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Or at the very least avoid car ownership and overuse:

When you use a 3500-pound car to transport your 150-pound self around, 96 percent of the weight of that clump of matter is the car. You’re moving 25 times more junk around than you need to, and thus using 25 times more energy to do it.

Imagine that you’re hungry for lunch, so you go to a restaurant. But you don’t just order yourself a blackened salmon salad for $15.00. You order twenty five salads for $375.00! Then, you eat one of them, and leave the other 24 blackened salmon salads, $360.00 worth of food, to get collected by the waiter and slopped unceremoniously into a big black garbage bag. All that fine wild-caught Alaskan Salmon, lovingly seasoned and grilled. All the fine crumbles of feta cheese, the mango salsa, diced green onion, shaved peppers, rich zingy dressing, and everything else the chef worked on for hours – plopped into the slimy garbage bag. This is exactly what you are doing, every time you drive!

Of course, a lot of people, especially in North America, don't really have an alternative, and they'll be financially and bodily worse off for it.

Yeah, like the -berg names (e.g. Stoltenberg), it's likely the family farm if you go far enough back. My family has a name that's an island and the settlement on it. Taking a profile picture next to the town sign that's also our last name is pretty common (for a name of a few hundred people).

Yeah, doesn't seem to be a thing in Norway, but it could probably be revived for the countries that did that. Like Sheryl Copywriter or Ross Youtuber or whatever.

A lot of last names here are frozen patronyms (e.g. at some point some dude named Hans had kids; now there are lots of people calling themselves his son, Hansen) or place names. I kinda like the place name bit: Just give kids last names to a place they have a connection to. Where they were born or conceived or something.

Given how much antibiotics they pump into livestock it wouldn't be that weird.

But yeah, less intensive animal farming would likely also reduce spread & impact.

Ah, so we didn't have to wait until 2038.

We've been making flu vaccines for a long time now, and the flu has always been a virus that comes in various strains so you need to renew the vaccine frequently (usually once a year, as opposed to other vaccines that can last you a decade), and the medical industry needs to know which strains to make vaccines for.

Part of the thing with covid was that it was novel, and the vaccines were as well, because they needed to be not just developed fast, but deployed fast.

This isn't the first time H5N1 is making the rounds, and there have been vaccines for it for over a decade. Depending on where you live, your country may have a stockpile of vaccines or just ordered one.

The problems humanity will face with the virus is one of uneven distribution of vaccines due to uneven distribution of wealth, poor health care policies, and science denialism / vaccine conspiracy nightmares.

Yeah, that's what I do for complex stuff. Aliases are pretty handy too, but I use them for stuff like "v=nvim" and "vd=nvim -d". Also one function for fd to "nvim $(rf -l $1)"

And very old. Part of the sales pitch for the COmmon Business-Protected Language was that anyone could learn to code in almost plain English.

Also, the stuff they wind up making is the kind of stuff that people with no coding experience make. Cooking up an ugly website with terrible performance and security isn't much harder than making an ugly presentation with lots of WordArt. But it never was, either.

Between COBOL and LLM-enhanced "low code" we had other stuff, like that infamous product from MS that produced terrible HTML. At this point I can't even recall what it was called. The SharePoint editor maybe?

Yeah, Rust tries to find as many problems as it can during compilation. It's great for those of us who want the bugs to be found ahead of release, not great for those who just want something out the door and worry about bugs only after a user reports them.

Different platforms have different values, and that also affects what people consider fun. At the other end of the scale you find the triple-equals languages like js and php, which a lot of people think are fun and normal, but some of us think are so wobbly or sloppy that they're actually much harder languages than other, stricter languages.

If you value correctness and efficiency, Rust is pretty fun.

So, a mastodon user? :)

Yeah, to my ESL ears man/woman are nouns, not adjectives, and using them as adjectives comes off as childish.

That said, "female X" can also sound clumsy, if it's implied that a bare X is male, e.g. "politician" and "female politician", vs male and female politician. There was a twitter account calling itself a "male programmer" which took the piss out of that trope.

I think I'll stick to alacritty, but options are always fun

Yeah, I switched to deezer then, haven't had any trouble with it.

Yeah, I've experienced that as well. A summer party is often nicer than a winter party too.

Depending on the country you might get some collision with midsummer celebrations though

You do sometimes have to worry about that weird g without the leg, though. But it's normal to them, so they don't guestion it. :)

Nothing to be ashamed about! There's lots of stuff around the world that some people love but the majority shy away from. All the rest of us can ask is that you enjoy it responsibly and don't bother other people with the smell. :)

There are some more ways, usually involving fermentation. Us arctic types know some methods. But I get the impression rakfisk, lutefisk, hákarl, surströmming and kiviak would have caught on as exports by now if they were actually something humans in general were interested in eating, rather than the descendants of very specific kinds of desperate people.

Batteries seem to work fine in rural Norway. If you live somewhere warmer and/or with a bigger population or population density than Norway, you should be fine.

Boobies !!