MasterBlaster @ MasterBlaster @lemmy.world

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We can get almost all of those here, too, though the traditional German ones seem to be less common. What bothers me is that IPA, fine brews, have been a freaking obsession here for about 10 years, and it's driving me nuts. It's at the point where one says "I want a craft beer" and they list 10 IPA, one lager, one amber ale, and Guinness.

C'mon people, take your heads out of your asses and look around!

milk stout, Belgian Ale, porter, or brown ale - excellent most of the year.

Wheat ale, white ale, whitbier are where it's at for thirst quenching in summer heat.

For those of us in New England - treehouse brewery, for the win!

I once home brewed for a wedding. 21 gallons of beer. One amber, one milk stout, one wheat, and one brown... and only one exploding bottle!

Watch out - was there a non-compete clause? They could go after you for hiring him.

... As long as we remembbetvthat in reality there are usually more than two sides...

One rule of thumb is do not get your news from social media.

Scan RSS feeds from reputable news sources, and keep in mind how they view the world themselves. Read news inquisitively. Look for data behind conclusions, and if you care about the topic, seek out other information on it before solidifying your opinions.

Always hold your beliefs loosely enough to be willing to be wrong. People often have tribal world views that block opposing ideas from ever being considered. Anything that threatens their tribal identity is considered a threat and immediately discounted as lies.

That's basically what I described: down a hill. Although in my experience described above, it was not on a road.

Florida is one of those places hostile to anything that helps citizens using tax money.

After all, that's socialism, which is evil. /s

It also has one of the most regressive tax systems in the country.

Philadelphia has an okay transit system, though it is neglected, as does NYC.

I'd go so far as to say you aren't the commander of the transmission. The programmer who designed the shifting algorithm controls it.

True, but controlling the transmission gave me an extra layer of sensation, a more direct involvement in the process. It's a matter of degrees. Plus, there are levels of finesse one gains.

Car won't start? Push it down a hill, avoid running over my foot, and climb in before it pulls away from you.

This is how I got to nursery school on at least one occasion I can remember.

I love manual transmission, and miss it badly. It was awesome getting out of both mud and snow. Plus, I felt like I was actually driving the car, not guiding it.

Maybe it's a utopia that also has clean energy and public transportation.

Either way, I don't trust the agenda. If they're legitimately trying to help, something good might come of it, but it won't be a utopia as humans will human.

Hopefully some valuable lessons will be learned without too much suffering.

Actually, this is early stage capitalism. Company towns were a thing in the late 19th and early 20th century. Government eventually stepped in, broke up the trusts and made that kind of thing a relic of a worse time.

People have forgotten their past and they're now repeating it. We've been in the second Gilded age for what - 30 years now?

Child labor was just legalized in Kansas I think and it looks like some other Republican states are trying to do the same.

This is what happens when you let the foxes run the hen house.

In my case, KeePass and ExpressVPN could not function. For KeepassXC, this was the reason:

It is impossible to support native messaging when a browser is running as a sandboxed snap. This is a limitation in snapd not keepassxc.

It appears they found some work-around with an extra script after installation as of 2 years ago. Basically, snaps are sandboxed, which is a feature. That wreaks havoc with certain tools, though. ExpressVPN's browser plugin was having similar problems, and on Linux, that's you're only GUI interface for ExpressVPN.

I just checked, and I was updated to the Snap version, and I had no problems with either extension, so they did solve the problems. Therefore, I'm not outraged. Ubuntu has the right to standardize their deployments on a system that makes their work easier or less chaotic - as long as it does not screw over their customers.

Edit: i was mistaken. I still use the Mozilla PPA, so the problems migjt remain.

I can agree with that only if they solved the problems with extensions and a few other features that were not working with the snap version. If they did not, then they are assholes.

I use keepass to fill login forms, and that does not work with the snap version.

I love the annual tradition of people posting youtube videos in which someone throws a bucket of water and it instantly turns to snow.

I once amusedly watched girls sunbathe in bikinis at St. Lawrence University with patches of snow nearby in, I think March.

Conversely, I personally wore shorts and a tee one fine vacation in Florida around Christmas. It was 60f, and everybody was running around in jackets looking like they were in Chicago in January.

Not gonna lie, this is my experience.

At least I try. I have the gist of it, and agree it's a more sane scale. I know 40 is around 100f, for example.

I've been doing that since at least 2011. There's also the I/O scheduler to adjust. Sometimes it adds a couple years to device usability.

In the digital age, absolutely.

All those bits of information are caller personally identifiable information (PII) and are protected by law for anything involving health and financial data.

In it's old form, the license isn't a huge problem because people can't use it to clear your accounts, fraudulently open credit cards, take out loans.

All of those are trivial with the SSN, combined with a few of the above data points.

Now, however, in America the drivers license is becoming required to be a full homeland security certified ID equal to or more important than the passport.

It is encoded with all your vitals and readable by a quick scan. With your full name, age, birthdate, address, height, weight, and eye color combined with the SSN, you are screwed if shady players have that.