To elaborate on the price, those pods have ~11g of coffee in them (according to the first link I clicked on). For a (north american) standard size cup of coffee (350 ml), I use about double that. You can either chose to have a much smaller coffee, or a regular size coffee that tastes bad.
For the same price per gram of grocery store brand pods, you can get really good freshly roasted, single origin, free trade, etc. beans.
My problem is that I never have it in me to thin seedlings aggressively, so depending on the plant, I might end up with a few seedlings in a single cell. For example, I planted 12 cells of a particular variety of pepper, and I ended up with 23 sprouts. Rather than kill them, i separated them into new cells, and now i have 23 plants. As I prune things like tomatoes, I stick cuttings into water, so those are multiplying, too.
Break Up NOAA. NOAA consists of six main offices: l The National Weather Service (NWS); l The National Ocean Service (NOS); l The Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR); l The National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service (NESDIS); l The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS); and l The Office of Marine and Aviation Operations and NOAA Corps. Together, these form a colossal operation that has become one of the main drivers of the climate change alarm industry and, as such, is harmful to future U.S. prosperity. This industry’s mission emphasis on prediction and management seems designed around the fatal conceit of planning for the unplannable. That is not to say NOAA is useless, but its current organization corrupts its useful func- tions. It should be broken up and downsized.
Thats from Project 2025, emphasis mine.
he had used gender-neutral names to the point where it was never clear, but also didn’t matter anyway.
He almost does that. He uses a lot of made-up scifi names that aren’t obviously gendered, but then point out that the character is male.
He does get a lot better over time, though.
Yeah, I think he actually admitted that he didn’t really know any women when he first started writing until he met and then married his wife, so he avoided writing them. It is weird though cause his writing style (from what ive read) is not very character focused, anyway, so a lot of his male characters could easily just be declared female and no one would spot the difference.
Yeah, I think this is the most reasonable approach. Everyone else is suggesting that falling on your sword is the first line of defense, and it really shouldn’t be.
If you are the attorney general, and the president asks you to fire someone prosecuting him, sure, resign.
If you are just some person trying to get by, shooting yourself in the foot isn’t going to help anyone. If you refuse to do a job, and they just hire someone else to do it, you’ve only really lost a lot at the cost of a small moral victory immediately rendered nil.
Not to get too utilitarian, but the ultimate goal should be to have the best outcome for everyone, not to just make the first decision that seems to be right.
There’s a saying about fascism “Do not obey in advance”, and the idea is that during the rise of fascism, the fascists don’t actually have to make people do what they want. Lots of people comply with their goals well before being forced to. We are seeing many companies eliminating DEI objectives because it’s what the fascists want, even though they don’t have to.
This could be one of those situations where a frank conversation with the project lead to see if that’s what’s happening because there is a chance to convince them not to obey in advance. It could also be that the training is going for federal agencies that have been “legally” required to eliminate “gender” from any training materials.
I think it would be foolish to turn down the job without at least establishing that.
Multiple people recommended it to me and wanted my opinion of it, but all I could say was “I’m glad you enjoyed it”.
I like a lot of what ive read from him, and he had a lot of views that were ahead of his time (on social issues as well as scientific), but he absolutely could not write women. You could read full length books of his without a single named female character.
the book you HAVE to read to understand why Americans from the flyover states like Trump and why they would vote for him.
It sorta does that, but indirectly, I guess? To me, it was all about what’s not in the book. It was marketed as being written from the perspective of “omniscient narrator explaining why those people are the way they are”, but really it’s more “unreliable narrator explains his worldview”.
I read it probably around the same time as you, and it really just made me angry more than anything because basically the whole thesis is “poor people are poor because they are dumb”.
The fact that Purdue pharma made a pill that they claimed would last for 12 hours, when it was more like half that, so people had to either take them way more frequently (or take way bigger doses at 12 hours), and then proceeded to sell them to towns in Appalachia by the hundreds per capita is never mentioned.
There’s a whole bunch of structural problems that he just breezes by that he probably should recognize (cause I do think he’s probably intelligent), but your average person from the region may not. Basically, it’s just propaganda.
It’s fun irony to try to have a bunch of angsty teens read a book about an angsty teen. I bet it would come across very different to read it as an adult.
Filtering won’t get dissolved solids like calcium, magnesium, chloride, etc out, and those will all contribute to nucleation of ice crystals. A bunch of little ice crystals is part of how you end up with cloudy ice because it will mess up the directionality of freezing.
I’ve tried using distilled water to combat this, but it isn’t foolproof by itself without doing one of the other methods.
Edit to add: I’ve also tried boiling water to try to degass it, but it didn’t seem to be effective, either.
This is the exact method I used to use. Unfortunately, it cracked my cooler interior, so I can’t just dump water right in there anymore. I bet it depends on the exact shape of your cooler, and if you let it freeze solid or pull it out while there’s still liquid water.
I have a thick wooden towel that I use as a muddler, and I use it as a mallet to hit the back of my crappy serrated knife.
I saw a video or something of someone using cheap insulated coffee mugs (like the type you get as a freebie with a company logo on it) to freeze individual cylinders, but the effectiveness probably depends on the shape of the mug.
It’s definitely more of a thing now. I think Swift Coffee were the ones that I first started seeing everywhere. They produce their own instant coffee as well as partnering with a lot of roasters. The main difference is that they went for the “quality first” as opposed to nestle, et al, who do super high temperature and pressure extractions followed by spray drying for the cheapest end product.
The downside is that it’s really energy intensive, so it costs like 10x the price. I wouldnt drink it as my daily coffee just because of the price, but it definitely does the trick when I’m traveling to a coffee desert or in the woods.
I think mint just likes to be constantly moving into a new frontier. I can keep it going in a pot year to year, but it gets super root bound. If I pull the plant out of the pot, and chop it into thirds with a shovel, and repot, I keep getting high harvests.
For better or worse, I think the importance of the resume has gone down a little bit over the past few years. There are so many people blasting resumes to 1000 places with LLM generated cover letters that the only resumes that make it to the people with hiring power are through referrals.
To actually answer your question, though, I think a link to a personal website (or LinkedIn if you use it) is nice to give more space to elaborate on work you’ve done, especially of there are things that are better explained by photos.
For many positions, especially if you have a “foreign sounding” name, it’s good to specify if you are a citizen/permanent resident/etc. Companies may or may not be able to sponsor visas, and many positions, depending on the type of work, can only be done by citizens or permanent residents.
It is good to brag about yourself, but definitely avoid making your resume too wordy or long. Even people with really impressive careers will have a 1 page resume because people reviewing them need to be able to see the highlights immediately.
If you have a list of skills, it might make sense to try and be really explicit about how skilled you are with each thing. It’s going to be dependent on the job, but for example, if you were listing JMP and R on there, but you spent years on R and only did a class project once with JMP, the company might want to know that. You could put “R (expert)” and “JMP (familiar)” or something like that.
Obviously, you need a job to eat and pay rent, but if someone hires you specifically to do something you are only slightly competent at, it’s really a lose-lose.
America in general doesn’t regulate the title “engineer” like some countries do. “Professional engineer” is a legal title, but really the only people who get it are civil and structural engineers who need to sign off on blueprints and take legal responsibility for the design. That and engineers at consulting firms who want fancier sounding titles that make a jury trust them more.
Deer have lept fences and climbed stairs to get to my plants, and they’ll eat anything, including stuff that’s supposed to be “deer resistant” like tomatoes.
The need for citizen militias was specifically to support regular forces but also oppose them if necessary. The idea was that citizens should always be more powerful than the government. Some people think that modern weaponry means that people could never overpower the military, but we see it all the time.
Ooh, that is a good solve
My kitchen scale that runs off of one of those batteries lasts for years, and I use it every day (coffee). Yours must have some kind of parasitic draw.