AI slop!

The eagles are the servants (and creations) of Manwë, King of the Valar, who is far more powerful than Sauron. They can see through all matter. They would not be corrupted.

No it doesn’t make me feel safe at all. It feels like 1920s Germany all over again!

Don’t worry. They interview you before these shows. If you’re at all tech savvy then they would never ask you this question. They want you to be stumped by the question for legitimate reasons, not to loudly protest that you’ve been cheated by a bad question.

You gotta read between the lines. OP is close to father, not mother. Mother demands OP cut off all contact with father because he cheated.

It’s clear to me that mom is just trying to drive a wedge between OP and dad in order to hurt him. She doesn’t care how that will affect OP!

Maybe dad started cheating because mom was cold and unavailable? Maybe he fell in love with someone who reciprocated and was available emotionally because his wife wasn’t? He invited this woman to move in, so obviously it wasn’t just a fling.

I’ve long looked for a succinct definition of the pejorative sense of the word. Wikipedia delivers:

Insincere form of performative activism

…

Some leftists, such as writer Daniel Bernabé and philosopher Susan Neiman, criticize wokeness as a form of tribalism which divides the working class and distracts from the universalist class struggle

Though to be fair, tribalism is really hard to escape. Everyone seems to have a tribe.

I personally don’t identify with any of the large social movements taking place right now, on the right or the left. I do have a group of similar, like-minded friends. Now it seems like they’re my tribe.

Install homebrew. Install packages with brew install. Done.

Seems like a great way to prolapse a colon!

Yes, although Carney has a free hand to admit that management is incompetent because it’s a management he inherited from Trudeau’s government, not one he hired himself. Carney worked at Goldman Sachs which has an infamous ultra competitive work culture. I could see him being annoyed with any manager as laid back as Trudeau was as PM.

Based on what the guy said in the video it sounds like his driveway snow melter is resistive electric. That means the coefficient of performance is 1.0: you get 1 watt of heat in the driveway for every watt of electricity you consume.

We already consider that to be unacceptable for household heating. With a modern heat pump you can achieve a COP above 4.0, even when ambient temperatures are below freezing. So why not have a heat pump driving refrigerant lines under the driveway surface? With COP 4.0 you’re 4 times the efficiency of electric resistive heating which means your costs are 1/4:

$26.33/4=$6.58

Now that is a lot more reasonable!

By easy you mean of course conceptually easy. I love land value taxes conceptually but politically they will not be easy to implement. In fact none of the solutions to housing affordability will be easy to implement because homeowners don’t want the value of their property to decrease under any circumstances. That is their nest egg and they guard it with extreme jealousy.

The original comment was “insects are not meat.” That’s it! That’s the whole claim you’re trying to defend. It’s like saying “chickens are not meat.” So they’re vegetables then?! It’s a ridiculous claim!

There are different senses (or uses) of the word meat. One sense, the narrowest one which butchers use when they talk about separating whole muscle from skin, bones, and other tissues, is the one which you are insisting is the only true definition. Another sense, the broader dietary one, classifies any product or byproduct from an animal as meat, including the whole unprocessed carcass.

Since the original claim was simply the unqualified statement “insects are not meat”, I am claiming the freedom to use the broader dietary sense of the word to show how ridiculous that statement is. You, by your insistence on the narrower sense of the word, are the one being pedantic.

Nothing Russia has done including (or since) the invasion in 2022 was smart. It was all stupid.

Russia’s wasted a million soldiers on grabbing a rather small amount of Ukrainian land. They’ve destroyed their own economy, their trade relationships with most of the world, and their demographic future. Take a million men off the streets of most countries and it’s going to crash your population within a generation or two.

If I buy a whole chicken at the grocery store, I buy it in the meat section. No one would say “you’re buying a whole chicken, therefore you’re not buying meat.”

With lobster you can extract the meat and eat it. You can also boil the empty shell to make a lobster stock as a base for a seafood soup or a pan sauce. Just as with chicken you don’t eat the bones but you can boil them to make stocks for soup or pan sauces. They’re still classified as meat and the products you make from them are considered meat products.

Sure but why does that make crickets “not meat”?

Why not? Shrimps and prawns are meat. Lobsters are meat.

Wet bugs meat, dry bugs not meat?

Not sure how these body washes caught on. I just use a plain old unscented bar of soap!

That’s my uncle. PhD in theology. Former Catholic priest (and missionary in Bolivia). Former teacher. Now spends a lot of time meditating, doing yoga, taking pilgrimages to India, reading, fighting climate change. Has a lot of left wing friends in South America who have suffered horrendous atrocities by far right governments.

He’s really the old school left though. Young leftists come in a million different varieties.

Right now the biggest difference between the left and right is structural.

The right is rushing towards the middle of their group. They insist that everyone toe the line on MAGA orthodoxy. Anyone outside of that (even more traditional conservatives) is driven out into the cold.

The left is casting as wide a net as possible. They’re trying to include as many groups as they can and basically grabbing up anyone who feels alienated by the right. There is no orthodoxy besides “stop the right at all costs.”

This is a problem for the left if they’re hoping to replicate Joe Rogan. There’s no orthodoxy to appeal to, no centre of gravity to rally around.

Love her! This spring I noticed the bun who lives under my tomato staircase is back again this year! See if I can get a pic of him soon.