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I work in 911 dispatch. I think that there are some valid arguments for encryption. Hypothetically in something like a barricaded subject or hostage situation, you don't want the subject inside to be able to listen in on a police scanner to know what the swat team is about to do.

A lot of personal information also goes out over our radios, names, addresses, dates of birth, vehicle descriptions, medical information, a lot of stuff that people would probably rather keep private if possible.

But I'm personally of the opinion that as much as possible should be out in the open

I'm not sure exactly where the line should be for what should be encrypted and under what circumstances. It's a pretty tricky balancing act, and honestly to toe the line the right way we probably need massive overhauls to the kinds of radio and computer systems were using.

I can't speak to how common it is, but a few years ago I was camping in a rural part of PA, I brought my baofeng with me and loaded it up with the local repeaters before I went.

And when I was looking them up I was a little shocked to find that pretty much all of their emergency services were using pretty basic 2m or 70cm radios. Outside of the frequencies allocated for amateur use but still within the capabilities of most amateur radios.

Surely I thought I must be missing something, there must be some kind of encryption or something, but no, when I tuned to those frequencies I could hear all of their communications with my little $30 glorified walkie talkie.

I didn't try to key up on them, because that would be illegal, but I don't see any reason I couldn't have if I really wanted to.

I am very hangover resistant. I'm into my 30s now, I've only ever had one hangover, and I attribute that to a bit of blood loss (mishap trying to open a bottle of champagne with a sabre, I have now mastered that art)

I don't drink particularly often, I'll often go a few weeks without a drink, but I do occasionally find myself in a position where I get absolutely hammered and I wake up the next day feeling absolutely fine.

Years ago I was camping out at a music festival and got totally incoherently drunk, stumbled halfway into my tent and crashed there for the night. The next morning my friends who hadn't gone nearly as hard woke up all feeling pretty rough, and we're created by me already awake and making breakfast feeling fresh as a daisy.

I do tend to mix in plenty of water and food with my nights of debauchery, so I can't say that it's genetic or if I just happen to be doing the right thing. It's not a purposeful anti-hangover measure, I just want food and water while I'm drinking.

I'm not totally immune to the negative effects of alcohol though. I absolutely get red wine headaches, and a good night of drinking may sometimes give me a Charley horse the next day.

I took Amtrak from NYC to Montreal last year for the eclipse, I had a great time.

Would have been technically faster to drive, but the flip side is that I didn't have to drive, and it was a beautiful ride. And once I was there I definitely didn't miss having a car, I found everything to be very walkable and the subway beat anything I've personally used in the US. If the weather is nice I'd probably also consider using their bike share.

Assuming you're doing the same train, just a heads up that Amtrak WiFi is practically useless. Make sure you have whatever you need downloaded before then because a lot of the way had spotty or no cell service. Bring a pen, you're gonna have to fill out a form at the border crossing and pens seemed to be in short supply on the train. The Canadian border agents when we went seemed like they were kind of dicks, but I think that's just kind of a feature of border crossing officials around the world. Coming back the American ones seemed a bit more chill but a lot has changed since last year. The food options on board aren't amazing so you'll probably want to pack some snacks, but they'll hold you over for the ride.

Some other unsolicited advice/highlights from my trip-

If you've got the wiggle room in your budget, au pied de cochon was hands-down the best meal I've ever had in my life. In general all the food I had there was amazing but I can't recommend that place enough.

The biodome, planetarium, and insectarium were really cool.

There was a store we stumbled into in the plateau- mycoboutique, that sold all kinds of mushroom stuff. Dried mushrooms, mushroom foods, mushroom growing stuff, various mushroom themed bric-a-brac. My wife and I are big mushroom eaters so we loved that. The stand-out though was an ice cream made from maple milky cap mushrooms. It contained no maple, just the mushrooms and it tasted just like you'd want a maple syrup ice cream to taste.

Take some time to explore the "underground city"/RESO, for the most part it just kind of feels like a shopping mall, but it's kind of amazing just how far you can get around in the city without setting foot outside.

The art museum seemed pretty cool, but unfortunately the day we tried to go someone had apparently called in a bomb threat so we didn't get to see that.

Poutine, smoked meat, bagels of course.

Everyone we ran into seemed to speak passable English, and no one seemed to give us any attitude about it. I can stumble my way through some basic French pleasantries with my half-remembered high school French, and people seemed to appreciate my token efforts, but it's probably not totally necessarily as a tourist.

I'm from Philadelphia, in general Montreal kind of felt a lot like the best parts of Philly if we cleaned up and got our shit together.

There's not many cities I've visited where I'm itching to go back, normally I'm more of a woods and camping kind of guy, but I would definitely go back to Montreal in a heartbeat.

There's a small newspaper article someone unearthed about my great grandfather.

In 1920, he was sued by his neighbor for slander, claiming that he "called her bad names in the presence of other persons"

It stemmed from the fact that pigeons belonging to someone who boarded at her house, stole preserves belonging to my great grandmother. He went and got into an argument with the boarder. The neighbor came out and told him to get lost. She also said that judging by the racket in his house Friday and Saturday nights that he must be running a speakeasy

(Which honestly was not entirely unlikely, this would have been a few months before prohibition went into effect, but our home town did have its share of bootleggers and moonshiners back in the day. We are also an Italian family and I wouldn't exactly be surprised to learn there were some mob ties once upon a time, and it would kind of fit with some other random bits of family lore, but that's really just wild speculation on my part. It also could have just been that there were 7 kids in the house, plus probably assorted other family and friends at any given time, not many in my family have ever been accused of being quiet, and it was kind of a rough and tumble blue collar mill to n back in the day full of all kinds of colorful characters)

But anyway, he asked her "what kind of a house she kept and said some more" according to the article. And also said to the boarder that he had better be sending his money to his starving parents in Italy instead of spending on her.

Defendant (my great grandfather) made denial charges. Verdict for the defendant.

I love that it seems to be an agreed-upon fact that these pigeons did in fact steal my family's preserves, which I assume means jellies and pickles and such.

Your dog is awesome.

Your job is pretty cool. I don't think I'm ready for that yet, but I'll keep that on my radar.

Your beard and moustache are epic. Shame about the hair, but I knew that was coming.

Congrats on getting married, can't wait to meet her.

Donald Trump? Twice? Really? And they do what? Fuck, man...fuck.

I believe it should be something along the lines of "slah-vah oo-kra-ee-nee"

The "oo" part almost wants to be a "yoo" but doesn't quite get there

the "kra-ee" almost slurs together into a single "kri" sound

And the "nee" almost drops off into "neh"

Disclaimer- I don't really speak a word of Ukrainian, there's a pretty big Ukrainian immigrant community in my area so I've been around Ukrainian speakers and heard it spoken probably slightly more than the average American, but I'm probably missing the mark on that a little bit.

Since we've established that magic wands are a resource that exists in this hypothetical scenario

We replace the entire constitution with a single clause: Any and all issues are to be resolved with the wave of a magic wand to produce the best possible solution.

No tattoos, only one piercing - a prince Albert, still pretty new but I don't see myself regretting it. I miss standing to pee at a regular toilet but can still manage urinals just fine. I might have timed it better, I didn't tell my wife I was gonna get it done and it turned out she was kind of planning on having sex with me that weekend. She's excited to try it out in a couple weeks though.

I don't regret any of my scars, at worse they're a reminder not to do something stupid, but most of them are just a fun story. I have one on my left eyebrow I got in a mosh pit that I think is pretty cool. One of my first dates with my wife involved her taking me for a quick stop to get my stitches removed.

I've had a fake account for going on 2 decades at this point, for a long time it coexisted with my regular account before I deleted that.

I have no idea how it hasn't been flagged as fake yet.

I've changed the name on it and all of my information a couple of times, I have like 2 pictures, both just stolen from Google image searches for things like "dude" and "guy with computer"

For a little while I used it for some memes and shitposting and occasionally tagged it from my main account.

At one point I unfriended just about everyone I actually know and added a bunch of randos from around the world.

For the last 10+ years I don't think I've actually used it to post, like, comment, or follow anything. Nowadays I just use it to log in and see what various pages I want to follow are posting.

At this point I think I'm mostly coasting on the account age being old enough that they assume I must be a real person. It probably also helps that the account has never really done anything offensive to warrant anyone actually looking into it.

In one sense, the egg. Animals had been laying eggs for millions of years before anything like a chicken evolved.

If we're limiting our scope to just chicken eggs though, things get a little murkier.

When we talk about chicken eggs, are we talking about eggs laid by a chicken, or are we talking about eggs from which a chicken can hatch? Or do both need to be true for it to truly be a chicken egg?

In the first and last case, the chicken obviously needs to come first, a non-chicken can't lay a chicken egg if that's the criteria you're going by.

That middle ground though is interesting.

The chicken is descended from the red junglefowl. Look up some pictures, they're pretty damn chicken-y, I might even say they may look even more like a chicken than some modern chicken breeds. If I was out walking around and a junglefowl ran across the street in front of me, I'd probably chuckle to myself while I pondered the age-old question of "why did the chicken cross the road?" If one showed up in my friends' backyard flock of assorted chicken breeds, it wouldn't look at all out of place.

But it is not a chicken.

Chickens, however, are junglefowl. We consider them to be a subspecies of junglefowl- Gallus gallus domesticus

Chickens did not emerge in a single instant. It took many years of selective breeding and evolution for the modern chicken to come into being. Countless generations of junglefowl gradually becoming more chicken-y until the modern chicken emerged.

At one point in time, a bird was hatched that checked all of the boxes for us to call it a chicken instead of a junglefowl. The egg it hatched from was laid by a bird that was just on the other side of the arbitrary line from being a chicken. Unless you sequenced the two birds genomes you would probably be pretty hard-pressed to say which was the chicken and which was the junglefowl.

So the first chicken hatched from an egg said by a junglefowl.

However, that is one true chicken in a flock of not-quite-chickens. Odds are that chicken did not breed with another true chicken, but instead one of those near-chicken junglefowl. So its eggs would not hatch into a true chicken, but instead a chicken-junglefowl hybrid.

And there was probably a long period of time where things teetered on that line, the occasional true chicken hatched, and then laid eggs that hatched into non-chickens, those non-chickens getting closer and closer to the line over many generations.

Until finally it happened. Two true chickens bred, and lay an egg that also matches into a true chicken. The first chicken hatched from an egg laid by a chicken.

But again you'd be pretty hard pressed to pinpoint which bird that was in the flock. It was probably a wholly unremarkable bird that looked pretty much the same as all of the chickens and non-chicken junglefowl around it.

The lines we draw separating different species and subspecies are pretty arbitrary. It's more for our convenience to categorize things than it is to reflect any absolute truth about the animals around us. That line could have been drawn just about anywhere in the history of chickens and it would still be valid.

There's also potentially a nature vs nurture angle here. Chickens are social creatures who raise their young, they're not running on pure instinct, to some extent they learn how to be a chicken from other chickens. A true chicken raised by junglefowl may act more like a junglefowl than a chicken in some ways, and vice versa. Is that important when determining what the bird is? When the differences between them are so small, I think it might be. As they say, if it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, quacks like a duck, it's probably a duck.

So there's perhaps an argument to be made that maybe the first true chicken didn't appear until at least a generation or two after that first chicken hatched from an egg laid by a chicken. After all, if the young aren't being raised by and around other chickens, maybe they're not really chickens.

Why not just delete WhatsApp and tell people you're banned or it won't work for you?

I think it depends on the movie

If, after 30 years it still has a lot of cultural relevance, I'd think of it as a "classic" movie.

If it doesn't, if it hasn't aged well and/or faded into obscurity, I think it's fair to think of it as an old movie.

Probably around '95, I would have been watching Star Wars for the first time. It didn't feel like an old movie to me then and it still doesn't to this day. Other movies from that same era haven't aged quite as well and felt "old" to me.

Looking at some of the top movies from '95, some of them are just as enjoyable or relevant today as they were when they released, others feel dated and not relevant to me today.

It's going to depend on your personal tastes and experiences of course. I can also sprinkle in a lot of platitudes like "you're only as old as you feel" and "one man's trash is another man's treasure"

I think there's also room for some overlap. There's classic movies that also feel dated. I think some movies can be both old and classics. You'd be pretty hard-pressed to find someone who wouldn't agree that, for example, Casablanca, isn't old, but I think that just about everyone agrees that it's also a classic. Where the line is is pretty murky.

Not immediately relevant to your issue, but fun fact I wanted to share regarding the term "flashing" your BIOS

The term originates from a time when BIOS was stored on an EPROM (Eraseable, Programmable Read-Only Memory) chip (not EEPROM, which later became the norm and stands for Electronically Eraseable, Programmable Read-Only Memory)

So if you think about those terms for a minute, if EPROM was erasable, but not electronically erasable, how did you erase it?

The answer is, you exposed it to UV light, ideally a strong one like a mercury vapor lamp, but other sources could work they'd just take longer.

So you literally were flashing light at the chip.

The chips had a little window built into them to expose the memory array, and they were usually covered with a sticker you would peel off if you needed to erase it.

I don't exactly keep up with the latest in emulation, and who knows how Nintendo is going to do things, but my understanding that in a lot of ways GameCube (and WII for that matter) emulation has been in a better place than N64 for a while now, so I'm not too concerned about the switch being able to run it.

While the console itself was less powerful, the N64 is kind of a monster to emulate, it basically speaks a totally different language than any computer (or phone, console, etc) you might try to emulate it on, and there's a lot of weird special code in individual games that the console needs to deal with, so there's a lot more for the emulator to do and so you kind of need a comparatively beefy device for the emulation to run well.

GameCube and later consoles work a lot more similarly to how your computer and other devices work, so it's a lot easier to emulate them.

I've seen it explained sort of like if the N64 spoke Chinese, the GameCube spoke Spanish, and your computer speaks Portuguese.

If a Spanish speaker slows down and throws in some hand gestures, a Portuguese speaker will probably more-or-less get the gist of what they're saying, and Google translate can pretty much fill in the rest. That's your computer emulating a GameCube game. There's not too much the emulator actually needs to do, just some minor corrections here and there but mostly things translate pretty cleanly 1:1 between the two languages.

Chinese and Portuguese are wildly different languages though, almost no shared vocabulary, different languages families, even some of the hand gestures may have different meanings, and Google translate is probably going to spit out some weird garbled nonsense if you try to translate anything too complicated through it. It takes a lot more to facilitate communication between the two languages.

Few more ingredients but my carnitas have always been a crowd pleaser

• Pork shoulder
• Coke
• Orange juice
• Chicken stock
• Canned Chipotles in adobo
• Onions
• Garlic
• Spices - I mix it up a bit, but salt, pepper, cumin, cayenne, and oregano will usually get you there. Packet or two of taco seasoning would probably do the trick as well

I tend to eyeball everything, but usually about a 12oz can of coke, oj and stock until it looks right, one onion chopped up, however many cloves of garlic I feel like peeling and chopping

If the pork shoulder fits I do it in a pressure cooker on high about 2 hours, if it doesn't I do it significantly longer in a slow cooker

When it's falling apart, pull the bones out, shred (I like to use a mixer)

Then like you, crisp it up under the broiler, and maybe mix in some of the cooking liquid

For the record, the butterball boneless turkey roasts also include a gravy starter.

I buy a fair number of them when I find a good deal, I have a meat slicer and make most of my own lunch meats and they're really convenient for that. Even with the added weight from the gravy which I also don't use, they'd probably still be a money saver if I could keep myself from loading the sandwich up with extra meat.

I've been trying to figure out a good alternative, I may try at some point just cramming some turkey breasts into some meat netting and seeing how well it holds together.

From the article it does sound like this one may actually be biodegradable, the other implementations I've seen involve stripping lignin from the wood and impregnating it with resin, which all hair-splitting aside is basically plastic with extra steps. This is apparently using egg whites and some kind of rice extract instead of resin, so I don't see any reason this shouldn't be biodegradable.

Suitability for production and practical applications remain to be seen though.

I also assumed that was the process here, but from the article this does seem to be something slightly different. Overall process seems to be roughly the same, but they're using biodegradable materials instead of resin, apparently a mix of egg white and "rice extract"

Now I'm personally skeptical about how long-lasting something made from egg and rice can be, although I guess there are still tempera paintings (tempera paint is made from egg yolks) around from the Renaissance, so what the hell do I know?

And the chemicals used to strip the lignin from the wood aren't exactly the most environmentally friendly, but I guess arguably they're better than some of the ones used in plastic production.

It's cockney rhyming slang, it's best not to think too deep about it

Americans are called yanks, yank rhymes with tank, and septic tanks are a type of tank, so Americans are septics. It's not exactly flattering but it's not really as much of an insult as it sounds.

The same kind of logic has them calling "stairs" "apples and pears" because pears rhymes with stairs and apples are kind of similar to pears.

Or "cherry" meaning "lie" because lie rhymes with pie, and cherry is a type of pie.