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Remember when the petroleum industry sold us disposable plastic bags as a way to “save the trees”?

It’s a common trope, in the US at least. The gift can be different in different countries. In the Philippines other local-made snacks might be brought for teachers.

SYAC: In the article, Altman doesn’t explain anything regarding what led to the board doing what they did, and asserts that he will wait for the new board to conduct an investigation.

If they do see it, they won’t see it that way. It will be reinterpreted by state media as something along the lines of “the evil enemy attacking our boys unprovoked” or something to rile up the base.

The fibers are too short, but you could probably make a neat paper out of it.

There are some really good flint and steel survival rods available now. Not the flimsy Scouting ones of yesteryear, but ones with anodized aluminum housings, hardened metal strikers and large diameter flint rods.

Started our winter stove with it the other day and am really happy with it.

The one I have, from a survival perspective, is a little risky, because when configuring them for use they must be taken down into multiple parts, but damn if it doesn’t make huge sparks.

If you’re in the Apple ecosystem, you can toss your vault into iCloud Drive. If you’re technically proficient (and brave) you can write a cron to sync into whichever service you want via a local machine.

In addition to iCloud, I have a one-way sync (rsync) which functions as a poor man’s backup to get all my files into Dropbox; lots of stern warnings from Obsidian not to use Dropbox.

May I offer that it really depends on your note-taking style? I’ve been using it since July having come from linear note-taking on Cornell NTS. It’s way faster and much more interlocked once you get past the slight learning curve.

Can’t we though? All language is arbitrary at first. A person (or community) often names things, sometimes from pure scratch. The words “Kodak” and “Xerox” come to mind.

Aye, I did thank you for the correction.

According to Space.com in July 2023, there were 4,487 active Starlink satellites. 26 represents just over 0.5% of the total constellation. Considering it seems like a swarm-type system, 0.5% strikes me as simply the cost of doing business.

Edit: decimals.

“Bigot” is the word you’re looking for.

Strong concur. Religion is fine, but there is no place for extremism.

This is exactly that episode of Black Mirror. The use case is different, but the concept is identical.

Reddit quietly changed the /r/redditrequest process a while ago. It used to be if you had no activity on your account for a year, then they would consider handing it over. In this case, if the admins don’t take it outright, then any user can make an /r/redditrequest for the sub. Admins will send a modmail to the sub, but not a message to your account. If you don’t reply within seven days they will hand over your account and you’ll only find out if you have your email set to send notifications when you get the “you’ve been removed as moderator”. I lost modship of a sub I had setup years ago because I didn’t receive any other notification.

When this happens to me, I pick out the most obvious thing in the general direction my partner has pointed and say something about it, like “wow, that is a lot of trees!”

Makes my partner immediately explain what they saw, and I remind them that they’ve got to be specific. It’s gotten better.

Bread gonna be the new eggs soon.

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Putin going for level 2 in doublethink: “If we’re at war with everyone, we’re at war with noone.

I have run my own PiHole previously. Then I wanted Ad blocking on my phone, so I also setup OpenVPN that ran alongside my PiHole so I could get ad blocking anywhere. I travel often, and then we moved, so I never got it set up again, at the same time I discovered AdGuard could be configured on both home networks for network-level blocking, but they also have device profiles for iOS.

I haven’t had to fuss with PiHole now in years.

If you are happy to do the administration of a PiHole, and the scope it provides, it’s good. I didn’t want to have to fuss with it anymore.