Yeah these hit me more than anything else. Not just that I’m attu ed to science but the damage to our country’s future far outweighs anything else.

Corruption can be prosecuted, racism can be condemned, even climate change just makes things worse for a few years longer and we’ll have to figure out how to deal, constitutional violations can be corrected with a new Congress, human rights can be reclaimed …. It’ll never be justice but it can be reversed.

Losing science may never be reversible. Science that drives our technology, our medicine, the entire huge research industry. As scientists are driven away, that’s a very long trail of technology, medicine, research done elsewhere, generations of children and students looking elsewhere

Actually I think of losing science like climate tipping points. If climate change were simply change, we could adapt and reverse. It would be foolish to do that intentionally do ourselves but we could deal with it. But crossing climate tipping points are a much bigger deal, much harder to adapt and likely never reversible

Dry? Plain? Flavorless? Even if you start with good bread with flavor, toasting it takes that flavor away. But I’m not going to judge if you want my toast. Dry, plain, flavorless toast with nothing on it. Enjoy!

Yeah none of that, but one of my kids is a pretty serious weightlifter, so I need some serious equipment for when they’re home from school for the summer.

And an exercycle for cardio when the weather isn’t good

Started with the cycle: a high end machine for dirt cheap off Marketplace. Then dumbbells (except they’re only up to 30 lbs and he uses higher). Most recently found a deal on an Olympic bar and plates. Now comes the hard part: benches and racks, and I’m running out of time to find them on Marketplace

Why would anyone care about poor whites in the mountains? Let them survive in their hovels and shovel coal. They had no organization or other power to affect anyone

This person needs to develop self-awareness: why is it only becoming a problem when it affects her directly?

Her issue doesn’t affect me at all but I still want to do the right thing. And I would never vote for Trump because it was pretty clear he wouldn’t do the right thing, in many human right and quality of life scenarios

(Plus he had a long history as a con man from before he ran for election, before he paid for his sleazy reality show to reset his reputation: I’m still confused how people could fall for this)

I gotta admit to one particular nightmare here

Setting up a home gym in my garage to hopefully remove my excuses …… but years back an acquaintance died while using his home gym in his garage, and was discovered by family. You don’t usually think of exercise as a deadly risk but it happens. Since I live alone, the nightmare is it would be a long time before I was discovered and that much more traumatic if it were family

Literally watching a presentation right now where they quoted “Use AI intentionally, not as the only answer”

On the other hand my human knowledge is invalidated because my kpis focus more on how frequently I use ai than on what I do

In my real life, also mostly no. My kids are in college, so they mostly need their bills paid and I rarely see them in person

Then you have the additional challenge of matching the amount of bread to the amount of spreadable butter or peanut butter

Ha ha, my wife accused me of that as well, because of this exact scenario.

…. But eating sandwiches is very predictable: why wouldn’t you order exactly the slices you need for a week?

Bread would be worse because I’m less likely to want to eat just bread. It’s also minimal because why care about bread? I might eat it simply because I don’t want to get up to find a place to dispose of it. If there were extra cheese I’d just eat it

But I reject this scenario: a more realistic and relatable one would be crackers and cheese. It’s also philosophically more of a challenge since crackers are valuable bread

That’s crazy. I’m seeing as long as 15 seconds ads and considering no longer wasting my time on YouTube

I mean that’s the actual problem I have: no longer have that thick hair. It started thinning out early and now it’s unavoidable. The thing is every barber or stylist wants to give me a combover despite me clearly saying not to from the beginning, and making them go back to fix it when I notice they did it anyway

But combovers only have a short window where they can reduce the obviousness of thinning hair, and quickly just call attention to it. It’s way too late for a combover to look reasonable on me, it just looks desperate and cringey.

I have to admit to some minor amusement when I wake up with a weird Mohawk though

I think I need to do this. I hate doing to get a haircut and they never listen to me. I’m sure I’ll look horrible in a buzz cut but at least it removes their freedom to do worse and shorter means I can go less often

It’s simpler to believe he just got lost in the system - no treatment is similar to intentionally not treat

While usually I’d encourage looking at rescue dogs maybe this is a scenario to be very careful with that. We got a rescue that had been traumatized and can still be challenging at times. While she’s a real sweetheart, she’s definitely not a starter dog.

I’ll be the anecdotes for that …… spent my whole life with dogs of all sizes and have always been comfortable with them. But the only one that bit was a mini poodle

Then again, as the other guy said, I’ve always paid more attention to dogs that can do damage, vs the mini poodle bit me when I was ignoring it. Of course the most painful part of that was the tetanus shot

I was occasionally on the other side of that and really hated it. I’m four years older than my ex, but also came from a more conservative (small c) town. Usually we were at the same stage of life but …… Sometimes that four years was a generation difference, which was very uncomfortable

Art of the deal there - did fifa actually not get concessions for their bribe? Was it too early and he forgot?

At least as important is how many citizens and documented workers are terrorized by the threats and lack of due process and accountability

But notice they also said there is no evidence toast makes a measurable contribution to this, so toast all you want.

Or what I really got out of it was

• don’t burn your toast
• don’t burn your potatoes
• eat fewer chips

This is good advice in general though