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Also, wood utensils, cutting boards, etc. need oiling. Just cheap mineral oil should do.

The dishwasher is generally more efficient than handwashing. It reuses the water, so you're using less water. In terms of electricity usage, I'm seeing around 2 kWh for one load.

I was at PyCon 2024 a few days ago where the founder of Black Python Developers gave a keynote talk. He talked about going to one gathering after another and being one of just a handful of Black attendees. Or how the few Black leaders are often asked to fill an impossible number of posts because there just aren't enough of them to fulfill the demand. So yes, having an organization to help foster inclusion of people who are largely frozen out of the community is necessary. Someday this won't be necessary, but for now it is.

Yes, yes we do.

Not giving a fuck about it.

As a kid, I wasn't a picky eater, but I wouldn't eat asparagus. Eventually I started eating it. One of the few common American foods I turned my nose up at? Chef Boyardee and similar canned soup noodles. To me, they were always overcooked pasta in a bland, overly salty, homogeneous tomato liquid. I love soup, but screw that.

I just don't like ashy kisses...

I've been part of moderating a subreddit that has a loose conflict of interest policy, so I'll throw in my two cents. Our policy is to avoid commenting and moderating in the same thread. There are some exceptions, like with particularly egregious violations. But even then, replying to the comment, deleting it, then banning the user would be considered an abuse of power. Instead, the common practice is to just report it for other moderators without a CoI to deal with.

I consider a conflict of interest policy to be as much about protecting the community itself as anything. Many online communities have run into trouble when someone with elevated permissions like a moderator is even perceived as having abused their powers. Community splits or failures have happened over even just one moderator "power tripping." That's why it's necessary for moderators to put some restraints on themselves to maintain community trust.

The post that inspired this one had upward of 15 people given a site ban in a post with 80 comments. Several of those had a reply from the banning admin. The bans themselves may have been justified, but the optics are terrible. That's exactly the sort of thing that has a history of eroding community trust. Even for people who have the aim of an instance for Marxist-Leninist thought, there are going to be schisms. Setting boundaries is necessary to preempt problems.

Not even the Iranian government is doing that.

That would be Soviet era, and they're likely not getting the US-made parts they need to properly maintain it.

Edit: And now Mohammad Javad Zarif, Iran's former foreign minister, is echoing what I said, blaming sanctions.

How is that shown in the mod logs?

There too, minor infractions won't get much attention while horrifying ones will be paraded across the headlines for weeks or months.

Bingo. No one wants to read articles about how a celebrity is decent person. You are going to hear about the feuding broken divorce more than the loving decades long marriage. Or you hear about an off day where someone got mad at someone who didn't deserve it. We all have off days, but celebries have public off days.

Yeah, I bought my first laptop, a Thinkpad T43, in 2005. It had something like 512MB-1GB of RAM, a Pentium M processor, and 156 GB of HDD (not SDD). Very good for the time, but there are Raspberry Pi's with better specs these days.

I tried the hybrid that works under UEFI and legacy BIOS. It didn't work on at least one system. Did you try UEFI only?

Too often, the prevalence of right wing domestic terrorism in the US gets ignored. The Oklahoma City bombing, Dylann Roof, anti-abortion violence, and the Orlando nightclub shooting just to name a few. As far back as 1870, the KKK was formally considered to be a terrorist organization. Lynching is considered a terrorist act.

Python does allow this with NewType. Type checkers see two different types, but it is the same class at runtime.

Thanks, I remember at least one model that was indeed spitting out ludicrous numbers that should have given any statistician pause.

Nah, let's be honest, this is so that parents can make sure precious little Bobby doesn't catch The Gay. LGBT themed cinema is going to let you know, this is for making sure there isn't a trace of homosexuality to darken Bobby's pure little heart.

Nate (or rather, the 538 model). didn't make a 96% chance of victory prediction. It at most went up to around 88% right after the debates where Trump made a fool of himself and the Hollywood Access Tapes were released. But even then, Silver cautioned in an interview that Hillary's support among certain groups was soft.

I'm honestly not sure when the Democrats will have a solid win again. Recently the electoral college has tilted against us and Trumpian populism has taken grip over a large portion of the country. Fewer and fewer voters are up for grabs. It took the unpopular Iraq War for Obama, who was also a very gifted candidate and campaigner, to get a 7.2% lead. I expect a lot more repeats of 2020, where Biden only got a 4.5% lead despite Trump's poor leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic. A slightly closer race would have had Biden losing key swing states and the election.