Must be nice. My first reaction is what forever chemicals made it resistant to staining from strawberry or grape

Everyone knows Republicans are better for business. Just ask Donald Trump, he’ll tell you

I know a surprising number of immigrants of various flavors, who are proud of overcoming all the obstacles to build a better, successful life for themselves and their families. They object to other immigrants “getting special favors”, “not following the rules”, “getting it easy”. Some of it is justified pride in their accomplishments but I can’t help but believe they are misinformed about attempted reforms, just like many other conservatives

At least it wasn’t a roadster

I don’t understand articles like this. I’ve never been in a place where it’s taken more than say 20 minutes to vote. The longest line was still within the air conditioned school that was my polling place. The only difficulty is spending that time staring at and smelling the bake sale to raise additional funds for the school

workers called it amazing to see so many people exercising their right to vote

That’s great, but why aren’t they offended that their government made this such a hardship? Why isn’t the FEC forcing remediation including more investment if necessary? Why isn’t whoever made choices resulting in this line fired?

How is that a four hour line is not clear evidence of interfering with an election, and get immediately addressed?

I don’t understand articles like this. I’ve never been in a place where it’s taken more than say 20 minutes to vote. The longest line was still within the air conditioned school that was my polling place. The only difficulty is spending that time staring at and smelling the bake sale to raise additional funds for the school

How is that a four hour line is not clear evidence of interfering with an election, and get immediately addressed, potentially including firing, fines, criminal charges?

If those are valid substitutes for prison and they do exist, then why does prison still get the bulk of the offenders? I’m all for your idea but reality seems to be proving those solutions do not apply to most cases of criminal justice

If you look at any projection online, you’ll see a huge difference in expected results for each of the major candidates. Neither is enough, but the choice matters. A lot

Edit: or if you read the article like I just did, the second line is you’re

voting to determine whether we’ll be in the top row or the bottom row.

Yeah the chart is out of date so it will be worse, but are you really going to claim the top row of the chart is identical to the bottom row?

Even if it is is no longer economically practical according to their definition, I have no empathy. Usually iits because of defeating one of the steps that would get you there.

Given the example in the article, I don’t know how practical the goal is to achieve since I don’t live in NY but I know that abandoning NYC congestion pricing means making less progress, the goal will be more difficult to achieve. Congrats you’ve created your own problem

Some states have banned those, but some have not

Maybe but those $10 bags are so expensive that you’ll never be able to use them enough to be worth it. At least with a 10¢ plastic bag I’m invented to reuse it plus only a few uses is already better for the environment (they are a lot thicker than the older disposable plastic bags but I don’t know how to quantify that)

Yeah, I do that because it was difficult to get into the habit of bringing bags with me. Now I probably have over 109 10¢ plastic bags

But I do reuse them. I’m getting good at remembering to bring them and haven’t had to buy more in months. However sometimes it seems like I’m the only one. I’ve had cashiers be confused about them so it probably really is rare.

My biggest concern is portability - I can fold up these plastic bags and carry a few in pretty much any pocket, but how would I carry cloth bags? Do I need to invest in cargo pants just so I can use reusable grocery bags?

This is also what you would invest in if you don’t want any appearance of conflict of interest with your political aspirations. Y’all gotta let this one go

When my kid was little, he had some food allergies (thankfully he grew out of them). The last time I went to subway they refused to share allergy info AS MANDATED BY LAW. That was the last time I went

Everything is in git, and I tend to use IntelliJ as an IDE. So my projects are all in ~/Ideaprojects/[PROJECTNAME]

Bacon-like

You almost make me wish we had more up here …… nah

I thought I read about this for real a while back? In a bid to make plastic decay faster, make it out of cellulose with embedded bacteria that can break it down. It still happens too slowly for most plastic osckahing

I believe Shiva is the guy who spent years insisting he invented email as a high schooler and that pretty much the entire online world owes him patent fees. I’m one of many old enough to have used email before this patent troll “invented” it

But is it effective , or work?

I understand heat pumps are really good now and do function at colder temperatures than we usually see, which is fantastic. However they get much less efficient as the temperature difference get bigger, meaning you’d have to size the appliance much bigger.

When I looked into this, in New England, HVAC companies were consistently telling me they’d work but not that effectively, and insist led on a new gas furnace as backup heat, as the cheaper option over sizing the heat pump enough to effectively keep the house comfortable