IMO it’s one of those bell curve meme things, with ‘everything is a file’ on both ends. I’ve come back around to it.

Can you cut him in thirds first? I hear they make real good electric bonesaws.

Glass jars. It’s a bit of an adjustment.

Nelson’s Naturals does toothpaste. Refillable, even. And they sell toothpaste tablets.

Why make it good when you can make it mandatory?

Oh, I’ll drink whatever. Pepsi max, diet pepsi, diet coke. I really like diet dr pepper as well.

You could maybe not rush to judgement quite so quickly. For me, the challenge with pop is that I like to have something sweet and low-calorie with meals when I’m out, and the options are pretty limited. I’ve switched to a Sodastream (used, with 5lb co2 cylinder) and homemade kombucha for the most part, but when I’m at work and grabbing pizza for lunch at the local place, I have basically a choice between fountain diet coke/pepsi & a can from the vending machine. I could get plain water, sure, but I’d rather have something nicer.

Cove Soda, from the Maritimes, is very good, but it’s hard to get my hands on in any kind of quantity. There’s various low-cal sodas out there. Trouble is, it needs planning to bring from home, and enough self-restraint to not just drink it mindlessly at my desk! The convenience store near work used to sell it, but they went out of business and I’d have to walk a solid 20 minutes to get to the larger market.

I used to buy Costco flats of coke zero and drink them at my desk, but gave that up (even before the Trump fuckery) because it was an unhealthy amount.

Anyway. I’ve cut back, but as I said, coke(/pepsi) has been a particular challenge for me.

And jesus, please, just cut me some fucking slack, I’m trying.___

I am only saying that Coke is something I have personally found to be extremely difficult to cut out.

I don’t need the lecture.

I have also found coke challenging to fully eliminate. I have cut back, but it’s just so convenient and I am maybe a little habituated to it.

It would definitely be dumb to let them go all at once. You’d want to dovest carefully. Or do some bond swaps, perhaps. Exchange some for euros or yuan.

Matching “dollar for dollar” is dumb. We have to do things that hurt us little while maximizing their squeal.

Digital Services Tax needs to go in immediately. Tax exports of electricity and fuel. Lift trademark and patent restrictions. Repeal or amend the Copyright Modernization Act to eliminate DMCA style fuckery.

We can hurt them while benefiting from removing their shitty policies forced on us.

We should not try to fight toe to toe.

Very cool, thanks for the detail.

Not even. The Intel 8008 didn’t even break 1MHz and that was a few years later.

I don’t know what they used on the moon landing, though.

In the case of deeds, i think it is desirable because it gives you an immutable history of ownership.

There are other problems but i don’t believe that is one.

I do potatoes in my instant pot but leave the water in, it just gets absorbed. So the salt is effective in that case. I salt the potatoes themselves and toss them before adding the water, too, so they should get reasonably seasoned.

Also i use soup stock.

Mashed, though.

I was thinking that with legal backing, blockchain could be a good record of ownership for deeds. Like NFTs but for physical property.

The history of ownership and the public visibility are good features there.

What, don’t you want someone calling every week telling you that the IRS is going to arrest you for IRA tax fraud?

I can’t imagine a situation where a humanoid robot would be a benefit to us in our 650sqft apartment. What would it even do? And the cost would be astronomical.

To do that properly, we’ll also need Maine, Vermont, and a chunk of New York. Maybe a new border at the 43rd or 42nd parallel. Boston might be okay with it.

Same. I settled on Debian around 1999 and stayed there. A brief side trip to the ope source Solaris.