That’s the one thing that makes it credible to me. Seeds from a nearby regulated field could have escaped and mingled with her flower crop.

Doesn’t seem to be what happened though as other reports stated that she was shocked she purchased opium poppy seeds.

Why is it that in many cases, people who really ARE in that situation can’t see it (expert syndrome) while many people who are competent cannot recognize it?

Interestingly, Makita makes a bunch of Festool knockoffs that appear to be the same build quality— I’ve had some for 20 years with no issues.

Before I read the title I thought SpaceX was just really busy.

While true, what you said has no bearing on what I said, which was not about democracy in Hong Kong but about CCP belt and road strategy that began influencing foreign policy around the same time as the handover.

The first bit is sunlight. People need to know these things are happening.

Most of the people doing the voting are only Canadian. The problem is that they have relatives who aren’t in a Democratic country, and they’re being used as leverage.

The stations aren’t new, but surprisingly their discovery is… and they aren’t just in Toronto. They’re in every major Western city, plus most African cities and probably others we’re still unaware of.

He’s not wrong, but it’s not new. It started around the time the UK gave Hong Kong back to China, and has just gained enough strength in the past 5 years to be blatant. Things like the CCP telling Canadians with Chinese relatives how to vote, social police stations in major Canadian cities staffed with Chinese police, property ownership, etc.

That carpet! Vintage 1968! That stuff lasts forever, long after everyone tires of the color!

If it’s humming and gets warm, it’s either clogged with grease or the bearings have seized up.

Give it a good cleaning, spray WD-40 if needed, and if all else fails take it apart and knock out the bearing ring and replace it. Bearings are relatively cheap.

> A tipster pointed us to the tool, which is well-hidden and apparently only available via a link that is embedded 780 words into a fairly obscure page in Facebook's help section for non-users. The linked text gives no indication that it's sending you to a privacy tool, and simply reads: "Click here if you have a question about the rights you may have."

Do those 780 words include “Beware the Leopard?”

Anyway, here’s the link: [edit] munged the URL because automoderator blocked the original and then failed to let me contact the mods: <fb’s url>.com/contacts/removal

Irony here is that I’ve got FB blocked at so many layers in my network that I needed to go over a vpn in incognito mode to get to the removal page.

Now the question becomes: do you trust Meta enough to provide that form with all your contact info that they may or may not already have?

[edit] after a few tests in contacts I knew they had and ones that I didn’t care whether they had… if they have it, you get a verification code and after you enter it they claim to start the process of removing that contact from their DB. If they DON’T have the contact, they return a generic error when you submit it, prior to any processing. This makes me trust the system a bit more than I otherwise would. I’ll check back later to see if they now have the contacts in their system that used to return an error.

Yes?

We do it constantly.

Remember, energy isn’t created or destroyed, just transferred. Gravity is a great way to transfer it, as are other forces.

The biggest thing is: get your wills done by a lawyer before you need them.

The “by a lawyer” bit is important, because depending on how things are worded, stuff might happen quickly and automatically once the executor kicks off the process, or it could get tied up in government paperwork indefinitely, with the government taking a large cut to sort things out.

The will doesn’t have to be complicated, but it should be done by a lawyer, notarized, and officially filed. This means that presentation of a death certificate to the filing office will automate the legal changes of ownership.

Think of the accounts that only you or your spouse has signing authority over. If one of you dies, what happens? Same for joint accounts.

But it all starts with the death certificates. Striking up a relationship with a funeral director or religious director beforehand is also a good idea.

His point is that the energy doesn’t come from gravitational force, but from (in that case) solar energy, as the water was lifted out of the ocean and dumped on mountains via solar thermal energy. Gravity is zero-sum.

However, this still misses the point that ALL energy is zero-sum — energy cannot be created or destroyed, only transformed. Once deposited on a mountain, gravitational force overcomes solar energy so the energy used to spin a turbine is stored as potential energy, to be released as kinetic energy when the snow later melts and flows through the turbine.

Depends; if you’re a frequent flyer, it’s not worth it.

I’ve done a group charter where condensation was dripping on my head for 8 hours, and THAT flight was worth it — I wouldn’t have been able to go at all without the steep discount that we got for that dodgy airplane.

How so? That’s exactly how I explained it to my 5 YOs.

Fruit flies lay eggs in the skins of fruit, including bananas. When the bananas are ripe, that’s the signal for the larvae to eat their fill and molt into flies. Bananas release ethylene gas when they’re ripe, which signals the flies to hatch and eat, as well as signaling other fruit within range to complete the ripening process.

Fruit flies have a very short life cycle, so if you don’t provide anything else for them to lay eggs in, they die off when the original fruit is gone.

The Onion Router was invented by a branch of the US government and is heavily supported by the German government (they run a LOT of exit nodes).

This is because TOR allows their operatives to do things that would otherwise be illegal in foreign countries.

Also, controlling the exit nodes means you might not know who is doing what, but you still get a pretty good idea of what’s happening, just not who is doing it - so it’s a great source of intel.

Difficult to do on a stolen/lost phone.

However, all iPhones are registered against your Apple ID, and so you can look up the IMEI from any Apple device or iCloud.

I’ve got an old compact HP LaserJet — it’s probably the reason modern HP printers are so crippled. It’s my second one, bought in 2006 when they stopped making the toner cartridges from my original from the 90s. I expect this one to last me until they change the cartridge again… then I’ll probably not buy a replacement but just print anything through a local print shop.

If you’ve got a covid test handy, she should take it. That’ll at least eliminate one option.

If the coughing is still happening now, and she’s had some water to drink, you really do want to get her to ER though. Even stress can kill.

For those people, just raise an eyebrow and walk away. Don’t pander to them, validate them, or give them any suggestion that they are in any way reasonable.

Making people feel stupid rarely changes their mind.

“I used to agree but” usually just makes people feel betrayed.

Better to just ask questions: “Thanks for sharing that. Did you read the study where it says…?”

Hey Putin: why are you encouraging global domination by the West by attacking a neighboring country?