The sunnier eye pupil being more constricted gives a rakish aspect.

The white dapples on his back are very close in pattern to the lighter colored spots on the branch he is perching on. Impressive camouflage!

I wasn’t intending my comment as a correction - microbe is a more general term than bacteria, and most fungi are indeed microbes - but just saw an opportunity to add on what I think is a cool fact. Thanks for bringing up the carboniferous period!

That it took 400 million years for one fungus to evolve wood eating is wild to me. And no other microbe has ever evolved that ability: my understanding is all wood decay fungal species today evolved from one shared ancester.

NotAWheelchair (owned by YouTuber Jerryrig Everything) sells custom models for 1,200 to $2,000. Not sure if the customization they offer is everything you meant, but they seem to be offering some competition to the market.

I work in manufacturing, lots of physical tasks. The work instructions for the physical tasks get out of date with control system and physical machine changes just as much as the non-tangible type work documents.

I have found work instructions that (succintly, no essays) explain when something is a safety protection, or affects quality, are more effective. Most workers want to make a good product, and are genuinely trying to be helpful by making a change, but might not have visibility to the full impact. Explanations can also help reduce change fear: often managers won’t approve change because they don’t know why a rule exists, but are afraid it’s important. Having the explanation right there with the rule can help reasonable arguments prevail over fear.

Aw, thanks. I hope you gain a document savvy coworker!

It’s an unfortunately rare skill set to change documents. If the way it’s being done is better than the document, there is a process to make the document match, but that idea seems to not even occur to most of my coworkers, across multiple industries in my couple of decades working.

I have filled out so many change review forms justification field “updating document to match existing practice. No process change.” Boss always signs.

Equating advocacy for planning for projected near- and middle-term population changes with advocacy for “infinite” growth is exactly the lack of nuance that frustrates me.

The space here is limited… The immigrants are directly competing with me for the in-city apartments.

More desirable locations will be too expensive for many, or most, people to afford. As local economies change, and different locations become desirable, people will be priced out and forced to move. Good city planning decisions can slow this down to allow people to adapt, but trying to freeze things in place is futile.

It’s not really possible to set up city planning regulations so the population stays exactly the same. If a city were successful in making itself an undesirable place to live so that no one new would move there, it would probably start losing its population, which (like growth) forces its own hard planning decisions.

It’s a lack of nuance. Higher rates of population growth can be good, if pressure points like housing are planned for with zoning and permitting systems that promote densification in popular locations. The badness is neither the additional people nor the housing regulations individually, but instead is that they don’t match.

Also, there’s a lot of racism in the mix. The people with legitimate concerns about growth planning (or the lack thereof) end up mixed in with the people who are horrified at the idea of their racial group becoming a minority of the country’s population.

This really veers out of the espionage lane and towards the act of war lane. Acknowledged as a war action when done successfully against Ukraine. Possibly “only” a message if the failure in Poland was deliberate on the hacker’s part, but still awful.

In any system, some people with very expensive treatment options, especially if the treatment would extend life only a few months and/or with poor quality of life, are going to be denied that treatment. As a society, it doesn’t make sense to spend twelve million dollars to keep one bedridden patient still bedridden for another six months, when that money could instead be used to improve quality of life for many people for many years.

I believe the meme is about denying highly cost effective care like insulin or basic doctor visits, which is cruel without any redeeming aspects. Just wanting the conversation to include that, while the US has drawn the line in a ridiculous place, there does need to be a line drawn sonewhere.

China’s ten-year presidential terms worked well for their people for a long time. That Xi has gone the dictator for life route is IMO a significant threat to their future direction.

Many countries also seem to be on a fine interim path to building up a combination capitalist/socialist economy and bringing up their median and minimum living standards. China is big and influential, but doesn’t have a lock on that.

the unsupported, internal format - that allows for pretty much everything - is in some way exploitable

It prevents AI summaries of the video from including all the video content. Obvious solution: remove the information missing from the summary from the video itself. Now they match! /s

Or AI

It didn’t last. Surely there’s something in the middle that can both lift up the potential floor for standard of living through social safety net and also be sustained long term.

I don’t think the target audience here is people struggling with groceries.

There are a surprising number of households where both people pull in six figures in low or moderate cost of living areas, and they live paycheck to paycheck because they way overspend. It’s not groceries or the heating bill, it’s the extravagant vacations, the horseback riding lessons, the huge wardrobes for growing kids that need everything replaced in six months. These are all nice things, but if you can’t afford them, it’s OK to do without.

I think things like Nebula for video, Spotify for audio, and Kobo or Amazon ebook subscriptions do this. Users pay the central management a subscription to access the library, and then creators are paid from that pool of money based on views. In some of these systems, there aren’t any ads.

I subscribe to a few news sources, but I occasionally read an article from many others. I might pay for a similarly structured news library, that handled tracking my reading and distributed payment proportionately to every source I interacted with. I’m not sure such a thing exists, but hope someone can create it and make it work.

I don’t believe this alone would solve our societal misinformation problem. Engagement-driving dark patterns work on deep levels of our brain hard wiring, and just having a healthier alternative available won’t stop people addicted to current unhealthy “news” sources. That’s a much harder problem and I have no idea where to even start.

It’s like leaking below on to the 1st floor… like if you take too long in the shower or the water splashes in a certain way, it starts leaking… no clue how that works…

The silicone caulk that seals the gap between the top of the tub and the wall may have cracked. It’s a tedious task to scrape out old caulk (fresh doesn’t stick to dried silicone, so for repair all the old has to be removed), but ultimately not a difficult one. Applying new silicone is basically squeezing a tube around the tub edge, but requires some attention to detail - can’t leave any gaps - and for inexperienced people is pretty messy, getting silicone all over fingers smoothing and pushing into gaps while it’s still wet, and it never comes out of clothes so wear stuff you don’t care about when sealing.