I think “the purpose of a system is what it does” is going to get a lot of use this administration

There’s something reassuring to me about hacks like this (also standard Tempo experience?). Borrowed a friend’s truck last week and he have me a list of things that might seem like problems but not to worry about

I still do that in my fiesta. Easier than kicking out a passenger

Bad gas travels fast on social media

Eastern Oregon is already trying to join Idaho anyway

A friend in HVAC told me each person produces 350 btu of heat on average

Same. My skillset and interests align with being a house spouse, not making money. Single tho, and trying to make a beautiful home while working full time leads to many compromises

This one is a little more Canada-specific and infrastructure-specific (and I’m only 1/3 of the way through), but I’ve found the investigation into what the modern North is and how it came to be interesting. Many Norths: Spacial Practice in a Polar Territory

I’m from southeast Michigan right near Ohio, and “up north” is something mythologized/special to us here also, with many people having cottages up north, or traveling there for rest and recreation. I have made a tradition of going to the top of the upper peninsula for the last week of the year.

Southeast Michigan was also once beautiful pre-colonization—though it’s been flat since the glaciers retreated—dense, lush forests with rivers and lakes, but now it’s suburban sprawl. Up north is an escape from the apocalyptic wasteland we created and maintain as a consequence of our industrial capitalism.

We do the same thing with quaint small towns or people friendly cities – we’ll travel to them as relief from the shitty sprawl we live in, but then refuse choose to only live in sprawl, or refuse to support policies that make anything but sprawl possible.

It seems we assume an inevitability of the industrial wasteland we live in, and mythologize anywhere that we haven’t yet ruined, instead of realizing we’re choosing to form our built environment this way, and choosing to built a different world.

Hm, there are some players who are somewhat of a PK specialist, yeah? Would the players who aren’t often offered the privilege of regularly getting to play the PK skew the result? I’m mostly interested in the consequences of penalty-prone players.

Hahaha, I tried a few different variations and couldn’t get something concise. I guess technically someone could be serving a penalty assessed to a goalie, but the goalie still wouldn’t be in the box.

Also not a stats/capitalist/math guy, but a couple years ago I came across this paper “Pulling the Goalie: Hockey and Investment Implications.”

The modeling is far beyond me, but when down one goal “The crossover point comes at 6:10 remaining. So, at 6:20 you should not pull the goalie, but at 6:10 you should.” And two goals they say pull with 13 minutes left.

Their explanation of their model helps somewhat, and I’m sure the math is all very interesting to someone who gets it.

I went the three-ish years route, 0 out of 5 stars. I think that Frank Tallis guy wrote a free self help guide I used that was too little too late for me by the time I came across it, but the content was good.

My car has 130k and I keep wondering when the battery is going to die, because when I was younger they didn’t last this long and I just kinda forgot about it until it occurred to me recently.

Is it just perspective, or is the picture on the left side of the window lower than the one on the right?

It’s an Ohio world

I’ve had problems with Google docs and sheets being laggy on first the last two-ish weeks, but haven’t turned off ublock to test. Haven’t tried YouTube recently, freetube replaced that

For me it’s always been Grey: cool (blue/black tones) Gray: warm (brown/orange tones)

I figured production scale was part of it, but still assumed standardization in the process over time would bring the price down. But they probably aren’t selling that many $700 faucets to bring the price down much below their costs, and makes sense they’d have to keep the price high to maintain the brand reputation to sell a boutique product.

I appreciate your insight. I assumed some of what you mentioned but have no idea what the actual manufacturing process are like compared to other products that use similar materials.