinking if the barnyard poop indelibly buried in each crevice of that clawed monstrosity.

Sauce: married to ethnic Chinese first-gen for the last twenty years. I’ve been exposed to a lot of Chinese foods, especially those from the Canton region.

As a Canadian: fuck, no.

Poutine isn’t visually unpalatable in the least. It’s just fries with curds and gravy. Unless the kitchen did a total hash of the dish and fucked it up six ways to Sunday, there ain’t no way it looks bad.

It’s even better with extras in it, like pulled pork, wiggly bacon chunks, or chopped onion greens.

Sheep’s head, or sheep’s brain?

The former is fine.

The latter screams spongiform encephalopathy.

JFC, dude came boiling out of a shadow on the wall.

I had to watch it three times before I saw what the camera angle showed as a barely-there nook in the wall.

This is what heroes do. They run towards the danger, not away.

And current levels of production are the very stressors that are eroding the planet’s carrying capacity. When you have so much land taken up for agriculture, which poisons with herbicides and kills anything that gets into the fields and pollutes the waters with fertilizers and eradicates any biodiversity with monocultures, where is the room for a healthy ecosystem?

Again - CONUS has less than 2% “untouched ecosystems”. This is largely to mostly thanks to agriculture. It should be 80% or more.

This. Truly sustainable practices require a considerably lower profit margin per acre, thereby forcing the parasitical middlemen to give farmers more without utterly hosing the consumer for all that they are worth.

And some overproduction is required to handle lean years. While you cannot keep fruit fresh for years, you can convert it into almost-analogous forms like flash-frozen in the field, within minutes of being picked, such that it can bridge the gap in lean years.

So there always will be some overproduction and some waste in the system, but not to the point where it needs to be intentionally made inedible so it cannot be given away, in order to create artificial scarcity to sustain market prices.

Biologist: “define what you mean by ‘fish’.”

ducksandruns sorrynotsorry

https://medium.com/illumination/there-is-no-such-thing-as-a-fish-eca048dd6163

Except… the “eco-fascists” are also not wrong.

The healthy carrying capacity of a pre-modern civ Earth has been estimated at 2 Billion humans at a totally vegan diet. Bring a Western diet into the picture, and that drops to somewhere between 1B and 500M people.

I mean, yes, you can put every arable square meter of soil under agriculture and feed many more billions than exist. But this would utterly destroy the ecosystem within a few short years, causing a subsequent collapse of humanity to zero. A healthy ecological balance has 80+% wild areas - defined as anything more than 10km from any human access - and by comparison less than 2% of CONUS meets this definition.

And having overshot the planet’s carrying capacity by more than 4×, we have also caused a corresponding decline in that carrying capacity via ecosystem degradation, pollution, soil erosion and innumerable other stressors. If humanity is to see a significant collapse that includes tech collapse (fertilizer production, etc.), we will be exceedingly lucky to come out the far side with more than a few tens of millions of people planet-wide.

And for reference, before European colonization North America was likely to have had as many as 300M natives before Western diseases emptied the continent.

• No mention if it is EME-Free (no DRM playback possible)
• Settings and prefs and bookmarks sync is a strong want from me, I just want to do so self-hosted, and not via Mozilla’s servers.
• Lack of Windows releases means that the 78% cannot contribute/test, leaving only the 3% to do so. You can’t see significant adoption/testing/exposure by cutting off your legs just before a race.

If you were using any other form of RAID across multiple drives, you would be absolutely correct.

Simple mirroring? From what I have seen, that’s better done as HW RAID. There is no need to introduce software latency into a mirror RAID, and no benefit from file systems in a mirror.

And finally: how often are you going to be moving any boot drive from one system to another? I have been working with computers since 1982 and in the IT industry since 1997, and I have done this - for myself - a grand total of once. In every other case, I have wanted to use a newer or better drive in the new system, or wanted to re-do the install because reasons.

If you cut onions with a knife, sure. I use a Japanese mandolin called Benriner that is so sharp that I can get through several yellow onions before I start having issues.

1. I am not recognizing the drive. However, I would strongly recommend against QLC due to performance and reliability issues. You would be much better served by TLC or better yet MLC drives.
2. The motherboard can take two drives. It also supports on-board hardware RAID. I would strongly suggest getting two identical drives, and putting them into a hardware RAID-1 array for redundancy (remember: redundancy is not backup). This will also alleviate some of the aforementioned QLC issues, allowing you to run QLC drives more safely.

If you ever have difficulty recording the perfect fart, pureé up a kilogram of the freshest garlic you can find, and get me a travel ticket to wherever the sound booth is. Trust me, I could get you hundreds of the most exquisite farts from even a fraction of that garlic.

Sure, some will be short and wet and of the kind where you’re going to want to ask if I need to wipe afterwards. But most will be long and sonorous and reverberate across the entire room; the kind of farts where you wonder if I’ve got a full bassoon crammed up my kiester.

Not in the least.

1. History speaks volumes about the successes of violent revolution in the face of a violent state. It has almost zero examples of successful peaceful revolution against a violent state. Peaceful change only occurs against those who have a conscience, who have empathy. The current American administration fails utterly at conscience and empathy.
2. The only good Nazi is a dead Nazi. Any member of ICE has willingly abrogated their right to be treated humanely. You don’t coddle a dog with rabies, you euthanize them. These people completely lack the mental faculties to exist cooperatively in polite society, and should be isolated in the same way we isolate serial killers and mass murderers.

At this point, there isn’t much left to use aside from political violence.

And if you look through the history of effective political change away from fascism and totalitarianism, it’s pretty much 0% peaceful protest and 100% violent revolution.

Let’s start with removing members of ICE from the gene pool. I advocate castration as a long-term option of eliminating any genetic influence of fascism on future generations (low IQ, genetic propensity for authoritarianism, genetic propensity for sociopathy, etc.), but others may be in favour of methods that can more permanently prevent these fascists from terrorizing existing citizens.

Dogs only exist in the moment. Any correction that isn’t delivered within 1-3 seconds is going to have greatly diminished effectiveness, and anything beyond 5-10 seconds (depending on breed) is going to not be connected with the behaviour that caused you to provide the correction.

There are many breeds where, in general, the drive is so high that “force-free” training will be the fastest path to the euthanasia table. German Shepherd, Belgian Malinois, and many other herding breeds in particular. Sure, you might get lucky and score a “low drive” dog, but that is relative to others in the same breed – by comparison it will still make any golden retriever look like a high-as-a-kite stoner slacker. But a high-drive dog can and will get itself into situations where treats, toys, and other positive incentives will be utterly ignored. Trust me when I say that under those conditions, there is nothing in the “force-free training” arsenal that can or will reach these dogs to break them out of their focus. And when that focus involves aggression against pets or people, balanced training is the only thing that will keep your dog from being euthanized by the authorities.

Start training at an early age. Even as young as 8 weeks. Sit, heel, recall and others are vitally important in being able to control your dog without a leash, or if they slip the leash. Try to find a MSRP-priced version of Successful Together, as it will do wonders in laying down a good foundation of training.

Look for the videographer MK9Plus (can’t tell if British or Australian), they have lots of excellent reels on how to understand your dog’s body language. Method k9 is another one.

Manhandle your dog, especially when they are young and easy to handle. Don’t hurt them, but do get them used to being strangely handled, especially in cases like when they are at the vet.

Do not take your dog out on extended runs for the first year of life, their joints will thank you for their entire life.

Do not spay or neuter your dog, their lifespan and overall health will thank you for their life. Instead, consider vasectomies and hysterectomies instead, as these leave the hormone-producing gonads in place, leading to longer and much healthier lives.

I hope this helps.

Came here to say this. All three of the major desktop operating systems have built-in controls to ignore the closing of the lid. Being forced to keep the lid open to keep a laptop on is a rookie workaround.

And I see hierarchy as essential and required for anything beyond a small, isolated community of 50-200 people.

The difference being, through technology we can make despot-proof hierarchies that self-prune away those who hunger for power and influence.

For example, direct-participatory democracy is literally political communism, and totally eliminates all politicians. What remains is a network of functionaries and bureaucrats (invariably in meritocrally-elected boards of limited duration) whose sole employed purpose is to action the will of the populace in whatever ministry they occupy. There literally is no one single person in any position who can take any kind of control, and powerful checks and balances exist throughout the system to permit an effective and efficient but subservient state that can deal with issues at scales that small communities cannot.

The downside being that truly effective direct-participatory democracy requires three foundations to be in place:

1. A well-educated populace, that is drilled in bullshit detection and critical thinking from a very early age, so that it is very difficult to hoodwink any one significant part of the population. Likely under the Montessori style of education that has been shown to be wildly more effective than our current systems. Of course, such strong focus on effective education will also cause the extinction of conservatism, but oh well.
2. A strong social safety net (not even socialism, just close), such that pretty much all people are relieved from the immense stressors of poverty and economic inequality. This allows people to open up their headspace to focus on things other than their own daily struggles to survive. Such as the direction of society.
3. An actual separation of politics from capitalism, in that capitalism is no longer able to affect politics in any way. Powerful laws that outlaw the influence of money and other benefits to any bureaucrats in any position.

Once these three are solidly in place, direct participatory democracy can be implemented, and it is only after it has been, that communism has any chance of surviving.