When negotiating a deal, make your offer, listen to the response and walk away (not rudely, just...you have somewhere else to be). The first one who calls back loses. This works well for buying a car.
Edit: oops, hit submit too quickly. I used this to buy an ATV long ago and many cars since. "I can spend $XXX (know this nunber before you start).
<wait for counter offer>
. It's a nice ATV, but I promised myself that I'd spend no more than $XXX. Thank you for your time. "
It's not long, but I really like the feel of Whole World Knows by Adia Victoria. It's about a girl with a secret drug problem (that the whole world knows about) as she spirals out of control. The symbolism is heavy, the syrongly religious family can't or doesn't help and it's a catchy tune.
Joined/subscribed, but not vegan. I enjoy cooking and have started adding some vegan dishes to the rotation to learn some new cooking techniques on foods that I'm not familiar with cooking, like soy. I enjoy the new challenge. Also, I feel like there are probably health benefits. I'm particularly interested in awhile food based cheese substitutions. I found a fantastic vegan queso dip with 3 ingredients. The other stuff is good, too, but not really on my mind.
Yeah, I'm pretty picky about the meat I do eat. It's the fat and gristle that I can't stand. After a pork chop, it looks like a dissection. I don't like to eat around bones. If I think about it too much, old probably end up vegetarian, which would probably be better for me given my other health issues. I don't think anybody ever died from eating too many vegetables.
No, i'd go vegan before i'd eat cultured meat. I'm not opposed to it and it's probably better for the economy and environment, but I have a mental thing about it. Granted if I had to catch and clean my own meat, i'd also probably go vegan. Maybe I'm just squeamish about my food.
I've never heard this, bit have tried to explain it to people and failed. If you're going to try to find a vegan substitute for a thing, most of the time it will fail to impress because it's not the thing that it's pretending to be. Take vegan cheese. It's probably worse for you than regular cheese because it's super processed.
I have several meals that I make that are vegan, but don't need to be labeled as vegan because it's not a substitute. For example, I make chili with those big mushrooms because I like the taste, but I don't call it a vegan chili, I call it a mushroom chili.
It's actually a little less happy. He was late stage cancer and either the chemo or cancer was affecting his thought. He was bend transferred to a hospice care facility, but only understood that he was leaving the hospital. We were on the phone and I had purchased a plane ticket and he was saying how I shouldn't have because it's much nicer to visit in the summer, but that he was getting out of the hospital and maybe we'd go to this new golf course that he had just discovered and then his favorite restaurant. I agreed and we said goodbye and he said, "I'll see you later."
When Mom got back on the phone, she said that he was confused and that he was actually going to hospice care. It didn't really register because he seemed so normal. He had fallen into a coma shortly after getting transferred to the hospice facility and passed by the time I got there.
He was firmly atheist, so I chuckle to think that maybe he knew something when he said those last words. I guess we'll see.
The fines don't make sense to me. If the cars are supposed to meet some specific standard but don't a fine will make it a business problem to hey to pass the cost of the fine along to the consumer. Consider the pickup trucks in the US: typically worse emissions per passenger compared to a "commuter vehicle".
If something doesn't pass regulation, why should it be allowed to be sold at all?
I'm so old that I can watch reruns of a series that I've already watched and laugh at the same jokes because I forgot the episode.
Also, it's not the healthiest habit, but TV numbs the mind so that I can forget about my problems long enough to fall asleep.
I'm turning into my dad. I remember waking up early to get to school and seeing my dad sleeping in his recliner with sportsline on very low volume. Now I use TV to get to sleep, too.
This doesn't speak directly to your question, but in the appendix of the Neal Stevenson book, Cryptonomicron, there are instructions on how to use a deck of cards (technically 2) as a one time pad for encrypting and decrypting messages. This could serve as the foundation for secret messaging using other media than paper.
I do wonder what would happen if instances continue to fragment. Will we end up with islands of instances, separated from each other by exclude lists? It sort of says something about humanity if that happens.
I assume you left Reddit for Lemmy for a reason and the beauty of Lemmy (and any federated platform) is that it's not under the control of a single entity. If you don't like what's happening in one instance, you can pick up and go to another instance much easier than it was to switch from Reddit to Lemmy.
Long ago, I read an article of how propoganda was used heavily in WW2 by Germany against its citizens to help unify the country behind an authoritarian regieme and how the rise of a national trusted news source, decouoled from government and private interests was created to reduce polarization.
The joke here is that he has no idea who this girl is and yet he still signed her key. This is dangerous, because he is vouching for her identity. If he is mistaken, this could result in a serious loss of credibility on his part.
I've been in earthquakes, tornadoes, a hurricane and a few floods. Also, ice and hail storms, many blizzards, thunderstorms and straight line winds. The tornadoes are always the most frightening.
The bigger of the earthquakes was just enough to move the dishes around in the cupboards so that when I went for a cup, a bunch fell out. The closest tornado hit a few streets over from where I lived and bounced, destroying every other house down one side of a street. The hurricane just blew sand around and covered the car in a sand dune. I lost several cars to floods and had to be rescued once.
I should probably go check out a tsunami some time to fill out my disaster bingo board.
Good point about our perception of reality. If we have drugs available to us that can make us perceive reality as not that bad (or even good), then what if it's just a defect in our bodies that makes us feel like life isn't worth living? If our bodies are simply defective in producing the mood balancing hormones, then depression or other mood disorders can be treated with medicines, no different than taking a Tums when we overindulge on Thanksgiving.
Thanks for the feedback. I plan to do some reading on NFSv4 domain mapping this weekend.