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Cheers to you as well!

Always knew there was another person with her, whatever his name was.

Same behavior. I noticed the cursor was there when I saw it blinking on an empty comment. (Where it overlaps the placeholder text on a new comment, specifically.)

Obviously a seasoned alcoholic. I remember her sounding like a long time heavy smoker too.

Divided by not wind.

Soy, rice and glucose gel is the sugar imbalance bit.

Soybeans mixed with boiled starch-free rice swimming in glucose gel. That is protein and the most basic of sugars. The "starch-free" rice probably isn't 100% starch free, but it's close. If you can tolerate it, the carbs would be useful.

You probably would need a few dozen multivitamin pills for dessert though. Crushing them up and adding it to the soy and sugar probably would taste kinda bad.

Still, I don't think that would be balanced enough to convince your body it wasn't starving so bulking up probably isn't going to come easy or safely.

You need protein with additional variety, and I think my concoction would probably push you over the edge into protein poisoning with a massive sugar imbalance to boot.

I started off lightly joking at first, but if you crank up the soy in your diet along with simple sugars, you can probably just add that to whatever else you can eat and be OK. Unless, of course, you have a soy allergy as well.

(Sounds like you have some serious gut issues and are incapable of breaking down most proteins and more complex sugars. I am not sure if the soy will help much or if you can get all the amino acids you need if there is a protein digestive issue going on.)

Bone conduction is great and better for safety, but bass quality suffers a bit. I use my Shokz open run 2's for outside running as I can hear outdoor sounds much better.

My Bose Ultra 2 Open earbuds gen2's (clipons) have better quality sound, but can still drown out external noise which makes them much better for the gym. (I like my music loud.)

Clipons, at least with the ones I have tried can be fussy with their fit. If you are ultra-sensitive to imperfect stereo imaging, you may have a bad time. (If one earbud is slightly out of position, the stereo balance will be off.)

My Shokz are great, but are lacking in some midrange and bass, even though they attempt to correct this by firing the bass back into your ear, which is a massive improvement, but still not perfect.

Clipons have better sound, bone conduction is better for safety and a comparison can be apples to oranges based on what your own preferences are, TBH.

I am super picky about sound quality, so I tolerate my Bose clipons even though Garmin compatibility is shit. My Shokz win, hands down, for durability and safety even though it's "meh" sound. (I use ear-gear that fits the occasion, just like every other tool of mine.)

It would suck if you were at the doctor and you failed your heart beat.

Even with your feet bolted to the floor, that would cause some serious damage to your ankles if you couldn't pull yourself back up.

After my running, I'll stretch my calves by doing pushups againt some railing while keeping my feet flat like that. No way I could ever use calve strength like that to pull myself back up. That shit hurts, man! (My calves are fairly strong, too.)

The idea of communism is fine. It's just something that has never actually existed.

People get mad and say things they don't mean. Many couples will get to the point of yelling and screaming at some point if they are together for a number of years. (Some people may never fight, and good on 'em!)

A fight isn't the issue: It a person's willingness to forgive and forget is what should be measured. That, and a person's ability to be remorseful is extremely important here as well.

For anyone wondering, that's Sarah Connors dream from Terminator 2 right before the city gets nuked.

It's one of the better EDR (Endpoint Detection and Response) tools on the market. For enterprises, they are able to suck down tons of system activities and provide alerting for security teams.

For detection, when I say "tons of data", I mean it. Any background logs related to network activity, filesystem activity, command line info, service info, service actions and much more for every endpoint in an organization.

The response component can block execution of apps or completely isolate an endpoint if it is compromised, only allowing access by security staff.

Because Crowdstrike can (kind of) handle that much data and still be able to run rule checks while also providing SOC services makes them a common choice for enterprises.

The problem is that EDR tools need to run at the kernel level (or at a very high permission level) to be able to read that type data and also block it. This increases the risk of catastrophic problems if specific drivers are blocked by another kind of anti-malware service.

When you look at how EDR tools function, there is little difference between them and well written malware.

Crowdstrike became a choice recently for many companies that got fucked over by Broadcom buying VMWare. VMWare owned another tool, Carbon Black, which became subject to the fuckery of Broadcom so more companies scrambled to Crowdstrike recently.

I hope that was enough of a summary.

Spores are everywhere like you say and you only really see a tiny percentage of mycelium. Fungi kinda is everywhere already, but where it can grow well is much more limited.

Fungi can be remarkably picky about its growing conditions to thrive, otherwise, it's growth will be remarkably slow. However, if you put a tablespoon of dirt under the microscope, there could be dozens of mycelial strands in it trying to survive. They can all survive, to a degree, but there are a couple of issues preventing dominance.

If it can find a place to settle in and grow, chances are that many other spores may be trying to take hold as well. Fungi is insanely competitive and is constantly fighting for space. Fast growing fungi is what we normally see take over food sources and it's usually a type of trichoderma. Trichoderma will literally choke out other fungal growths simply due to its rapid development. If an existing colony is weakened for one reason or another and it gets a trich infection, it's game over.

For commercial mycelium development, (button mushrooms, oysters, etc.) growing conditions are generally perfect and the substrate used is tailored specifically per species. (It's mostly sanitized poo or specific types of wood.) Temperatures need to be adjusted for each growth phase as fungi can be very sensitive to that. Some strains of shiitake are rumored to require a physical shock to fruit. (Like, the substrate bag needs to be physically smacked hard. It's an odd characteristic.)

To sum all of this up, it usually comes down to competition. Where there isn't fungi, there is bacteria. Plants even have chemical defenses to both. Small critters and insects may eat all three of those things.

Next time you look at your garden, just remember you are looking at an actual battleground for millions of critters of all shapes and sizes.

That's fairly bold to ask for ~6% of the total world economy as well as a sizable chunk of the world's energy.

They have kinda always been a thing. Nazi's were just one flavor of nationalist, after all.

Charles de Gaulle defined nationalism best: "Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first."

For most people, it's extremely easy to blame others for problems of their own creation. By the same token, people who can't see their own shortcomings will also usually latch on to leaders who are able to amplify that bias. For the Nazis, it was mostly against the jews.

Also, what you are seeing in the news is partially amplified by the news itself but also, politicians are getting more brazen in mustering the support of those groups. This has lead to people being a little more open about something that needs to stay taboo, IMHO.

We could pay down the national debt in about 4 hours.

They can leech all the data they want from my employer. I don't give a fuck. Never use company assets for personal business as an addendum.

Just be a little more careful with your own stuff, s'all.