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Cake day: July 9th, 2023

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  • Anti-feminist propaganda is a real thing. As a guy I like to think I’m fairly progressive but believed a lot of the hate against feminism even as an adult. The women I knew were “the good ones”.

    The thing is it was based on caricatures of feminism, outliers and extremists, and the claim that feminism is no longer necessary. I’m sure those extremists exists and we are closer to gender equality than historically but feminism has helped us all and we do need more of it.

    We had children before there was any paternity leave in the US. I must have been complaining that I wished I could spend more time with my newborn, but it was the feminist group at work who went to demand there be paternity leave, because equal is equal and paternity leave helps everyone




  • Still deciding.

    • I have fond childhood memories of traipsing through a tree farm until we found the right one, then taking turns using the old two handled buck saw we carried out, then trying to work as a team to carrry a massive tree back
    • now I live in an urban area with no nearby tree farm. I’m sticking spending well over $100 and I don’t have a car with roof rack to carry it.

    Sometimes I use an artificial tree and sometimes I goto Home Depot as the most reasonably priced place to get a real one. Last year the selection at Home Depot was bad plus they were all small so I spent twice as much at a higher end place





  • Apple Watch specifically has a mode for when it’s turned off that shows you the time when you tap the screen

    There’s a general thing throughout tech where off isn’t off. This is one of those cases where “off” is just a low power mode, but you can still turn it off for real. This is not specific to Apple Watch at all.

    There’s some grains of truth in the rant

    • too many devices don’t turn off by default
    • voice assistants listen to everything by default and are very good at picking out voices
    • and yes there was research that with a special setup researches were able to use WiFi to “see” through walls

    But you can turn off always listening or otherwise remove voice assistants from your life. You can turn off devices. And you can gain perspective that researchers doing something clever doesn’t necessarily translate to every device doing it.

    Be more afraid of the personal data you’re “willingly” giving away. From profiles to location to listening/watching reading content and times to opinions and associations



  • Perhaps they can invest in additional power transmission and clean generation.

    Never thought I’d say this but for my area apparently it’s the Jones’s Act. Here in New England as we shut down coal and nuclear we were never able to get natural gas pipelines. Now that there are better options our attempts to build power distribution lines keep getting blocked. Our offshore wind farms keep getting blocked. We’re stuck on natural gas but without a pipeline we’re stuck importing LNG by ship and because of the Jones Act and there being no American built LNG ships, the only choice is importing from other countries

    Let us build our wind farms. Help coordinate with other states so we can build long distance power lines to our buddies in Ontario

    The datacenter bubble is a Republican chance to platform energy independence, cheap and available energy. Build more businesses, help the economy …. Let’s create solar and wind incentives to speed that up and let’s go gangbusters on power distribution to make America great.

    Forget these natural gas turbines on a five year back order. Are they made in American? I didn’t think so. Time to go gangbuster on solar where most of the cost is local labor




  • Their issue might be that carbon steel can be expensive. Meanwhile you have some great cast iron for reasonable prices and are much more likely to find “heirloom” pieces

    While I’ve been tempted to try carbon steel, I invested in cast iron and am very happy with that. No reason to spend more money.

    I’ve never tried ceramic non-stick because

    1. Aluminum pans don’t sear well
    2. I read reviews questioning the durability of the surface

    So I’m at

    • cast iron skillets
    • 5 ply stainless steel set of pans
    • a couple non-stick skillets for company or my kids who want to cook with it
    • bakeware: glass, stainless, non-stick, porcelain

    Next

    • when I need to replace my rice maker, I’ll trade up to a stainless pot