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If you’re unfamiliar with the history of the Donner Party it’s a fascinating, if gruesome, read. Of the 83 members of the Donner Party who were trapped in the mountains, 45 survived to reach California. Some became quite successful there.

There were 90 wagons in the train and they were trying a newly conceived route to California that obviously didn’t pan out well.

Imagine taking a wrong turn in the wilderness and finding that you’ve led 90 wagons into hard terrain and deep woods. They were at times literally having to cut trees down to clear a path through dense woods for miles and miles. Horrible, slow going, and hard work.

As an employer I would LOVE to be shed of this system. I have no reason to be involved in the health care of my employees, and given the state of health care in America there is literally no upside for my business. It’s all bad.

Unfortunately our system requires it, though. If I didn’t offer health care and instead just increased the base salary I wouldn’t be competitive. People would think I was trying to pull a fast-one on them, and few people in America know how to get health care on their own. It’s a mess.

Google makes money on ads. They make $300-$400 annually per user by displaying ads.

They are motivated to tarpit you in order to show you more ads.

Giving you your results quickly and efficiently costs them revenue.

Use kagi, or another search engine.

Thalidomide was originally created in Nazi Germany as a sedative for healthy, non-pregnant adults. After the war many of the drugs created during the war were boxed up by German pharmaceutical companies. The story of Thalidomide is simply mind-blowing from start to finish.

Frances Oldham Kelsey at the FDA in the United States almost single-handedly, and while under enormous pressure, kept Thalidomide out if the USA for insufficient safety testing.

One reason that Americans are a bit less familiar with this horrific story.

I disagree. The problem described by OP is one that I have with Ziplok brand primarily.

The Matrix

Me: Man, that’s a pretty nice line of printers you have.

Brother: Thanks!

Me: Hey, you don’t happen to know where I can get a nice sewing machine do you?

Brother: You’re not going to believe this…

Me: Man, that’s a pretty tasty beer.

Coors: Thanks!

Me: Hey, you don’t happen to know where I can get precision ceramics for aerospace and medical applications do you?

Coors: You’re not going to believe this…

Or upgrade to a bidet if you can afford one for as little as $30.

Not really. Since you’re larger, your shit as a percentage of body weight doesn’t go up.

Small people are just as full of shit as large people.

Pancreatitis. Intravenous dilaudid for that.

Fitting username.

I use LLMs for C code - most often when I know full well how to code something but I don’t want to spent half a day expressing it and debugging it.

ChatGPT or Copilot will spit out a function or snippet that’s usually pretty close to what I want. I patch it up and move on to the tougher problems LLMs can’t do.

Blaine is a pain and that’s the truth.

I know the tricks, I’ve been peeling garlic for decades. There’s just something really satisfying about thin, visible slices of garlic in some recipes though.

Garlic is a pain to peel but the more you peel the more worth it it becomes. No pain, no gain.

If a recipe calls for one clove and you peel just one clove then you will hardly taste it. If a recipe calls for one clove and you peel and mince four, then now you can taste it and now it was worth it.

Lilly Allen - The Fear

We call them MAGA now.

Oil has a bad reputation but how lucky we are to have it. How does a civilization on a planet without hydrocarbons make the leap to a technological species?

It’s not impossible, but it’s got to be a lot harder.