How to say you don't know how business works without saying I don't know how business works. It is likely that you also believe that businesses should not make a profit.

That npm is a steaming pile of shit

Congress will pass legislation that modifies the DMCA to make ad blockers illegal after the ad tech companies give Trump a gold bauble.

Then the refrigerator manufacturers will put a time delay lock that will prevent opening until you have viewed the ad--your presence will be verified by a mm wave sensor.

If you have induction, how do you feel about the sound of the range? I still have an ancient gas burner (though I did install a good ventilation fan), but when I've cooked on an induction stove elsewhere, it both made an annoying high-pitched squeal (think old CRTs but louder) and had fan noises kicking on and off. It annoyed the crap out of me.

I don't want to get another gas burner, and technologically induction does seem like the clear winner, but the noise thing is really throwing me off. What's your experience?

I know not reading the link is a slashdot trope, but the summary literally says in Norway battery heaters are standard and they don't experience this problem. The problem is in the cheap EVs that China is pumping out.

Ok, I'm making a note to check in with you in 15 years to see how the extremophiles are doing.

I think that's a total misread of the situation.

Tesco has a contract with VMware. According to Tesco, VMware/Broadcom is now breaking this contract. The point of litigation is to determine which said prevails in this dispute. Of course, during litigation, Tesco will make many claims to show how important they are, and how insidious VMware/Broadom's actions are, all in support of their position. It doesn't mean that they Tesco could go offline at any second (though that is of course possible).

You later said "Tesco sell groceries, like potatoes. Do you think they only have a single potato supplier?"

That's a good point, but the more direct analogy would be it Tesco signed a purchasing agreement with a particular potato vendor where they paid £1m for a certain amount of potatoes over three years. Now let's say that after the first year this particular vendor fails to supply the agreed upon potatoes and won't refund any money. Tesco would undoubtedly sue that one vendor (even though they have multiple potato vendors). I have no doubt that Tesco would likewise claim that "This vendor's refusal to supply us with potatoes is endangering the food supply for Britain and Ireland!"

You wouldn't say that Tesco was "negligent" for trying to enforce a paid contract with that potato vendor, would you?

Well, there is probably some justification for that belief. The cult delivered to protect a family member of an Iowa GOP State Senator from more serious child rape charges.

MAGA, MPGA (P=pedos), MNGA (N=Nazis), it is all the same thing. I remember when PNITT (Punching Nazis In The Throat) and PPBB (Put Pedos Behind Bars) was the expected behavior in society.

Not sure about that particular detail. I met a farmer last year (sitting next to me on a cross-country flight). At one point, after I realized he was a pig farmer, I asked him about bacon... specifically, if there was an objective reason why bacon seemed to be so WILDLY "hit or miss", especially compared to what I (vaguely) remember from childhood.

He said most commercial pig farms in the US lean VERY heavily on a half-dozen commoditized breeds. I didn't remember the names, but I went and looked them up just now:

* "Berkshire" (the breed) is known for having exceptionally good flavor, marbling, and tenderness due to the distribution of its intramuscular fat. It's considered a "heritage" breed, originally from Britain (though now thoroughly Americanized). From what I read, they're now considered somewhat rare & ultra-premium in Britain... but are the third most common breed raised in the United States. Incidentally, the "Berkshire" name has nothing to do with "Berkshire Farms" or "Berkshire Hathaway".

* "Yorkshire" (Large White) and "Landrace" are the two breeds favored for export to China. Chinese buyers strongly prefer lean muscle and overall carcass size (particularly for the cuts Chinese buyers prefer... feet, heads, and organ meats). However, Yorkshire & Landrace pigs make shitty bacon, because they lack the fat-layering that gives American-style bacon its "streaky" appearance and tender, crispy texture.

Mass international tourism is not great for the environment and distorts local economies. Plus, it gives rise to insufferable influencers.

Is "no".

Bacon is expensive now, too. Apparently, China used to buy lots of American pork, but Chinese consumers had little interest in bacon (or other products made from pork bellies)... so the result of Chinese consumers buying more and more American pork was a relative surplus of pork bellies available to sell in the US. Pork in general was more expensive (because American consumers were competing with Chinese consumers to buy American pork), but bacon was cheaper relative to pork in general than it had ever been in history.

That said... bacon available in the US is arguably a lot better now than it was a couple of years ago. The breed of pigs that produce the kind of pork considered highly desirable by Chinese consumers actually kind of SUCKS for making things like bacon. The surging popularity of those breeds is why we got to the point where someone picky about bacon literally had to pick through the entire stock at a store like Walmart or Publix, and sometimes had to walk away and go to another store entirely to find a pack or few of "good" bacon (with lots of well-marbled fat, vs being more like strips of thinly-sliced ham). Now that Chinese buyers have mostly walked away from American pork, American farmers have gone back to favoring the breed known for producing the variety of pork AMERICANS tend to prefer (and that makes really, really GOOD bacon).

Anyway, if what I wrote makes no sense... go to Walmart, and really LOOK at the bacon sold under Walmart's own brand. In particular, compare the appearance of the bacon in their 24oz packs to the bacon in their 12oz packs. Generally speaking, their supplier (at least, to their stores in Florida) uses the best parts of pork bellies to make the 24oz packs, and uses the worst leftover parts to make the 12oz packs. They still have plenty of shitty 24oz packs, and occasional decent 12oz packs, but the 24oz packs are the ones were you're the most likely to find nice, neat, strips of fatty bacon that microwaves flawlessly... while the 12oz packs are the ones most likely to be a mess of tailings and leathery tough meat. The 16oz packs fall somewhere in between... some good, mostly bad.

Either you are joking or the kool-aid is really tasty.

IMHO, the most visually-pleasing "compromise" map projection is Kavrayskiy VII. It's not accurate for navigation, and doesn't maintain strict proportionality of area from north to south, but it makes really attractive wall maps with landmass shapes that don't look "weird," and does a decent job of preserving relative size & position of *adjacent* countries.

In theory, Robinson (NatGeo's preferred projection) is similar, but Robinson seems to have more of a "pinched+sheared" look to it that Kavrayskiy avoids.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.m.wikipedia.org%2Fwik...

Fascinating, thank you for posting.

Why did you choose to start supplementing with lithium?