Hmmm go figure at the comments here complaining about Bazzite, I’ve been on it over a year now and really like it

I am seeing more and more folks go veg simply because the price, and that’s great! Build a culture of veg meals and normalize the epic curries, chillis, soups, stews, spreads, and tofu / seitan/mushroom dishes

I really like Derek Sarno’s YouTube channel for this reason. I feel very welcome watching his content because he doesn’t browbeat folks who aren’t fully vegan, he just presents an epic mountain of some of the most mouth watering vegan food I’ve ever seen.

Instead of purity tests to keep folks out, we need more people like Derek who hold the door open for everyone, so they can smell the amazing food cooking inside.

I think you need to look into how rare earth minerals are mined. Or how slavery works. Humans treat humans as bad as any animal if they can make a profit.

Consider that humans sometimes bully other humans to death simply for the power trip. That is some pretty horrific physiological torture.

We’re not that far from accepted child labor. Chimney sweeps. Heck there’s a chance clothes we’ve worn this week were sewn by children in a sweatshop. Or the phone or computer metals were mined with child slave labor.

This is why veganism is hard for me, it’s absolutely not possible to live a cruelty free life unless you’re living on your own land with your own spun clothes and never consuming medication (all tested on lab mice).

Drawing the “perfect line” at eating only plant based food is fine, but it’s a far cry from a cruelty free life. Folks get very serious optimizing on one dimension of cruelty (foods not being animal products) but then completely ignore everything else. And then bully others who do not do the same.

I’d rather see a universe like the OP, better to celebrate every step folks do take in the right direction, not tell them it’s not enough. Everyone should be celebrated for:

• making clothes last longer
• buying used clothes
• keeping the same vehicle longer
• choosing vegan dishes when they can
• delaying PC and phone upgrades, buying used when they do
• taking the bus over driving, walking instead of taking the bus
• standing up to bullies
• growing food at home

Prompt: “write a python script to create a thousand linkedin accounts with plausible sounding names, and then setup a cronjob to post every day a punchy linkedin just-so story explaining why everyone should be paying for my LLM and to keep paying for it when I jack up the price 100x to cover my expenses”

That totally sucks. I’m glad you got a fun treat, and I hope the price doesn’t prevent you from enjoying it.

It’s never a bad time to start checking lot vegetarian recipes. A few years ago I got a vegetarian cookbook and a vegetarian Indian cookbook. I started a meal or two a week to mix things up. It turns out there’s some veg recipes that I really love, and over time I’ve found so many that I now almost never cook meat at home.

As I’ve eaten less meat, I’ve grown to crave it less, and oddly my lifts have gotten better and I’ve put on some serious leg and shoulder muscle. Most meals are some combo of beans, lentils, tofu, and just lots of veggies. I’ve become a better cook, and almost every dinner is significantly better than what I can get at any restaurant.

It costs way less to get into even the most basic beans and rice dishes. Veg recipes can still have great macros. I found that meat dishes are usually so savory that folks rarely spice them very much, or if they do you can’t taste the meat anyway. So my veg chili, stews, sauces, curries, and stir fries taste pretty much the same because it’s mostly the seasoning you taste. Some texture is a bit different, but I have found I really prefer the texture of mushrooms, seitan, and tofu. I still occasionally crave my 24hr smoked brisket or my all day braised short rib, but I don’t mind saving them for a rare treat rather than expecting it every meal.

I do hope though you enjoy your fish, pay respects to the animal that died to bring it to you, and make an amazing meal out of it. I hope it’s the best you’ve ever made, and it nurishes your body. If the inflated prices are getting to be to much, have hope that there’s a world of interesting affordable meals out there.

At my volunteer station, we all just go to work like normal and respond if there’s a call.

We do have some part time staff who remain at the station for EMS calls. When there’s down time they are:

• cleaning the station
• filling out charts from earlier calls
• checking all the apparatus equipment
• training skills
• homework from advanced classes (paramedic, rescue technician, officer, etc)
• napping to catch up on sleep from calls in the middle of the night
• doing station laundry

It’s enough to keep them lightly busy but not enough to be strenuous, as they typically do 12-24 hour shifts. Being “at work” for 24 hours is pretty rough, so I don’t begrudge them a mid-day nap.

smh Bazzite doesn’t even get on the list

And then one fine day the bourgeoisie is awakened by a terrific boomerang effect: the gestapos are busy, the prisons fill up, the torturers standing around the racks invent, refine, discuss. People are surprised, they become indignant. They say: “How strange! But never mind—it’s Nazism, it will pass!”

And they wait, and they hope; and they hide the truth from themselves, that it is barbarism, the supreme barbarism, the crowning barbarism that sums up all the daily barbarisms; that it is Nazism, yes, but that before they were its victims, they were its accomplices; that they tolerated that Nazism before it was inflicted on them, that they absolved it, shut their eyes to it, legitimized it, because, until then, it had been applied only to non-European peoples; that they have cultivated that Nazism, that they are responsible for it, and that before engulfing the whole edifice of Western, Christian civilization in its reddened waters, it oozes, seeps, and trickles from every crack.

— Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism (1950)

yikes

Bravo, this one surprised me

I switched to Bazzite and I’m really liking it.

I have had a few issues with old SDR software that didn’t work.

All in all, I’m very happy with the change and have absolutely no plan to return.

Imho the easiest way is to find a skill that you can learn, ideally at a school, that’s hard to learn and is stable. Then you can go into business for yourself selling that to others. Skills like accounting, home nursing, tutoring, medical care, financial advisor, IT, database maintenance, plumber, electrician, elder care, handyman. Not all of these pay super well, but they let you start your own business.

I’m not loving how childish the students act. Most are sulking and barely seem to want to be there. They act like sullen middle schoolers and not the 21yo best of the best competing. The tonal shifts are jarring, from the main character being bratty and whining and then there’s explosions and violence.

I believe you mean dump into drinking watersheds

That feels like a pretty good amount per week, basically a 5mg gummy every day. I can attest I start feeling much worse when my tolerance pushes me over that amount. I’ve been up to 20 units a week and generally feel pretty awful compared to 8/week. Lately I’ll do a tolerance break past 10/week because I just feel so bleh. This was before reading this paper, so it’s interesting to see how it lines up with my experiences.

I can confirm that a couple pages of printed cards in sleeves has given me endless hours of fun. The only thing is the rules are a little fussy, you’ll want an app counter for money and a bag of tokens to keep track of what virus is attached to what ice.

The asymmetrical play and “what cup is the ball under” mechanics are very replayable. My partner and I have a backpack of games to take on the go, and there’s always a dozen netrunner decks inside. There’s a lot of mayhem to be had with all the different decks and styles.

But for real, the rules to play netrunner to me feel much more complex than MtG, and it feels super unfair to the corp at first because you’re always on the defensive and the runner is so much more active with an extra action every turn. It’s a very hard game to teach someone at a pub. I swear sometimes I forget rules from week to week and I’ve been playing it off and on for like 10 years.

For on the go pickup games, in my bag I have Hive, Go, Jaipur, Carcassonne, and a regular deck of cards. I feel like those offer a range of quick fun. I especially love teaching someone Go and letting them whoop me at like 4-5 stone advantage on a 9 wide board. I get a great game to play from behind and they get to practice a new game.

Despite most of the bag being Netrunner decks, I’ve never once gotten someone to play it with me who wasn’t already into the game.

I’m so grumpy, I bought three 8bitdo Ultimate controllers and only one keeps a stable connection even using it’s USB dongle on the steamdock. smh. I then tried a different PC with Bazzite, same deal. Like wtf why won’t they work

I hope to buy a new steam controller but I’ll return it the same day if that shit doesn’t connect

I highly recommend if you’re going to get the 8bitdo ultimate try getting one and just return the ones that don’t work.

Dude in the top center-left is literally blowing steam out his nose

I don’t know how it got that way.

I do know I’m supposed to investigate with binoculars from a pretty far distance, then

• setup a hoseline in case the fuel ignites
• only let rescuers get close for a few seconds to connect stabilizers like struts or junk yard dogs all around any direction it can fall
• disconnect the batteries on all three
• put on the parking break on all three
• add chocks under the frame of the two with all 4 wheels on the ground

After that I’d find the easiest way to extract the victims, probably by cutting off the roof with our electric cutters avoiding any undeployed airbags in the roof struts.

Finally, we’d move the victims through where the windshield is, taking care to put neck / back collars on any with possible spinal injuries.

And that’s the end of my armchair quarterbacking. Here’s hoping I do all of these steps the next time I have a rescue like this.

Your guess is as good as mine, I don’t know how it gets that way, just how to stabilize the vehicle and get victims out.

Maybe both cars were speeding, and both hit the breaks, but the rear car pushed the other one up in the air just right that it balanced that way?

Whoa, I had to do a simulated victim rescue from one of these in Vehicle Rescue Operations class.

I thought at the time there was no way this could happen in real life but damn here we are