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Good point. They've been speculation that Don-Roe is the deal cutting that has happened between US / China / Russia.
US gets untrammeled control of Western Hemi, Russia gets Ukraine, China gets Taiwan.
This fits with that narrative.
Really interesting, thanks for the comment. If you'd ever want to explore that in more detail, I think lots of people would be interested, I certainly would.
My job wasn't that glamorous, basically I was a glorified data-entry person (only tech stuff was I had to extract and normalize the data from CSV sources). I was responsible for getting all the nutritional stats of the various food items (chicken breast = X grams fat, Y grams protein, etc). Basically had to build the equivalent of a cron job that extracted data from CSV sources and regularly updated the database.
There was another data entry group (from university accounting dept) that did same with the cost info.
The program itself acted as a filter. So the university cafeteria system directors would have a budget, which included both a nutritional and money budget. So, if their budget was $10 per student per day, when they entered their breakfast choices, then lunch monetary and nutritional budgets would be debited according to their choices, etc..
In the end the menus are computed as "what can we fit where" (to be clear, they didn't start at breakfast and work down, they usually started with dinner and worked up....so breakfast usually received the least choices).
But it got complicated because in addition to just money + nutrition, they also had to take in account religious / lifestyle choice. So each meal needed to have a "non pork" or "vegetarian" option, these mandates further constrained choice.
I render the fat trimmings into tallow. So overall, with maybe 50 percent waste, I'm paying $1/lb.
WIth the right market incentives (basically more people demanding real butter / tallow), no doubt we could eventually reduce the disparity in cost....as you said lots of it is considered waste.
Also no reason they couldn't have "tallow blends" (beef, poultry, pork) to achieve their price requirements.
The thing about such narratives, is although certainly interesting, a single account doesn't really tell us the full story. He could have 4 such accounts and he is selling out of the others but this one is his "savings".
Thats a good write-up.
In college (in the 90s) my first real "IT job" was working for the cafeteria system at university. They were just beginning to computerize their entire menu / ordering system.
The FDA guidelines basically ran everything. Meaning, menus were computed from "what percentage of food groups should a student eat in a 24 hr period", then menus were calculated to satisfy that. There was no free-form "maybe we should offer chicken and dumpling on Tuesdays....", tuesdays dinner was computed from what was allowable via guidelines from breakfast/lunch.
I bet this contradiction is based all around the economics....if they changed the actual percentage guidelines, it would likely massively affect the economics (ie. real butter is more expensive than fake butter, tallow is 4x the price of seed oils, etc).
So "real food" guidelines would wind up causing all those school systems to blow out their food budget instantly....
Who knew there were so many dashes....
hyphen = -
Figure Dash (U+2012) = ‒
Small En Dash (U+FE58) = ﹘
En Dash (U+2013) = –
Light Double Dash (U+254C) = ╌
Heavy Double Dash (U+254D) = ╍
Light Triple Dash (U+2504) = ┄
Heavy Triple Dash (U+2505) = ┅
Light Quadruple Dash (U+2508) = ┈
Heavy Quadruple Dash (U+2509) = ┉
Em Dash (U+2014) = —
Two Em Dash (U+2E3A) = ⸺
Three Em Dash (U+2E3B) = ⸻
Personally, I'm waiting until we get to the ~500 miles per charge before considering electric. Basically my feeling on that number is I would never generally want to drive more than 500 miles in one sitting without a stop anyway....
Neighbors of mine have various EVs but most of them are just stay-at-home moms and/or use their EVs for short work commutes.
My work requires me sometimes to drive 200+ miles to a client site....I'm just not interested being forced to stop to recharge for that....
I have no special knowledge but I've heard that Ven crude requires extra refining steps that they can't do (they could do it once, but due to years of commie neglect they can no longer refine it effectively).
So this may benefit both sides. "We will refine your oil for a percentage...." or some such deal....
Isn't odd that the DC officer who shot Ashli Babbit (sp?) also had his own "daycare center" (the address of which was his house).
Seems like it was a commonly known scam technique.
What movie is this? Smokey and the Bandit? or Hunt for Red October?
Jokes aside, they admit that the tanker was "empty". Why would they chase it? They must believe its not empty??
I've heard 2 logical explanations:
- The silver in datacenters is found mainly in the power network. Particularly in contacts of high energy power components (ie. actual electrical switches) which use silver for low resistance, high reliability of contact points.
- Samsung’s Ag‑C solid‑state design (silver-carbon solid state battery).
Tax brackets aside, I think the US is alone for taxing citizens who don't reside in US on their income. That is, if your job sends you overseas, the US still expects you to pay your taxes (in addition to whatever your net tax is in the host country).
Thats a pretty bold claim by IRS....
I'm neutral on the question, but I think the "NATO" angle is weak.
However I think this is better rhetoric:
"The real question is what right does Denmark have to assert control over Greenland? What is the basis of their territorial claim? What is their basis of having Greenland as a colony of Denmark?" Miller then questioned.
He should elaborate that geographically, Greenland is part of North America therefore its only natural we see it as part of our territory.
Trust me, its not lost of me that that question of "by what right" applies to every country on earth! (eg. they all just claim their land by 'might'). But its more effective rhetoric because once we go down that road, the mind naturally conjures up the image of "if Denmark is claiming Greenland purely because they can, then why can't a stronger nation simply claim it?"
I'm not arguing this is ethical or moral, its simply better rhetorical argument.
I may have to buy one of these.....I wish they would open-source their software though......I hope it doesn't require Google Services?
From what I've read it looks like Maduro's henchman (and son?) are now in charge of Venezuela. Doesn't really seem like a great improvement for people...
I spent some years in Latin America for work and a colleague told me the dilemmas of trying to rid the cartels from power.
You decide you want to remove a drug boss. Ok well he is 58 y/o, he has political connections, connections with law enforcement, etc....while all those things lead to corruption, they also tend to moderate him. Over the years he has learned to take care of problems in a more sophisticated way.....Well you want to clean house, so you take him out. His 40 y/o son takes over....so you take him out....his 33 y/o nephew takes over, so you take him out....pretty soon that cartel is run by 21 y/o running around with a machine gun thinking the solution to every problem is to start shooting. Eventually, after a long and bloody war, that cartel will be taken over by a rival. The competitor cartel just got stronger. In the end what really was achieved?
My take is nuanced (as I imagine yours is as well), but I think on-balance its probably good to take out Maduro and leave the supporting cast. You have at least moved the negotiation needle towards your side....they now know they are expendable.
Its not a great upgrade for the people, but at the end there is only so much that can be done. Taking out everyone in power is going to create a powder keg "gang war" scenario. Ultimately ridding a society from corruption needs to come from the people (and I 100% say that as an American who thinks we need to do the same with our own corruption).
"gouging laws" are one of the dumbest thing that somehow has been allowed to persist.
There is lots to say about it, but anyone who lives in hurricane prone areas has probably lived thru the effects of these laws.
Imagine you are a walmart dispatcher. You have regional warehouses that are stocked with goods, and you have 35 stores that have just been hit by a hurricane and everything is sold out....sounds easy right? Flood those stores goods....well not so fast. They are running on generator, staff are not all available, the roads are a mess, its going to take your trucks 3x as long to get to the stores....so well raise prices right?
You can't. Therefore there is ZERO incentive for you to "hurry up and rush products" back to the store.
I've been following ram prices, its truly getting crazy. Mundane things like "32GB DDR4 sticks" are up 2x YoY
The projections for this year are even crazier....could double again.
At a certain point this will affect everything at consumer level: Phones, laptops, etc. All those software apps (ie. Electron-based) that loads a 1GB glorified web browser are going to feel the pinch soon....
Great line.
It also demonstrates clearly that, counter to popular ideas, the church is not anti-science at all. (Besides Big-Bang being discovered by a Jesuit Priest, Mendel who basically discovered natural selection was a monk....so you have evolution + cosmology both from the Church)
Aquinas himself said that making the world comprehensible was a great gift of God. That is, an ordered universe that we can uncover how it works is part of the divine plan. And this very promise of "being orderly" is what prevents him from interceding in each and every little tragedy. For if God did constantly intervene, the universe would stop being comprehensible and orderly. Further it would undermine our moral agency by eliminating our own compassion and growth (why help children with cancer if God will just intervene and magically cure them).