Commercial pilots are explicitly trusted to fly expensive and dangerous vehicles, sometimes with hundreds of passengers, over populated areas. They are trained and licensed professionals. If we can’t trust those folks to have a mobile device with them but to make good choices about whether/when to use it in the course of their job, then they shouldn’t be flying anyway.

If someone can’t have their mobile device on hand because of stupid employer rules then they need to find a new job.

I get that you don’t want your team distracted by mobile phone use during work hours, but saying you can’t have one is idiotic. Fuck those employers.

OTOH kids need to learn that putting the device away to focus is a thing, if they can’t figure it out on their own I’m not against removing the opportunity while they mature.

I don’t know about acres, but large game population (deer, bear, elk, etc…) in the US has increased several hundred percent since 1950.

This is the first thing I thought of too, would be neat to shoot once, super impractical.

it’s not hard to make dishes modular

This is untrue. In many cooking styles using animal based stock as the entire foundation of the dish is completely normal. Subbing veggie stock isn’t always possible given the chef is going for a certain flavor profile. Veggie fond is not the same as animal fond, which also changes the flavor. Animal proteins denature differently, and some proteins are specifically used for their chemical and physical properties (think cream for a sauce, or eggs for a souffle).

While it is usually possible to sub vegan ingredients to approximate most of the effects of non-vegan ingredients, doing so entirely changes the flavor profile, presentation, and shopping list.

Can it be done? Absolutely. Is it as trivial as you make it out to be? Not even close.

I say this as a seasoned chef who has worked in commercial kitchens and cooks 3 meals a day at home from scratch. When I know I have guests coming over for a meal I attempt to accommodate for their dietary requirements (this doesn’t just apply to vegans), but it is rarely as easy as leaving one thing out. It usually means making two (or more) sets of completely separate mains and sides, which doubles the work and significantly increases the time spent.

The 2026 2 MEAL ALL SEASON DINING - PRESTIGE ADD-ON at Six Flags near LA is $99 for a whole year, and includes 2 meals a day, which sounds bonkers.

I think you have to add it to an annual park pass, but that sounds like a great deal assuming you don’t mind eating park food.

As a person of Pacific Islander descent, rice is awesome and goes with everything.

Also if you’re on a budget rice is a cheap way to fill your stomach.

You sound reasonable, and I don’t have all the information, but maybe I can play devil’s advocate.

Suppose your friend is actually a good dad, and is using his time without his kids around to catch up with his friends, listen to what’s topical in your life, and then do something other than talk about his kids?

This is a non-rhetorical good faith question: should kids be the sole focus of their parent’s lives once they have them?

I agree that kids need to be the top priority once people have them, no question there. But aren’t parents allowed to have lives of their own as well?

I don’t have kids and I’m at the age where most of my friends have them. The folks I knew whose only focus was on their kids gradually phased out of the group. Many of those people ended up divorced unfortunately. The parents I see regularly spend most of their time on their kids, but also have hobbies and interests outside of just kid stuff.

People who have their own lives in addition to being good parents seem to be happier and more well rounded. It also makes connecting with them easier for people without kids. I’m up to date on their kids, go to birthdays, and occasionally babysit. We have kid friendly dinners at each other’s homes, go camping with kids, etc… But we also go out once in awhile without them, catch games, play golf.

I feel like that’s healthier.

Exactly, thank you!

These two ideas are not mutually exclusive, do both. I train with my neighbors fairly regularly, at the range (including tactical training), hunting, fishing, navigation (land and ocean), first aid certifications, etc… We also work together to keep an eye on our neighborhood and on behalf of our other neighbors (early COVID times were absolutely wild here). I maintain a several HAM radios and a base station, and worked with some of my neighbors to help obtain their licenses. We all garden, cook, and do home repair and IT.

Unfortunately since we live near a major metro area when SHTF the best mid term plan is to bug out entirely, so we have updated plans for rendezvous and exfil to specific less populated areas. And as far as I know most households have bags ready to go.

I wouldn’t go as far as saying we’re preppers, we certainly don’t imagine ourselves that way. We just acknowledge that disasters happen and our society isn’t equipped to take care of an entire metropolis. We’re not under any illusions of being master survivors.

I feel like this is just common sense, not paranoia. In school we all had it drilled into our heads to keep extra water, preserved food, and bags ready in case of a major earthquake (common enough in our area). I don’t see why our planning isn’t just a natural extension of that kind of preparedness.

Some current whale species still have internal bones which are vestigial legs.

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With the lapels meeting so high on the chest I’m not sure that person is wearing a vest, so I’m guessing a 2-piece

bitwarden became proprietary a while ago

I’m interested in hearing more about this. I recall there being a mixup in packaging and people asked a bunch of questions about licensing. But as far as I can tell the client and server code is still available as open source (under various licenses) and the repos are frequently updated.

This is an honest question, I promise. I haven’t found anything that points to regular users being pushed to anything proprietary, and no new discussions since late 2024.

Having itchy palms because of an allergy might happen commonly in terms of a large population, but it is not common to have this condition. If it happens to you then you should get it looked at instead of biting them. This is the correct and acceptable response. Putting your hands in your mouth and using your teeth because something is wrong with your palms does not need to be normalized.

If people have itchy palms for any reason, I’m not shaming them. I’m pointing out that putting your hands in your mouth is strange.

I don’t know why, but ok?

Itchy palms sounds more like an allergic reaction than a common issue.

People have itchy palms? Itchy enough that they bite them?

That’s fucking weird.

That’s literally never happened to me, it sounds super strange. Are y’all putting stuff on your hands that’s tearing up your skin? Do you moisturize regularly?

I have sensitive skin, but spend a lot of time in a kitchen with wet hands. Unscented soap to wash my hands about a dozen times a day, and unscented moisturizer to keep my skin from cracking. I’ll use a thicker waxy moisturizer during the winter when it’s really dry out.

I use my hands for weightlifting and golf, so I have to manage my callouses, and in the kitchen I’ll pick up various small cuts and burns. My hands don’t look perfect but they’ve never… itched?

That makes sense.

The last time we had a power issue and I was at my desktop I didn’t get any GUI notifications of the outage, so that’s a miss.

However the incessant beeping coming from every APC in the house was enough to tell me that stuff was about to go really sideways 😂 I was able to manually power down my desktop before the systemd stuff kicked in.

I’m not sure what you mean?

I’m certainly not saying systemd is the only way or best way to solve this problem, only that it does in fact work, despite the other many misgivings I have with it.

I’m also not sure whether you’re trying to turn this into a measuring contest, or why? My home setups are relatively rigorous for a residential setting, but they’re all based on the many many years I worked in data centers, mostly in Los Angeles which is notorious for poor power availability and stability.

That sucks!

I’m on Ubuntu, which I admit is not a popular option around here. But when my power goes out I use apcupsd and a network component to alert my attached or networked Ubuntu machines. When the power first goes out all of my non-essential machines automatically shut down gracefully. When the backup batteries get low enough (I have several separate APC units around the house) my essential machines also shut down automatically.

When the power comes back up one of my machines automatically powers up and runs a few checks before turning most of my other stuff back on.

I have very few power issues which last long enough for my batteries to run out, but when I do the only evidence is a few alerts and the fact that I have to log back into everything. All of my windows restore on my GUI machines, and no filesystem issues occur. It’s more seamless than when I ran Windows, granted that was 25 years ago.

I’m similarly not a fan of systemd, but for backup battery and power management it seems to do the trick.

Golf tournament, gala, more golf.

My weekends aren’t normally this fancy. I don’t really want to go to the gala but it’s to support my wife and a really good cause, and they’ll have an open bar, so I got that going for me I guess.

I’m excited for the golf tournament, I normally play in one about once a month but they’ll be my first since January. My game is coming together, so I expect to play relatively well. Sunday’s round will be a money game, so maybe I’ll come home with a little extra cash too.