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  • Right. You can get away with it in beef because the pathogens for that are on the surface. As long as the outside is cooked, it's technically safe to eat. (This does not apply to ground beef, which is all mixed up).

    Chicken and pork have pathogens throughout the meat. They must be cooked all the way through.

  • Tesla sales drop in Europe for fifth month in a row
  • The Mini EV is in the US, but its range is just adequate. Then there's older models, like the Bolt or Leaf. Ford has an EV Transit van for commercial customers, but its range also sucks.

    Hyundai Ioniq 6 is out there, at least.

    Yeah, the US market for EVs is bad. Just SUVs and trucks with few exceptions. Not even a good (mini) van.

  • HENRYs with kids say 6-figure salaries just aren't cutting it
  • I take a different line entirely. If you have $100k household income, and that's still not enough cover expenses for a family of four, then something is very wrong. By income distribution, 80% of the population makes $100k or less, and it's completely untenable for them.

  • HENRYs with kids say 6-figure salaries just aren't cutting it
  • I'm having trouble finding a reference to median US living expenses, but you can cut the above number in half if you like. Multiplying it for a family of four won't necessarily be 4x, but it'll be more than 2x.

  • Car
  • Why I change my own oil. Not because I save money--generally don't even before your time is factored in--but because I know how to put on an oil pan bolt without cross threading it.

  • HENRYs with kids say 6-figure salaries just aren't cutting it
  • Those figures won't be that far apart. It will somewhat, because higher incomes will have a bigger house and more luxurious car. However, they're putting more of their money into investments, not cost of living.

    And I'll reiterate, that's the average for one person, not a family.

  • HENRYs with kids say 6-figure salaries just aren't cutting it
  • As of 4th quarter 2024, average cost of living for a single person in the US is $4,948/month. Take that $8,333/month, chop off 20% for taxes, and you're already getting uncomfortably close to that number. For a family of four, I really don't see how those numbers work at all.

  • Car
  • It just needs to be clear and set close to the max fill line. If it's low and/or dark, it wasn't done right.

    Alternatively, if you're in a place dedicated to oil changes, you can assume it wasn't done right.

  • White House to limit intelligence sharing with Congress after leak of early Iran report
  • Despite the administration’s crackdown and Johnson's suspicions, it’s not known whether the leak came from a member of Congress.

    Given the clowns in charge, it's more likely the leak came from inside the White House.

  • Jellyfin over the internet
  • Nah, setting non-standard ports is sound advice in security circles.

    People misunderstand the "no security through obscurity" phrase. If you build security as a chain, where the chain is only as good as the weakest link, then it's bad. But if you build security in layers, like a castle, then it can only help. It's OK for a layer to be weak when there are other layers behind it.

    Even better, non-standard ports will make 99% of threats go away. They automate scans that are just looking for anything they can break. If they don't see the open ports, they move on. Won't stop a determined attacker, of course, but that's what other layers are for.

    As long as there's real security otherwise (TLS, good passwords, etc), it's fine.

    If anyone says "that's a false sense of security", ignore them. They've replaced thinking with a cliche.

  • NYC Mayor Eric Adams kicks off reelection bid and casts Mamdani as having a ‘silver spoon’
  • One of my favorite exchanges from the 2008 election:

    Colbert: tell me about growing up with a silver spoon in your mouth on the south side of Chicago

    Michelle Obama: we didn't have silver spoons. We had four spoons.

    Colbert: but there were spoons, right?

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  • The future conservatives want is the same except it's men in fashy uniforms. We don't even have to speculate or joke; it's exactly how mines are run in countries without worker protections.

  • What is the strangest math that turned out to be useful?
  • Origami can be used as a basis for geometry:

    http://origametry.net/omfiles/geoconst.html

    IIRC, you can do things that are impossible in standard Euclidean construction, such as squaring the circle. It also has more axioms than Euclidean construction, so maybe it's not a completely fair comparison.

  • You're not alone: This email from Google's Gemini team is concerning
  • There are ways they can work around it, but their lead developer was drafted into their country's military. Ultimately, they're going to have to make their own phone, and it looks like they're making plans to do that.

    For now, it's fine.

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