It will be interesting to run this with Lulu installed and see how badly it leaks data.

We’re planning our 30th anniversary party. We still flirt and are both best friends and lovers and don’t pass each other in a room without a caress or joke. I’m not bragging so much as to say it happens. Sometimes people keep the remnants of their initial crush and combine it with respect and lust for a whole lifetime. The Pheromones are very strong.

Websearch “your city” plus refugee services. There will be government and NGO listings; try the NGO people first, just a phone call and tell whoever answers “I am a tutor who teaches XYZ and I am new to town. Looking to volunteer my time and tutor skills. Who do I contact?”

They’ll set you up. In Canada, you might need a criminal record check first.

Volunteer tutor for refugees.

Lawler suggests that he’s getting around $5000 per piece and there were three pieces, so that’s around $15k going to the local skating rink.

Yeah, but that’s just it, there is no one thing that fulfils all your needs if you are forced to use a particular tool, but it lacks privacy or freedom or other features.

I use chrome because I have to and also am curious and I need to know about how Google runs its shit. I run Firefox because of various features it has that are good for web development. I run Safari because it is fast and relatively private outside of the Apple ecosystem And has some great developer tools.

The effort of one keyboard twitch to move from one browser to the other is not really any amount of friction for me. It’s easier than switching from one tab to another inside the same browser, so I don’t get your fixation on a single tool.

And as a PS, I won’t touch Brave with a 10 foot pole anymore because of their Fuckery with crypto.

I, too, am forced to use Chrome for parts of my work.

I just run Chrome for that set of tasks. Then quit, or tab to Firefox for regular browsing.

This is SOP when dealing with uglies like google, microsoft, amazon, adobe, or meta: do the toxic thing or software they require, as sandboxed as reasonable, then get back to daily life and more knowable risks.

Well some people called it the Iraq War but it was the same war started by his daddy so we just called it Gulf War 2.0. It still lingers, mission was not accomplished.

I don’t have any of the footage sadly. The documentary never got made. I don’t think anyone has used the footage, probably sitting in a university archive somewhere.

However there were regular marches of notable size in both Windsor and Detroit, which were loosely coordinated with the millions marching elsewhere around the world. People showed a fair bit of opposition.

I think some of that energy segued into the Occupy movement too.

License plate:

EDGLRD

The number of empty houses in North America is absurd. Zoning and regulatory structure are as much an issue as construction.

The gulf war under Bush Junior saw millions of people marching regularly for months. I shot over 800 hours of video of those marches myself, in Detroit and Windsor.

Decommissioned mines can be used as gravity batteries.

I was once watching a grizzly and cub way up near the treeline, from a well hidden spot. Then we saw the wolverine and the bear smelled it around the same time and took off with her cub at a swift trot.

We agreed and hid more until we were sure the wolverine wouldn’t see us, then trotted away ourselves. Two of the world’s most badass predator species just scrambling to get away from the little murder rug. Won’t forget that.

I think the topic is less about largesse and more about being badass at really, actually literally like totally, super fucking important work.

You’re both right.

Often, descriptors like simply, only, just, etc. are used to diminish or manage perceptions of dissent.

However, saying ‘no it’s just a riot’ in this case is merely accurate grammar, as it’s applying needed nuance and limits to the definition of civil disobedience.

There are still supply chain issues, or synthetic shortages. So many annoying ‘out of stock’ listings for PS5’s in Canada, and prices are locked at MSRP mostly.

In Canada in places where it gets really cold, it used to be common to plug in your car for the block heater in your engine.

No no no no, I keep looking at cats and being grateful that they are so small. Why would you create A.I. based on a predator?

“We should have known better than to keep upgrading the cat, Manny. It knows us too well.” Accellerando, C. Stross

Sells for around $5. A power blender could make that for around $0.20 in ingredients.

You would have to make the equivalent of 80 of those 1.75l oat milks to pay off a refurbished vitamix blender. That’s about a year for our house. We buy organic oats in full 25kg bags and vacuum pack them, so I am considering this.

BIFL isn’t usually really ‘for life’ since we buy practical stuff as adults.

But… when I was born in the '60’s someone gave me a simple, elegant little steel cup and plate, with cartoon bears engraved in simple lines for decoration.

The plate is still in the cupboard with the general plate population, and the little cup is perfectly sized for a double shot, so it lives on top of the espresso machine and gets used daily, adding special value each time because it’s a joy to use, and old like me.