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I've been against the grain here since my second presidential election as voting age

If the ultimate goal is saving lives, how much of your daily life are you willing to sacrifice for public health? Willing to forego car ownership? End two day shipping speeds for non essential purchases?

Getting ready to leave my blue state home. Born and raised in California, but the autoritarian writing is on the wall, and I'm making my preparations.

You start climbing ladders at the bottom rung. Do you have 40 to 60 year data? Or are you just avoiding the 5-10 year scale by redirecting?

Technically, you can use any language, including Python. Python cares about the number of whitespace characters, not the sizing of them. Any other languages will have the same issue of your columns / pretty formatting not lining up exactly, but won't cause any issues.

If I had to pick one to use with a proportional font, I guess it would be Perl. The aesthetics would at least fit it well.

A free, simple one I like: https://www.marksimonson.com/fonts/view/anonymous-pro (also available from Google and Adobe).

I have long hesitated to pay for fonts for personal, non commercial use. However a well designed font really can make a difference in the usability of a computer. I'm checking these out, I'm at the point where I would be willing to spend some serious cash for a font. Although to me, "serious cash" for a personal use item would be around $25, some of these cost upwards of $100.

Part of my hesitation is a lack of understanding how to analyze fonts and my preference. I've done some reading on typography and design, but any time I install a new font, the depth of my emotion goes as far as "this is nice" or "I liked the previous font more, I guess".

They named it "Society 5.0" but they don't address the issues of their society that will actually cause problems keeping up. Their technological prowess is already well established, and does not need much boost. However, Japan's got a few social issues that will hold it back - particularly the work hours requirements, and related to that, it's low birth rates.

The reports of it are correlated to the rarity, except in instances where reports are not generated, such as apps that do not collect error telemetry.

It's not that your argument was incorrect. It's that it is tangential to the parent comment. hnarn was not making the point of something being rare, they were demonstrating that a developer can estimate the rarity based on the conditions that trigger it. The rarity itself is no matter.

Arguing over small semantic or circumstantial differences is often considered impolite

>for the sake of argument

That’s exactly my point. Prioritize changing their price.

I don’t necessarily disagree, but prioritize water bottlers like Arrowhead above agriculture. I’d also like to see more money put into ocean desalination (solar powered, to cover another great natural resource we have).

How terrible that local laws, written and enacted by the voting population they preside over, take precedent over international laws written and enacted by legislators several times more distantly removed from the population.

Hopefully the UN gets enough funding to occupy the roles of state and municipal police soon. Then we can free the common man from the tyranny of local government.

I love these things. The scent and feel of wood burning to keep you warm is ingrained through nearly a million years of human history and evolution. It's more a part of the human experience than the concept of living in a group of more than a dozen people. It goes as far back in our shared experience as clothing. It predates writing by a longshot, and touches possibly the moments of language as a whole. Monogamy, marriage, every concept we have of interpersonal and romantic relationships is more modern and constructed than this simple chemical reaction that changed our species from simple hominids to Civilization Builders. A nice wood fire scratches the primal itch all humans (that I know) occasionally feel better than most things.

Do we really need to shed such a cornerstone of humanity in order to remain being human on this rock?

Political points. The push to electric (moreso than simple "renewable") is one of the party that slate.com writes for

I'm going off the argument chain that grilling produces CO and CO2, which are greenhouse gasses, which melt sea ice, which raise sea levels.

And FWIW I usually use charcoal/wood.

Unless you have a modicum of electrical knowledge, a willingness to break some small safety regulations/laws, or lacking the former, a thirst for danger

I was under an incorrect impression that gas stoves were more common in more wealthy homes. Every crap place I rented had an electric stove. Every nice place I've lived came with a gas range. I was incorrectly extrapolating from there that poor people cook less (I still think this is true - see food deserts, fast food induced health issues, and the like).

Basically a chain of incorrect assumptions, and ones I didn't even properly express

Misunderstood, deleting, I am wrong, feel free to downvote

Give me a link I can read. Especially if it actually refutes anything. GP suggested it didn't.

To be fair, I'm addressing a tech nerd website. I think the bar here tends to be more wasteful than you or I. My last job, there were multiple people with their cubicle walls covered to the top in funko pops, latest and greatest gaming was common cafeteria talk, and new engineers always had a fresh off the line car

Neither am I. I'm in the same approximate income. My car and motorcycle are both 2002s. My computers I upgraded this year and last year, but previously were 2011 and 2013. Phone is an iPhone 7 with broken screen and camera. I put an effort into conserving. But you're not who I was making a point to, and coming in, with no other posts in this discussion, and pointing out that you conserve everything I tried to allegorically illustrate as common wastes comes across as... weird? rude? I don't know how to describe it, maybe just tone deaf?

These are totally different distribution systems, and I've heard of several anecdotes of people using gas while the elecetricity was out during that storm. I'm not going to bother bypassing bloomberg's paywall to verify you're just speculating, sorry.

> but homeowner associations that hate solar power do seem restricted to the states that didn't vote for the guy who won the last election in my experience.

I find this unnecessarily political, but I also find the more "conservative" minded people to be more supportive of independence, including solar. Not sure how many HOAs are in your experience, maybe it is a lot more than mine.

If honest, congrats on being a rare breed. Not sure what this is supposed to contribute.

People aren't gas plants. These are different distribution mechanisms

>but it is something that has to be done if we are going to avoid catastrophe

What sources of pollution are we allowed to keep? What is your criteria for an acceptable amount of human impact on the environment? If you also have information for acceptable levels of cobalt, nickel, and copper mining, and landfill usage (per capita per year, in cubic meters, I guess), that would be useful. Because every time I see any climate change story, I'm told that I absolutely have to give something up to save humanity, and I'm beginning to feel like no level of existence will be acceptable.

I'm very eco conscious in my day to day life, more than most of the people in my social group. But I also realize we can't just eliminate every trace of our lives.

How old is your phone? Your computer? Your car? Have you updated them in the last 5 years? Do you play video games? On anything newer than a PS3/Xbox One? Or are you a true environmentalist still gaming on a SNES? Watch films? Ever take a drive to clear your mind? Ever drive somewhere you could have theoretically walked, or taken public transit? Do you buy all your books pre-owned? Ever purchase the "collectors edition" of something with some included trinkets/posters/box set?

Who are you to say that my mild inconveniences are more mild than yours?

I guarantee the habits of the habitants are greater. But no politician wants to run around chastising their voter base, so that's not an option.

And many who aren't. Woks are incredibly useful for frying anything mixed.