It didn't get much press but the US no longer works with the UN agencies on refugees. There's no substantial way to increase those numbers without the international community. It's essentially a personal insult intended for anyone who would try to help someone displaced by war or violence.

It's also weird to single out electricians when it's the construction companies themselves that are being dragged across the globe to the few places that will auto stamp new data centers. There's a private compound in the Western US that doesn't allow reporters and is blowing millions to bring workers in from thousand of miles away. Rumor is local crews weren't considered because they'd be more likely to report environmental concerns in their own backyard.

Yeah, seems like a bunch of instances getting the ol' death hug right now

Olive oil here. The market nearby doesn't sell canola oil because it was never popular. MSG is also great on popcorn.

Fernley, details these days are hard to find since the tech companies started moving in.

https://www.nevadaappeal.com/news/2019/jul/12/45-million-industrial-sale-closes-in-fernley-secon/

I think there may also a horizontal scheme as monopolies take on a global scale. Those businesses that sell in bankruptcy due to high tech costs could be gobbled up by the biggest AI-native competition. It's a leap but maybe in a decade your optometrist is replaced by an ai kiosk with a remote technician?

Most people here don't have water heaters; cold water is the norm. Some take a hot bath now and then, for aches and such. Most say hot water is harder on their skin. Personally I haven't found a noticeable difference.

People been busy! Keep up the good work. It's a nice one.

The chicken and bee are much fun. Server is really cooking, Jesse.

One of the AC I've yet to try. I liked the ship play in Odyssey so it's definitely up on my list.

Just to note on fiber, there's a number of thai ingredients such as fragrant leafs that are added for smell and not to eat. Most of us eat around these but literally if you eat these add ins combined with the fantastic amount of bird beak peppers we love, you're going to have an interesting day. Another example, the number of seeds alone that you can find in some ส้มตำ is almost comparable to a chia flax smoothie. In my opinion the number of fresh plants is not something found in many other cuisines.

Eating like this may not even be possible for every meal, best start your day with a nice fried egg with rice to recover, you know. (Drizzle with chili vinegar fish sauce to survive until your next glorious meal)

It's not a popular answer but you can get by with an older PC running Linux KVM. Windows 11 is fine as a guest OS, unless you need kernel level DRM from some applications.

I forgot this was the same person that endorsed Biden in 2020. It seems kind of odd these people that flipped anti-Trump to pro-Trump often get some Onionlike headlines (Vance, McConnell, Musk, Rubio), like excessive dumbfulness as show of loyalty. Could people actively try to be a spectacule of idioticity to make the blunders of an old man look less hilarious?

Generational wealth includes more than financial assets I suppose.

I wonder how far we are from CI drivers ala Nix that fork builds out to idle hardware like a distributed torrent network. As someone with three out of tree modules in use, there must be dozens of us I'd like to think.

Walled garden makes it sound like a place someone maintains for communal pleasure. Lobster trap makes me picture someone caged for sale. Delicious lobster.

The only bare Win10 I got left has no auto network connection. It's still surprises me that it doesn't turn itself on in the middle of the night for updates so I see whatever I left running a month ago the last time it fell asleep. Yesterday I was trying to install device drivers on a Win11 vm and it rebooted mid install when I stopped looking for two minutes. Granted nothing broke but why do I get prompted about file explorer being opened for a user started reboot but an installer is considered killable? Such consistent design I can tell.

I've got 3rd to 8th gen no issues, wonder how Intel lost the plot somewhere along the way. Fortunately wifi chips still seem solid.

Hiking is a must. Any public land and hike to its highest elevation or scenic vista. The state is full of wide spaces that are great to disconnect for a couple of days when you can.

Funny you mention it but some of the highlight videos I've been following for years have moved off YouTube this year. I've been using the site less because of that. From what the creators of the videos say, they're getting hit constantly with bogus copyright claims and YouTube does nothing to protect their content.