quicklime @ quicklime @lemm.ee

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My comment was a bit of a simplified hot take. And your perfectly valid reasons are why I didn't also throw housing and food right in there in the same take.

That's a stunning admission, mighty close to admitting straight to the workers' faces that they are winning. What stronger sign could there be that holding the line is exactly the right thing to do?

That's in the same category as "who would consider health care an appropriate industry for profit?".

This is a work of fiction; any resemblance to the names of actual substances, whether real or fantastic, is purely coincidental.

I think you mean fetuses. Republicans don't care about children after they're outside of a uterus.

FPTP: "First Past The Post", the system of election where the winner is simply the one candidate who receives the most votes even if it's not a majority (for example if many candidates ran and many received a significant share of the votes). FPTP is simple to carry out, but it's often criticized for the fact that the winning candidate can be someone whom a majority or even a large majority of the voters didn't want. The two-party system in America usually obscures that issue in general elections because they turn into, effectively, elections with only two significant choices so the winner tends to have a majority as well as the greatest number of votes. But the problem does show up sometimes in primaries.

FPTP can be contrasted with other systems such as ranked-choice voting and proportional representation.

Black Friday? Oh, you mean International Buy Nothing Day!

There seems to be illegality all around --

"Israel’s Settlements Have No Legal Validity, Constitute Flagrant Violation of International Law, Security Council Reaffirms" (United Nations press release, 2016) https://press.un.org/en/2016/sc12657.doc.htm

ok Israel, tell us you're openly planning to violate the Geneva Convention without telling us...

TIL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klang_Valley

Those of us alive in the 80s may never forget the term "anal seepage" associated with it.

I agree. It's just a resource you can save and look into later when you might have more time or find yourself bored. They do have some other pages or sections that discuss helpful treatments but there's no short summary, I gather, because it's been so different for different people. Anyway, not my site or anything, just something I came across recently.

Sorry for chasing a side point, but I wanted to mention this group that provides a ton of information on dry eye syndrome beyond the very limited resources that my optometrist showed me.

https://www.notadryeye.org/

As for evaporative coolers:

1. they work well when the ambient humidity is low. If the day turns more humid outdoors, they just make noise and don't help. The drier your heat tends to be the more you'll get out of one.
2. be prepared for any effects of the additional humidity you would be adding to your home. If you're not careful you could cause mold and mildew problems. It's best to use one of these only in the hottest few hours and turn it off well before sunset, leaving time for the place to air out. Or if your area is hot enough for AC overnight, you may want to run a cooler only in cycles, leaving time in between to ensure manageable indoor humidity. If the outside temperature happens to drop quickly enough you can end up with condensation and damp indoors.

I spent a long time living in places that had saved their one last 'classic' movie theater by turning it into a rerun palace for 'art films', cult classics and other specialty cinema.

Also, I bought the DVD of Baraka that came out in the late 90s or so, and I was so disappointed in how visually awful the digital transfer was at that time, the disc was honestly not even worth watching. Not just because of small screens, the problem was that whoever did the digital transfer had completely fucked up the frame rate conversion in a way that caused every one of the many time-lapse sequences to move with a really annoying jitter. There was no possible playback setting or processing to fix it either, the process had removed information making it impossible to smooth or recover, at least back then.

So that junk DVD motivated me to just keep grabbing anyone I could, or no one if no one was around, and going out of my way to see the movie every time it came to a big screen within an hour of me. Now it's been years since my last watch... I'm not sure how much more I could take of it now that it's so clear the human race already sold out its long term survival for short term gain.

I could go with that.

Still having a hard time with the idea that a thing could be even "some level of intelligent" without being sentient. But we don't need to continue from there, there's any number of people ready to pile on at that point and say that it's "all semantics anyway" or start deconstructing sentience.

Food. It has also been my only purchase this year.