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Yes, Procter & Gamble funded it. That seems to like something they might and should be interested in.

Personally, I realized at a young age I was very affected by some fragrances and perfumes. I got vicious headaches and felt sickened when exposed to some of those. It was especially bad at some stores that doused their store with fragrances, and in Churches where both men and women would slather fragrances on themselves before going there.

They didn't bother my wife and daughters at all though and I finally had to demand they stop using them in our house.

Because of that I learned to gtfo of places as soon as I walked in and smelled it. And I started buying my wife and daughters pure Rose Oil because that actually made me feel pretty good when I got a few whiffs of it, and they all loved that.

Apparently I was not even close to alone with those adverse reactions because around mid 2000s stores began to quit doing that and I very seldom detect those toxins when I go in stores now.

I never found out exactly what was that affected me, but it was sure vicious. I think it may have been some sort of "bonding agent" that made fragrances "stick" better and last longer.

Procter & Gamble sells a lot of stuff with fragrances in them. It behooves them to make sure their products are not sickening folks and, if they can, provide some real benefit.

I'm in the beginning of that age group so I'm gonna have to look into this.

That's a pretty big problem. There is a large church "camp" near us, "Kamp Kanakuk" that is somewhat notorious for that.

The article reports the Texas law said "pornography sites would have been forced to display a “Texas Health and Human Services Warning” in at least 14-point font — one such warning was specified to read, “Pornography increases the demand for prostitution, child exploitation, and child pornography”

I not sure I can believe all that. I do believe porm can be addictive for some folks because I knew a guy who had barrels full of hard core porn magazines at his metal fabrication shop in Hollywood when I was young teen in the 70s. He must've had 1000s of them.

I'm not at all convinced that it "increases the demand for prostitution, child exploitation, and child pornography” though. With the few exceptions for prostitution all of that is already illegal in most places here in the U.S. and has been long before porn on the web became a thing, and "child pornography" has always been a crime.

I don't think a "warning" like that on porn sites will change any of that at all. It's nothing more than political bullshit.

I watched this video a few days ago and what they've done is truly amazing.

I live in the Ozarks in SW MO and four of the five acres are hill side littered with rocks.

A few years ago I piled up some of those rocks in an area that was washing out and now it has about 8-10" of soil built up and is covered with mostly weeds growing.

When it cools down (we've had about a month of 100º temps here) I'm going start making rows of rock piles to catch soil and hopefully slow down the erosion and green things up a bit.

That's interesting. I've never looked at Gab but I've seen FB posts with comments that got just stupid nasty.

I finally started using that "block" option a lot faster and put an end to that.

I lived in LA when Prop 13 was passed. It was intended (promoted) to keep long time homeowners from paying more in taxes than their monthly payment to the bank each month, which was mostly affecting folks of retirement age.

Hard to imagine they didn't omit homes that were being rented back then.

I started working with asbestos while modifying vans for handicapped people to drive back in the early 70s. We used it as a heat shield when we lowered the floors in vans for people in wheelchairs to drive.

I would watch guys I worked with stand in a cloud of dust cutting up 4'x8' sheets of asbestos. I'd offer them my respirator and they'd refuse. They considered that to be unmanly and made a point to give me shit over that.

A few years into that work I convinced the engineers who'd designed those asbestos heat shields to use galvanized sheet metal, which is what the OEM used and we removed. It was less expensive, easier to fabricate and install, and it worked a lot better.

I owe Paul Brodeur a lot, and so do many others.

It's never been a secret that we don't know for sure how some of these anti-psychotic drugs work.

It good to know there are folks working hard on finding out what's going on and ways to deal with psychosis.

There's been some interesting work recently on how "gut bugs" might have a roll in this as well:

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/balanced/202308/targ...

They used existing poles here. I'm pretty sure that a big part of the cost is funded by a U.S. gov grant designed to get rural areas high speed internet.

We may pay more than urban areas around us, I'm really not sure, but not all rural areas around us are serviced by the co-op and they do pay quite a bit more.

We have 3 damns generating power very close by us, two that are pretty big, but I doubt that has much to do with our rates. If anything it's slowed the need for a natural gas or coal fired power power plant nearby, but there are those within 50 miles near the bigger metro areas around us. No nukes close by though.

We had CenturyLink for over 20 years here. They recently sold us to Brightspeed who raised our monthly fee to $60 for what's really the very lowest end of "Highspeed" access (if that). The first thing Brighspeed did was throttle our bandwidth.

Our local electric co-op (White River Valley Electric Cooperative) is currently laying fiber optic lines to all the homes and businesses they serve now and will be offering real high speed internet (gb both up/down) next year for $30 a month to all their customers first, and then those who are not that live in the area.

When we moved here in the 90s and bought our home we really didn't think about who was providing our electricity, but we've learned since there is a huge difference.

Just this week we had a vicious storm that blew power poles down and 1000s were without power. Our power was back on in around 36 hours, others nearby were down for 3+ days.

Those who live outside the co-op are paying more than twice as much for power depending on the time of day and load on the grid.

We have a flat rate that's lower than their lowest rates.

https://www.whiteriver.org/fiber/

>> Seems like one problem is that you didn’t set it up automatically and expected them to do it on their own.

Downloading and configuring CouchDB on their PC isn't something I can do for them, but it's really simple and easy to do and I provided step by step instructions.

I didn't charge them anything at all to get and use the offline first version of the app. They already paid for the online version (that's a yearly subscription fee) so there was no extra charge at all.

They really were not at all concerned about a long term outage. I can understand that because widespread outages have been pretty rare, and the app has never been down for any significant amount of time for 20 years now. So I think it was really a lack of urgency.

The app is at ezInvoice.com. CouchDB is really a very good fit for that app.

In the early versions of the app I used CGI.pm to store and get user data and that was very fast and efficient, and the format for storing data was similar to CouchDB's (JSON), so it felt more familiar for me to work with.

I had never worked with SQL before making that app. I had a partner back then create a new version that used an SQL db. I did this mostly because I felt like the app wasn't keeping up with web trends and he had been pestering me to use SQL in the next version for about a year.

What he ended up with was buggy to the point of users calling and screaming at me and after a year he still couldn't get it right. Back then news of SQL dbs getting hacked were common and after buying several books on SQL I realized that to be proficient required years of study and experience.

CouchDB had just come out around then so I looked into it and for me that's been much easier to work with, and do so securely. It's practically designed for an app like ezInvoice. PouchDB.js has made it easy for me to work with.

If you're already proficient with SQL there's probably no compelling advantage to using CouchDB/PouchDB, but it's a really good tool set for building web apps.

I've installed CouchDB and an app I made on both my local desktop pc (Mac Mini) and my app server (DigitalOcean) and it's pretty sweet.

I've also installed both the app and CouchDB on a Raspberry Pi in my office and set it up to sync with the DigitalOcean server. This lets me run the app on all the devices in my office even when the internet is not accessible.

In both scenarios the local app is faster and since syncing runs in the background there's no lag when using the app at all.

I worked on a local first version of an app I sell. I use CouchDB to store user data so it was pretty easy to implement because CouchDB will sync a local CouchDB to the Cloud based CouchDB as soon as any changes are made.

That app is now 20 years old and over those years I've had users who quit using it call me years later to ask if I could give them access to their expired account or a copy of all their data.

CouchDB is easy to install and easy for users to configure for that purpose so I explained the benefits and provided simple step by step instructions.

I explained how this would make the app faster for them, provide a local backup of their data, and that it was possible our Cloud based CouchDB could be inaccessible for a variety of reasons beyond our control but their local CouchDB would be there for them and it would sync up any changes with the Cloud based CouchDB as soon as it was back online.

I also explained how this gave them a way to use the app for free after their yearly subscription expired, so I assumed most of the users would jump at the chance to set up the local first version of the app.

Not one of the app's users wanted to do that. They really could not have cared any less.

I still use it for my own account so it wasn't a complete waste of time but I was, and still am, a bit amazed that users didn't grasp the value in that.

This got buried but I'm going to make the point for posterity's sake that "Sam's Club" charging teachers $20 to come into their stores to spend more of their own money to purchase supplies for their students is really just flat out disgusting.

“We know that educators continue to dip into their own wallets to pay for classroom supplies, and we want to help ease the burden this year with better access to the unbelievable value that Sam’s Club provides,” Ludwig said.

I've personally never used an SQL DB but I think this would make it a lot easier for those who do to use CouchDB and might entice them to take a fresh look at it.

Thank you dang!

There was certainly some heated opinions being shared there. Fair to say I may have set the tone with my initial comment. I grew up around cars and car builders and spent quite a few years working with them so I am opinionated in that field.

Ok, this is too funny...

Dang contacted me and told me my karma was 4797, not 4997. My eyes are getting old is my excuse :D

It's not "big deal". It didn't cost me any money and I won't lose any sleep over it.

As I've already said, I'm curious about how/why this happened because it doesn't make sense.

I've sent an email asking about it and maybe I'll learn something if I get a response. I've never done that before so I don't know what to expect.

No, I have an old post that's marked as "flagged" but not that one.

I took your advice and did that. Thank you for the suggestion.

If it was flagged I wasn't notified. No idea why it would be though.

I don't worry about getting down voted for comments I make, but this is odd. I've sent an email asking for clarification so we'll see how it goes.

No, but I did not expect to go from 28 to 650 in about an hour.

This peaked my interest so I did a search and this looks like an informative look into the differences:

https://www.trueprotein.com.au/blogs/nutrition/natural-vs-sy...

Exactly!

$92,000 for their "Platinum" model. I am surrounded by farmers where I live and there's no way they'll be buying those. I'm stunned that anyone would pay that much for a pickup truck.

A new Mercedes-Benz E-Class E 350 cost $56,750, just slightly more than Ford's lowest priced EV Pickup.

Ford's leaders seem to be way out of touch with working class folks and their sales reports are showing it.