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  • I feel like a lot of young linux users aren't getting the talk and it makes me sad. Nobody ever sat them down with a copy of The Very Hungry Caterpillar and explained the life cycle of an IT professional.

    They never learn the natural cycle of things: that at a certain age a lot of IT professionals undergo metamorphosis and transform into beautiful, sock-and-sandal wearing greybeards.

  • More so that sort loved the USSR: it provided the ultimate boogyman they could use to justify just about anything.

    Accuse your political foes of being commies, and "investigate" them. Advance Christian nationalism by pointing at the "godless Soviets". Need to get your political donors want some sweet defense contracts? -- well we need weapons to fight the reds.

    The USSR did the same thing with the "decadent west".

  • Sous vide is just accurately holding a water bath at a given temperature. You put your food in (in a baggie if necessary) at a specific temperature and time to achieve a consistent "doneness".

    130-140 farenheit for an hour is enough to kill pathogens in eggs, but low enough it doesn't cook them.

  • The main downside is that you can’t eat raw eggs in the US

    You can buy pasteurized eggs, though they can be hard to find. You can also DIY them with a sous vide cooker.

  • Adobe used to not give a shit about piracy for personal use, and a reasoni t was so easy to pirate. They knew a lot of those kids making memes would grow up to be either paying customers or work for someone that is.

  • Right? Raw shock value is only useful when something isn't well known. Everyone knows about climate change and has a position.

    Great, use "shock value": but make a worthwhile statement with it too. The goal is to force people to confront an issue, not effortlessly write it off as a childish tantrum and ignore it.

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  • Medically it's generally used to intubate someone in an emergency if the patient is conscious, seizing, etc. If the patient is aware, it's given in conjunction with something for sedation like a benzo.

    In an execution it's given after a barbiturate for sedation , then followed with potassium chloride to stop the heart ... assuming mistakes aren't made, or something goes wrong.

  • It's a dumb action, and this is from someone that supports direct action. How people are talking about an action is critical: the context matters.

    The first thing people are going to ask is "why did you do this?" and the answer needs to make sense. Throwing soup on an oil exec, painting their office, etc -- something sparks a conversation in a way you can exploit to further the cause.

    "Vandalizing" a famous piece of art not even tangentially related to your cause is just going to make people think you're an asshole and shuts down that potential for a productive discussion.

  • that that list is making requirements

    No

  • ... Yeah, nobody outside of a minority of crazies are saying those things.

  • Here's 3.

    • Addressing men's mental health. Normalizing therapy and talking about issues.
    • Promoting ideals and examples of healthy intimate relationships: communication, setting boundaries, etc.
    • Moving a way from the insecure, performative, fucked up version of "masculinity" -- e.g. "I can't wear pink, play with dolls with my kid, or bake because those things are feminine".
  • While a trite example, in the recent Barbie film

    You mean self aware, hyperbolic satire?

    They know there have been women on the supreme court. It was a reference to second wave feminism, and inverted because that was the joke.

  • CO2 is also cheap and safer for human workers.

    Nitrogen is undetectable with human senses, whereas you'll instantly know if you enter an area with a high CO2 concentration. CO2 is also heavier than air, so it tends to stay in the "pit" they lower the animals into.

  • They'd be losing access to the most critical thing that makes them effective: the US military's logistics and chain of command. Without that they really are just some dudes with guns and a few fancy toys they won't be able to keep operational or replace. And they could never leave the state.

    So as long as they aren't causing too much trouble ... just wait them out, then make an example of them in a military court.

  • I imagine NY won't screw around enforcing that judgement. If he doesn't want to pay, he has plenty of assets that can be seized: like 721–725 Fifth Avenue

    Sure, Trump's will try every legal trick his team can think of to delay or avoid paying out -- but there is ultimately recourse.

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  • There's also the difference between "painless" and "easy to watch". Lethal injection looks humane because they inject the person with a paralytic, so regardless of what happens it looks "peaceful".

    One of the drugs sometimes used (succinylcholine chloride) is fucking terrifying, because it's a paralytic with no anesthetic effect. Given alone a person under its effects is aware of what's going on while paralyzed and unable to breath.

  • They also seriously injure the people they do hit.

    A car tends to hit low and send people onto the hood. A truck hits high (head and torso injuries) and knocks people to the ground where they get run over.

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  • And make sure you shave your legs with the grain, not against. Ingrown hairs suck.

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  • Sleep is for chucking the laptop in a bag and not interrupting your work flow.

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  • Real men just touch the chassis.