In thinking about the high-calorie foods that would make our coder-drone selves become obese, I got to wondering where recipes for things like fried chicken and pecan pie came from and what social purpose to they serve?
Man, you are WAY over thinking this.
I grew up in the deep south. We ate fried chicken and pecan pies because we liked fried chicken and pecan pies. The recipies came from mom, not a lab.
BULLSHIT. There is no escape from heat when it's 40C and humidity is through the roof.
There is no shade, no brick, atrium, high ceiling, or ANYTHING that will lower the temperature.
The temperature stays above 30C during the coolest moment of the night, and this happens for weeks at a time.
I know this. Because I live in one of these places.
I grew up in the American deep south without air conditioning. There may be no escape, but it can lived with.
I remember being annoyed with the houses around us that had air conditioning. I just saw noisy boxes spewing more even more hot air into my environment.
You want to save energy, lower co2 emissions and make life better in most places? Ban residential air conditioning. "Oh no, then I might sweat some!!" Too damn bad but at least you'd spend more time in the yard and maybe get to know the neighbors. People with a legitimate health condition could get a doctors approval but you can just sweat a little when it gets hot.
Where that is a problem is the high density government housing blocks demanded by "progressives". Even they could be designed to handle heat better that they do now as a rule.
Plain white rice has very little nutritional value. Only if you leave the hull on and make it hard to chew does rice have decent nutrients.
But it's arguably better for you without the hull. Check out Lectins. People are all worked up over gluten, but it's just one of a family of inflammatory proteins. Sub clinical inflammation is a genuinely Bad Thing and the root of many health problems.
Gundry is promoting this for a living, but the science seems to make sense.
It's not free though, the American people already pay for it with taxes.
Not really. Just part is paid for with taxes. The rest is pushed downstream to my kids and grand kids.
When someone starts trying to shift costs of tax funded items, you should be deeply suspicious of the person trying to do so. It's never worked for the better of the users or the people funding it.
It's a worthless number. As if calories are all the same.
Think wood and nitro methane. Your car will treat them very differently.
You body handles sugar very differently than fat. And the order of eating fat, sugars and protein makes a big difference in how the body handles those.
Publicly owned infrastructure is and has, to varying degrees, always been (necessary) part of functional capitalist nations. In communism the idea was to make the whole industry publicly owned. (Not a bad idea in itself, either, but not sufficient to make a society a nice place to live in, nor to really call a society communist.)
Universally, my friends that immigrated to the States from Cuba, Russia and Ukraine strongly disagree. They remember it as being a REALLY BAD IDEA.
They despair when listening to politicians here promising more socialism.
"My God! How can people here be so stupid? Didn't they see what happened in (where I came from)"?
I have a friend with a wildly expensive salt water tank. He absolutely requires remote sensing on a variety of things such as temperature and salinity to allow him go go out of town without obsessing.
He's also a top level DBA and security guy having worked for companies needing to be certified for PCI and DOD level databases.
He has firewalls, etc. up the wazoo at home. Just because he can.
Cyclists are paying a lot MORE than their share of road maintenance.
Road damage is pretty much entirely caused by trucks, unless there are lots and lots of cars and almost no trucks.
Unless you count eating and buying bikes and showy colored tights and everything else that comes on trucks. By existing, the bike riders are contributing to road wear.
Everyone that causes the trucks to roll should be paying something for that wear and tear.
If it's in the water, how much is in things like soda and fruit juices? I've always thought milk in plastic bottles tastes very plasticy. I only buy waxed paper cartons because of this. So the real question to me is how much have I already consumed?
I doubt you have waxed paper cartons. That was the standard when I was a kid in the 50's. We'd get huge blocks of paraffin from the local dairy to melt and play with. Although, come to think of it, paraffin is "plastic".
So, unless your milk come in beeswax covered paper, you're still getting plastic.
by selling copies of my poorly-xeroxed newsletter on the street corner. Should I be banned from doing so on the grounds that I can't feed a wife and two kids by doing that?
This is exactly the point. Is someone forcing the Uber driver to drive?
If not, what's the beef? We somehow want to make it illegal to make a bad business decision?
I assume that driving for a ride share service, unlike buying a storefront and inventory, etc., provides immediate feedback. Am I making any money? Am I making enough money?
Seems to be one of the lowest risk things one could try.
Public transport is designed by the city to be a sustainable solution for a city.
If you define "sustainable" as "tax consumer" and "federal matching funds" harvesting.
In the Minneapolis area, public transportation, particularly light rail, is a boondoggle.
Light rail is the darling of the progressive government here. It averages around 100 million a mile to install and tickets provide about 1/3 of the operating costs meaning that three people pay for a ticket so that one person can ride.
Years ago when the first leg was being put in, I knew a member of the planning commission. He freely admitted that their studies showed no lessening of street traffic and that it would consume tax revenue, but that it was still "the right thing to do" in order to subsidize a small segment of the low income population.
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Or they simply make the car refuse to work if it cannot phone home.
But, that really can't work, can it?
I mean, there are times and places that you will lose signal, like in a tunnel, or perhaps parts of the country where there isn't great cell coverage, etc....
I would think they would have to take those use cases into account, and if they do..then you just block the signal perpetually...?
If I were tasked with this as an engineer, I'd just buffer the data and transmit when comm available. Wouldn't you?
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In thinking about the high-calorie foods that would make our coder-drone selves become obese, I got to wondering where recipes for things like fried chicken and pecan pie came from and what social purpose to they serve?
Man, you are WAY over thinking this.
I grew up in the deep south. We ate fried chicken and pecan pies because we liked fried chicken and pecan pies. The recipies came from mom, not a lab.
BULLSHIT. There is no escape from heat when it's 40C and humidity is through the roof. There is no shade, no brick, atrium, high ceiling, or ANYTHING that will lower the temperature.
The temperature stays above 30C during the coolest moment of the night, and this happens for weeks at a time.
I know this. Because I live in one of these places.
I grew up in the American deep south without air conditioning. There may be no escape, but it can lived with.
I remember being annoyed with the houses around us that had air conditioning. I just saw noisy boxes spewing more even more hot air into my environment.
You want to save energy, lower co2 emissions and make life better in most places? Ban residential air conditioning. "Oh no, then I might sweat some!!" Too damn bad but at least you'd spend more time in the yard and maybe get to know the neighbors. People with a legitimate health condition could get a doctors approval but you can just sweat a little when it gets hot.
Where that is a problem is the high density government housing blocks demanded by "progressives". Even they could be designed to handle heat better that they do now as a rule.
Re-training to what? What is that magical low-skill job that isn't going to be replaced by robots soon?
Politician.
Plain white rice has very little nutritional value. Only if you leave the hull on and make it hard to chew does rice have decent nutrients.
But it's arguably better for you without the hull. Check out Lectins. People are all worked up over gluten, but it's just one of a family of inflammatory proteins. Sub clinical inflammation is a genuinely Bad Thing and the root of many health problems.
Gundry is promoting this for a living, but the science seems to make sense.
I bet the bit rate was REALLY slow.
It's not free though, the American people already pay for it with taxes.
Not really. Just part is paid for with taxes. The rest is pushed downstream to my kids and grand kids.
When someone starts trying to shift costs of tax funded items, you should be deeply suspicious of the person trying to do so. It's never worked for the better of the users or the people funding it.
Too true. See my statement above.
Government isn't supposed to make a profit.
Neither should government spend money it doesn't have.
Trump is just looking for more ways to convert more government programs into being profit BUs instead of public services.
We already paid for the hardware and time with our taxes.. If they really need to, they can allow services to mirror the data.
Considering that we have a massive (and growing) national debt, perhaps, just perhaps, charging for this service isn't completely crazy.
You body handles sugar very differently than fat. And the order of eating fat, sugars and protein makes a big difference in how the body handles those.
No, but they might as well be compared to solar systems.
I love the idea of having my own electrical production and think it's a good idea but all good ideas shouldn't carry the force of law.
A universal income would give poor people a similar level of control over their lives, a level they do not currently have.
Nope, it just gives even more control to the politicians that would handing out the money.
Adults have a measure of control over their lives. Perpetual adolescents don't.
Publicly owned infrastructure is and has, to varying degrees, always been (necessary) part of functional capitalist nations. In communism the idea was to make the whole industry publicly owned. (Not a bad idea in itself, either, but not sufficient to make a society a nice place to live in, nor to really call a society communist.)
Universally, my friends that immigrated to the States from Cuba, Russia and Ukraine strongly disagree. They remember it as being a REALLY BAD IDEA.
They despair when listening to politicians here promising more socialism.
"My God! How can people here be so stupid? Didn't they see what happened in (where I came from)"?
Oh no. I feel really bad for the casino. Where can I donate money to help them in their time of need?
At the casino. Just show up and they'll be glad to help you help them.
A list of people with a lot more money than sense.
That's ME! The bummer is that I don't have much money.
He's also a top level DBA and security guy having worked for companies needing to be certified for PCI and DOD level databases. He has firewalls, etc. up the wazoo at home. Just because he can.
No kidding. I've been trying for years to get the bastards to provide me with the internet speed they advertise to me on a daily basis.
...lock the barn door.
Cyclists are paying a lot MORE than their share of road maintenance.
Road damage is pretty much entirely caused by trucks, unless there are lots and lots of cars and almost no trucks.
Unless you count eating and buying bikes and showy colored tights and everything else that comes on trucks. By existing, the bike riders are contributing to road wear.
Everyone that causes the trucks to roll should be paying something for that wear and tear.
If it's in the water, how much is in things like soda and fruit juices? I've always thought milk in plastic bottles tastes very plasticy. I only buy waxed paper cartons because of this. So the real question to me is how much have I already consumed?
I doubt you have waxed paper cartons. That was the standard when I was a kid in the 50's. We'd get huge blocks of paraffin from the local dairy to melt and play with. Although, come to think of it, paraffin is "plastic".
So, unless your milk come in beeswax covered paper, you're still getting plastic.
Economic mobility index says that the US is closer to a feudal society than most European countries... (higher is worse in this case)
http://www.epi.org/publication...
So says a left wing "policy" organization. "If only we had more Socialism, life would be good!"
by selling copies of my poorly-xeroxed newsletter on the street corner. Should I be banned from doing so on the grounds that I can't feed a wife and two kids by doing that?
This is exactly the point. Is someone forcing the Uber driver to drive?
If not, what's the beef? We somehow want to make it illegal to make a bad business decision?
I assume that driving for a ride share service, unlike buying a storefront and inventory, etc., provides immediate feedback. Am I making any money? Am I making enough money? Seems to be one of the lowest risk things one could try.
And public transport isn't "the government". Good lord.
It damn sure is when you're taxed to pay for it whether you want it or not. That's the de facto definition of government.
And in other news, a government entity that loves public transit issues a report supporting public transit.
Public transport is designed by the city to be a sustainable solution for a city.
If you define "sustainable" as "tax consumer" and "federal matching funds" harvesting.
In the Minneapolis area, public transportation, particularly light rail, is a boondoggle. Light rail is the darling of the progressive government here. It averages around 100 million a mile to install and tickets provide about 1/3 of the operating costs meaning that three people pay for a ticket so that one person can ride.
Years ago when the first leg was being put in, I knew a member of the planning commission. He freely admitted that their studies showed no lessening of street traffic and that it would consume tax revenue, but that it was still "the right thing to do" in order to subsidize a small segment of the low income population. .
But, that really can't work, can it?
I mean, there are times and places that you will lose signal, like in a tunnel, or perhaps parts of the country where there isn't great cell coverage, etc....
I would think they would have to take those use cases into account, and if they do..then you just block the signal perpetually...?
If I were tasked with this as an engineer, I'd just buffer the data and transmit when comm available. Wouldn't you?
The governments valuation has nothing at all to do with house value on the market. That's just government greed.
The price of real estate is determined by what someone is willing to pay for it. Period.