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I make homemade raspberry jam. It’s Certo’s freezer jam recipe, and it’s so easy: mash the fruit, add the sugar, stir. Add fresh lemon to the pectin, add to the fruit, stir. Leave on counter for 24 hours, put in containers and put in either fridge or freezer.

Honestly, that’s it, and it seems everyone loves raspberry jam. Or if other fruit is more within your budget, Certo has several other freezer jam recipes.

all in the name of replacing human workers for maximum profits.

The whole point of AI is to let the wealthy access the benefits of talent, without letting the talented access the benefits of wealth.

I’m also going to recommend Unified Remote Full, which lets you control your computer from your phone. Like if you’re downstairs and want to quick-check something on your PC upstairs, you can just open it up and poke around for what you need.

My only complaints are that it doesn’t handle pop-up windows well, and sometimes when I use it in conjunction with Local Send, I can’t complete the transfer. Edit - oh, and switching between left and right mouse buttons is a pain.

Some of the Epstein files released. Bondi already said earlier today that they wouldn’t make the deadline for all the files.

Could you tell me what you like about Vivaldi over Firefox? Or what advantages it has? Genuinely curious.

I figured my first degree had to be something that could make me a living, so I looked where the decent-paying jobs were / were going to be at the time (and where the field wasn’t saturated). I also wanted to maximize the amount of learning I was getting from college, so of the decent-paying / non-saturated majors they had, I deliberately chose a major I knew absolutely nothing about. At the time, that was programming.

It gave me a degree to aim for and I figured if I hated it and changed my mind, it didn’t really matter, since the first couple years you’re mostly taking basic courses; if you change your major in the first couple years, you don’t end up too far behind. And if you change it a bit later on, you can still declare your previous major as a minor, or do a double major.

Turns out, I really liked it, was good at it, learned an awful lot, and got my major in it.

Make the data centers build their own power plants. Then they get all the risk and all the reward.

Make them put the power plant right next to the data center, that way they’re not stressing out the rest of the grid. And that way the exact same community that gets the benefits of hosting the data center also gets the environmental costs of the power plant.

What level magnification are you getting, and is there much distortion when using it to read (or to examine objects)? The only thing I know about Fresnel lenses are lighthouses!

I beg to differ: spez has ruined reddit for everyone.

The story notes that the pool was near in size to the car. That would mean that, regardless of water pressure, you wouldn’t be able to open the doors. My next try would be the windows but it’s possible that it was such a tight fit that they wouldn’t be able to get out the windows either.

My next option would be to pull down the back seat, exit into the trunk, and use the interior trunk release to exit the trunk. However, that also may not have worked, depending on whether the car’s weight was on the trunk (preventing you from exiting the trunk), or whether there was enough room along the back or sides of the trunk (preventing you from making your way to the surface).

My final option would be to try to kick out the windshield and exit there. I’m sure many people would try it earlier; my assumptions are that the weight of the engine would be holding the front of the car closer to the bottom of the pool; that momentum carried the front of the car close to/into the edge of the pool, limiting space to exit that way; that front airbags may make the exit awkward; and that a possibly shattered windshield and crumpled front of the car make exiting through the windshield a more dangerous route.

Other than those options, I’m not sure what you could do.

In my defense, I actually did have to get my prescription medications, but I didn’t buy anything else.

If anyone has an article with more technical details on what the solar radiation did, and how they’re going to patch it, I’d like to read about it :)

Not a direct answer to your question, but: the sun (like the earth) has areas that are more “geologically” active; those areas tend to throw out solar flares. As the sun rotates, the area that throws out these solar flares slowly faces toward the earth (solar maximum) then slowly rotates to face away from the earth (solar minimum). The solar cycle is roughly eleven years long.

Currently, we’re just slightly past solar maximum. For the past year or so, the “more active” part of the sun has been roughly facing earth and intermittently spitting out solar flares. When these flares hit the earth’s atmosphere, they cause auroras (which is why we’ve had so many auroras these past couple years) and can interfere with electronic and electrical equipment (see: the Carrington event).

I have no details on what l the exact damage that was caused by the interference the plane suffered, nor any knowledge of how they plan to address the issue. But whatever they come up with is going to take some time to develop - and we’re moving away from solar maximum so being hit with a massive flare is increasingly less likely - at least for another decade. My suspicion is that they’ll come up with a “solution” that actually may not work very well, but it works well enough to give the impression that they’re doing something - and it’ll look like it’s working to some extent, simply because the active side of the sun is rotating away from us.

she was led around the Tuileries gardens answering questions for a long time, with the entire interview process lasting several hours.

Even if you hadn’t been drugged with a diuretic, this would be hard.

The CGT culture trade union said: “[…] there is a systemic problem, which enabled a senior civil servant to act like this for a decade.” The union said other staff had previously made allegations against him, accusing him of taking pictures of women’s legs in meetings.

It always starts small, as they see what they can get away with. They knew there was some kind of problem with him, yet they let him continue for over a decade.

women in the job interview drugging investigation said their case was taking too many years to come to trial, only increasing their trauma. “Six years later, we’re still waiting for a trial […] For us, it feels like we’re being victimised a second time.”

And now it’s been another six years for these women, waiting for any kind of justice. If I’d spent sixteen years waiting, I’d be angry too.

I remember during his first term, when he was tweeting outrageous random shit in the middle of the night, and every morning I woke up with a feeling of existential dread over whatever shit he would’ve come up with overnight.

You might consider splitting it into two separate containers, one with first aid components (bandaids, etc) and the second with medications (Tylenol, etc).

I’d consider: a tiny packet of crazy glue. Ultra-thin 2-inch blade . A small pair of tweezers. A couple restaurant packets of sugar, for diabetics.

This actually feeds into another thought I’ve had, which is covid. We manage our lives, and have time to spare for ourselves and others, because others have had time to spare for us. My job kept me late but my neighbor who works at the grocery store can grab me some baby formula since the sale ends today; her kid is sick but I have a WFH day so I can keep an eye on him while she goes to work. I have an endoscopy but my retired aunt can drive me to and from the medical plaza; she needs someone to check out her roof so I make time on a Saturday afternoon. We all have these little pieces of (what I’ll call) “grace” in our lives, things that make people’s lives easier. But the grace comes from pieces of other people’s lives.

Then covid hits. Something like 1,300,000 Americans die from covid. Yes, a number of them were elderly, but way more were still productive in small ways, providing bits of their time to make other people’s lives easier - the neighbor who picked your kid and hers from the same school, the guy down the block who shoveled your walkway when it snowed, your mom who came and took care of the house when you broke your leg, all helping each other.

Another 13,000,000 Americans, many of them in their very productive years, have long covid. Their focus is now just in getting through their daily lives. Not only do they no longer have bits and pieces of time they can spare to help other people, they require more bits and pieces of time from the people around them.

In my original scenario, if I have long covid, my elderly aunt still drives me to my appointment, but she has to either find a willing helper from a much smaller pool, or pay for repairs herself on a increasingly small fixed income. I don’t have the energy to watch my neighbor’s sick child (or risk getting sick again myself); she needs to work overtime to make up the pay and can’t get to my baby formula. My neighbor with long covid no longer clears my walkway, my mom died so getting help when I break my leg is harder and more personal.

Mr. Rogers said, “Look for the helpers,” but most of us were helpers in our own way, at different times of our lives. But so many people lost those bits of time we could spare other people, lost people who could spare time for us, and it all happened at the same time. [Well, over a couple years, but still … ]

Normally, if you lose a helper, you can find someone else to help; it may be a struggle, but you adjust. But everyone lost their helpers at the same time, and at that exact same time, everyone also ended up needing additional help.

It feels like a less kind world because it is less kind. We’ve all lost bits and pieces of our social support network, and we can’t afford to give away as much time or effort as we used to, and we have yet to acknowledge how much this loss of spare time, of grace given and received from others, has cost us on both an individual and a societal level.

And this loss of grace, especially unacknowledged as it is, has increased the amount of stress that everyone in our society is under. And where there’s increased stress, there’s less opportunity for nuance.

I’m actually going to say: stress. In economics as well as education, we’ve gone from a bell curve to a U curve. But regardless of which side of the curve we’re on, we’re almost all of us struggling in some way: rent, food prices, job security, worry about our kids, the environment, politics, end stage capitalism, whatever. And over the past decade, those stressors have built up.

People who are worried about how they’re going to pay rent/mortgage, what they’re going to eat, whether their car will last till next pay period, don’t have the luxury to spend time thinking about nuanced positions. I mean, they will if you push them, but it takes time and energy away from more immediate concerns, and there’ll be an undercurrent of resentment for you taking them away from important things.

People who are on the bottom or much of the right of the curve have niggling insecurities (is my job going to have layoffs, where I can get decent affordable childcare, why are electricity prices rising so much). They may be struggling, but they’re not constantly struggling like much of the lower classes. The hollowing out of the middle class isn’t truly visible to them yet. They hear complaints from the lower classes, but they seem very similar to what those complaints have always been. They know that those complaints have grown louder and more disruptive, but they assume it’s because it’s the same people it’s always been, just being louder and more disruptive. They haven’t realized it’s louder because there’s more people on the other side. And they haven’t realized that they’re at risk of moving to the bottom of the U curve - or even ending up on the other side.

Because of their assumption that it’s the same old group of people being more disruptive, they’re more dismissive of those complaints. And they have enough of their own stressors to deal with - food banks always say they need more (and more nutritious) food, but their primary concern are choosing a healthcare plan or childcare place that covers their needs without bankrupting them. It’s extremely stressful for them and they don’t have the time to spare to consider matters in depth either.

[I have another thought on the matter, but I’ll put it in a follow-up comment.]

Lmao, I wouldn’t put it past them to screw it up like that again …

Aesthetics may draw my attention to something, but I’m mostly a form over function person.

Rousseau, one of the architects of the Revolution.