Kluny

I spent winter break in 2011 reading Zen Garden and learning CSS! It was so useful in the next seven years of my career to be able to write CSS as easily as English.

I read Sapiens by Yuval Harari this year. It was long and fascinating, incredibly well researched, and easy enough for "light reading" that I had time for between writing research papers. A couple things that stuck with me were stories of giant land mammals that used to exist, many more than I realized, alongside humans. Wherever humans colonized, the large mammals were killed off soon after. This happened in Australia, China, and Europe, and long before the days of colonization. Another was the idea that humans have been cultivated by wheat, rather than the other way around, based on the observation that our relationship with wheat is more beneficial for the plant than for ourselves.

> My grandfather goes instantly from 0 to 60 with rage

Classic symptom of lead poisoning, ironically.

So what, continue wasting student's time teaching them addition and subtraction over and over again? Why not just let students advance when they grasp the subject, instead of withholding knowledge from them for the sake of slower peers?

Meanwhile I’ve got relatives evacuated from Merritt, classmates who won’t be able to attend class for a week, and almost everyone I know lost power over the weekend. Facebook is full of people asking for fans and pumps to dry out their basements (including people I know personally). You say look at the bigger picture but you’re counting your personal experience as the best indicator of it. I’d suggest the news is showing the bigger picture.

Yeah, me too. There are lots of great shows I had to stop watching because of this. Breaking Bad, Dexter. I mean, I guess they did okay on those shows without my contribution, but I feel like they could have been just as powerful without as much blood.

I dunno, hope you know more about road engineering than I do. This is a section of the Coquihalla.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CWWz8QCP4Mm/?utm_medium=copy_lin...

A constant theme among people who like to overwork and underpay their employees, yes.

That's one section of like ten equally important road links that are in equally bad shape. That one could be fixed fast, sure, if it was the ONLY problem we were dealing with right now.

Also Cowichan (cut off by road and also on an island) and the Gulf Islands (many without power, probably for a long time).

Itt: People telling about how the flooding has directly and severely impacted their lives, and commenters who got lucky explaining how it's actually not a big deal.

Almost everyone in Vancouver, Vancouver Island, all over BC really, has flooded basements and other stuff to deal with. My school closed down due to power outages, for example. The road to the local landfill has washed out. Half of my classmates were without power last night, and one of them is on the wrong side of a mountain pass and will miss class today. Our teacher has decided not to bother trying to get to campus and we're back to Zoom school.

I've been learning in my law course about how laws are built from precedent and often need to be based on real things that have happened, rather than in anticipation of something bad maybe happening in the future.

So when it comes to facebook and other big tech companies, I feel like they should be regulated similar to how toy companies can't advertise violence to children, and tobacco companies can't advertise to children at all. Those laws are incredibly strict and written with the understanding that kids are vulnerable and naive, and can't really think for themselves. But that vulnerability still has to be demonstrated, and tangible harm has to be shown before a robust law can be written (meaning, one that won't be struck down as unconstitutional or unreasonable or whatever), and such laws are still in the process of being written for the tech companies.

So you could argue that they should back off of marketing to kids as a moral thing, but equally you could argue that they need to stake out their territory before laws are written that block off entire lines of business. The tech companies are behaving rationally, but the results can be awful. Society needs to fight back and protect ourselves with strong laws.

I don't get it - the battery isn't glued in, and you can remove it without damaging other parts. Isn't that pretty good?

You can meet people at improv club, hockey or mountain biking instead, but you still have to meet people somehow, right?

Jazz musicians have started singing the yellows.

On Vancouver island where the Komoks people lived, there certainly was a distinct language and culture and possibly laws for probably half a dozen or more groups. On the island alone, I (a white person), know of the Songhees, Lekwungen, Tsartslip, Tsawout, Wsanec, Cowichan, Pacheedaht, Ucluelet, and Homalco nations. All those are local to the island and have their own languages and traditions.

Point being that there can be a surprising number of micronations in a very small area.

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Gosh, where are you getting these $25 tuneups? Shops in my town are charging $150 for a spring tuneup, and booking a season in advance.

It doesn't seem to be much of a problem on my 1x mountain bike.

Gonna need some sources if you want people to take an accusation like that seriously.

The old ujms have hipster cred and they aren't made anymore, so the price has gone up due to scarcity. Try a cbr 150 from like 2011. You can get those for like $1000 now.

This book is an excellent start and the author has made it available for free as a PDF (you can also get it on Amazon)

http://efficientfrontier.com/ef/0adhoc/ifyoucan.pdf

It lays out an effective retirement strategy in the first paragraph or so, and spends the rest of the book explaining it. Short and easy read. The strategy has to be adapted somewhat for non-Americans - if you're Canadian, the adaptations can be found at https://canadiancouchpotato.com/.

Like I said, it's a start, but it also recommends a lot of good and trustworthy resources to continue your learning after you read it. I found it through /r/personalfinance as the other commenter suggested.

The only price I watch is 2x6x10 cedar. They were up to $51 back in April, now they're back down to $33. Still seems high but good enough for me to get back to my projects.

Canadian a&w is a totally different beast from the American franchise, related in name only, and my favorite fast food by a long way.

Wow, such a wildly classist and unfounded assumption. Care to back it up with anything?

I don’t even have 144 items in my kitchen, I don’t think, so that’s probably a lot of dishwashing. It could happen if you lane the water running the entire time. I’m horrified to think that some people do that.

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Honestly this sounds like a good way to keep real estate values in check.

The thing is, 1 million is a pretty cheap price to sell your integrity. If you do get caught, you got caught over a relatively small sum. Once you've gotten your hands dirty, why not go all in? Why not go for James Bond villain money?

That's not rational, of course, but humans aren't rational.