My dreams have no technology.

Lately too many have been about peeing, and I wake in a panic. I feel like I’m playing chicken with myself.

When I was 12, most of the dreams I remember were about fire, spiders, or super-embarrassing myself at school. I do NOT miss them

It’s there and configured. Ready to go. You can do it

I also have excellent results with Siri. While I have it require a click before listening, I’m always wearing my watch so it’s still pretty convenient.

But I have to admit the always listening part is kind of nice. It started off innocently enough : hey my thermostat can do Alexa. Then we discovered the intercom feature and ended up with one in every room

That’s a great idea! But I’ve generally headed the opposite direction: malt vinegar for fries or fried fish, spicy mustard for beef, garlic 🧄 Parmesan or wing sauce for chicken. I tried some HP sauce from England (not bad but similar to A1), curry ketchup from Germany (love the taste but too thin to stick to fries), etc. instead of mayo, either miracle whip or kewpie mayo. Lots of different bbq sauces worldwide: currently working in a variety pack from japan

I always liked mustard but I’ve really grown to dislike ketchup. I just taste sugar now, and I’m not interested in pouring sugar on my burgers or fries

What standards? If you can’t get over the concept and f an ideal president, you’re going to be very disappointed the rest of your life. You should absolutely advocate your preferences and cast your best vote. However the reality is that all too often you need to vote against the worst candidate or compromise on the least bad.

Biden may not have been my ideal candidate either but it was an easy choice to vote for him over the other guy and I do believe he did better than most here give home credit for

Here. He ran as a centrist, acted as a centrist, and pursued the most progressive policies of any president in my life, except maybe Carter

Maybe that’s the problem. I moved from suburbs to a more urban area and ranch is now so vile and overdone 🤪

I want both.

Our investment in space development by Space X is much lower than other ways of developing the same capabilities and has proven to have a great return on investment. I also like the results of our investment in Blue Origin, and it’s really only the Boeing contract that has been way too much money and a huge waste.

If our investment into Ukraine’s future were as successful, we’d already be helping new nations of the former Russia write their Constitutions

But I do appreciate the attempt. They ran a test, not expecting a complete success, and they found something they can improve. Maybe they overdo it but it is so refreshing to have the development process so open and especially inspirational that a failed test doesn’t risk failing the first program.

Look at Blue Origin. Also some amazing technology and I hope for their success as well. But they’ve been working on it so many years with nothing visible that it’s hard to think of them as in contention. Even worse that their test failed. I hope it’s just a failed test that they learn from but since they follow a more traditional development model, it’s much more worrying. Only a handful of test failures are likely to doom the program.

Or look at SLS. It’s already dead but just doesn’t know it yet. A failed test is a failed program, even if it wasn’t so expensive and unsustainable

Yeah, I’ll second that. In general I strongly prefer uncooked vegetable to cooked (except of course obvious ones like potatoes), but I’ll eat roasted. I’ve even chosen to roast vegetables myself

…. And blurt it out overly loudly

That will an important metric to determine. I know the doc said raspberry pi or similar are too slow but what local control is sufficient. Even among Pi’s there’s a large range of capability- I wonder how a Pi5 does or if it’s demanding of memory or something

Certainly that’s what she felt like, but parts of the Midwest are strikingly flat with disturbingly regular road layouts, especially to someone who hasn’t been there before. My brother jokes that the biggest hill near him is the landfill and there’s too much truth to that

It’s very different from the hilly area she was used to, where the joke is more like “the roads were not planned but just evolved from wildlife paths following natural features“

The hard part might be communication. It’s easy to consider a device that can play chess as getting smaller and easier to hide, even a camera getting too small to notice.

But how does the device tell you what to do. The heads-up display is obvious but you can probably take action against that. Or maybe a voice but EarPods are noticeable if you’re looking for them, and maybe hearing aids not allowed. But what’s even less conspicuous? This thread has people joking about vibrating anal plugs but you can imagine lots of possibilities for extremely discrete devices if you can figure out a way to communicate sufficiently. My example was going to be a ring

I’m pretty sure most of my vegetable phobia is being forced to eat them anyway as a kid. I love trying new foods, including vegetables, and new ways of preparing things from anywhere in the world, but vegetables, the way they’re always prepared here are just gross.

I don’t know if tomatoes are a good example but I have an immediate reaction to want to spit them out if I accidentally get some. Yet I love a good salsa, pico, marinara, etc

Broccoli is something i don’t even like touching

Spinach. Maybe it’s availability but growing up we only got it canned and my mom cooked the hell out of it. I hated the black slimy bitter salty …. Just not even a food . But now that I’m an adult and fresh spinach is available year round, I love a nice spinach salad and even slightly wilted spinach in a pasta

I’ve grown to hate ranch, as it expands to everywhere and there are too many cheap “ranch” flavorings that just taste like chemicals

And what have the people of West Virginia chosen during our lifetimes? Where is that solidarity now? Where is the concern for workers rights? Where is the concern about the mountains (or lack thereof) of toxic mining debris? Where is their concern for their really amazing environment? Where is their concern about education and for their own towns, their children, their public health, their future?

Maybe you can dismiss me as an elitist snob thinking I know better than they do, but I’ve voted for better for them every time, and they consistently voted against their own best interests. I’d be more than happy for my tax dollars to invest in a better West Virginia . They just need to accept it and put it to work for more than just enriching the coal barons that have made that place a hellhole. And of course I don’t know what they need but I know it starts with an investment into their future that they need to be willing to accept and _use to better their circumstances _