I don’t think jewelry wearing is compatible with the Amish conception of propriety and modesty but I’m not going to say it wouldn’t happen.

I just watched Andor. I enjoyed it more than the Mandalorian, and much more than the Obi Wan Kenobi series (so far).

Ha! my buddy asked me how my patent was coming along last night. Cringe.

Ah yes, the best military is the one full of “alphas”, where nobody let’s anyone else tell them what to do.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, it’s my opinion that the Electoral Reform committee was sabotaged by the liberals from its inception. Ie they gave themselves a minority on the committee so that the committee wouldn’t be able to make a recommendation.

I don’t think it was Trudeau that sabotaged it, but I think it was the Liberals.

Go to the hardware store and get some pex tubing, and a shark bite union fitting.

Cut the tubing to the size you want, use the fitting to close the loop. The fitting can be removed by pressing on the ring around where the tubing goes in. They’re may be a tool that will make this easier.

So you can put all your chokers on the ring, then rotate the one you want to the opening

Pretty interesting!

The Wikipedia article has a ton of info. This magazine article which Wikipedia references is imo a better introduction https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/technology/2022/cochineal-red-dye-bugs-moves-lab

Ateam has managed to bioengineer a fungi to produce it, but with very low yields. Another team has managed to get e coli to produce it, they estimated that a 100,000 L fermenter could produce the same amount as a hectare of land.

100,000L is 100m^3 which is a cube with 4.7m side length. ~15’x15’x15’ or uhh ~~~the size of 4 F150s.

Edit to add: a hectare is 100m x 100m ie ~100 yards x 100 yards.

That’s amazing. I’m surprised that mouse brains have only 1000 times more neurons than a fruit fly, although I suppose the difficulty of mapping it scales exponentially (factorially?)

It’s interesting.

Does the word literally mean “confessionless”?

Could it literally mean either a person that doesn’t take part in the Christian tradition of Confession? Or maybe a person that doesn’t profess any beliefs?

If he comes back to the North, he would be tortured&executed with his family.

Are you basing this statement on anything other than your impression that the North Korean regime is cruel for the sake of being cruel, and everyone in the military and government is incompetent?

It might be true, but it’s also possible that the North Koreans would use it as the obvious propaganda coup it is and send him on speaking tours all over the country/world.

It’s also quite possible that he’s mentally unwell and isn’t making rational choices. Or that he’s trying to escape an abusive situation.

Don’t get me wrong, the North Korean government is not good, I’m just saying that the assumption he’ll be tortured and executed underestimates them.

PS. When you say “comes back” it means that you are in that place. So your sentence implies that you’re in North Korea. I’m sure you meant “goes back”.

I’m feeling totally vindicated with my “this seems like a pretty one sided story” take from when this first surfaced.

Can’t use 100’s in a lot of places.

I think just about anything would be better than what he said.

I wouldn’t say that it was a different time, or anything about the circles I kept.

I’d go with:

Clearly, I was ignorant of the harm my costume could cause. In the seventeen years since that photo, I’ve learned a lot about Canada’s history of racism and how harmful stereotypes further marginalized racialized Canadians. If I had better understood the iniquity that racialized Canadians faced, and continue to face, I never would have engaged in what I now recognize and denounce as a gross and harmful caricature.

My detractors imply that people can’t change. They’re wrong. People can change, and our town can change. I work hard to make this a thriving, welcoming community and I know that we shouldn’t let anyone distract us from the important work we have to do.

I know nothing about any of this, but could one put the epoxy on a large flat surface and then put the wood on top face down?

Probably wouldn’t work /shrug

I think that the classic objection to rail transit is

What about the last mile?!

I think that that objection can be almost entirely adressed (on both ends of the ride) with close integration with [e-]bikes/scooters

But it gets cold!

So… pedal?

But it rains and snows!

Yes, and we’re Canadians with rain and snow gear.

What about in a blizzard? Well, what do you do in a blizzard right now? Stay home, or risk getting stuck in the cold right?

Range and charging!

Right, but when the battery is flat, it’s still a bicycle…

I live in Canada, and I have neighbours HERE that watch CNN.

The mayor is wearing a hardhat and loafers. Clearly needs training on appropriate ppe.

Yes this this is clearly a picture of an empty bus at 2AM when nobody is trying to get anywhere.

Yeah that sounds like what was explained to me

I needed to upgrade my modem because the isp capped the speed of docsis 3.0 modems to like 75Mbps. I remember being quite upset because I was previously getting 125Mbps service on the same modem. I seem to recall there was a quasi legit technical reason for it though.