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Physical Scientist // Food & Music Lover // Tennis and Golf Player

And if you make lasagna with it, you can just use the uncooked sheets, no need to screw around boiling the noodles beforehand.

Yeah, and funny how it's always the pickup drivers in the ditch on an icy day. They forget that while 4WD is awesome to get moving, it doesn't help you stop.

I teach for a living (post-secondary). Every once in a while, a student is solving a problem and they get all the steps right, only to end up with the wrong final answer due to a mistake. I always feel bad for them because they were so close, yet so far. I get the same reaction when someone tells me that they see how our fiat currency is broken and can see all the downstream effects of it, and then they reach the conclusion that gold is the solution.

Cute doggo.

It's in the -20 C temperature range this week where I am, and my dog just happily lays on the patio in the snow. Must be nice to have a thick fur coat (Norwegian Elkhound).

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Kind of like what Ricky Gervais once said: "Remember, Mondays are fine. It's your life that sucks."

This meme never gets old. Go Blue Jays.

https://youtube.com/shorts/bZamalhJvV4

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I find gold bugs hilarious. Many of them clearly identify that our currency is broken, so they come to the conclusion that gold is the way. I just want to say "darn, you were SO close to getting the right answer".

Nice video.

I was in a discussion with someone recently who has a very rudimentary knowledge. I said that Bitcoin is trustless because trust isn't required for the network to work. He brought up Mt Gox and people trusted that exchange. My response: that's not the same thing, you're conflating me trusting a bank versus me trusting a $100 bill in my pocket.

Like Bill Burr once said in an interview that the fun is pissing off both sides, for example: "Trump is such a dope, he's actually going to make me vote for a woman".

Remember a couple of years ago when all the ETH pumpers kept prattling on and on about "tHe fLiPpeNiNg"?

Good times.

Seriously. Every time I travel, one of the things I miss most about my home is my bidet.

Music post. This song, and the rest of the album that this song is on, is fire. Metal and EDM fusion.

https://youtu.be/aTKwR1YxAwg

Then check out this stellar 2024 album I just discovered. Absolute fire.

https://youtu.be/PmKE_8-tDrE

Yeah I live in Alberta. There's a high single or low double digit percentage of the population that would entertain the idea of joining the US, but the idea is still pretty unpopular with the large majority. All of this is ignoring indigenous groups that signed treaties with the federal government that would put up serious roadblocks to any move to join the US (and they have already declared as such).

Agreed. At minimum hate speech laws are troubling because of the question: who gets to decide what constitutes hate speech? It's also tied with this ridiculous notion that words can equal violence. Ultimately, once one equates words with violence it's very easy to justify actual violence in response to words.

Very relieved that the New York Aaron Judges didn't win the AL East.

Music post.

New Dave Hause album today. This dude deserves a larger fan base than he has.

https://youtu.be/gPyOJ4TmuYE

Oh it gets worse: even if she had provided the requested information and was given her cash, in many countries the bank would then have filed a large transaction report that goes off to the government.

Quite often political leaders choose policy that is good politics rather than good policy (this tends to get them votes) - excessive protectionism and anti-foreign behavior is one example.

I've made the analogy where when my country imposed retaliatory tariffs as follows...

Trump (to my country): I'm mad at you, so I'm going to punch myself in the face.

My Prime Minster: oh yeah? Well now I'm mad at you, so I'm going to punch *myself* in the face.

Yeah it's insane. One of my friends from work, who's mom is pretty well off (I don't know what she did but her late husband was a surgeon) - she had no debt, house fully paid off, etc. My friend had to co-sign on her cell phone contract application.