https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissism_of_small_differences

idk if reading a billionaire author's own statement (managed by a billionaire's pr-team) on the billionaire's own site is "the most complete picture you can get".

I've read the text as well, and that isn't too crazy. But it's honestly just dog-whistling, as you can see from her going utterly BATSHIT crazy on social media.

Edit not to mention highly illogical. She literally wants a law saying this guy must use the women's bathroom:

And you don't think he will get harassed when he goes into the ladies' because he was born with a vagina?

Or that this person won't get harassed when they have to go the men's:

You can prolly see why TERF views aren't actually feminist at all

Nice.

I have no question, just wanted to comment "nice". Reading the comments I wanted to say I'm surprised, but then I remberered my grandpa is over 90 and he's the one who taught me to use computers in the first place. DOS commands to launch games and users Win3.11 really, but still.

Nice seeing representation of older people here, thanks for posting!

Pfftt.. those are rookie numbers. You got to pump those numbers up.

Mine's lasted almost three decades.

And been through literally everything I have. I've replaced the straps once though, as they broke once when it was like 24 years old and I jumped down from like an 2.5 meter fence with 24 cans of beer in it and the straps were already pretty worn down.

God I love durable, functional shit.

My jacket is older than me, lmao. That's not personal use though, obviously, whereas I've had the backpack from when it was new in the early 90's.

Honestly the sea salt I have I have to basically dry out in a cup.

I'm pretty sure they add like 1-2% moisture by weight. I've literally weighed it during the last few days and it's lost >5g from my measured 460g. That's around 1%. I'll see if it loses more.

That's why EU or at least Finland at least used to have separate labels; "best before" and "use by".

One was like "this might lose some quality after the date" and one is "please don't eat it, it might be dangerous".

Although the latter was still always erred on the sage side. Whereas grandma dismissed the bunch and just sliced the mold off the cheese and ate what was underneath. And it wasn't blue cheese — originally.

And rue the day if I threw out old milk instead of letting her make some home made cheese or smth.

I'd agree that with a very high probability, not in our lifetimes.

However I don't like using the word "never". When I was reading science mags and pop sci in the late 90's and early 2000's, organ printing etc may have been mentioned, but no-one even floated the idea of practical immortality. Now theres actual fields of science looking into longevity, some claiming that our ability to enhance longevity may actually outpace our aging at some point.

I do agree that strong government and fundamental democracy is important, but the reason we have election cycles and not basically real life feedback is just a silly tradition dating back thousands of years when people actually couldn't communicate and interact as we do now. We could build stronger democracies and stronger safeguards. What if Trump actually derailing shit this bad would mean an objectively low score on some system, triggering a vote which everyone can participate through on their phone (given we imagine it's secure) and give a vote of no confidence or smth. Actual democracy?

Putting those fantasies aside, it's still possible for a Star Trek-esque utopia to emerge one day. Although I see it as less and less possible every day. However even in ST canon there's WWIII and it takes a while to settle after that.

Current track are headed more likely to a dystopia, for sure, but revolutions have happened in the past and I'm sure as shit not going to give up hope.

Who'd you say did the electrical work

I don't watch mainstream media really. Just shows.

But yeah, I'm with you on that.

I wouldn't be surprised if it's one of the things on the agenda list of Ruski bots. "Nooo, please don't be energy independent!"

No, but neither could the person who figured it out in his day and age. He compared several of the pages layouts to figure out the book, then ordered a physical copy (there's two different ones they use in the show, he got copies of both). The title is pretty prominently displayed as well there, in case you missed it.

"The Globe Illustrated Shakespeare"

I don't want to link to Amazon, but it's easy enough to find. It would make sense of Picard to have it, since he's into Shakespeare, but the reason he is into Shakespeare is because Patrick Stewart is. And it'd make sense that when they want a prop book, they'll use one with him in it, which he probably may have provided himself. I mean, I don't think he did, but I would not be surprised. Not like he's egotistic in any way, just whimsical.

So if someone actually watched the shower intensely back in the 90's and went into their library to see if such a book would be available, they maybe have found it, and been pleasantly surprised to see Patrick Stewart in there. The book was like 20 odd years old at that point. (Or at least the photo of PS is, the book must obviously be at least a bit younger)

It's not much different than modern Marvel movies talking about movies which feature same actors as in the movie. Hardly a big thing, sometimes done on purpose (Deadpool absolutely bashing on Green Lantern etc) and sometimes just because they want to mention a thing and it just happens to be a franchise with some of the same actors as Marvel is pretty big and has all the actors.

And now compare that one neighbour who showed you the heat pump and the bill with the 100 messages on social media and the news telling you that heat pumps are a scam. That they are actually much too expensive. And don't even work in cold winters when they are really needed.

I'm not on Facebook or other whine media. I'm Finnish. Our winters are... pretty cold. I once slept outside in -40. No need to specify C or F, they converge at that temp. Pumps worked fine. So... is that an "actually cold winter"?

But see, the reason they actually work here is because we build very well insulated houses. Mainly because of the cold-ass winters. The better your insulation is, the more energy efficient your pump. If you live in a place where buildings aren't built as well and poorly insulated, then, well, the pump won't be as efficient. Might even seem like "a scam".

The EU at one point demanded every member country improve heat insulation in new buildings by like X-% and I'm unsure what happened with it, but it was sort of theoretically impossible (or at least extremely hard) for Finland as our insulation is already top notch, so there's hardly room to improve.

Also it's a conspiracy anyway of insane green maniacs anyway.

Seems like you've just been too lazy to actually read up on them.

And I know a bunch of people who literally get paid during the summer months, because they're generating more (with solar panels that is) than they need and giving it back to the grid.

The fact that you think they're a "green maniac conspiracy" is showing either that you've bought the propaganda of fossil fuel or you're purposefully spreading it.

Might it be some version in a formerly British colonised country?

Sometimes they use more archaic expression in English, idk

When you are infantry, pretty much the hardest thing in your training will be to learn to suck it up and advance under fire.

Genuinely. The training for marching and shooting takes a few weeks, but getting the idea through someones head that they must not allow their body to take control and freeze when advancing into enemy positions is much harder than learning to walk in lockstep.

That's why you drill, drill, drill, because you're literally drilling those movements into your body, so it does them automatically instead of freezing under fire.

Oh wow, I was gonna say that's where the saying comes from, but "you must not stay still under enemy fire" is not a saying in English.

It is in Finnish.

Ei saa jäädä tuleen makaamaan, is something at least males hear from a very early age on. Like even outside any sort of military context. Basically where Churchill said "keep buggering on", we do things from the negative and instead of saying "keep pushing forwards" it's "don't stop pushing".

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/j%C3%A4%C3%A4d%C3%A4_tuleen_makaamaan

jäädä tuleen makaamaan (literally, “to stay lying in gunfire”)

(intransitive, idiomatic, chiefly in the negative) to not keep pushing forward, to give up trying

Ei saa jäädä tuleen makaamaan.

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           >     One must keep pushing forward





  

Tldr the point here being it's literally the most logical option at that point, so even when you know you're gonna get dowsed with MG fire, you just hope they'll be aiming for someone else for that split second when you move.

Nobody would be able to make it out when the show was filmed and released.

You sure about that?

I can make that out fro 1.5m away, on a screen a quarter of the CRT I'd have been watching from a similar distance.

but it wasn't intended for the audience.

The book is literally highlighted and on display?

Yea I'm seconding this being within normal operating parameters for a Trekkie.

But see there's no "no hypocrisy" commandment, so....

Well yeah. He's in the right band wagon, is my point.

He didn't pick it for the right reasons or early enough, but he is — at least in this video — on the right side.

If it can make deep roots, it should be fine barring any actual storms, I guess.

Support never hurts though.

If you're afraid of it getting too tall and want to "instruct" it to get bushier instead of taller, you can top it, aka break apical dominance, squeeze the top most growh tip a little bit to break it. Or just top completely.

It won't mean less or more yield or size, necessarily, it'll just grow wider instead of taller.

Also also, it looks very good, but I think you can give just a tiny bit more fert than you have now. Like genuinely a tiny bit, but it's just doing so well I can see from the slightly light hue of green that it could definitely use more nitrogen. As in, the plant can utilise a bit more of it than it's getting now, imo, despite not currently having a deficiency.

The title for No Such Thing as a Fish comes from a fact in the QI TV series. In the third episode of the eighth series, also known as "Series H", an episode on the theme of "Hoaxes" reported that after a lifetime studying fish, the biologist Stephen Jay Gould concluded that there was no such thing as a fish. He reasoned that although there are many sea creatures, most of them are not closely related to each other. For example, a salmon is more closely related to a camel than it is to a hagfish.[8] The opening of early episodes of the podcast used to feature a recording of the elves mentioning this fact, which appears in the first paragraph of the Oxford Encyclopedia of Underwater Life.[9][10]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Such_Thing_as_a_Fish#Title