Potatoes are an odd duck in the carb world.

I’ve read some research about how they don’t metabolize the way you’d think for being the carb they are.

If I can find it I’ll drop a link, it’s been a few years since I read it.

That said, I don’t care - you can take my breakfast potatoes, my mashed potatoes, my roasted potatoes, from my cold, dead, clawed hand. 🤣

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Hahahahaha, well done

Wow, 3.7 on IMDB. Hahaha

Fine dammit, I upvote.

Nice!

Seeing the wingtip water touch in the last shot is great!

I accidentally flushed a duck from a ditch the other day - it was a surprisingly near-vertical launch. Impressive!

Just look at piracy in the 17th and 18th century, and set that in space.

It would require space travel to be commonplace, with FTL - so basically impossible.

I do some shady stuff to my own gear, but holy cow they sold it like this??

That’s not what I said at all.

Every time I go read studies, these useless “mores” really are meaningless, to the point of being deceptive.

Tell you what, go do a deep dive on Blood Pressure medication efficacy - turns out they don’t really do what they claim. And then dig into the safety - also turns out they cause as much harm as good.

Example: it takes medicating 33 people for 5 years to prevent a single cardiac event. That’s sixty thousand doses of a medication that carries a non-trivial risk of kidney failure (about 0.8 kidney failures in that same time frame).

Not exactly a convincing result.

Yep, I used to be that way (I’m hypoglycemic, meaning blood sugar is stable then drops very suddenly, so I’m not hungry and then I’m starving).

I found just getting into a morning routine of making breakfast helps - but not immediately after getting up. Water, then coffee - takes me about an hour to be ready for food. So I just get up earlier.

It’s that or be starving later, which isn’t going to work for me.

Figuring out what works for you is key.

You, I like the way you think.

Koharka for our new Barley Beer Bank president!

More like 4 or 5 decades.

They originated with telephony switching centers.

Big difference between Linux and Windows: Linux permissions are per-process, while Windows permissions are per-user. This is why Windows needs Defender in the first place (in addition to being the big target).

If you’re not using root all the time, risks are very low.

Hahahahaha

Dammit almost made me wake up my better half from laughing!

To tack on to this:

SMS requires practically no transmission cost, as it is embedded in an unassigned portion of the frames being sent between the phone and tower - frames which are always being sent anyway for keep-alive, registration, etc. There’s some infrastructure required (SMS gateway, network to other cell companies) so it’s not completely a sunk cost for them.

MMS historically worked the same way, just the media was base-64 encoded, and required an http server to temporarily host the media files for the person you were sending to.

Begin the age of the smart phone and data plans - now MMS are sent via the data connection because it’s much faster and doesn’t consume voice channel time, leaving more voice channels available for voice calls.

Today SMS is still largely sent the old way, but with 4G/5G the connection is completely different (it doesn’t use the same framing), so effectively it’s being sent via the data connection.

Voice is generally no longer via a voice channel, but really VOIP - vendors have pushed for voice-over-data since the beginning of 4G (I think LTE doesn’t even have voice channels anymore, 5G definitely doesn’t - it’s all essentially VOIP).

This is all from memory, so may not be spot on.

Bad Ass

All of it.

What a car!

Yea, I’d just revert the entire setup to 5v DC, and get a 5v DC power supply - less than the voltage it was all designed for, and an led lamp. Or even go 12v and find a 12v led.

Pumping AC, 230v at that, through switching and wires meant for 12v DC just yells “I want a big nasty shock”. (Not that doing it with 120v would be any better).

I can only imagine the arcing happening in that switch

I eat breakfast, same thing, every day, for 20 years.

It’s no harder than anything else, just get up early enough to do it.

Takes 30 minutes from start to cleaning my plates.

I also eat something like 7 times a day. More frequent, smaller meals are generally better for most people from a glucose stability perspective. Of course everyone is different, and only you know for sure what timing works for you.

“Hate speech”

As defined by who?

You want Trump defining it?

The only time I’ve gone to my bank in the last 20 years was to get a new card, or to open a new account at a new bank.