In think you hit the nail on the head for me with this one:

I wouldn't be a Kamala supporter, so it doesn't benefit Trump

I'm in the same boat. Many of Kamala's policies aren't things I want or agree with. Many of Trump's policies aren't things I want or agree with. I disagree with BOTH of the major candidates so much that it doesn't make sense for me to vote for either of them.

They aren't losing my vote, their platforms are such that neither ever had my vote to begin with. It's not like my vote would have been for Kamala, but since I have a small issue with one of her planks, then I'm throwing a fit and I'm going to vote 3rd party.

Neither major candidate deserves my vote, In fact I think the difference between Kamala and Trump winning is relatively small for the US. Either of them winning will be a nightmare for the US. They're both terrible people, they may lie about different things, and the media favors one or the other more for their own benefit. They're both authoritarian warmongers, who say whatever it takes on the campaign trail to get elected, then stomp all over regular people when they get into power. The major parties are not the same, but they're both fucked.

I also happen to live in a state where one party will get double the other party's votes, and it's been that way for nearly my entire life. MY VOTE FOR PRESIDENT LITERALLY DOESN'T MATTER HERE, EVEN IF I LIKED ONE OF THE MAJOR CANDIDATES.

If other people like Kamala more than Trump, enough to cast their vote for her, then I encourage them to do so. I understand in swing states where individual votes aren't annihilated by a supermajority that people may have to be more strategic in their voting and take the bad with the good.

But personally, I vote for a 3rd party candidate with no chance to win, whose platform I happen to agree with more than any other candidate, and I can live with myself and the eventual outcome.

I definitely agree on getting out of first past the post though.

I'm a little skeptical about gas stoves causing or contributing to all these deaths, but I believe in science so if well written papers like the one OP linked are peer reviewed and published then I'm willing to accept their conclusions.

That being said, I'm a very avid home cook (with years of experience in commercial kitchens) and I've made many good faith attempts to find a way to cook on the stove top that doesn't use gas, and unfortunately none of them come even close to what I can do with gas.

Regular electric elements are garbage, and it doesn't matter what kind of cooking vessel you use, but I think almost everyone agrees here.

Induction is very interesting, and can heat a ferrous vessel quicker than a normal stove burner (but not nearly as fast as my outdoor wok equipment can). Unfortunately it is pulsed heating, and uses a rather course gradient, so techniques which require very fine tuned and consistent heat aren't easily replicated.

I'll admit that have a lot of money invested in non-ferrous cooking vessels (copper, not a copper plate in the bottom, legit 3mm thick copper walled pans) and they are incompatible with induction, so any switch to induction will require buying new cookware. I'm in a tiny niche, so I also admit my trouble with induction shouldn't discourage others from switching.

Gas is wonderful for getting precisely the results I need with sauces, when you turn it down it follows a smooth and predictable gradient, and works perfectly with high quality copper cookware which is superior to anything else on the market (unless of course you use induction, or care about price).

Yes, I have some cast iron and carbon steel, which work with induction, but they don't lose heat as fast as other materials, which is required for some techniques. They're great for some things, but terrible at others, so they don't solve my problem.

I run a hefty hood that exhausts outside, and I don't have kids in the house, so in the near term I'm not really worried about people in my home getting sick from whatever combusting natural gas throws off.

But like the meat alternative (or lab grown meat) effort, I'm genuinely interested in an alternative to what I already use, but only if it performs at least as well as my current solution. And unfortunately nothing currently on the market comes even close.

They pay the business who owns the ad space, who in turns pays the website or app for their space. You pay for the app or website content by watching the ad.

It's a terrible model, but you are being paid (in content) for watching ads.

This actually happens very frequently in the US. When hunters harvest a bird they report their kills in compliance with hunting regulations. If any of your birds have leg or neck bands you report that information as well. The bands have a tracking number on them, and scientists use them to monitor populations and migration patterns. It's literally part of their plan.

You get to keep the bands as well (I only have experience with banded geese and ducks). They're a neat memento.

I have a few guitars, across the spectrum from early 50's Gibson family heirlooms, beat up 80's shedders, 90's Guitar Center trash specials, all the way to a Fender masterbuilt reissue Tele.

IMO you pay what it's worth to you. If you like the way it sounds and you play it well, you'll know what it's worth.

I'm not sure what some of my fancier guitars are worth, but I know the one that sounds the best and I love to play the most is the bottom dollar Epiphone I've had set up and replaced the electronics in. I'm probably up to $700 all in on that instrument over 30 years and it just sings for me.

Spend what you want, if you love it then it's worth every penny.

Tmux with a few custom key bindings is amazing. Kind of a learning curve, but not nearly as difficult as something like Vim.

I see a lot of references to Ubuntu being filled with ads or scaring people into buying their services, but I've been daily driving it for over 15 years on personal desktops and servers and never noticed that. What have I missed?

I never saw the Amazon ad stuff, I hear it was a referral link?

Last I checked Ubuntu Pro is free for personal use on up to 5 machines.

I use apt to manage all my packages and upgrades, including dist-upgrade, maybe that's why I've never noticed snap? Why does snap suck?

False.

Source

Section 3, article 3: SPEAKERS IN HELMETS

The Coach-to-Player system allows a member of the coaching staff in the bench area or the coaches’ booth to communicate to a designated offensive or defensive player with a speaker in his helmet. The communication begins once a game official has signaled a down to be over and is cut off when the play clock reaches 15 seconds or the ball is snapped, whichever occurs first.

The headsets are active between plays, and have one way communication with one player on each side. Typically this is the quarterback on offense and a team captain/play caller on defense. These players wear special helmets typically marked with a green dot on the back.

The refs or other officials cut off communication when the play clock reaches 15 seconds, preventing the kind of real-time communication you suggest.

6'3" 200lbs is about right for a fit male. I imagine her muscularity plus future stuff like diet and augmentation would make that realistic for a female.

waspy

President Biden is Catholic, not Protestant

Deer are delicious rats with hooves

They'll also eat absolutely anything, including other deer, and many are infected with CWD which basically turns them into zombies 🤔

Time to get a few large dogs who don't like peppers or marigolds, and a rifle.

Yeah I can see that.

Many people have no screens allowed rules at meal time, I think that reflects the sentiment in the comic.

Yeah, let's advocate for violence, great job!

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The grill doesn't sound like fireworks, but using it reminds this human of holidays that are associated with both meat cooked over an open flame and fireworks. 4th of July in the US is what the meme is talking about.

The most vital thing isn't doing everything the hard way - just being smart about doing it all yourself. It's the sense that freedom is a function of actual independence, and actual independence is a consequence of ability.

http://www.popularmechanics.com/adventure/outdoors/a24399/the-art-of-staying-alive/

We have to pay to have an account on X now?

I'm pretty sure I didn't mess with systemd, though that would probably be the right way to handle it.

I was able to update a runtime config so if any storage wasn't available it just halted the service. Then I created a short script I'd invoke manually which decrypted the luks drives and brought the dependent services up. I also added monitoring to alert me when the drives weren't available for whatever reason.

I guess I was trying to address the parts of your comment where donations cost calories and time. They certainly aren't paying me for my blood, but personally I feel like it's a fair exchange, and I get to feel good about doing someone I'll probably never meet a potentially life saving favor.