This is why we can’t have good things

• https://www.roofingcontractor.com/articles/100892-the-battle-over-cool-roofs-heats-up-following-tennessee-rollbacks

Hah, I do sort of the opposite. My management has drunk the koolaid on ai - now I use it to translate my specs into something obviously ai generated for more acceptance

I’m having this argument with one of my junior guys who wants to just go with the generated code. We finally got his code functional, months late, and now need to get it maintainable

AI is a useful tool that can help speed up some of the tasks of coding but it’s not magical. It’s never a final result

AI could really help me get more done if we could weed out people following it blindly

Finally I get to be a superhero …. By the power of long showers I help make it impractical to introduce enough poisons into our water supply

I suppose there’s staging a “terrorist” attack as an excuse to invade/nuke some other country

My city facilitated that a decade or two ago by building new indoor reservoirs specifically for water treatment. Now we have a small handful of facilities set upon for massive chemical insertion and holding about half a day’s worth.

That being said, you’d still need the cooperation of people at each site, security at each site, truckers and suppliers. But that’s only one city: multiply that by the thousands of cities plus now you’d need huge amounts of chemicals that someone would surely question. That’s a lot of moving parts.

Top floor Studio apartment in a major city in an old building.

• The units didn’t have individual thermostats so we were stuck with what the building set, but heat rises.
• it was sweltering in the winter but when I opened the window, everything got coated in sticky black tar from the oil burning furnace
• it was sweltering in the summer but electrical was inadequate for even the smallest window air conditioner
• maintenance arbitrarily entered my apartment and smoked, leaving cigarette butts in the toilet.
• when my lease was ending, sales would just walk right in with new prospective tenants with no notice and not even knocking, regardless of the law

It’s unfortunate - I like the concept of people talking about bundles of sticks, or slang for cigarettes. But the negative usage so dwarfs those cases that they’re really no longer legitimate

I’ll also take your definition. It sounds good and if there’s not a known origin, it could be true

I always wondered about that but I don’t eat frequently enough to notice when it changed

IF you turn off searching the internet and fetching ads, file search can still be fast. However Microsoft keeps resetting that so I just gave up - winfdows search is not worth ising

That ai search seems like a good feature - I never could find anything on reddit.

I even have some sympathy for them not wanting our freely given content to be freely given to others … no I don’t, and it’s a shame they couldn’t have handled that differently. Too little too late

I’ve been meaning to try this - I’ve found it in stores a couple times now, but it just sits on my shelf. I imagine there’s an expiration and it’s long past

It may have. Certainly one of the many problems with hersheys s how old it can be. It seems to be treated as something that can sit on the shelf forever

Reese’s is one of my favorites too, but objectively it’s horrible, down there with hersheys chocolate. They successfully made it addictive, rather than taste like peanut butter or chocolate. Try something like a Trader Joe’s peanut butter cup and it’s a world of difference.

It won’t keep me from my Reese’s but at least I’m aware of it

Hersheys used to be our only choice. However now that we have better choices, many of us are waking up to chocolate as a good thing (other than the sugar rush). It can be hard to get over the price and quantity difference though.

Maybe a better approach is to find out what seems attractive in that type of life. You may be able to find it still somewhat near what you’re used to. Massachusetts still has plenty of small towns, lower cost areas, and rural areas, as do the rest of New England. But you’ll still be near whatever friends and family, medical care, transportation, be able to go into Boston if you want, progressive politics, etc

Worst case scenario, the Adirondacks have plenty of cheap low priced places to live. It’s remote but not that remote nor that as jarring a change

Or how about the variant:

• submit prescription refill request
• check back
• check back
• check back
• escalate
• “we don’t have your insurance info”
• yes you do but here it is again
• resubmit prescription refill request
• check back
• check back
• check back
• escalate
• “we don’t accept that insurance. Find a new doctor”

New doctor

• “why don’t you take your prescriptions regularly?”

I saw online a cool idea for “pinwheel burgers” and wanted to make them for my kids.

• assembled them after work, had the younger one select and apply the spices
• discovered most of the veggies were dead, and I never bought Cole slaw or cucumbers
• put them on the grill but when I went to flip them discovered I’d run out of propane
• restarted with a new tank but went inside because of the heat and humidity
• came out to flip the burgers and discovered a raging fire, and burgers like hockey pucks.

Luckily I had sufficient backup but after anticipating a new variation of burger and a new variation of Cole slaw, we had dinner two hours late, plain burgers, no veggies

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