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I feel like I'm missing something in what you're saying and that law actually makes the school's actions illegal. The whole point of CROWN acts is that natural hairstyles have been discriminated against.

The school's dress code / attitude is the 'old' version.

I think we agree? Breeds have tenancies towards certain behaviors and pits tend to be singled out in part because they're popular, so there are more incidents, and in part because they're strong, so the incidents tend to be more serious.

But that doesn't make the order less arbitrary.

If Huskies/Akitas/Malamutes were more common and in the news a lot and they decided to ban "wolf-like dogs" or somesuch that would also be questionable.

Part of the problem is it isn't a breed.

Part of the order (request? whatever it is) is to define the breed first. Which makes the rest seem pretty reactionary. Not far off from saying "ban dogs I find scary".

Was curious before about setting it up on a Samsung TV, apparently can sideload an app or something? Didn't look too far into it because Plex 'just worked'. Will have to revisit that.

The 2020 Dracula Netflix show.

The first episode is a fun reimagining of the original story. The second episode is a neat "reverse who-done-it"/bottle episode. The third episode should not exist. Full stop. "Dracula wakes up in modern times and it turns out his weaknesses are just PTSD and then he chooses to die out of honor or something."

Penny Dreadful

The second season ends on a fantastic melancholy vibe that matches the whole tone of the show. The third season wastes all character development to have extra drama.

Warning. Do not look for Servarr apps or how to set them up on a home system of your choice like Unraid or it's alternatives. Doing so may be a violation of local copyright law.

There's an entire genre of political/economic/military writing that is essentially the epitome of "perfect is not the enemy of good". Where the existing systems or projects, being less than perfect because of decades of compromises, are trashed because they're not as perfect as [insert author's golden child here].

They're not necessarily wrong that whatever alternative could be better. They're just incredibly unrealistic to think that their project would be the one that springs fully formed from the launchpad as they envisioned.

The F-35 is another common target of "this was the worst plan/plane ever". Usually they leave out is that most of the chief opponents of the F-35 were also against the F-15, because they wanted simple expendable planes that are good at dog-fighting because WW2 was cool. They leave that part out because the F-15 is/was the most successful air superiority fighter ever made.

Also fun, they rely on quantum mechanics.

Individual "bits" on a SD card are electron buckets that are either "full" (they have an electron) or not. 8 bits to a byte ~1 trillion bytes to a terabyte.

He was already attacking Biden on his age during the election. At the age Trump now is.

You can also form very strong opinions early in your career and not know when they're now invalid due to changes in tech/industry.

Was getting a quote for a new heat pump and had the guy tell me they were worthless if it got too cold. There have been consumer heat pumps that work down to -15°C with very little efficiency loss for well over a decade at this point. He had just been used to them not being worth it for long enough that he "didn't believe it".

Personally I love Elite Dangerous, but have still only spent ~50 hours in it.

It's a fantastic flight sim. But IMO it's just not as captivating as a purposefully created narrative. It's good for different reasons. I know they've added ground/walking stuff since last I played. I know you can discover alien stuff and wander alongside the 'story' in the game. But it's closer to FromSoft style reading text descriptions and forum posts to follow the story than it is playing an RPG.

Groundwater is water that has collected at some point. Lake, aquifer, whatever. Over X many years rain has pooled in this spot.

If there is X amount of rain coming in each year and you use less than that, by sending it on down the river/whatever no worries. (as long as you're not dumping things in the river that are gonna suck for people downriver.

If you use more than that, well there's going to be less water in the groundwater next year. Also the people downriver probably don't get as much water, so they're groundwater will also probably be lessened if they don't cut back.

Groundwater tends to be millions upon millions of gallons. It takes a while to use up, especially since it's being replenished occasionally.

But if you're using more than is coming in it doesn't matter that it will "eventually" come back around. At some point there's going to be a dry spot in the loop where previously there's been a water deposit.

YMMV but personally it makes everything 1-2 wipes to 'verify'/dry. Got one in 2020 to lessen TP usage, which it does really well. I think you're underestimating how strong the stream is (which is variable/controllable) and overestimating how 'stuck on' any residue is. Works kinda like a pressure washer where you can't move/angle the washer (on the affordable ones) so you move the thing being washed for full 'coverage'.

Regardless, if I got muck on my hands would rather rinse them in water than just wipe them off with a paper towel.

The cheese makers are not concerned about decentralization. Presumably they trust themselves, because they are the only ones trusted to write to the database. If they are the only ones allowed to put something on the chain, it's a central database, regardless of how many computers/places they run it on.

Blockchain is not magically more secure than any other equivalent cryptographic solution.

2 door with 2 fold down seats in back.

The Golf/Fit/etc aren't bad and realistically are probably about the same size. They feel wider to me but that's basically any newer car.

I've been casually looking for when my 80s hatchback dies and the choices are bleak. It seems like there are about 4 options for something of a similar size, half of those are just announced or coming out this year. And none of them start below ~$35k. Which would be fine, except there's been a few decades of everything getting bigger so it'll be another decade til these are in the used market, if they even take off.

The 2+2 is dead and the Crossover killed it.

Honestly at least for popular shows the wait seems to be measured in minutes.

Even for the less popular there's a legion of data hoarders / completionists that'll probably be seeding.

Most free trial subscriptions let you cancel but keep the subscription active through the trial period, Apple included. I normally cancel immediately so if I forget about the thing because I stopped using it my card doesn't get charged. All these free trials require a card on file so they can just automatically start the subscription.

Apple doing this makes it more likely people will forget to cancel if they don't care for the product and automatically start the subscription. At which point it is far harder to cancel/get your money back.

I got an ad months ago for a "vacuum with AI."

I think it was Samsung, it "used AI" to change heights between hard floors / carpet. It's the kind of thing that would have been marketed as "Algorithmic" in the 2000s or "Auto-vac technology" in the 1960s. Marketing has just reached the point where they jump on anything with almost negative notice.