🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞

Weapon of motherly destruction?

Yes, I understand the theory. And it’s fine to discuss speculation, because that could turn out to be the case.

But I also brought up glasses because not everything the body has done to survive is something that can’t be changed.

We’ll have to see what happens when we turn up the immune system.

As a hopefuly kidney transplant candidate at some point… I’m very interested as I know after a transplant, I have to take things to suppress my immune system, so I particularly suspect for that reason I might not be able to benefit from this new thing… but I hope I’m wrong :)

But the way evolution works is “whatever works that keeps the species alive”.

We haven’t evolved reading glasses, but they are helpful devices with very few downsides.

That said, there may well be unintended consequences and effects, sure.

I’m not sure I’d put any truck into fictional sci-fi where everything needs a good story, so any positive needs a negative…

…but I get it. And yeah, it’s a worry.

Voyager

Apprpropriate for a Star Trek AMA :)

Either way, letting them know we’re about to strike is stupid, so of course that’s why he can’t keep his trap shut about it.

Can we fucking not.

Also:

“He is spending a lot of time thinking about this,” one source said.

No he fucking is not.

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When I want to reply and tell someone to fuck off because I disagree with them, I try to remember the pleasant results of NOT doing that, so a reply like this helps me be a better person, thank you <3

Yeah, why are you two still here on my lawn‽ ;-)

Precisely that one, yes :)

I have two methods for scrambled eggs:

1. Butter on the griddle. Crack the eggs on the griddle. Carefully cook the whites leaving the yolks unbroken (if possible). when the whites are basically cooked, break the yolks and scramble. The idea is to get the whites all cooked and the yolks barely/mostly cooked. Remember that heat continues to build in the egg, so pull slightly before they’re where you want them. You hopefully end up with scrambled eggs that are full of barely-cooked yolk savory flavour. Along with the salt, msg, and freshly cracked pepper put on them while cooking the whites, and the butter they were cooked in.

2. If I don’t want to deal with that and get something almost as tasty and more uniform: Crack and scramble the eggs in a bowl until they are well scrambled and no strings of white can be detected. Melt butter on your griddle all the way across it. Pour out the eggs, which because they are well scrambled will spread out thinly across most or all of the griddle. A layer will quickly cook, as soon as it forms, start moving the egg around to make uncooked egg touch the griddle - fold it, scramble it, move it around. The idea is to get uncooked egg touching the hot surface and minimize the cooked egg doing so. It won’t take long for the eggs to cook - soon as they are almost all cooked, pull them because heat will finish the job. This cooking method should also not overcook the yolk (although it will more than the first method), resulting in very tasty eggs. I stir the sale, msg, and freshly ground black pepper into the scrambled egg before they go on the griddle.

3. However you figure out to cook them that you like is best for you. :)

Also, either of the first two methods works so well in a sandwich (griddle-toasted bread or soft untoasted bread) with a bit of mayo. You can also use mato+ketchup. Or again whatever you want like salsa or… whatever.

Knowledge rot is already a problem and has been for years – where you try to follow some links only to find they’re dead, or people deleted their content. The anecdotes of finding some old problem and someone just said “I figured it out”. Sure, archival won’t fix that specific example, but the principle is there - we lose so much information.

It would be nice if we had a government that worked for We the People and made information archival mandatory — likr the Library of Congress already does with printed materials.

The more money they waste on this bullshit, the less money they have to kill Ukrainians. So I support this stupid project wholeheartedly.

¿Por qué no los dos?

Mayo-ketchup with tomatoes are tasty on a burger. :)

For me, it was my first day at Texas Instruments. I had to show up to a mandatory Outlook training session (which was hilarious as I was being hired for a helpdesk position. I’d used Outlook since the first version in 1997 and supported it…). A guy came in and turned on the televisions.

I called my wife, who was working in the flight path of DFW airport. We also tried to get hold of my stepmother, who was working in the tallest building in downtown Dallas at the time.

It was much chaos, as I’m sure you remember, as nobody really knew what was going on or what further attacks might happen.

So for me, I was a young adult, married for about a year and a half when it happened - I got to live half a decade as an adult in the pre-9/11 world.

It’s hard for me to remember that for newer generations, all this bullshit that really started taking off hardcore after 9/11 is normalized. I saw our rights being taken away, the constant fear increase, the hatred for Muslims that blossomed into racism coming back out of its dirty closet, the rise of fascism.

It wasn’t always that way. :(

Hydration is good. If you hydrate a LOT, remember to have some electrolytes in there somewhere. You don’t need a lot, but some.

Also, the “eight glasses of water per day” thing was made up whole cloth. It is not medically nor scientifically a thing. The best advise is: Drink when you are thirsty. Unless there’s something wrong, that’s your body’s way of telling you it needs hydration.

That said, if you exercise or get your body’s signals confused, thirst might not work perfectly for you. Generally, if you’re exercising, bored, hungry - having a glass of water might be just the thing and usually doesn’t hurt anything, so give it a go.

'75 here. All you youngsters can get the hell off my lawn.

Actually, what I’ve noticed is that I don’t so much feel older as I do the “kids” keep getting younger. Was I like that at their age? Yep, probably, but I felt mature and adult then. To some degree. That thing about how you never really feel like an adult? I still get that a little bit. But after three decades of being an adult, it has also set in a bit.

Mostly, I’m opinionated, and I remember things from the past 40 years because I was alive for them, so they aren’t history to me, they are a part of the life I experienced.

So as you guys get older, I think you’ll find that - like whatever happens after Trump, unless it does continue to get worse (which is quite possible), there will come a time when a younger generation won’t know what it felt like to live under this fascism, and you, having lived through it, will have your mind blown because it’s history to them.

Which I guess has helped me when I think about figures from history and the past in general. While I can’t imagine living before the era of cars, I do know that whatever time frame you look at - to the people living at that time, it was all contemporary and modern. And so when you see people that had relationships with other people and arguments and such, you really do realize that we’re all human.

Also, the older I get, the more I realize just how precious life is. And when you’re young, you really are going to live forever. But every single day that passes is gone forever. Every month takes you further forward. Each year goes by and never comes back. When your 20s are gone, they won’t ever return. Don’t let that upset you, just make sure you aren’t coasting along and wasting time, waiting for what comes next, because if you spend you life waiting for what comes next, you die without anything ever coming next. Don’t “make every moment count” - do take time to relax. Just make sure that you are not ONLY relaxing, and don’t put everything off to the future. Do what you can to enjoy the life you have as best as you can while also trying to keep improving things.

My understanding is that it always tries to give you 2-3 route options. It defaults to what it thinks is the shortest, but it gives you a couple of options that are slightly longer. You might prefer those other options for various reasons.

But if there aren’t a whole lot of altenate options, the 2-3 options for slightly longer routes might include “ridiculous” things like this. It doesn’t know. It wouldn’t know why you wouldn’t always want the shortest route, but of course as humans, we have preferences and knowlege Maps doesn’t have.

Thinking about the original ads this is parodying… it’s wild to think that they had to explain the idea of chocolate and peanut butter together. I think we take that for granted these days. heh.