Also, as I learned from having a wife who needs to watch her sodium intake, less sodium doesn’t necessarily mean low sodium, which I believe has a legal definition. You may need to shop the higher end brands that come in cartons, not the store brand cans. But I think a little splash should help pretty well and last a while
I was going to say that’s a long time, then I realized I’m not too far behind! 18/13 for us.
Keeping them on edge 😏
Would it have killed them to say who, though?
Oh yeah, clicks.
“I’m coming!”
-Lemmynsfw owner, probably
Fuck that headline. It was the president of Portugal.
I live in Denver suburbia, travel to the Midwest a couple times a year, and would say that 95% of the ones I come across work just fine. Outdoor ones can be a lot more hit and miss but other than that things are pretty reliable.
Also, there’s a Lowe’s near me with… I want to say 6 of them all next to each other. It was a really oddly overbuilt setup.
It most certainly is
Basically a repeat of 2014 after Russia took Ukraine Crimea and 8 years later they wanted more and there was nothing to stop them but the Ukrainian pushback (which, honestly, kudos for holding out this long).
So what’s going to happen in 2030?
I’ve got an Openrun Pro 2 after my Openrun Pro started getting a weird rattle after a few years of daily use. It leverages a little speaker tuned to be used just outside the ear more than bone conduction, but the app does let you go to a “classic” mode that relies on bone conduction more. Either way, I’m really happy with it. The one thing to keep in mind is that it has zero noise cancellation, so it’s pretty terrible in places like airplanes or when you mow the lawn.
So every public infrastructure project in every country is cause for a reminder of the dumbassery going on here? Both projects are coming out of taxpayer money, and that’s where the similarity ends and the non sequitur-ness begins. As you say, one is actually being used for something useful.
If you want to talk about wasted money, how about that bridge in India with a 90° turn? At least that one is, you know, a bridge.
Talk about a non sequitur
I’ve heard a fair argument in favor of diamonds that their hardness means they last a lot longer for everyday use. Softer gemstones are more prone to wear and tear over time.
But as far as I know, that doesn’t mean it can’t be artificial.
I use Trello for a lot of stuff. Shopping lists, to-do lists, keeping track of tasks needed for whatever home project I’m working on, and lately I’ve been doing it for work tasks since I’m juggling a lot of things with dependencies that come and go. Most of it relies on kanban boards, which basically means different columns and stuff in each. Work to-do list has a column for stuff I can/should be doing, stuff I’m blocked on, stuff that may need a little polishing but it’s nearly complete, and stuff that’s actually done (gives a little motivation). Shopping lists are separated by store. Stuff like that.
Unfortunately it’s one of the subscription cloud apps… But their free version is very usable and hasn’t been overly enshittified… Yet.
Try it and see - cooking is meant to be a learning experience!
That said, a little fat used just right (even distribution helps - mix it up in a bowl beforehand) can go a long way. Tomatoes are plenty healthy, and a little oil won’t ruin that any more than a little dressing won’t ruin a salad’s healthiness.
The best dishes have a good balance of fat, salt, acid and heat. If you’re cooking a bunch of tomatoes, I’d use a small amount of olive oil, salt or soy sauce, maybe a small dash of balsamic if you want an extra dimension of acid (the tomato supplies its own too), and garlic powder (or skip the salt and use garlic salt) for a little heat.
A few things:
It’s baked into everything whether we like it or not. I’m so tired of that damn star emoji everywhere, especially when it replaces basic search functionality we already had (looking at you, Amazon)
It’s dependent on other people’s work (LOTS of it) which is usually acquired through sketchy means - all that to compete with those original creators
The slop. Oh, the slop. Slop that’s often used as SEO fluff. So you have one bot working to please another. Humans are an afterthought
I’m legitimately afraid that it’ll take away from our understanding of things and critical thinking by relying on it too much. On that same token, once we rely on it and it gets manipulated, so do we.
It uses a ton of energy to make it happen
Those are just the things I could think of offhand before going to bed. I’m sure there’s more.
Ehhhh. There is a little more nuance to “thing that caused harm to you” - if my grocery store decides to stop selling some company’s granola bar due to poor sales, they’re probably not obligated to continue stocking it even if discontinuing it would cause harm to the granola bar producer. I would imagine there’s something in Valve’s terms that doesn’t obligate them to be a dev’s retailer any more than that developer is required to let Valve sell their product. And there is probably some clause in the contract between Valve and the payment processors.
As for the devs going against the payment processors… I have a hard time seeing a legal avenue there. It’s harder when there’s no direct relationship between the devs and payment processors and each party was likely exercising their rights under their individual agreements.
My bigger point is that suing for going against the desires of the users isn’t really a thing while trying not to get too deep into the weeds.
maybe [sue] for abusing their power as an oligopoly or going against the desire of their users?
You can’t just sue for [bad thing], at least not successfully. You can sue for [illegal* thing] or [thing that caused harm to you]. Lawsuits are designed to make you “whole” after suffering “damages” - sometimes you have to work really hard to prove the value of your damages if it’s not directly money-related (for example, emotional distress or pain and suffering)
The things you mention are also quite vague. What exactly constitutes an oligopoly? Laws have to give some definition to that when making something illegal or whatever, otherwise a court can essentially throw the whole law out for being so vague it can’t really be followed.
What’s more, when you talk about censorship or going against the desire of their users - what about the freedom for a business (any business) to conduct themselves as they want? If my customers all want chocolate cake, but one day I decide I can’t support my cocoa suppliers anymore and can’t afford ones that operate more ethically, should they be able to sue me for taking that off my menu?
* even illegal is kind of split into different areas, civil and criminal. You can sue if your landlord withheld your security deposit without giving an itemized list, because the law requires it in some states. You can’t sue someone for using a fake ID to buy a beer, because that’s not a civil matter and as a regular person you have no skin in the game
SGI (if you really can’t figure it out, stable genius intelligence)
I’m very much against AI slop and hate how it’s the most prominent use in day to day life.
With that said, I work for a small government contracting company. We are careful about what we bid on, and of course it’s not a sure bet that we’ll get it. There is a lot of boilerplate stuff in these proposals. When I was on the bench, my boss asked me to help find some AI tools to help with proposal writing.
Honestly? I can see it being used in cases like this. I wish there weren’t so much fluff needed in these things, but that’s the hand we’re dealt. It’s not necessarily worth hiring another proposal writer for what we do, and I certainly wouldn’t use its output as-is without knowing what you’re proposing, but to get some decent starting verbiage, section by section, to be adjusted after? Yeah, I can see that being useful.