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Slight counterpoint

I have 2 TVs in my house. A 70" Vizio as my main TV and a 40-ish inch Samsung fame in the bedroom

Haven't used the TVs smart features in years, everything I watch is run through a game console or dedicated streaming device (currently a 4k Chromecast)

Their software is kind of dogshit, but I never interact with it except once in a blue moon after a power outage or something when it defaults back to that. I otherwise find it to be a perfectly fine TV for the price I paid for it.

However, as bad as the software is on the Vizio, the Samsung is 10x worse. And unfortunately as bad as it is, that's what we use because it was hard enough trying to hide the box the TV came with (the way they get the frame TV's so light and thin is by moving all of the electronics into a separate box, I installed a cabinet in the wall behind the TV to hide it) let alone trying to hide a separate streaming stick/box along with it. I also feel like using one of those may not play as well with the art mode as the built-in software, which is kind of the whole point.

Totally anecdotal, but I work in 911 dispatch, so I have a bit of insight on people involving themselves in emergencies

It's really hit or miss.

Fires, gunshots, medical emergencies, fights, things blowing up, car accidents, noise complaints, aircraft crashes, I've probably taken a call about it, and those calls have come in from the person involved, a neighbor , a random passerby, their grandmother who lives in another state, or some random follower on tiktok.

And sometimes we get a hundred calls about the same thing. There are times I can just about answer the phone with "911, if you're calling about the [thing] in [place] we're already aware, help is on the way." And be right about 90% of the time while that thing is going on. (To be clear I don't do that, because almost every time I crack a joke about my job or vent about stupid shit our callers do, some self-righteous dipshit comes at me with a whole "if that's how you talk to your callers maybe you're not cut out for this job" spiel as if no one ever vents about the idiots they have to deal with at work.)

And there are other times where we get exactly one call about something serious happening in a very public place and we're left wondering if it was a prank call until our police/fire/EMS get out there and confirm that yes, everything is exactly as described or even worse, it's a total shit-show and all hell's breaking loose.

Sometimes it seems like a whole town is turning out to help people with a minor fender-bender, and sometimes hundreds of people are driving right by an overturned vehicle.

Usually, of course, it's somewhere in-between. We got a handful of calls about something but our phones aren't ringing off the hook about it.

Moral of my rant is, a lot of times people will step in to help or at least call 911 in an emergency, but you can't always count on that. The idea of the bystander effect is exaggerated and misinterpreted, but the core takeaway about it is solid. You can't always take it for granted that someone else is going to do something to help, so if you find yourself in a position where you can be the one who helps, you should do so.

I think this is going to depend a lot on the sort of environment you're hiking in

For me, one of the big issues with jeans is that they don't dry out easily, if there's any chance you're going to get wet or sweat a lot, they're a very bad choice. In some cases I'd even consider it to be a valid safety issue if for example the temperatures are going to drop and damp clothes are going to put you at risk of hypothermia

Or in hotter, humid climates, they won't breathe well, meaning your sweat won't be able to evaporate which is how your body keeps cool (already enough of an issue when the humidity is high) on top of jeans already being kind of hot on their own

Also chafing, potentially fungal issues, etc.

And if you're doing sort of a more technical hike where you really need your full range of movement to climb over things, jeans may be a little stiff for that (although arguably a worthwhile tradeoff for them being more abrasion-resistant)

And if you're doing overnight backpacking, they're absolutely too heavy to be worth it in my opinion.

But I can think of plenty of hikes I've done where jeans would have been an adequate, maybe even preferred sort of pants, like if it's a day hike, the weather is cooler, dry, and maybe somewhere with a lot of rocks and thorns.

This kind of feels like a rule that was instituted because too many inexperienced hikers showed up in jeans when they were a very bad choice for the conditions and had a bad time because of it, so instead of trying to judge it on a case-by-case basis weighing experience levels, everyone's personal comfort, the weather and trail conditions, etc. for each hike, it was a lot easier to just say "no jeans" so that everyone could just show up and hike instead of having to play wardrobe police every time they met up (and maybe to hedge their bets against getting sued if someone ended up with hypothermia or heat stroke or whatever from wearing jeans when "no one warned them not to")

I think I see a bit of steam escaping from the pan, so I think they tried to weigh it after cooking

Which makes sense, there's going to be some weight change after you cook it because of evaporation and such... hence the steam

Before cooking you couldn't really call it Jollof Rice, it would just be a big pot of the raw ingredients for Jollof Rice

And they know the weight of the ingredients going in already, they're quoted in the article, so that's just simple addition to figure out.

Yeah, don't get me wrong I enjoyed his lectures, it's just very much not going to be everyone's cup of tea and certainly not something that would have translated well to a movie

Luckily I don't have it quite that bad I am just very uncomfortable with it.

Sprained my knee really badly once and the doctor used a giant syringe to drain some fluid after the swelling hadn't gone down much after a couple weeks. Really didn't like that, wasn't even close to passing out, but can't think I've ever been more uncomfortable.

Similarly I've also been on-scene with some pretty nasty injuries, and I work in 911 dispatch, I'm generally not bothered by too much.

I have 3

I cannot juggle. I don't generally lack in hand-eye coordination (not that I'm overly-gifted with it either, but I'd generally say that I'm at least average,) and I understand the theory of it well enough, I've even been able to teach people to juggle successfully, it's just that I, myself, cannot juggle.

I'm also a reasonably handy, technically-minded person, again not an absolute wizard, but if I crack a gadget open, with a couple Google searches and how-to guides, I can usually understand more or less how things work and how to fix them if they're broken.

But something about sewing machines breaks my mind. There's something going on right around the bobbin that just doesn't make sense to my brain and doesn't seem like it should work, but it apparently does, because I've successfully used a sewing machine and can confirm first-hand that they work.

Lastly, I don't like needles. It's not a horrible phobia that sends me running for the hills, but something about needles sleeves me out like nothing else. I can suck it up and get my necessary vaccines and such, but I do kind of have to give myself a little internal pep-talk first. It's not a fear of pain, I have pretty solid pain tolerance and needles really don't hurt that much at all, it's specifically needles that weird me out. If there was an option to get my vaccines where a doctor would shank me with a scalpel and rub the vaccine into the wound, I'd absolutely go for it.

I'm personally very much a fan of both the comic and the movie

The overall plots are largely the same, the comic of course has a little more space to flesh things out.

Which does actually work against it at times, there's a point where V just kind of goes off on a lecture about anarchy for a couple pages, which is interesting but maybe not the most exciting comic book reading you'll ever do, and certainly wouldn't have translated particularly well to the screen, so overall I don't mind most of the changes they made of

Both the comic and movie are very much a product of their times and places. The comic is very much a reaction to Thatcherism in the UK, the movie more to post-911 Bush-era America.

The movie probably resonates more with me personally, but I'm also a product of that time and place. The comic strikes me as a little more timeless.

Even more appropriately, it's V for Vendetta

Spoilers, I guess, for a 40 year old comic (the plot in the movie is a bit different)

I know that when police in my area need to destroy evidence that's no longer needed (and can't just be disposed of in normal waste streams, or sold or what have you) they normally take it to a local garbage incineration plant.

There was also a steel mill in the area at one point and their furnace was occasionally been put to use for similar purposes (tangential - there was at least one instance I've heard of where the US mint used that furnace to dispose of a batch of coins they were testing a new alloy or process or something on)

Generally speaking, recipes can't be copyrighted (the specific wording of a written recipe might be protected, but the general idea of combining certain ingredients in a specific way can't)

The names of the flavors, branding, etc. can be (or trademarked, or various other IP terms)

And aspects of the production process might be covered by patents and such.

And of course non-competes and such could complicate things for the actual people involved

And how you acquire those recipes can be a factor, that could rub up against non-disclosure agreements, corporate espionage laws, etc. you may need to be able to say that you came up with it on your own independent of the original recipe or pieced it together from publicly available information.

But in general, if anyone wanted to start up an ice cream company selling exact duplicates of Ben & Jerry's flavors,they could do that as long as they called them all something different

How "no install" does it need to be? Because in one sense, duct-taping a flashlight to the ceiling could technically be considered an install if we really want to split hairs.

I'm assuming the main thing is you don't want to be running wires and cutting holes in the ceiling.

If screwing something into the ceiling isn't too tall of an ask, a plug-in chandelier/pendant lamp might be a good option, but finding an attractive way to route the wires may prove tricky.

Some command hooks and string lights may do the trick

You could also try some rope rights along the perimeter of your ceiling held on with command strips/double stick tape

A tall floor lamp could sort fill the role of a ceiling light, at an old apartment I had a lamp that was basically an enormous version of the Pixar lamp that filled that role pretty well.

You might be able to find some sort of battery/rechargeable/maybe even solar powered light fixture that you can mount to your ceiling to get around needing to run a power cord to it, but I have a feeling you'll find the light output and battery life of most options disappointing.

Not what you're asking for, but just a final thought- my childhood home had almost no overhead lighting, there was a light fixture or two in the kitchen, a couple bare bulbs in the basement, and a wall fixture in the bathroom. Everywhere else we just had floor, table, and desk lamps and never really had a problem with it. I feel like that's still a perfectly serviceable solution, especially with the modern option of having smart bulbs and/or outlets to control those lights.

I think it looks pretty good from the side, but from pretty much any other angle it's just an ugly box.

When it was first revealed, I was a fan of the design (not that I was going to be buying anything from muskrat) but the more I saw of it the less I liked the looks.

It's kind of like they spent the whole time designing it from the side view, then ran out of time before they were going to reveal it and decided to just connect the two sides with some rectangles and straight lines.

I kind of feel like this is kind of one of those rare cases where we should ideally be letting the free market do its thing.

If a print shop, bakery, etc. wants to refuse your business on ideological grounds like this, you take your business elsewhere and tell everyone else to do the same.

It of course kind of falls apart with big companies like office Depot, where they've often driven all of the local competition out of business and someone can just keep running their complaint up the corporate chain of command until they reach a soulless bean-counter who only sees dollar signs.

In no particular order, and not an exhaustive list

• The Big Lebowski
• 2001: A Space Odyssey
• Sin City
• Lord of The Rings Trilogy
• Star wars Original Trilogy & Rogue One
• Casablanca
• Mad Max Fury Road
• Arrival
• Pulp Fiction
• All the Studio Ghibli movies, but Especially Nausicaa, Princess Mononoke, My Neighbor Totoro, Spirited away, and Grave of the Fireflies
• Blazing Saddles
• Young Frankenstein
• Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
• Monty Python & the Holy Grail
• Jurassic Park
• Rocky Horror Picture Show
• Blade Runner
• Blade Runner 2049
• Mary & Max
• Akira
• Rocky
• The Godfather 1 & 2, and at that point I guess you might as well watch 3 as well
• Rashomon
• Chinatown
• Jaws
• All quiet on the western front
• Psycho
• Kill Bill 1&2
• The Shawshank Redemption
• Forest Gump
• Fight Club
• The Matrix (just 1)
• Silence of the Lambs
• Taxi Driver
• Back to the future trilogy
• The Usual Suspects
• Apocalypse Now
• Indiana Jones Trilogy
• Dune parts 1&2
• The Shining
• Dredd
• Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
• The Room
• A Clockwork Orange
• Gone with the Wind
• V for Vendetta
• Trainspotting
• Fargo
• Ben Hur
• Children of Men
• Shoot 'em Up
• Logan *The Princess Bride
• Old Yeller
• John Wick series
• Most Disney/Pixar movies
• Most Don Bluth movies

Except for a few obvious spam posts, I'm pretty hard-pressed to think of any specific posts or comments I've seen that struck me as bots (although to be fair, I'm there may be some bias due to which communities I choose to follow)

There are, however, plenty of idiots, people who don't speak fluent English, trolls and other people whose motivations may not be purely good-faith discussion, people who probably have various types of neurodivergence and/or mental health issues

And I could see some of those categories being very easily mistaken as a bot under a lot of circumstances.

Most bullet casings are brass, which is a fairly soft metal, you could probably scratch some words into it with a pocket knife, sewing needle, pretty much any pointy steel object

Just kind of thinking out loud

All of those people who were brought into ERs from ground zero and the people, vehicles, etc. that brought them there would have been covered in that same dust that's causing health issues for first responders, that means doctors and nurses probably also received some level of exposure to that dust because I doubt all of those people showered on the way.

I don't know how their exposure level stacks up against the people who were on-scene, I'm sure it's an order of magnitude less, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was still significant enough to cause some health problems. IBM pretty sure I've seen some evidence of people who live with firefighters developing health issues from secondhand exposure like that.

On top of that, there's also the psychological burden that always gets overlooked. I'm sure that took a hell of a toll on healthcare workers.

And there's a recognition aspect, because for all of the people who died, there were also many more who were injured, and more than a few of them owe their lives to the doctors and nurses who treated them just as much as to the first responders who got them to the hospital.

Well at the end of it, you can see he actually starts leaning pretty far to the left