I wonder how IBM would deal with that.

Yes, I tried recently with instant yeast and experimented with different forms and temperatures. I ended up with something that I like better than those I buy at the store and it reminds me of my grandmother.

My only “problem” is that instant yeast is not literally instant so it requires making the dough a few hours before baking. I know the dough can be kept a few days in a fridge, and I could prepare some in advance, but I’m not there yet.

It’s obvious when you listen to their dictator.

Sad. How disgraceful. Total disaster. Tremendous disgrace.

EDIT: Seriously, I’m not a native speaker and recently someone asked me my level of English compared to one. I wasn’t sure how ro reply. It depends which native speaker. Do we count the accent? Because I’m pretty sure the president of France has a better English vocabulary than the US dictator.

The whole progression for curious people.

Yeah. Every time I hear someone say they don’t have kids and complain about paying taxes for the education of their neighbours, I like to remind them that having those kids not being as dumb as a rock is also an advantage for them.

I don’t have kids, and even though I went through public school in Quebec, I can confidently say that I’m more educated than my parents, and I’d prefer my neighbours’ kids to be also more educated than their parents. I hate capitalism but even from that point of view, it’s an investment. Educated people usually earn more and it will prevent the neighbourhood to become overrun by rednecks. Apply the same logic to a city, region, country. I want my neighbours to be intelligent enough to avoid polluting their/my water and air. I want them to be intellectually curious instead of plunging us straight down into another “dark ages”.

Unfortunately…

I know this is a technicality but AFAIK neither the former prince Andrew nor Peter Mandelson were arrested for the pedo stuff. They were arrested because they leaked state secrets to a person that happens to be a pedo.

Voter ID and registration laws are pure voter suppression!

Indeed. I’m in Canada too so that’s why this is familiar to you. As an anecdote, I don’t drive and have no license. Once, a long time ago, an election worker was kind of insisting that I had to show one to vote. I had the other required documents and was able to vote but not having a diver’s license apparently made them suspicious. And that was my biggest hurdle with providing ID at an election!

Lots of comments can be read about people not going to vote, some even blaming them for the election results, but it’s just incredible how difficult they seem to make voting in the US.

Posing in front of a gas guzzler whining about the high price of gas. Maybe if the US mercenaries bomb and kill more people the price will hopefully go down!

I even have a plan when there are power outages. The hard drive that contains most of the media I collected over the years is external. In case of power outage I can power it with a power bank and a USB-C PD to 12v adapter.

But this probably reads like wizardry for people that equate wifi to internet.

At least it’s giving me job security. I’m a middle age geek that worked low level IT most of my life, thinking the younger generations would know how computers work and be able to fix small issues on their own. Hah.

Of course the internet and social media amplifies the critics. But I hate the idea of blaming a not so good series on the internet and the fans. Because the reverse could also happen. And it doesn’t.

Maybe I’m not a fan because I only liked TNG, DS9, VOY and some of ENT, while not really liking much of the new Kurtzman universe/timeline. I skipped DIS as I don’t think it’s my thing. And I skipped PIC too. Still, I was convinced to try SNW on lemmy, and I liked much of it. Maybe as much as ENT. I also loved LD before it got cancelled. Even with all the usual toxicity of some fans, some positive comments and videos were able to sway me into trying them and liking them.

However, as much as I agree that some “fans” are toxic, other fans have made very detailed and logical videos about how this most recent series is bad as Star Trek. The ratio of bad reviews from pretty much all the spectrum of fans kind of confirms this, and I’m sick of seeing a lot of the past actors act like they know exactly what Star Trek is, should be, what fans should like, and if they don’t like it, it’s their fault and the internet’s fault.

“It was literally the biggest Star Trek set ever,”

It’s not because it’s litterally the biggest set ever that it makes it good Star Trek. And it’s not because he directed an episode that the writing will be better.

As we can see with the series Picard, and to an extent the movie Nemesis, sometimes actors are not exactly the best references for the canon of what they are acting. The dune buggy in Nemesis was Steward’s idea. As is a big part of the concept behind the Picard series. And having actors like Kate Mulgrew and Robert Picardo defending this and even going against some fans like me, is hurtful too. Enough so that I’m willingly distancing myself from social media and stuff related to Star Trek now. It pains me to see them push something that has lost most of its soul and blame the fans.

EDIT: About Patrick Steward seemingly not understanding his character:

It seems that “Nemesis” producer John Logan, perhaps to appease his star, wanted to do a favor by giving Stewart a driving/action scene, no matter how inappropriate. In a behind-the-scenes documentary included on the “Nemesis” DVD, Stewart said in an interview that he really loved driving, just as a personal hobby, and was happy to have access to a vehicle like the Argo. Stewart, it seems, was so excited to drive that he didn’t bother to ask why his character would want to — or even be able to — drive a dune buggy. Stewart, of course, isn’t Picard. He prefers entertainment with action and adventure.

Last autumn I needed a small carpet to put by my door because winter was coming and the old one was disintegrating. While walking through the dollar store I saw one that seems perfect for the task. Unfortunately it seemed much bigger in the store than on my floor.

Not being from the US, I was flabbergasted when I learned how voting laws are working there. Where I live we’re all automatically registered by the government. They send a card with your name and your address. If there is an error, or if people don’t get a card, they can manually register or correct the error. And we all stay registered unless we move or there is an error. That’s it.

I’m in my mid life and had to register once in my 20ies because I moved a lot. Otherwise the government just automatically registers me. Nobody can challenge that except the election’s office. They decide who meets the requirements to vote or not. Not some random conservative asshole that thinks people are not white enough. Democracy in the US seems like a joke.

Oh. This reminds me of the old elevator at a place I lived years ago, that only had an accordion gate to separate it from the moving walls. My guests were often saying it “looked like the elevators in Titanic”.

My father just drilled the maple trees around his sugar shack. Due to the weather and the conditions, the trees produced a bit today and will also produce tomorrow. However it’s probably going to freeze again next week during daytime so they will stop producing for a few days.

But after the next week, the maple syrup and taffy season should be coming in full force. If there’s any snow left.

One unfortunate side of climate change is that the snow cover now tends to melt sooner in the spring, leaving us with lots of syrup but sometimes no snow.

Wifi being down is just a minor inconvenience for tech oriented people. Spare some lives and just contact your local geek/nerd.

Let’s continue to be dependant on fossil fuel.

Let’s keep using fossil fuels.

So, mass surveillance for everyone under the guise of “think of the children!” while billionaires are trafficking and raping them.