You can still get actual "proper" double boiled linseed oil. It's not even especially expensive, just mildly annoying to source. It's a surprisingly durable finish for outdoor furniture etc, just takes an age to cure compared to the chemically boiled linseed oil.
Not to mention that loads of people detour through pescetarianism on their way to vegetarianism. But even if you stop at pescetarianism that's still a wild improvement on plenty of metrics over eating other meats.
There seems to be this pressure to either go fully vegetarian or it doesn't count, which is obviously total nonsense.
> There seems to be this pressure to either go fully vegetarian or it doesn't count, which is obviously total nonsense.
Hard agree. It’s counterproductive to have that view, even, and it’s why many people give up on vegetarianism (“I wasn’t able to go all in cold turkey, so it isn’t for me and I’ll revert completely”).
While what you're saying sounds like a reasonable enough stance on the face of it, keep in mind that this would deeply fuck over closeted queer folks among other marginalized groups.
It would. Currently they and everyone else are getting deeply fucked because the signal to noise ratio on the internet has been obliterated and everyone is being manipulated all the time by misinformation from humans lying to bots.
I think the trade off for a lack of anonymity is worth it. This is crass and old but the penny arcade guys identified this decades ago
I agree misinformation is a big problem. Possibly the biggest problem of our time, right next to global warming. But as it stands now, as a queer person, you can find a spot on the internet with like-minded people. Even when closeted. Hell when closeted it's the only place you can find like-minded people.
If we require people identify themselves online you drive all closeted queer people away, into solitude, into feeling no one will ever understand them. That's not worth the price of admission.
Toolstation still has a model like that, and I gotta say I love it. They also seem to hire people who actually know something about the products they sell which is an unfortunate rarity these days.
Note that the actual material used has a glass transition temperature around 50 degrees, not 200. If the part was actually made from ABS-CF (as the pilot thought it was) it'd stand a decent chance of surviving for a long time given that it gets a lot of air cooling.
You'd be very hard pressed to confuse PLA with carbon fiber reinforced ABS. The latter has a definite surface texture that's hard to get confused with that of PLA.
But who in their right mind is storing textures uncompressed? and that still fits over two thousand 4k textures in a 130GiB game. Are there really that many things you'd look at close enough to fill a whole screen in a game?
it's not so much remembering what ∑ means insomuch as that it's completely impossible to google the first time you run across it. It'll be in some PDF that doesn't allow you to copy-paste the symbol and you won't know what it's called. Rinse and repeat for any of the million symbols mathematicians use, never mind that loads of symbols are context dependent even if you could google them.
I hope mathematicians have a better reason than "it's tradition" for making the entire field completely opaque to anyone who hasn't studied math extensively.
Basic notation like sums is covered in every undergraduate math course. Any non-standard notation will be introduced by the author using it. Nobody is trying to obscure anything from you.
In Minecraft one of the common ways to catch people using x-ray hacks or transparent texture packs is to run statistics on the blocks mined. If the ratio of stone-to-diamond gets significantly out of whack it's a sure sign someone is cheating.
In blackjack card counting is (probabilistically) caught by tracking player winnings. If someone is beating the odds a bit too much it's a fairly good indicator they are counting cards. Of course in this case getting it wrong isn't so bad from the casinos perspective either since then they'll just kick out a player that was costing them money anyhow.
When the enigma cypher got cracked they had to be very careful about when to act on information gained. If they started beating the odds too much the Germans would cotton on to enigma being broken.
My point being that cheating will almost by definition improve your odds. There are definitely ways to catch that sort of thing happening without installing rootkits. You just might need to hire a couple mathematicians to figure it out.
I figure the music is the outlet for aggression, so there's no need to find an outlet in picking fights or things of that nature.
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