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You know something is very wrong when operational security includes oil company CEOs but not elected government representatives.

I haven’t read the work yet — what do they break it down into, and what are the solvents and byproducts?

Their work on bond geometries looks promising, but only if all the products involved inthe process are an improvement on microplastics.

For comparison, in CAD, the Superbowl ad spend for 2025 was just over $676M.

When two teams show up to play a game of football and one team insists on picking up the ball and running with it, knocking over any opponent who gets in their way — yeah, it’s going to be dysfunctional. Not the game’s fault though, just that the two sides aren’t using the same rule book.

I met my first kid who couldn’t tell time before these teachers were born.

I finally had my “aha” moment when someone demonstrated how to use an analogue clock to find north. And the neat thing is, if you already know where north is, you can use the clock to find a rough lat/long too (longitude by number of minutes away from the nearest zone border, latitude by calculating the real difference between north and clock north based on time of year). Of course, this only works with a proper swiss watch; the ones that don’t have a smooth action but tick between demarcated points spend most of their time being wrong.

Exactly. I’m wondering how many of those teachers could use a slide rule or even an abacus. We’re far enough along now that I bet the majority of teachers would also be lost when confronted with a log table or a topo map and a compass.

Astrolabe and sextant? They’d be totally lost.

I bet most teachers don’t know how to saddle a horse, card and spin wool and flax by hand, or even use a clutch on a manual transmission vehicle, either.

[edit] Ooh… thought of another one! I bet none of the children know how to use a rotary phone either. (In fact, since POTS has been fully DTMF for over 20 years, I doubt a dial phone would actually function today without a converter).

Believe what you want… if you aren’t bleaching your plastic cutting boards, you’re breeding bacteria. Wood has anti microbial properties that leeps this under control. See the link upstream for one of the best studies on the topic.

I tossed mine and got a new one.

Plastic needs to be bleached for 30 minutes to remove contamination. A dishwasher won’t be enough.

Dishwashers aren’t some magical tool. They just wash so you don’t have to.

Well, that and… I put wood boards through the dishwasher all the time. Not end grain blocks, but regular low profile boards.

Kurds are Turkish people. If you don’t want them to be, let them separate.

RCS is even less secure than SMS though — it’s unencrypted and by design, Google, Apple and the carriers all have to be able to inspect the content. And the way it’s designed makes it really difficult to have an open E2E encryption standard. So as a result, Google<->Google is encrypted, Apple<->Apple is encrypted, but combine even one device not of the same type in a group chat and it has to be unencrypted.