Can anyone recommend a good little clip-on-book reading light?
I've had two so far, one fell apart and the other just stopped working after a single charge (USB-version).
It would be really handy for reading in the evening since I prefer a brighter light than Himself. With an extra lamp we could have the room dimmer for him and I'd still haven enough light to read.
Hey, knitters!
Input needed!
I'm trying this cast-on for a thing that needs to be very stretchy. But the stitches I made with this cast-on do not slip at all. It's like I have a series of knotted loops. However, when I unravelled the cast-on edge, they pulled through like regular knit stitches.
Could someone else try the method shown in this video (!) and tell me if they also end up with non-slipping stitches? Because if these stitches are supposed to slip like normal stitches, I'm clearly doing something wrong.
I'm telling you, all these Bezoses, Musks and Gates's just have no imagination. They either keep buying new mega yachts when the old ones get wet, or they set up charity trusts to convince themselves they're actually Good People.
If I had that kind of money, I'd do something interesting.
But his speech still contained nothing objectionable.
When someone makes correct points, they don't become incorrect if that person has said some other thing before.
Multiple things can be true at the same time. The attempt to broker a peace with Putin by leaving Ukraine out in the cold can be a bad idea, and the things Hegseth pointed out in his speech can be genuine problems.
https://unherd.com/2024/12/a-food-apocalypse-is-coming/
A lot of people assume that somewhere in Britain there are sheds full of food that weād distribute in a disaster. Surely there is a grain or butter mountain somewhere? Surely the UK government has a plan for such a crisis?
Nope. No sheds. No stores. No mountains of food. No plan.
All politicians say that food security matters, but no one admits that basically we donāt have it. Britain probably has less than a week of food supplies. The only food in the UK is whatās on the shelves of our supermarkets now, and whatās in their lorries on the way to the shops. Oh, and whatever you have in the fridge, plus a few crops growing on UK farms or stored in barns, and whatever is edible and roaming around in fields. And perhaps you could hunt or forage if you have a gun or a trap or two.
He says that what we often see in a crisis is not social collapse but instead people working together, finding ways to ration or share, displaying the best of human nature.
This I think is what a lot of preppers, specifically Americans, seem to forget. We've seen such crisis in multiple countries even in Europe within living memory, and the above is exactly what has happened.
(This is not a reflection on the article's general point, I think he's correct. But this is the first time I see someone say this in writing.)
Thereās a very long history to the idea of a mind disconnected from the sexed body. Thatās why the āgendered soulā concept could get so far so fast, because itās not exactly a departure from the old dualism, which saw the body as a mere vessel for the immortal, all-important soul. Itās not even a particularly western concept, see also reincarnation.
So I think youāre right in seeing a connection between the dualistic thinking and trans-nonsense, itās just that I donāt think itās in any way particular to either Obama or even to trans-nonsense. I think itās rather a strong undercurrent in human culture, which has been embraced and used by the trans ideologists.
If you think about it, the idea that a person is not their body, or that they are something more, something else than their body, is actually everywhere. Trans is just one of the more extreme manifestations of it.
Is your onion pie similar to ours?
https://thehappyfoodie.co.uk/recipes/my-mothers-lancashire-cheese-and-onion-pie/
No.
You could tell it had onions in it by looking.
I probably subconsciously miss making lasagna. And even more, eating home-made lasagna.
I found that.
Iām not into all that satelliteanimation nonsense. I want a proper meteorological map, with isobars, fronts and wind directions clearly marked.
Iām Old Skool.
Intriguing, but I havenāt an access to an extra room.
Also, Finland has negligible tides, so that wouldnāt even be an issue.
Besides, most of that work has already been done by the Finnish Meteorological Institute, who publish a wonderful Europe-wide meteorological map on their website, daily. As far as I know, theyāre the only body still doing that.
https://en.ilmatieteenlaitos.fi/weather-in-europe
Which is to say, Iām fine for more generic, larger scale prognosis. Itās the local weather predictions Iām after.
One really, really good thing about darksky was that it used graphs. Lots of graphs. Not text and numbers. And you could hide or show them as you wanted, and when you had to switch from one screen to another, it did it very quickly.
And it was very accurate. Itās genuinely frustrating that not only is it gone, there doesnāt seem to be an equivalent out there.
mounted police actively go out of their way to recruit officers who are not experienced riders
Whatās the reason for this?