Many Christians believe that living together before marriage is wrong. Many conservatives are either Christian or appeal to Christian values (as they’re both largely patriarchal and controlling; at least as practiced). This guy’s conservative.

It’s unclear who’ll win the next US election. Zelensky wants support from whomever wins. Zelensky therefore has met with all the candidates who have a chance to win to try and bolster the chances of continued support.

State communication should not travel over private channels that can arbitrarily limit access to that State’s communications.

There actually was a wolf in that analogy. Just cause the villagers decided to ignore the warnings didn’t make him not exist.

• The grass is always greener in the hand.
• You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t look it in its mouth.
• We’ll burn that bridge when we come to it.
• Caught with his pants in the cookie jar.

Tray-less microwaves have a spinning metal “stirring fan” below a plastic floor you set your food upon to mix the bounce path the microwaves take. Since they expose fewer moving parts to the end user they are easier to clean and more resilient making them a good option for commercial / high volume settings.

A microwave works by bouncing microwaves around the interior. Since the shape of the container doesn’t change neither will the path that the bounced waves take. This can lead to hotspots in what you’re reheating.

To mitigate this you have a few options:

• move the food around in the container so that different parts pass through different hotspots over time (this is what a tray does)
• interrupt the microwave path via a “stirrer fan” that sits below the microwave floor (this is what tray-less units use)

Both approaches redistribute the hotspots to maximize even heating. The efficacy of either approach will come down to the specific design of either unit, but a tray-less unit can be easier to clean, and with fewer moving parts exposed to end users can be a good option for commercial/high user count settings.

Each design accomplishes the same task of relatively even heating with few hotspots.

100%

It’s the only way I open the start menu. There is no faster way to get to what I want than Superkey and typing.

PS I have all my OSes set up similarly. OSx has spotlight, my GNOME and KDE are configured to launch searchable menus on Super, and my mobile launcher is set up to search when I swipe up.

It gives a false sense of security to beginner programmers and doesn’t offer a more tailored solution that a more practiced programmer might create. This can lead to a reduction in code quality and can introduce bugs and security holes over time. If you don’t know the syntax of a language how do you know it didn’t offer you something dangerous? I have copilot at work and the only thing I actually accept its suggestions for now are writing log statements and populating argument lists. While those both still require review they are generally faster than me typing them out. Most of the rest of what it gives me is undesired: it’s either too verbose, too hard to read, or just does something else entirely.

84 miles twice in a day is 270km.

I’m not sure you understand the feasibility of biking 84 miles 2 times in a day in sub freezing weather with a total elevation change of 15,000ft with skis strapped to my back.

I’d love to not have a car, but there’s not a train that runs to the slopes and the busses cost more than twice as much as the gas to get there.

Do we actually know if he had a knife? Initial reporting was that the police knew he had a knife because he refused to take his hands out of his pockets. While he did threaten them, it was contingent upon them continuing to follow them. He did not actually attack them until after multiple officers attempted to tase him. Furthermore, so what if he had a knife? As far as we’re aware, he’s got a second amendment right to keep and bear arms. Being armed isn’t an excuse to be killed by cops because you are generally explicitly allowed to be armed.

All in all:

• We don’t know he’s armed
• We don’t know his intentions
• He didn’t immediately attack anyone
• While he did threaten them he made no indication that he intended to follow through until he was attacked
• He continued to try to leave the situation until he was attacked
• The police attacked him first
• He didn’t have a gun
• 4 people were shot by the police; he was killed (this seems to have been erroneously reported earlier. He is now reportedly in critical condition), an officer and 2 bystanders were wounded
• No one was stabbed

While that is textbook escalation, it really doesn’t seem like they shot him cause he had a knife. They shot him (and 3 others) cause he didn’t care about their authority and they couldn’t let the guy that was already on the train go. And all that came about because he tried to skip a fare that costs around the same amount as the bullets fired.

There are 5 basic rules for guns:

• Treat every gun as if it were loaded.
• Always point your gun in a safe direction.
• Never point your gun at anything you don’t intend to shoot.
• Keep your finger off the trigger until you’re ready to shoot.
• Be sure of your target and what’s beyond.

What I posted was a subset of the five then alluded to the full list.

After Israel bombed an UNRWA School, BTW. Since the headline went out of its way to obfuscate that.

Now watch as nearly half the voting population accepts this behavior.

There are VoIP options, sure, but not the actual phone bands.

Except the actual phone part.

It’s way more than just trigger discipline. There’s the traditional rules of course:

• Never point your gun at something you do not intend to kill
• Be sure of your target and what’s beyond
• Trigger discipline

But there’s also reasonable shit beyond the 5 basic rules:

• Don’t willingly put yourself in a situation where use of a gun may be warranted.
• Property isn’t worth killing over, especially in situations where you had to go out of your way to put yourself in perceived danger to protect it.
• Don’t block in the person you are trying to convince to leave.
• People with guns commit more acts of violence than those who don’t. Owning a gun is an irresponsible choice. There are more and there are less responsible gun owners, but owning a gun puts you and those around at a greater risk of violence. When all you have is a hammer …

Oh s—, my gun just went off

Weird, I’d been told they don’t do that.