Holy cow! Formerly gifted, burned out, rain, books, injustice.

Checks all the boxes for me. Why these specific things? Eery!

Everything is easy if you can get everyone to agree. World peace, end of poverty, end of inequality, end of hunger/starvation, end of climate change.

Turns out this isn’t a very productive line of thinking. All hard problems are coordination problems.

They campaigned on the left and have been a minority government working in a coalition with the socialist NDP for the past several years.

I’m in Canada so I have the opposite reaction re: the military. Our military is a joke and if the US ever walked away from NATO we would be totally screwed.

Our government has been run by the Liberals since 2015. All they’ve done is destroyed the jobs market and put housing out of reach for ordinary people. Not a fan!

I think if you want to be a socialist you need to acknowledge that sometimes the government will be grossly incompetent and/or corrupt. Frankly, this experience is what has pulled me to the right. I simply don’t have trust in unaccountable institutions anymore.

Having said that, I think most of the damage to our society has been done by incompetent municipal governments which aren’t part of our party system anyway. They’ve squandered billions of dollars, been grifted by scam artist developers, and destroyed our communities with idiotic urban planning ideas that make livable neighbourhoods illegal.

40yo single dude checking in. I think the government lost my assignment form!

People change. The old stereotype is that people tend to be very liberal in high school and college but become very conservative with a mortgage and a couple of kids. I don’t know how often that actually plays out but it makes sense.

When you don’t have anything it’s easy to demand a lot of things from the government. When you have money you want to do everything you can to hold onto it and that means not paying taxes. It flips around again when people are super rich though: then they don’t mind paying taxes (because their effective tax rate is very low). It’s the middle class who get screwed the most.

And YouTube, Twitch, TikTok, BitTorrent…

People have a lot more choices now than they did in the bad old days of high cable bills. If streaming services charge too much people will just bail back to free stuff.

Yeah exactly. I’m not a biologist but I am aware that horseshoe crabs are harvested for their blood and its unique properties. How much evolution (in the last 450MY) have they undergone in terms of their immune system and other microbiological processes? We may never know but I think it’s quite a stretch to assume “none!”

There’s a lot of advantages that simply come with using a more popular distribution. For one, having a larger pool of package maintainers (and therefore more packages) is pretty important. Have you ever tried using NixOS as a daily driver? I did a few years ago. Very annoying having to create my own packages for so many different (and relatively common) things I wanted to use.

Did Ben Carson attempt to do surgery on himself? Otherwise I can’t explain at all how dumb he was. Wow! Thanks for the example.

Jill Stein may be an idiot politician with laughably unrealistic positions and a totally unworkable take on foreign policy (even dining with Putin) but she’s also a physician who practiced internal medicine for decades.

She’s not an idiot in general. I think she’s just unbelievably naive about people and their motivations.

Ahhh no wonder I didn’t see this. I already had Beaver blocked.

Instead of the box of mashed potato flakes you could buy a 10lb bag of potatoes. Mashed potatoes are really easy to make in an instant pot! You don’t even need to peel the potatoes, just wash and chop. The peels provide extra nutrients.

I think in both cases you have a small and vocal minority within the group. Then you have the silent majority who never preach but just enjoy the lifestyle and the benefits it brings them.

Yeah it was over on Reddit. There was quite a large discussion about it. Some (including me) are glad to see it go (I had all my equipment blown up by traps one time because I threw it all down a pit; now that’s no longer an issue).

Others called it a “core mechanic” of the game that they use every run!

Hopefully they stick around! Some of them seemed pretty upset about the change! I think Evan is right that people had become too dependent on the exploit and weren’t willing to try on unidentified items or look for other strategies to deal with them.

Ahhhh okay. So I take it they watch the nets quietly nearby so they can grab the birds before they struggle too much and injure themselves? So for owls you just need a lot of coffee!

Thanks for sharing! Yeah these are really cute, I definitely want to get some!

Sounds like a challenging plant for me then. I tend to overwater! Maybe do well with a nice terra cotta pot to get some extra evaporation.

What the heck! That leaf is amazing! Doesn’t even look real! Wow!