Google operated by “don’t be evil” right up until they merged with Double Click. That merger itself forcibly removed the “don’t.”

Sounds like cable cutting all over again.

Part of me wonders if this is an attempt to set precedent for not convicting future MAGA rioters the next time they attempt an insurrection.

I’ve tried to answer that multiple times.

First attempt: rowing machine. On paper, it’s the best solution.

However, using it for a year, I found it really difficult to get motivated to use it, and any sort of injury, strain or discomfort was an excuse to skip the day’s row.

I’ve also tried a recumbent stationary bicycle and a spinner. Again, both worked well for a while, but were hard to maintain.

The ones with lasting power for me are:

Combination chinup bar / captain’s chair / dip bar — this thing gets a LOT of use, as you can just do a few reps in passing or do a solid circuit training session.

Kettleball - again, you can just pick it up and use it.

Likewise, dumbbells.

I’ve found that for any large piece of equipment, one that’s good enough quality to enjoy using is usually the cost of a gym membership. And with the membership, you get to use ALL the machines if you can discipline yourself to actually show up.

I’ve lived in areas where they aren’t underground BECAUSE of potential severe weather. The powerlines run through miles of wilderness and are serviced by helicopter. Which doesn’t come out when the weather’s bad. But if they were buried (which would be massively more expensive) they’d tear up lots of wilderness and flood/break regularly due to soil movement and tree growth.

Plus, running conduit through rock is a lot harder than drilling a few holes to mount a pole.

Where I am now? It’s all in conduit under the street beside the storm drains, except where there hasn’t been new development to pay for it. Seems like they have to service the conduits a lot more than the poles though, and fixing a pole line stays out of the way of traffic and takes a couple of minutes, where fixing underground shorts involves blocking off a lane, snaking the cables, and bringing in specialists — takes up to 3 hours for a similar repair.

Everyone has a right to methane. That doesn’t mean everyone has a right to vast underground deposits of it.

This is really weird design.

It looks like they’ve taken an iPad Mini and made it foldable with an extra display for when it’s closed?

I like the look and size of it when open; it essentially replaces the Mini. But I can’t think of a reasonable use case for a “passport sized” device that’s got the 2D dimensions as a passport but the thickness of a mid-sized paperback. And that screen becomes an outer surface… so it’s going to get dinged up a LOT.

Why should we have to opt out of our devices spying on our LAN?

Follow you around? Your account posts everywhere, all the time!

Next up: Canadian bacon becomes American bacon!

Funny thing about the medical field and sanitizing… I had a relative in biochemistry. Their sanitizing regime was very specific. And when asked about hospital sanitizing practices, they could run off a long list of biological hazards common to a hospital setting that not only would not be destroyed by their practices, but were likely to mutate in novel ways.

And yet, other than C.Dif, most people survive visits to the hospital just fine.

So yeah, just the paper towel’s built-in antimicrobial properties are likely enough in most settings where a person would use them… assuming people aren’t using them to pat down a raw chicken and then wipe the counter.

3-2-1 is the way.

I have over 300GB of photos, digital, scanned, etc. I have a working master copy of them on my computer, plus two alternating local copies on local network backups, plus quarterly rotating offsite backups to a safe deposit box. This protects against bit rot, data corruption, accidental deletion and short term incremental data loss.

In all the years I’ve used this setup (around 25 now), I’ve only ever lost one chunk of photos, which I didn’t realize had got erased until after I’d already rotated the quarterly backups twice. Thankfully I’d also shared edited versions of that set with a friend, so while I was never able to recover the raw files, I at least got the edited copies back.

I think your use cases are the standard use (dry surface and scoop up gunk before sanitizing).

However, the first use case presents a problem: if you sanitize your hands/surface and then dry with a non-sterile paper towel, what’s to say you haven’t just smeared contaminants all over the surface again?

I do remember a study in bathrooms a few years back that found that the materials and composition of a paper towel tend to trap contaminants instead of spreading them (just like wood/paper cutting boards)… so paper towel likely has some built-in antimicrobial properties, but that window between manufacture and use is pretty wide open. We entrust a LOT to a bit of shrinkwrap.

There have been a few people asking that recently.

In his mind aren’t they the same place?

If it’s not officially a war, what happens if a combatant chooses not to engage?

I suspect they’d be court martialled as if it were refusing a wartime order.

The US is having peace talks with Ukraine? I didn’t realize they were at war?

“At some point, I think Canadians will start to get frustrated if this persists, even if it’s not what the American public wants,” said Rathbun. “They can say, ‘Why is it that no one’s standing up to this particular bully?’ Then I think that you could get into something like a deeper problem that couldn’t be fixed by kicking this guy out.”

100% this.

They’re not worthless; they do a great job of intimidating people, partly because you don’t know how the operator is going to interpret the results, whether telling the truth or not.

OK; Iran is playing a clean “attack military targets“ game and the US responds with terrorist tactics.

Who’s supposed to be the good guy here?