It’s in the article?

As someone else pointed out though, it has since changed hands and is now owned by an Australian group.

I do find it telling that the only operating lithium mine in Canada is essentially owned and operated by a subsidiary of the Chinese government.

Trains can be automated because they mostly operate in one dimensional space with minimal interruptions.

Automobiles operate in two dimensional space with lots of interruptions, but the fail state is to stop at the end of a two dimensional trajectory. We still haven’t fully sorted this one, so cars are limited to automation in conditions that are reasonably well defined.

Airplanes operate in three dimensional space with no marked paths and all sorts of unforeseen choices, from shifting winds and weather to fixed obstructions to wildlife and other airborne objects.

And yet despite that, much of what a modern passenger jet does is automated — autopilot navigates while at cruising altitude, and ATC manages landings.

But then there’s takeoffs and the many many things that can happen in an unexpected way in three dimensional space.

Step one: get a saline spray (just salt water) and spray it down your nose until you feel it running down your throat; do this after each meal.

Next, get some lip balm and put it on the raw parts of your nose.

Third, take a tissue and twist it into a snake. Jam each end in a nostril. Replace as needed.

It’s also a service provided by Apple and Google:

Apple has an iCloud subscription remailer service and Google lets you append +<anything > to an address.

So with gmail if your email address is bobross67@gmail.com, you can enter bobross67+cookiethief.com@gmail.com when registering on cookiethief.com and it will still go to your inbox.

Gmail also lets you use periods anywhere so bob.ross.67@gmail.com also works.

I’ve been using Spam Gourmet for this purpose for around 20 years.

Don’t get one with the freezer inside the fridge. Freezer below is best.

Properly tuned and stocked fridges.

Fridges work by pumping a lot of heat out of an air stream that then goes into the freezing compartment. From there, it pumps air into the fridge as needed through a vent on the side or back.

There’s also a thermostat in the fridge, usually as far away from the air inflow as possible. It determines how much cold air goes into the fridge before the fan turns off, and how warm the fridge compartment can get before it turns on again.

If you block the air inflow, whatever you block it with is essentially in the freezer, and since all the energy is going into keeping it frozen, the fan stays on a long time before the thermostat gets cold enough to turn it off.

Likewise, if you block the thermostat with something warm, the entire fridge will freeze before the fan turns off.

Conversely, if you put something in the fridge to defrost and place it against the thermostat, that fan will stay off and the fridge will warm up and stuff may spoil. If you put something to defrost against the inflow, it’ll stay frozen for a long LONG time.

The more full the freezer is, the more it will keep itself cool, and the colder the air will be flowing into the fridge inflow vent.

This is why sometimes you need to adjust the climate control dials in the fridge from the default settings.

Point taken. I was trying to keep it as broad as possible, since there are more solutions than just freezing and re-animating humans that could be used.

Cryogenics and wormholes are the two best future options, but neither is understood well enough at this point to be presently feasible.

Just remember that in that line of work they’re going to take a thrashing.

I eventually kept my good workboots at home and kept buying Trek steel toe every few months. Unfortunately those don’t exist anymore.

Well, for one thing, UNHCR has seemed to be much better at sending me junk mail than in actually getting housing and support to refugee claimants or helping them through the claim process.

If she uses her existing fame and wealth to directly influence the process and provide support for a limited number of claimants, that will be an improvement on the current situation.

It must be frustrating for UNHCR employees too, because I’m sure they’re doing everything they can to make the system work… it just isn’t.

SARS-COV-19 is no longer a threat to the government— for the most part hospitals can now handle the constant stream of COVID cases (although in combination with the record flu and RSV numbers, the combination may cause issues over December).

This says nothing about risk to an individual.

As for the variants, keeping boosted means your immune system is keeping on the alert for COVID type infections. The latest strain may have mutated past where the bivalent booster will recognize it, but your immune system is still on high alert AND you’re still mostly protected against the older strains, which still exist.

But over December, you’re probably best served by wearing a mask in public (to protect others), keep a reasonable distance from others, wash your hands regularly, and stop touching your face.

Once you’ve finished your first year of university, you’ll know who John Cage was.

Are you the best musician? Do you always bring your best talent and passion when you perform? Do you perform with musicians who aren’t as talented as you? More talented?

Is it art when an elementary school band performs Hot Cross Buns?

How about back to John Cage? Was he an artist knowing when NOT to play?

That totally misses the point.

Is art what YOU have passion about?

Or is it also what I, as a purveyor of art, have passion about?

And would you say that ballet is art? Because you’re never going to master that art form without both passion AND daily lessons.

Tell me… how do you explain ML generated art winning art awards recently?

Art is part expression and part context. What you consider art, everyone else might consider junk.

But you may consider something pedestrian expression and others see it as high art.

Are John Cage’s compositions art? How about Venus de Milo? The Nutcracker? The pyramids? The way I arrange my shoes?

So… what exactly does this mean for popular sentiment?

> The deteriorating relations between Ottawa and Beijing went into hyperdrive with the 2018 arrest of Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou as she transited through Vancouver.

Er, she was in residence at the house she owns. That’s not really transiting.

I moved from checking to credit specifically because I didn’t want someone gaining direct access to my checking account. It doesn’t have anywhere near the checks and balances or alerts that my credit card does. And if the credit company detects an anomaly, they ship me a new card number the next day. Easier than migrating everything over to a new checking account number, and more secure.

The reason you don’t see the checking account number compromised is that people don’t give it out.

A living organism is made up of cells that can replicate based on their DNA/RNA, which is the instructions used to perform the replication using the tools built into the cell structure.

Viruses are rogue instructions that repurpose an existing cell type to build something different.

I think with any of the brands it really depends on the model and year. My Bosch was a workhorse that got out almost anything, didn’t leave soap residue, and did minimal thread damage. It even had a delicates mode where you stick a rack in the bottom and it would gently wash clothes on a hand wash setting.

But I’ve heard of plenty of other Bosch (and Whirlpool etc) models/builds that are totally useless.

My current whirlpool had to have its drum screw replaced after a year because it sheared off near the head. And the machine leaves way more soap residue than my Bosch did.

I sold my awesome Bosch frontloader on Craigslist. Would have loved to keep it but was moving to a house that already had a stacked Whirlpool set. Still wish I could have kept my Bosch. The people who bought it got a great deal… only tricky part was transport.

Depends on the grade(s) she teaches.

Primary? A rocking chair for the room if she doesn’t have one.

Intermediate? A microscope or a really good world atlas she won’t have to share with the library (atlas isn’t bfl, but it’s good for 6 years or so).

Secondary? Stanley travel thermos or something specific to the courses taught.

You have to know who owns the lines, which isn’t necessarily the company who owns the engines.

Easier to call 911 and let dispatch sort it out.