Erik816

I have owned my current dishwasher for about 15 years, and I have never once cleaned it. It's working just fine.

I feel sad hearing about parents who can't stand to hear their child cry for a few a few minutes, a few nights in a row, and instead have children who take years to learn to properly sleep, causing sleep deprivation for the entire family.

If it can generate working code, does that mean that asking students to produce working code was bullshit? Or does it just mean that AI can now do a lot of things we used to asked students to do (for probably solid educational reasons) at an above average level?

Long Covid is extremely similar to ME/CFS, but affecting far more people. On the plus side for those of us living with ME/CFS, we can now explain to people "it's basically Long Covid." On the downside, this can be an extremely debilitating illness that lasts indefinitely. I am on year 14 and while I have seen improvement, I am still partially disabled.

My condolences to everyone dealing with Long Covid, which includes both the actual disease and the social consequences. It is already exhausting, but even more so when you need to convince people it's real, struggle to deal with skeptical or poorly informed doctors, and politely deal with the continuous unprompted medical advice from well-meaning friends, family, and internet strangers.

Not sure about the cultural dig at the English (that was probably very context-dependent and an in-joke for Germans/German speakers). But in general, Nietzsche probably meant something like "Man strives for power" by which he might have meant something more like self-expression that raw physical or political power.

I would personally say that most people strive for meaning (as in, living a meaningful life) even if they think they are striving for "happiness", which to me comes off as a very shallow and hedonistic aim.

Inside the US most people don't carry guns.

If you can't work with people who don't share your progressive politics, you may be the one who is hard to work with, not them.

Your map only appears to show the expected output of panels in those locations, with dark red and red obviously showing higher output. It does not support the claim that putting panels in the "wrong place" will produce negative economic and environmental returns. Maybe that's an argument that can be made, but you haven't really made it yet.

Orphans and widows were also important legal categories. Children without a father needed a legal guardian until they turned 18. Married women (at least under British common law) were not separate legal entities from their husbands. So each category needed a defined term. Parents who had lost children were in many cases just "parents", since families were much larger and it was probably the rare large family who had not experienced the death of a young child.

Nope. If you can afford to live on the waterfront and enjoy the view, but never use your boat, are you morally obligated to sell your house to someone who will be out there fishing or skiing every day?

Land is bought and sold on an open market. Everyone can decide for themselves what is most important to them and what they can afford. One factor behind living in a major city is certainly easy access to in-person employment. But there are a ton of other factors (restaurants, culture, sporting events, community, etc.). If you are willing to pay a lot of money to be close to those things even if you don't use all of them, that's your choice and it's perfectly ethical.

Since the beginning, I have been using N95s when I'm actually worried about catching the virus and think I might be able to prevent it (like grocery shopping early on, flights, etc.) I use cloth masks pretty much everywhere else for compliance or because I think the situation is low enough risk.

I'm getting old, but at least 15 years ago, law school admission was almost purely LSAT score + College GPA (weighted by perceived difficulty/prestige of College).

What motive would you need beside "a higher score gets me into better schools"? Surely someone smart enough to get a perfect SAT score can figure that out pretty easily.

It is very easy to use reddit that way. I use it multiple times a day and only ever visit the subreddits I have subscribed to, and that's all that appears on my main page.

To be fair to her siblings, they didn't know they were Native American because they were not in fact Native American.

A "Republican" who has previous run as a Democrat and has voted for Democrats in all recent presidential elections. This says less about any shift in the electorate than it does about the extremism of the Seattle left.

Real pain would be buying an overpriced house that was bid up by Zillow or other similar companies and then needing to move. Missing out on that overpriced sale would actually be great!

The example was used car dealerships. You can always buy/sell your vehicle in a private sale without requiring a used car dealership.

A few seconds each day, unless you have a really bad or poorly maintained watch.

Drone pretty clearly implies to me "a craft piloted remotely by a human." A UFO/UAP is an aerial phenomenon we can't currently identify. It could be a human piloted craft, it could be something else yet to be determined.

I'm not clear why it is assumed this is a "drone." From the article, it sounds like all that could be identified was a single green light. This seems like a classic UFO/UAP. Maybe it was a drone, but I don't see the evidence to make that conclusion based on this article.

Genealogists tend to be an older crowd for sure, for a mix of reasons. I'm just entering middle age, so I can only speak for myself. I remember as a very small boy doing an elementary school family history project and finding it captivating. There were people I had never met but played an important role in determining who I was and the family culture I grew up in. To me, that is just inherently fascinating, and I have a hard time understanding people who don't feel that way (even though almost no one I know shares this passion, including my closest friends and family members). I think most genealogists have a similar experience. We end up finding 4th cousins who we are are very tangentially related to, but we bond over our shared interest in our ancestors and the process of genealogy research.

For me, genealogy is almost a perfect fit for my skills and interests: I believe strongly in the importance of family, I enjoy history and geography, I am trained as a lawyer so I can decipher the many legal documents that lead to important details, I enjoy the detective work involved in cracking hard cases, I enjoy the sense of completion of filling in a new branch on the tree, I enjoy writing and sharing my research with family members, I'm a skeptical person and have good critical reasoning skills, so I can spot a lot of errors in other people's research and try to correct them. Perhaps most of all, I enjoy learning about the lives of my ancestors. I feel that telling their story honors them and keeps their memory alive, and that's important to me. I hope some day my descendants will enjoy reading my work.

There are some people who get the bug for genealogy and get really into it, and maybe that helps explain why.

FamilySearch is excellent and has a ton of primary sources once you get used to how to find them. Ancestry.com's main advantage is that it provides "hints" that suggests sources for your ancestors. It's super easy to add those sources and people to your tree. That's also its main weaknesses, because these sources and hints are sometimes completely wrong, and are then copied and repeated by many genealogists until they take on a veneer of truth through sheer repetition.

The best way I have been able to do this is to write a book as I am doing my research. I organize an outline for the ancestors, fill in the details I can find as paragraphs, and pretty much have a footnote (or sometimes two) with every sentence with a source.

For a particularly tricky ancestor, it will start as just a list of sources or leads in roughly chronological order. I work through and try to form these sources into narrative paragraphs as I piece together what is accurate, how they are connected to children/parents/spouses/etc. In some cases, I disprove other people's unsupported theories, and in some cases I present a case for my own conclusions, noting any ambiguity or uncertainty.

I then update my primary tree (on Ancestry.com) with the results of my research, and link or upload the most important original documents there. At some point, I'll upload PDFs of the chapters to the relevant people's pages.

Is there software that could organize this all and make it easier? I'm not totally sure, but I'd be open to considering it.

Treating our dead with respect is probably one of the oldest signs of human culture. People care a lot about the bodies of their deceased loved ones. See Antigone by Sophocles. You're welcome to your views, but most people have strong, deeply felt emotions and opinions on how dead bodies should be properly handled.

It's been a while since this was updated (2014), but it indicates that over 50% of people consider religion "very important" in their life. Only 11% said religion was "not at all important."

So while you could imagine a society where 80% of people believe they aren't religious at all, the United States at least does not appear anywhere near that number.

https://www.pewforum.org/religious-landscape-study/importanc...

Only 19% think they are more religious than average. I find that very interesting. Not sure if it's an artifact of the kind of people who have taken the survey so far, a statement about how people want to be perceived in our culture, or a bit of both.

I'm confused how my neighbors devices would be connecting to my secured WiFi network without my knowledge. Is that correct?

She appears to have made that up: https://www.worlddata.info/average-bodyheight.php

The difference is that flank steak is still flank steak, while the veggie substitutes may have improved in quality over time.