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How offensive do you want this map?

Yes

Yes, yes we do.

I’m about as left as it comes without being a tankie, but I do think people need to deal with insults better.

I’m not talking about constant bullying or harassment - that has no place in society.

But calling out absolutely idiotic behaviour, with a clever quip, is something people need to learn to accept. It’s not something you should get angry and defensive about, but rather take a moment to do some introspection - maybe I am being a dumbass. Maybe I should rethink what I just said/did.

With that said, clever insults work only when used sparingly, and to deliver impact. Constant insults are bullying. A well placed “you absolute doughnut” can do its job. Constantly being told you’re shit can’t. Use them sparingly, use them well. And don’t forget positive reinforcement. If someone does a good job, tell them. Celebrate small successes. Learn from fuckups. Criticise constructively. And listen to constructive criticism.

I’d try to explain it slower but I don’t believe speed is the problem

Trump did put up a few golden statues of himself so celebrating the losers tracks.

I’m sorry to hear that you’re stuck in a permanently basic bitch state. Stilton and steak is delicious.

You’re somewhat correct but also not.

The spice scarcity and making do without is a result of two world wars ravaging a somewhat isolated island nation. See e.g. the Irish potato famine. Some were misfortunate enough to have no food at all - and many had to live with bland, rationed food items.

Those decades were formative and a lot of that stuck around.

And to be perfectly honest… I kinda like it. I like spiced (spicy in the flavourful, not the hot sense) food too, but there’s some beauty in putting together a dish of meat and potatoes where you let the flavour of the meat and potatoes come through. In some sense it’s actually similar to Japanese cuisine, specifically sushi, where the focus is on the fish itself, with minor added flavours (salt from soy sauce, heat from wasabi).

Yeah because a Stilton and cheese bake is totally favoueless, right?

Water isn’t a finite resource, genius.

It’s actually infinitely recycled. You drink, you piss it out. Sure, for your lifespan you will be holding some 50-90kg in your body at any time, but that water goes right back into the ecosystem.

Similarly, any freshwater that goes into the seas and oceans end up circling back into freshwater due to evaporation -> clouds -> rainfall. You know, the water cycle? Third grade science class material?

Furthermore, the right to clear water doesn’t mean one person or groups of people get to hog all the water. It should be based on need - and a person dying of dehydration should always be higher priority than some dumb AI datacenter used by millions of idiots to get wrong answers reinforced…

That’s not what a right to clean drinking water means.

That’s not even what “access to water is a human right” means.

Please stop being a dumbass.

I’ve tried a number of instant coffees, and none were good. The only two options seem to be either tasting like the burnt sole of a decades old boot, or the most watered down Americano (or is it Canadiano now?) you’ve ever had.

This better not awaken something in me

Wasn’t foaming at the mouth his default mode for the past few years anyway?

One of the major drawbacks of self hosted software is the “entry fee” - aka how “expensive” (bothersome) it is to onboard a non-tech person.

For a well thought out stack (service routing and discovery, authorisation/authentication, etc.), this can be quite simple: send them a link to register, and provide a landing page where they can download appropriate client apps (and for apps that support it, create provisioning links).

This can make for an almost Google/Apple level integration. Log in, click link, app opens, you log in again (with OIDC it’s pretty simple), and done, you’re set up.

Most likely it was discovered during the butchering of beavers.

Beaver pelt was a highly valued product on the American frontier for hundreds of years. A whole trade was built around it. And given the circumstances of the first ~200 years of Europeans colonising Northern America, they wouldn’t have wasted the rest of the animal just for the pelt - what little meat every beaver had would’ve been used.

So you’re out there, butchering a beaver, grabbing it by the pu… anus, and you notice that even though you washed the carcass, there’s some oily residue on your gloves/hand after pressing around the area. It’s not something you’ve seen before, but you know very well how valuable all sorts of animal oils (tallow, pig fat, especially whale blubber) are, so you check it out. First thing you do is smell it… and damn, it smells GOOD. Maybe you’ve even had a bit of vanilla before as a treat, and recognise the scent being similar. Then you taste it, just a lick… and it’s just like that piece of cake you had at the fancy cake shop ages ago as a kid. Or not recognise it but realise it’s tasting good.

Either way, you just found a potentially usable resource. Spices and seasonings are still a luxury, so you tell others about it, after all, who wouldn’t want to make some extra money on the work they’re already doing?

And suddenly people want it. Vanilla is scarce and expensive, people like the flavour, and beavers are plentiful. You extract some oil, take it to the town chemist who checks it, deems it safe to use, and BAM, you have a new revenue stream, all you have to do is 30 minutes of extra work on the beavers you caught - wash the ass, express the anal glands for their oils, collect it up, and sell it by vials.

Most discoveries happen like that. Yes, to us it sounds weird, who the hell goes around licking asses of animals for hidden secrets? But in reality you were just making use of something, and found an extra resource.

Hey now, how do you know that OP isn’t one of those freaks who goes in with fingers and pulls the turds out?

I don’t think so, I mean, it cost $2bn just to turn the lights on at that place! And that was 1995 2 billion, not hyperinflated 2026 2 billion!

But I thought that THAT Stargate project had its own naquadah and naquadriah based generators for decades now?

But I thought the Stargate project was the US government’s current big AI thing?

Yeah.

And Moses split the Gulf of California to deliver his people to the promised land… Baja California.

I thought that was under Cheyenne Mountain?