Your father is not coming on anything!

She had the most interesting childhood too. The “K” in her name stands for Kroeber, after her father, a famous anthropologist who is known for letting Ishi, the last living member of his tribe, live in their backyard. It really helps her work and perspective make sense when you know she is a dyed in the wool anthropologist.

Grooming the youth, that’s the kind of indoctrination you need. As a missionary, the only non-indoctrinated adults who got into the BoM were, let’s say, simple.

I do wish it was more common to realize there is no wrong way to dance (except inadvertently injuring your partner, I guess). It’s your body, wiggle it the way you want

This is sad news. He was deeply influential and at the same time a somewhat obscure author. At least, in my experience, he didn’t have the name recognition other - dare I say lesser - authors had.

One lesson I learned as a young person from reading A Fire Upon the Deep was to never believe anything just because it was on the internet. That alone makes his legacy worth remembering.

I blame shitty sitcoms. If you really look at them, most people are terrible to each other.

Indignez-vous!

I always have Terminal open in the background. Never know when you might need to enact a dramatic hacker scene. I just can’t believe what they charge for thise minitors that project text onto your face.

That joke is a bridge too far! 🙄

In addition, in order to get useful fibers, plants are sown at a density of at least several hundred seeds per square meter. They stretch to 2-3 meters tall trying to win the race to the sunlight. Stalks of plants grown in the typical indoor grow way are only good as very low grade biomass for methane digestion or as chips that might serve in hemplime or hempcrete. An insignificant market so far as these technologies are still going through the regulatory processes to be used more widely.

There are effective dual cropping systems that can yield cannabinoids from flower and get useful fiber but it is not common yet either.

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It’s all about the merchandising! Your ‘dumb money brain’ is shared by many. They are selling an emotional product represented by a cheap trinket or gee-gaw. Retail psychology is really interesting

Your systemd file looks ok, but I think it’s doing exactly what you are telling it.

The solution may lie in the backup.service. Is that code you can modify? The OnCalendar=weekly doesn’t specify when in the week the service should run so that config may be vague.

If I understand the desired function here, you will need the service up all the time. It will just wait politely and occasionally run the specific backup script. It’s up to the backup script to determine when the last backup was made and either exit early because it hasn’t been a week or run the backup and reset a flag file.

At least that’s the approach I would take. Systemd is a very vigilant, but very stupid, service manager. It just watches and triggers services based on just a few criteria. Any logic more complex needs to go in the service itself.

Why will no one just answer the obvious question? Do the grueling hours make people into better doctors than say a more reasonable pace? If the answer is ‘no’, then stop building things that way!

I used to date a mid-career physician and she and all her peers live like the walking dead, still, years after the training phase has finally ended. They are incredibly dedicated people whom I respect, but I don’t think they fully realize the vast consequences to their health and interpersonal lives.

Exactly what is it the feds are paying these chuckleheads for? The dept of ed knows the terms of the loans best, they know what I would actually owe. What value is it the ‘loan servicers’ actually add? The government is well equipped to take payments directly.

Not much love here for the Pi Zero W. I love them for being so flipping cute. I have a couple I use when I am learning a new system admin tool or service and I need to be able to let it run undisturbed to observe stability and function.

Lately I am learning MQTT so am using one as a broker to manage some homemade smart devices.

If I can ever find one in stock, i want a couple of Zero 2 for similar projects that would benefit from the extra oomph.

Nobody you know has that experience because those with a different moral compass left early. I’m pretty confident you haven’t done the work to follow up and find out why with anyone who found it distasteful. Your arguments-from-incredulity make this quite clear.

God, I was lucky to get out of that young fascists club early. My scout masters were decent-enough people, thank Glob, but the whole experience made my skin crawl but I didn’t know why.

As an adult I retconn the experience to understand it as an aversion to the co-option of principles of basic decency in the service of nationalism. Turns out, the two aren’t deeply connected.