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What troubles me the most is that sounds like a very deeply abused person. It's a kind of person that has problems introspecting and managing their emotions. Is that what we're really up against? Is it all just mental illness?

as long as you cleaned the teat and it was really really fresh. But I wouldn’t be surprised if the conditions in factory farms added another layer of risk that just wasn’t there in the 90s on the last remaining family farms.

I think you're hit the nail on the head. There's a concept in engineering (Hyrum's Law) that where systems interface with each other (e.g. software), the design of one will ultimately rely on every aspect of the other, intentional or otherwise. In the case of industrially produced milk, pasteurization permits a relatively high degree of filth on the supply side when compared to practices in the EU or UK (they ship more raw product). So, it stands to reason that this isn't just likely but exactly what's going on since everyone can get away with it.

Hey, it turns out that lead acetate is a natural, calorie-free, sweetener! In fact, the ancient Romans used it. The FDA doesn't want you to use this because they're in bed with Big Sugar and the Splenda people.

I get it, but this is really going to disproportionately hurt kids. Maybe their parents are on board with this, maybe they're just uninformed.

To be completely fair, it's hard to overstate the durability of an old Thinkpad. They're so ubiquitous, Linux compatibility is almost guaranteed. Then, after the battery goes, attach it to a UPC and ride that setup for another decade at least.

When I mentioned that all this went down for a mere fraction of what everyone else paid, her immediate reaction was: "Well, isn't that what China does with just about everything?"

I honestly see this as more tree-shaking. It gives "disloyal" folks a way select themselves out, and provides a lot of empty seats to fill with "their" people.

Combined with the Section F stuff, I think this will also have a net negative impact to the economy of the greater DC-metro area. Yanno, those people that voted against Trump in the election. It's hard to not see all this as punitive.

Yup. Everyone is quick to forget how the US treated Irish, Italian, and Jewish people in past generations. There really is such a thing as "not white enough", and when these jerks run out of people to pick on, that's next.

It's an interesting assertion, which caused me to ask a question here: How are we defining "independent", exactly?

Because if it's merely "not a member of a major political party", it pretty much explains everything.

As someone who just picked through the Zig docs (take this with a mountain of salt), Zig has a few things going for it:

• spec is simple and closer to C in scope
• modern language design, toolchain, and overall ergonomics
• Go-like struct & interface system
• 1st-class C interoperability

Go foists co-routines on you and the runtime, and Rust has the borrow checker. Both of these things deeply impact language design, standard libraries, and the overall developer experience. So Zig might actually be a "more modern C" in many ways which makes it a contender. That said, it's not a 1:1 comparsion since it lacks everything else that C++ does: you'd have to re-envision your software designs as something other than OOP if that's what you're used to.

There's this, and then there's Sideshow Bob's lines on the matter:

This has been in my head since 2016. I firmly believe that there really are people out there that find this kind of authoritarian rule comforting.

The Dialer.

• Comes with every phone
• 10+ digit number instantly connects you with millions of people, services, and institutions
• 3 digits connects you with life-saving emergency support
• Very low-latency voice support
• High quality audio (most of the time)
• No ads
• No obnoxious UI

All kidding aside, I'm routinely astounded at how we have yet to top the ease and utility of old-fashioned phone service.

I'm gonna be "that guy" and say they're pulses.

I still don’t get how they can live with such a retarded measurement system.

We can't.

Scientists do everything in metric, but that's where it stops.

Food industry tries to label everything both ways, so we all get some minimal exposure; but this is like expecting to learn French in Canada just by hanging around. Machinists cope by using thousandths (of an inch), but still have to translate to work with standard screw dimensions. Bakers do everything at multiples of cups or pounds, so fractions don't really come up. Housing framers use, maybe, down to the half or quarter inch and have easier to read tape measures for this; story-boards and tick-sticks are used to avoid measuring entirely.

If it wasn't for raw materials (across the board) being sold in nominal empirical sizes, I would sooner just use the metric system.

Meanwhile, the home kitchen is at war. Recipe books have everyone else dicking around with all the crazy fractional volume and weight measures. Either you're a virtuoso with these, or you're terrible at it and burn every meal - there is no middle ground. This might explain our relationship with restaurant food.

As a cis male, I've found the opposite to be true. I do go to the Dr. for all kinds of stuff. I also tend to tell it like it is when in a consult/visit. That's where I noticed that things are backwards for me. I'm taken too seriously, as though I'm under-playing my symptoms. Like I'm a guy who decided to actually come in to the doctor's office, so it must be really bad. It's actually led to a few cases of being over-prescribed on things.

Good grief - that's amazing. Either you're exceptionally tough¹, or that was one incredibly atypical case. Either way, glad you survived all that.

1. I mean, most 18-year-olds are practically invincible by virtue of being at peak durability age-wise. But maybe this was different.

See, this is why I can't watch shows like The Office. My sense of empathy and justice kick in hard and I just can't laugh at what's going on. Instead I'm just cringing and dying of sympathetic embarrassment, non-stop, the entire time.

Oh, are we posting beans now? Again?

Here's my contribution: