This isn’t to slam you, just a tidbit in case you and your wife ever do decide to try teaching her to cook:

Intuition comes from a lot of practice, and external feedback on how close/far you were and how to improve for next time. A professional chef can intuit the temp of a fish they cooked within a degree because they’ve cooked thousands of fish filets, measured each one with a thermometer to confirm it was cooked correctly, and had other chefs guide them on what to look for (or swore at them when they got it wrong, but maybe don’t do that to your wife). They’ve thrown out hundreds of botched plates. And now they can cook a fish and know with their gut when it’s done.

Your wife’s first 300 dishes are going to be not so great. And then she’ll figure out how to identify what’s missing in the flavour, and how to keep from over-cooking the meat, and you get to be there to help her with that, and cheer her on, and call out every time she improves.

Or maybe she finds 300 new textures she hates, but finds 2 meals that don’t squick her out to prepare. And that’s OK, too.

Oh, but there are speculums for all. If you have an orifice, western medicine has figured out how to pry it open.

Thanks! Guess the stuff I read 20+ years ago got a little jumbled in long-term storage.

Yep! The PS5 was the first console to standardise X as confirm in all regions. Can’t say whether the game devs followed suit, though I’d imagine Sony has some licensing clause to force compliance on that.

Random factoid: Way back in the early PlayStation days, the O button was the default “accept/enter” buton, and the X was the “cancel/back” button, because that aligned with the national consensus of O = correct/confirm, and X = incorrect/cancel in Japan. But when the console was introduced in North America and Europe, they started remapping the X and O to align with other western consoles using X, like the Xbox. That said, I distinctly remember early PS1 games being a sort of wild west of which button would be confirm, so I suspect it was also done in response to western gamers struggling to adapt.

(Playing tongue-in-cheek devil’s advocate) In order to lose weight, a body needs to be undernourished in relation to the minimum required to maintain that weight. Being undernourished at a non-starvation level produces hunger drive. I doubt any of the humans who decided he needs to lose weight speak fluent cat, so he didn’t have any say or insight into what’s being done to him. As such, from his perspective, he -hasn’t- been fed enough, and doesn’t have a reason for being hungry. So this cat should not be called a liar. He’s out there bravely sharing his truth with the world. He should be applauded and then fed.

I recently watched this video comparing various Midi game soundtracks on different sound cards. Really interesting how different cards interpreted the sounds differently.

There are other sports that penalise the offending fans’ team for fan misbehaviour, delays to game, etc. Lacrosse, and soccer, do at least. It’s an effective way to get fans to settle down when their actions cost their team possession, a penalty shot, etc. So maybe don’t remove the team, but I don’t see why they can’t do something similar.

Hi. Been in, worked in both. My experience with bathrooms doesn’t invalidate yours. Both can be true. Hell, we’re probably not in the same country, so social norms can play a factor, and like I said before, demographics make a big difference in a lot of things. Which drug residues are left on the back of the toilet, for example.

I’m sorry you have such strong feelings about people and public bathrooms. It’s definitely a shitty experience (pun intended). It’s a weird hill to die on though.

From my experience, it depends on where. Malls and things like that where there are many people of all different demographics absolutely are equally disgusting. Semi-private washrooms tend to be less disgusting overall, but women’s are usually at least a little cleaner. Standing to pee causes splashes. Enough human traffic and and the whole place smells like a hamster cage that doesn’t go away unless the whole damn bathroom is flooded in sanitiser.

Obtainium is a decent way to make using sites like apkPure, uptodown, etc. a little easier to handle.

Pirated games can be one or several of the following:

• a means of participating in a chosen culture when players can’t afford/justify the price tag (one Nintendo game now costs the same as a week’s worth of groceries for two people where I live)
• a form of archive because game publishers are notorious for killing games
• a form of backup because things happen to disks/cartridges
• a form of backup because servers go down
• a form of backup because not everyone’s internet is reliable
• a means making the game more accessible by adding features (eg. the option of infinite lives/health for someone with muscular dystrophy)
• a form of protest over ever-increasing prices at the same time as ever-increasing layoffs, and ever-decreasing quality.

More directly relevant to you: the money you give Nintendo goes to their legal teams, to continue to find loopholes around the protections you have. They’re the ones fighting the “Stop Killing Games” movement. Nintendo recently won a lawsuit against 1fichier in France for hosting emulated games. It has been marked as a “significant” win against any level of piracy in the EU. Nintendo is continually working to make sure that despite living in the EU, you won’t be fine regardless. Your purchase directly funds that.

Maybe you have no intention of playing pirated games, but I hope you can appreciate that this is larger than just some teenager feeling powerful because they stole something?

Telecoms tradespeople in Canada are paid like absolute garbage. They used to be (and some still are, but they’re dwindling) part of the steelworker’s union, but they were hit hard by union busting, so now the majority are contractors who get paid by the job. This means a full 5 hour run of fibre to get a home set up pays the same as plugging a single wire in at the CO. But it’s luck of tue draw, and with the telcos cutting corners on everything, the “plug in a wire” jobs are like unicorns.

Plus the rack people have all been laid off, so the guys have to do that job on top of their own, and the IT side has all been offshored to folks who are not trained or paid enough to be competent. So what should be a 45 minute job that they could do 11 of in a single day now takes 2 hours, meaning they’re only getting paid for 4.

It would not surprise me if other blue collar industries started following suit.

They’re saying they’d rather have had the money that went towards the purchases of switch 2s left in the form of cash, rather than spent for them.

It’s a relevant critique because with their latest releases, Nintendo’s doing the same ‘cost increase to the detriment of employees and customers’ dance as the other big gaming corpos.

A person can agree something is better than the horrible baseline, and still bring up a topic of discussion on something that isn’t great.

Also, re: 2 weeks paid time off; look outside of 'Murica once in a while. The global average of paid days off is ~25. So 2 weeks, while lovely for America, is below normal.

Covid-19 causes permanent damage, and immune dysregulation in every person who is infected, each time they are infected, so it’s no surprise other viruses are now having larger impacts.

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/beyond-long-covid-1.7485888

Nope, measles is up to six times more contagious (UNICEF measures it as only two times more infectious). It doesn’t help that the world in general has gotten really lax about how dangerous Covid is, particularly with the latest variants, so our baseline is off.

https://www.med.ubc.ca/news/5-things-you-didnt-but-should-know-about-measles/

https://www.unicef.org/uzbekistan/en/stories/how-dangerous-measles

I agree with you about feeling no pity for the tech bros. However, a big appeal of AI for them is elimination of employees. And that’s going to hurt more regular folks who did not sign up for AI on a much more noticeable level. I dont think any nation is set up to handle the level of unemployment that’s on the horzon. So ignoring the environmental impacts of LLM/AI servers; let’s get national food, shelter, and healthcare systems in place, and then I’d be all for letting the venture capitalists shove their dicks in blenders.

Around my area, “contactless payment” became further normalised during the initial Covid lockdown (of all the changes to keep, we went with that one 🙄). Many of the smaller businesses seem to prefer it. I suspect it reduces error and effort - fewer errors during the transactions and direct data-to-data conversion in the accounting. I wouldn’t be surprised if it saves them money on insurance, too, as there’s no reason to rob a bunch of debit receipts.

I’m sure you -could- insist on paying with cash, but unless you’re have exact change, it’s not going to be a smooth, unremarkable exchange. And that also defeats the anonymity factor of privacy: they’re definitely going to remember the “weirdo” who insisted on paying cash, who argued about your sign being illegal, and then the PITA it was to find them change.

Don’t get me wrong, I make an effort to dominantly use cash. And I also recognise there are some places I either have to accept I can’t use cash (my pharmacy, which talks to my insurance, so moot point anyway), or have to find an alternative that does take cash (my favorite ramen place, RIP).

Missed the sarcasm, I see.

Guess you’ll never know. If only you could check user post history to see.