Em Adespoton

With the limited size of our domestic population, it always blows me away that there are enough Canadians living in countries like Lebanon to populate a small city.

Has UW never met Barbara Streisand before?

But wait… didn’t China say the re-education camps were a hoax, that Muslims have the same rights as everyone else in China, and that any issues they’d been having had already been resolved?

Perplexing.

Put it behind a PiHole that drops all traffic to Microsoft servers?

Terrorists need funding. Doing so is illegal, and can show up in tax filings.

TIL acetaminophen isn’t a worldwide thing :)

The whole Tylenol thing is because they’re the ones who originally patented it. Same for Advil and ibuprofen.

No, No, and Yes.

I find that odd actually; eucalyptus contains an oil that quite a few people are allergic to. I’d never heard it was a rare allergy, in fact, elements of its oils are often associated with allergies:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/273331261_Eucalyptus_oil_Contact_allergy_and_safety

Once upon a time print shops would only accept files in Quark Xpress format. Eventually, they came to accept InDesign documents too. They have licenses for the software and workflows and toolchains set up to integrate those files into their existing prepress and press systems.

LaTeX is purely for academic markup for postscript printing. VivaDesigner and its kind? Only niche and hobby layout and print.

That said, I only share in PDF now, so I use other software for the layout phases and don’t care that it isn’t portable to other shops.

I was with you up until the “so fast under Modi” bit.

Modi was chief minister of Gujarat from 2001 to 2014 and has been PM since then — a decade.

It’s been a slow and predictable train wreck with a lot of momentum.

Meanwhile, he dismantled the caste system but it’s still going strong with only the exceptions being celebrated.

Not only that, most of those cars coming available are from Hertz — they’re rental cars. But not just any rental cars… most are from Hertz’s Uber fleet.

So these are EVs with over 100,000 miles on them, worn out back seats and blistered rear armrests that have been driven by employees using a fleet lease vehicle. And migrating the cars’ software ownership to an unlocked non-fleet private owner state has proven to be… difficult.

I’d add a few more suggestions to the other excellent ones provided:

First, start with a few day trips. Go somewhere you can walk into, have a lunch, and walk out. First time you do it, the only things you need are serviceable shoes, layered clothing, a backpack to carry your lunch (and any layers you take off) and some water, and a survival kit (just in case things don’t go as expected).

What’s in a survival kit?

What I pack in mine is:

• A pen and paper
• A candle and a lighter
• A signal mirror (shiny surface with a hole in the middle)
• An emergency thermal blanket (comes folded up about the size of your hand, shiny metal/plastic thing
• A basic first aid kit (the really small ones)
• A pocket knife with a saw blade
• iodine tablets (that haven’t expired)
• a phone

That kit should all fit inside the first aid kit, and the first aid kit should be small enough to clip on your belt or go in a standard backpack.

So after you’ve gone on a few daytrips, you’ll want to get overnight equipment, which adds a few things: a tent, a sleeping mat, a properly rated sleeping bag (err on colder ratings, just in case), a cookstove of some sort and a proper pair of hiking boots.

If you can, test the tent out in-store before you buy it to make sure it’s the right size for you. Next, set it up when you get home a few times, to make sure you understand how it works and there are no surprises. If you’ve got a back yard, set it up there overnight and sleep in it with your sleeping mat and bag. Do this on a dry night, but then do it on a rainy night as well. Figure out how to use the fly and ground sheet so you don’t get water coming in. Also figure out where you’ll put your wet and dirty pack if you have to set up camp in the rain.

Next step is to pack for an overnight with all your existing gear and do the day trip you did above with full kit. This will help you figure out if anything needs to be adjusted, and to sort out the best way to pack everything. Do this once in dodgy weather, and you’ll get another perspective on how your gear works.

Finally, you’re ready for a basic overnight. By this point you should be very familiar with all your equipment, how much weight you’re comfortable carrying, and how to set up and take down camp.

Last word of advice is: always go with someone else, and always leave behind an itinerary so others know where you plan to be. This is of significant help to search and rescue workers should you end up getting lost or injured.

Young Canadians don’t hate Canada; they hate the boneheaded ideas thought up in Parliament and they hate that they’ve been priced out of owning a part of Canada.

If you don’t have a voice or land, and see no hope that you ever will, why would you be happy with how things are?

It’s in the article; newer gen chips will have extra DRM that will prevent the hacks from working.

Oh, you meant when will the anti-hacks stop?

Bless your heart….

I noticed recently that MS Teams allows you to set a workday that defaults to 9 hours. I found that odd, but if most people in the US have a 9 hour day with a 30 min lunchbreak and two 15 minute other breaks, I guess it makes sense?

I thought you couldn’t have foreign ownership in Dubai?

And I don’t get the pie chart… what’s 100% represent?

Or is this foreign ownership in a particular location, like the US?

If you think modern Zionism is about religion in anything but name, or that Palestinian nationalism is about Islam in anything but name, what you believe is even more questionable than what they believe.

If all religion vanished overnight, the same people would be fighting over the same land with many of the same arguments, but something else substituted for the religion.

Tribalism knows no borders.

Dual PIN is a great idea; I’d also love an emergency PIN that invalidates the token silently (so you can enter it under duress).

Isn’t Mrs. Claus technically an elf?