Need to buy from dictators?

I didn’t realize Australia and Canada who has highest uranium reserves are dictators. Canada also used to be highest uranium producer until relatively recently.

There is no need. Though Kazakhstan and Russia may be cheapest if you’re near there.

I watched Monty Python holy grail after hearing about it so much on the internet. After finally watching it, my opinion was basically that I already watched all the funny parts through random clips and references made in Reddit multiple times. The rest of it was pretty dull and my entire experience as a result was meh. So you might not enjoy watching it either.

Actually statistics show that an encounter with a bear is orders of magnitude more dangerous than an encounter with a man. Obviously. I encounter 1000s of men as I was down the street and I’m not dead yet.

Yes, it’s very unlikely to run into a bear. But if that’s the point you’re making, you’re missing the predicate of the question where the encounter is already assumed.

Just pay for a good offline sudoku app. It probably costs less than a cup of coffee. Then we’ll all be happier.

Not sure who these foolishly brave Americans are who think they can beat an elephant and a grizzly bear bare handed.

First of all, this comment chain is about being able to keep tabs on someone without storing information locally on the user’s computer. If we create a new form of session ID equivalent that doesn’t store information locally, I have achieved the goal to the problem that was raised. The issue wasn’t whether or not we needed concept of something equivalent to a session ID.

[…] will need to include that session ID passed back to the server.

Yes, that’s exactly what we used to do in the '00s. Look at softwares like osCommerce v1 and 2. We literally put money behind this method of tracking.

And this talk about IP addresses is complete nonsense because of Proxies and NAT and a ton of other reasons. You can attempt to use it in combination with a session ID, but you certainly cannot use that alone.

Yes, you can use that alone. Without session ID. The other commenter already addressed why this isn’t true. Also context matters. Pretty close is a good enough of a session ID replacement for purpose of tracking whether or not they consented to the cookie policy. If I did a concat of IP, and various fingerprints (and put a hash on it to make it shorter), I can easily reach one in trillion probabilities. I wouldn’t build a secure military website on it because it’s easily forgeable, but it’s more than enough for cookie policy popup.

Session ID is stored by the client. So…? I literally just explained how to hold uniqueness on server side without using session ID.

Besides using session cookies, they can track user agent and IP address. The two in combination will be unique enough. There are further metrics to make a unique identifier, but I think this is sufficient explanation.

Edit: Seems like people who don’t know how to program besides super default methods are downvoting me.

You don’t need cookies to hold session ID. If you programmed in the earlier days, you’d actually even know cookie session wasn’t even the most common method before. For example, session ID can be passed around in the URL as another query parameter. You can even literally turn off cookie option in sessions in languages like PHP (ex: https://www.php.net/manual/en/session.configuration.php#ini.session.use-cookies). These kind of practice is still relatively quite common as it allows greater flexibility and not have your session ID bound to a domain.

Furthermore, you don’t have to be restricted by the confines of whatever existing tools you already have. Like in the example I gave at the beginning, you can create your own unique identifiers. You don’t have to use preexisting concept of session at all. If you can create any unique key-value pair, you can track and keep data without the use of sessions. Programmers are hired to create things that never existed before, be more creative.

I checked. I saw dead babies (hard to say 2 of them are actually babies as they’re too charred). But nothing beheaded.

Though I’ve never had issues with wearing ties, perhaps a clip-on tie is something you could try if you have to wear em.

I don’t really care what the contents are. If someone’s using excessive emojis or doing this stupid clapping shit, that’s a down vote for me.

They’re all referring to corn subsidies.

If you grow corn with subsidy and then sell that corn as livestock feed to cows, then you’ve indirectly further subsidized beef.

Though… this viewpoint is partly misleading people. Corn stalks and pith which humans can’t eat and need ruminant animals to process is what gets fed to them. We don’t always feed corn kernels to cows en masse, though many farms do. If they can find a buyer for the kernel for other consumption (human, fructose syrup, etc), they will sell it that way as it is more profitable. So even if it wasn’t subsidized and we only produce high priced corn for humans, we’d still feed the stalks and pith to cows.

I disagree that this is a right wing talking point, but whether it is or not is irrelevant. If it’s a problem, it’s a problem. There is no “buying into it.”

It’s a genuine problem that billionaires create literally ONE MILLION times more carbon footprint than 90% of the people. https://www.npr.org/2022/11/09/1135446721/billionaires-carbon-dioxide-emissions

It is actually a deliberate corp strategy. Plastic straws were never a real concern, save for that ONE turtle. Plastic straw make such a negligible amount of plastic waste that stop using it will have virtually zero measurable impact in amount of plastic waste we create. All it ever was intended for was to make us feel like something was being done while doing absolutely nothing.

That’s not to say all plastic reduction initiatives are pointless. But the straws definitely belong in the least environmentally impactful category.

The only issue I have with the compass being used here is that it’s used wrong.

Only the Stalin quadrant is passable. Everything else is super stretching at best while ignoring the purpose of why political compass was made.

Racist remark and gay sex has absolutely nothing to do with economic policies. Being a racist isn’t even authoritarian. It’s just that people who tend to have racist pov tends to be authoritarian and economic right. Historically, they would often advocate for restrictions on another race, but racism by itself is neither as it’s not a policy itself. While LGBT ideology is libertarian, it has nothing to do with economic. It’s that the people who tend to be pro-LGBT is on libertarian and economic left. OP is making correlatory claims rather than direct. And the political compass came to exist precisely to get people out of the mindset of over simplistic team mindsets.

Selling your mother into slavery requires authoritarian government, and libertarian would be for freedom of individuals. So, this is on the wrong quadrant entirely. Actual slavery should be more important factor than an anti-authoritarian movie. It’s just a piece of entertainment.

Whenever there is a major affordability housing project, it usually gets shut down by its area residents who get to have a say. They’ll often say things like how it’s unsightly because it blocks their views or overshadows their detached homes. Which in turn decreases their own house value. There are plethora of reasons, but I believe that is the one OP is making. NIMBY in other words. Alternatively, OP may be making comments about how government housing projects is socialism/communism and some people are rejecting simply on that basis.

Lack of supply in housing is a severe crisis in certain regions, like Toronto for example, which is now rated as the #1 housing bubble in the world according to some banks with the biggest reason being lack of supply. There’s an estimated shortage of nearly 6 million homes for the Canadian population, most of which is around Toronto. The rapid housing prices is in turn making homelessness spike up.

Indirectly, but effectively, the local population is saying they’d rather have tents pitched near their homes rather than an affordable apartment near by.

You’re kinda telling people to waste time. It is not a myth.

League, rating scale, etc. are a measurement that’s made from the outside. Not internally. Everyone wants to date the best that they can date. A fit muscular guy is likely going to garner more attention from more people than a fat guy. That is a fact. Subjectivity in attraction certainly exists, but it’s not that widely swinging. A very few curve extremely outside of the norm (i.e fetish). For example, almost every person attracted to a male would find Brad Pitt very attractive. Etc.

So if you go after the attractive person, they’re also going to get many alternate options. And they’re going to pick someone they find most attractive among their suitors. If I had 100 matches on a dating app for example, I’m only going to bother spending my time talking to 10 of them and ghost the 90. I just can’t deal with the rest, humans only have so much time. If I get 1000 matches, I’m going to ignore 990 of them. My criteria in picking who is most attractive is likely not that much different from anyone else.

Question of if they’re out of their league means are you in the ignore pile, or the talk to pile, and sometimes the friendzone pile (i.e. you’re the backup). You can try to claw your way out of the ghosted, but your chances are slim. So it’s better use of your time and resources to retarget to another lower tier person who might only get 20 matches and will bother talking to 10 people. If that still doesn’t work, you keep going lower. This is effectively how the “dating marketplace” puts values on people.

You can keep trying to date the higher tier people, but you’ll keep getting outright rejected or not have a long term relationship with them. Because they know they can do better because they’ll keep getting suitors throughout their life.

World was certainly easier to date in the era of pre-dating apps or social media. Since the pool of people around each other is a lot smaller. But thanks to online interactions, we’re literally competing against countless others. So, it’s better to not waste your time on someone out of your league. You aren’t going to keep them. All you did is waste time (and probably lot of money if you’re a guy, and that money is going to be proportional to the gap between your leagues).

When a girl says they like certain things from a guy, they really mean certain things from a guy who has already met her base standards. Like attractiveness. So they want an attractive guy to be funny.

I agree they’ll dull faster. Fabric scissors are sharpened on a much lower angle, so if the metal doesn’t have the sufficient hardness, they will not retain their edge for long.

I have expensive japanese knives, scissors, guillotine (no, not the historic french one) etc. I sharpen them myself every few months on whetstones. I’m not gonna overly worry about their usage because even at the rate at which I sharpen, they will likely last me a lifetime. Other people use my tools incorrectly often. I’ve seen my parents use Shun chef knife like a cleaver through fish & chicken bone. I’m sure it works very well. It’s bad for the knife. But I just sharpen on my regular schedule and go on with my day instead of stressing about it.

If you know how to sharpen them, it doesn’t really matter that much. Stuff dulls eventually.