Rob Bos

I agree that we should have come down like the wrath of God when Russia illegally annexed Crimea. Good point!

Nebula is a creator run coop, I believe. I’m happy to pay for that, and do.

I have crowdsec on a bunch of servers. It’s great and I love that I’m feeding my data to the swarm.

Name?

They threw away their negotiation position when they left the EU, and now they’re complaining that they have no leverage? Hah.

I don’t even have a licence. I’d take it. Those gave pretty okay resale value. ^_-

There’ve been times when I’ve held off complaining about something or fixed it myself because I liked the owners. I could see new owners being total dicks and creating a motivation to make Official Complaints.

The way they say that, it sounds like they’re accusing the tenants of outright sabotage, though. >:/

I do think the “used cars not around” criticism is a little silly. Cars have to be new before they’re used, and used cars will come down the pike eventually.

More availability on the cheaper end would be nice. Tesla really missed the boat on that, I think, focusing on the Cybertruck instead of working on a light vehicle for the Asian, European, and Indian markets. As a result, BYD may eat their lunch.

I accidentally pocket-dialed 911 the other day, and was able (much too easily, I thought) tell them that it was a false alarm. I was bounced to the cop line, but they just asked a few basic questions and let it go.

I was relieved, but on another level, concerned about the damage that a good bullshitter could do.

Eating lunch only really fixes your hunger problem and replaces that problem with a poop problem.

Problems can be more or less hard. :P

Agreed, though the odd egg or chunk of meat helps a lot with nutrition. Supplementing with nutritional yeast, flaxseeds, chiaseeds, green leafy vegetables… you have to be more aware about iron, B vitamins, omega fatty acids than you would be with a diet that includes eggs, dairy, and meat.

I advocate people reduce meat, but without a good fundamental knowledge, it’s a little risky to go full vegan.

It really is not! Vegan diets require an awareness of nutrition that isn’t trivial. It’s not hard to do, but it takes a level of planning! It is irresponsible to suggest otherwise.

The people who will be old in 2043 are middle aged now. Sure as fuck we didn’t get those things…

Speaking personally, moving to Calgary would mean buying a car and giving up our 15-years-behind-the-curve rent, so it would be a huge boost in costs. I can’t imagine they have great transit or bike infrastructure, and the provincial politics seem hell bent on making Alberta into a backwater extraction economy.

Timbits are so bad now. Encrusted in sugar, and they use some kind of weird oil now.

In most other spaces, I have to defend my use of Linux. It’s refreshing to have a place where it’s more or less the default.

Burning isn’t the right word necessarily. Plasma gas plants disassociate stuff into constituent elements and produce nothing toxic. They’re just expensive to start up and there aren’t many.

Yes, all that is true, but there are also instances in which they are the middleman taking a cut out of proportion to their value add. It was just one example out of many.

It could be true that middlemen are doing the profit-taking. Like, Amazon produces nothing, but takes a huge cut. So to see any profit, the producers reduce quality, quantity, etc. Of course, Amazon just tightens the screws and takes whatever profit they do eke out.

Yeah, though aluminum also has the advantage of being orders of magnitude lighter, so you save a lot on fuel for shipping at every stage of the process. Plus a glass bottle can only be used as a bottle: recycled aluminum is more flexible.

So it could easily tilt in favour of aluminum I think. BUt you’re right that it’s not clear-cut.