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The poor penguins.

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Yeah, these are the same people that want to ban books and have tight control over which true things are taught in schools.

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Hmm, that actually tracks with what I see in real life, but it’s pretty impressive. I guess that’s also why we have massive household debt.

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Yeah, we’re maybe 15 years behind the US on that stuff. Of course, very few young people are into it, so there’s a demographic headwind. We also have faster immigration, and if the US goes really ugly that’s going to lead to a crackdown on the troglodytes here.

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Agreed. It’s creeping in but they’re still just the party of rich people who want less taxes in large part.

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Instructions unclear, clay blown away by optical radiation pressure.

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What’s it sitting on? A copepod maybe?

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A layer completely covering yourself. Once baked, this will preserve valuable ethnographic information for future archeologists. /s

Too soon?

Why don't rabies infected humans act like rabies infected animals

This always puzzled me. Why don’t humans act much more aggressive or crazed like its often depicted with animals. Afaik there’s 2 types of rabies, “dumb” and “furious” so my question is more towards the 2nd type. For example, we never hear of rabies causing a human to accidentally bite another human so why is that?

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So is there another animal that doesn’t bite when infected with rabies?

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It seems like a simple explanation, but the history of biology is pretty much the history of thinking we we’re special and then finding out we were wrong, over and over again.

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Fair. To rephrase, is there another animal that’s not made bitey by being ill with rabies.

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No, this is Patrick!

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Pretty much all of them. I’ve made it a project to feed myself with just nonperishables given like 30 minutes of cooking a night, and I’m about 75% of the way there, I’d say. Salad greens and eggs seem to be impossible to replace, but I can realistically have my own chicken coop and a little growing area indoors. Canadian food prices and qualities are fucked, yo, especially away from big centers.

Last night, I had stierum with a simple salad. It’s a bit like a single, big savoury pancake, and you eat it cut into cubes. The dressing is cream (the one rule-breaking element, for now), a dash of vinegar, and salt and pepper to taste. I like to let it soak into the bread a bit

On nights I really DGAF, my go-tos are pasta with jarred sauce, or shakshuka. You can get shakshuka sauce in a jar now, so you just empty it into a frying pan, crack four eggs in, and cover until they’re cooked. Serve with toast, which you can butter with vegetable oil or ghee.

You can make a vegetarian pulled pork with canned green jackfruit, an onion, bottled barbecue sauce, buns and jarred red cabbage and apple in place of the coleslaw. You pretty much pull apart the jackfruit, and add it with the sauce to sauteed onions. It’s delicious, all three components are slightly sweet and they go together well.

I’ll stop there, unless somebody is actually interested, but I’ve got a few more.

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Why is this downvoted? It’s a long list literally just because of writing style, if that’s the issue. I guess an hour is a little on the long side, but lots of people are throwing out slowcooker recipes.

Roast brussels sprouts and sausage in an oven, with certain spices. Come back when it’s done. Better?

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Onions could also be pressure canned, if the world is ending. They keep well enough they’re not usually an issue for me, though, unlike literally all other produce except common tubers and maybe cabbages.

Lentils in shakshuka is a neat idea! I’ll have to try that if I ever have to feed more than two with it. Do you use canned or dried? Funny enough, I have tried to make mujadara, although I don’t think I “nailed it”, and found it kind of bland. Any tips on seasoning?

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No, actually. I guess somebody still makes them? I heard they went out of fashion because they were really bad, but I’d give it a try for the sake of completeness.

I’ve had chickens before and enjoyed the little bastards, so that’s actually not a downside for me.

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The problematic part starts when you ask what should happen to all the Israelis. Maybe they want a one-state solution, which is fine, but quite often they want a genocide or ethnic cleansing of Jews in order to make space.

Both the actual antisemites (of both white and Arab flavours) and the Zionists want to blur the fact that there’s two ways that could be meant. It’s really amazing how well people who hate each other can end up coordinating. See also Netanyahu and Hamas.

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Yeah, Russia/Ukraine tends to be painted with an ideological brush, and all the rest are just ignored.

Stop and correlate skin colours for a moment, if you would.

Where the Holocaust comes in, is that Israel still has American support, while they bailed on South Africa in the 80’s, because they can pretend the favouritism is about something else.

For anyone outside the West reading, most Western people don’t know they’re doing this, we just imagine we live in a magical bubble where nothing bad happens, and only react when something looks like it’s breaking it. I’ll leave it to you if that’s a good excuse.

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100% agree.

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Come to think of it, Native people fall outside the bubble for the most part themselves. Some of those reservations might as well be in a cold version of Africa, and I’ve only seen them on TV.

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Bad conditions. No drinking water, unsuitable structures, things like that. And all fairly invisible to white people, because they might be remote, or just not a place we ever need to go.

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I’ve never received a fucking dime back, and I’m in a very median tax bracket.

Are you sure? They send it out quarterly. I’m guessing you just didn’t notice on your end.

The rebate is a small amount, because they only take a small amount.

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Believe it or not, pulling money out of circulation and putting it promptly back in doesn’t effect the total supply!

It’s a canard for doing less about climate change without saying that outright, since their base demands the former and the broader public demands the latter. Plus, they get to talk about less taxes, which makes their other natural demographic happy.

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I don’t know what province you’re in, but some of them have their own program.

You wouldn’t be the first person who’s sure they’re not getting them, because they come as a direct deposit and slip under the radar.

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I don’t know if they would ever consider it, but they could split ridings with the NDP, so there would be a single main left-wing candidate in each. They could basically guarantee a win with even a few of those.

Proportional rep would be great. Still pissed that Trudeau just completely lied about that. If we do go there we should do what Norway does, where there’s no snap elections, to avoid coalition instability problems.

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You’re mistaken in thinking the Liberals, or the NDP for that matter, care about advancing causes. They don’t. They care about getting elected.

As a registered member of one of those parties, I actually do. However, when it comes to the politicians, you’re either partly or completely right. Getting elected butters their bread, caring about the issues is optional, although at least some do as a hobby.

As for professional staffers, I don’t have as much experience. Mostly they just seem very busy when I interact with them.

Especially the Liberals: they’d rather go down in flames than risk losing political leverage by forming a coalition.

I mean, the Liberals have been in a not-technically-a-coalition with the NDP for some time now. Some of them don’t seem to like it (of course, having all the power would be better for them personally), but from the outside it seems to be going well.

They saw, quite clearly, what happened to the Progressive Conservatives when they merged with Reform.

They continued being a highly relevant political party?

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If everyone did that, there’d be no blue left.

My riding would still be very, very blue.

At this point the main difference between Liberals and NDP is style, as far as I’m concerned. I’d vote for either, or the Greens if that ever came up.

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Re: The mouseover text, is there a standard frame of reference for really general space stuff? I propose a frame comoving with the CMB and reaching the center of the Earth at Epoch 0 if not.

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I’m guessing it’s not alone. Every time format should come with a distance function and order function, or equivalent. If you have a life, that could mean something like subtraction.

Unfortunately, “should” isn’t always enough. Optimally there’s also type structure to the return of the function so you can’t mix up seconds and days, or calendar and (one of the) standard length days.

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Clock misalignment comes up pretty frequently in some networking and networking-esque applications. Otherwise, yeah, the edge cases are indeed on the edge.

Subsecond precision comes up often in common applications too, but you can just expand out to milliseconds or whatever.

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  1. Ok, but the time on the server clock and time on the client clock would never be different by a matter of decades.
  2. The system clock will never be set to a time that is in the distant past or the far future.

Does this come up? I feel like if you’re doing retrocomputing you assume a certain level of responsibility for your software breaking.

  1. Ok, but the duration of one minute on the system clock will be pretty close to the duration of one minute on most other clocks.
  2. Fine, but the duration of one minute on the system clock would never be more than an hour.
  3. You can’t be serious.

You can’t be, can you? Ditto on that being the user’s problem. My thing also isn’t portable onto Zeus Z-2 or a billiard ball computer you built in your garage.

There’s some weird shit in the crowdsourced ones. I don’t even know where to start.

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Actually, while mathematically heavy, it’s easy to measure in GR, assuming you’ve got a metric solved (If you don’t, you’re fucked. That shit is intractable to the point where you can name every exact solution on one page, and inexact solutions can just be lies) However, you may have to ask additional questions about what sort of time you want, which probably stems from why you need it.

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I… Actually don’t know.

The real time clock continues to move in real time under reasonable conditions. If it’s in a weird year it’s either because you’ve decided to run a disk you found in a cave, left by the Ancient Ones, or you’re cheating at Animal Crossing.

I’m a little unclear on how the rest of the clocks typically work together. If your program is drawing from one that gets stopped for a while, I guess yeah, a minute could totally be weeks long, and I’m in the picture as a falsehood believer.

Video appears to show officer with knee on protestor's neck, police say it didn't happen (www.cbc.ca)

A group of protesters that demonstrated at a rally in support of Palestinians over the weekend in Toronto say a man who was protesting was injured during his arrest — which included an officer kneeling on his neck, something Toronto's former police chief said officers are not trained to do.

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It’s an optical illusion caused by a very tiny temperature inversion in the atmosphere surrounding the event. /s

I think they just have an editorial policy about not stating the obvious when the obvious is something the courts have to rule on, legally speaking.

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Start a GoFundMe for an art commission. It comes with a good story and your needs are modest, so a free lunch might actually be achievable.

Otherwise, just use AI. The court cases seem unlikely to succeed, if you know how AI works, and you know that a judge is unlikely to throw out an entire industry over a tiny, difficult to measure contamination with questionable training data. Some of the shit we in the West import is produced by crime more often than not, after all. Even if they do stick somehow, they’re probably not coming after you specifically.

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Wow, yet another way our bylaws are terrible. It’s starting to feel like it’s on purpose.

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Wait, are you telling me Fight Club was unrealistic!? /s

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Kevin should have rolled down the stairs in a tire instead. I bet that would actually work.

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I can’t decide if I’d rather do this, or put a hole in my parent’s wall as a kid. I kind of think the latter would have hurt more.

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I’m guessing both terms are vague enough, that companies can legally just lie.

It’s only a “liable untruth” if someone can prove it’s not true in court.

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If it’s not indexed, more people will be covered over time, so it’s not all bad.

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Fuck, I’m dumb.

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Intellectual property rights solve the problem that a market requires scarcity to work, but it goes away with something easy to copy. They solve it by creating scarcity artificially, which is dumb.

I’d like to see government subsidies instead. We could even transition into that by gradually buying up and freeing copyrights and patents. (Trademarks are kind of their own thing, because they’re ideally just to explain the origin of an item)

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Yes, that would be an issue. If you had a hybrid system, markets could still decide prices, at least. Once the government is the only player things get very tricky indeed.

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It’s a good point another user also made. I’m thinking private patents that the government regularly purchases is probably more achievable. Otherwise, yeah, you’d have to employ people to estimate the value of an IP from rates of consumption, and it would be complicated

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This thread is honestly making me wonder if I should move. Vancouver is sure beautiful, I’ve just always assumed I couldn’t afford it.

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Yeah. And by that measure I’ve always said Alberta is underrated. In some way’s it’s better, in some ways it’s worse, but it’s not anachronistic like people seem to imagine, and property is just way cheaper. If Vancouver actually works out to the same price once you factor other things in, though, it seems awesome when I’m out there.

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Except immigrants build houses. Sense this discussion looping back on itself a bit, so I’ll check out if there’s nothing further.

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