Rob Bos

Im assuming you’ve looped in @chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca?

Former Port Alberni city council, fediverse advocate

The cheaters and cheat developers will just move to Windows, and the legitimate Linux users will quit. I don’t see the upside, this doesn’t solve the problem.

Yeah, that’s about what the Broadway tunnel is going to cost for the Skytrain extension in Vancouver.

Edit: Though of course an urban tunnel cut down an extremely busy street is worst-case scenario. That money would probably buy you a lot more rail elsewhere.

The Broadway corridor has possibly the busiest transit line in North America and the per-passenger cost will be quite low, when it’s finished.

Then SpaceX is forced to adhere to political considerations and budget priorities. NASA oversight and intensely risk averse culture would not have allowed spacex to build a rocket factory, or risk throwing away prototypes for rapid iteration.

So, not The Long Dark.

They have good flights but they do make a lot of noise at the waterfront. The smell of avgas is overwhelming, too. Nothing against them, it’s unavoidable, but I’m looking forward to their electric Beaver plane.

Air North is pretty good so far, but no frills and I don’t know if they do long hauls.

Lmgtfy ‘anchoring bias’

Yeah, that’s interesting. It’s right in the name, too. You are caramelizing the sugars, not the proteins.

So the baking soda does speed up what little maillard is going on, so it browns faster, but it doesn’t caramelize faster.

TIL!

I usually do overnight large batch caramelizing so it hasn’t mattered. Big bag of onion cubes in the freezer so I never do it in a pan.

Alkalinity speeds up the Maillard reaction significantly. Baking soda. Magic.

You don’t have to. Turns out, when you give women the option to not shove a watermelon-sized object through their hoohaws at an age when they’re not ready for it, many of them opt not to!

That talking point died decades ago. We have a clear path to reducing our population. Well-off people with access to contraceptives don’t have high birth rates. We can roll back the human birth rate to sub-replacement levels and over time, reduce it.

There will be a problem with increasing population in 2250 or so, but we can cross that bridge when we come to it.

The moral thing to do is to ensure that all humans have access to clean water and food, contraceptives, and comfortable lives. The population will naturally go down and we can stabilize it over time.

I don’t think it can sustain the current population levels, at our North American standard of living. If we could distribute resources evenly, sure, we could keep everyone alive, but energy consumption, plastic production, all that adds up to an ecological footprint of resource use that isn’t sustainable.

World wildlife levels have gone down dramatically. We’re expanding human life at the expense of all other life. The other life on earth isn’t superfluous: it’s an ecosystem that keeps us alive, recycles our waste, provides our medicines and cultural wealth of all sorts.

We can’t keep our wealthy lifestyle and at the same time tell the poor people of the world that they have to stay poor so that we can remain wealthy.

We are in no way at risk of dying out from negative population growth. If we start to go down below a few million, then maybe let’s talk.

World population is still increasing, and is set to maybe stabilize in a couple decades. Fingers crossed. If we could (gently, without mass starvation) reduce the population down to a more sustainable level, that is an unmitigatedly good thing.

What might kill us is infertility from pollution or disease, but this won’t do it.

While you’re there, visit the Big Lebowski bar.

I really like sandwich with a pretty large pickle in it. One of my faves.

I feel like the Americans might frown on Canadians attempting to vote in their elections or assassinating their political leaders.

Yeah, chicken and egg. Unfortunate twitter has now locked down feeds so you have to be logged in, so also fuck them on that point.

It’s a tradeoff. I am so disgusted by twitter that I chose to give that up and leave.

This is a baffling comment. There are tons of people on mastodon, more than I could ever hope to keep up with. I have a couple hundred accounts on follow and never manage to keep up. Honestly it could use some sorting.

Boom de yada, boom de yada, boom de yada, boom de yada.

I’d bet transporters would need constant monitoring and maintenance. They screw up often enough. Not sure I’d ever step into one of those deathtraps, even if you ignore the whole inherent murder problem.