There’s also a bunch of environmental costs.

Why are you making it snow when you know Radar hates it?!

Funny, I thought he doesn’t read the Times because it’s such a “failing” paper and he doesn’t associate with losers.

If it’s a small shop, it may be because the door is constantly being opened and they’re trying to keep the store warm for the people working there.

What did you do?!

Hell, Microsoft and Apple did the same thing decades ago. Microsoft offered computer discounts to high schools and colleges, so that the students would be used to (and demand) Microsoft when they went into the business world. Apple then undercut that by offering very discounted products to elementary and junior high schools, so that the students would want Apple products in higher education and the business world.

The tactic let them write off all the discounts on their taxes, but lock in customers and raise prices on business (and eventually consumer) goods.

It looks like you’ve got a really good handle on his issues then - I wish all of you long, healthy and happy lives together :)

Can you do subQ fluids at home? That, plus a low phosphorus diet, can really help! Tanya’s feline CRF page has a lot of good info on it.

Polls suggest that most Cuban American registered voters, who tend to be Republican, continue to support Mr. Trump

they won’t read a big long letter

Cool. Write them multiple letters. More importantly, get other people to write them letters - friends, family, coworkers, people you went to school with, cashiers and stockers in the shop, letter carriers, pizza delivery drivers, the local hiking group, book club, and historical society - anyone you can think of. It’s particularly good if the group has some natural alignment, so you can use some of their existing organization and contacts to further your cause. Hit up every local and regional group you can find via email, Contact Us, Facebook, whatever. Hell, stand in the most crowded part of town and hand out flyers.

Your flyers can be small if you need them to be (like if you’re printing them yourself) - say, a quarter of a page. You can do something like:

DATA CENTERS are
  * noisy
  * polluting
  * increase electricity rates
  * whatever else

CALL / WRITE: * Official contact info for the people making the decision (not home addresses)

SHOW UP: * Date, time and location of the next several meetings

Further info: a URL for more information and for getting together online and organizing. [1]

[1] Set up an email address - Gmail is fine, people recognize it as “legit”, so that people and organizations can contact you. Check it at least once a day.

Purchase a domain and make a really simple website. Have it replicate your flyer, but in more detail. Include references: link in news articles from Canada (Canadian-focused is great!) and the States (they likely have more areas that are more seriously affected) about how these things have affected locals. Add link(s) to a coordination and suggestion method: this could be one or more of a: Facebook group, a new subreddit, a discord channel, etc - whatever old and young people are using in your area. Also include your new email address (properly obfuscated to avoid bots) so that people can contact you.

Remember that whatever platform you organize on, some people who support you won’t be on it. You’ll have to choose between one method to build momentum and multiple methods to reach more people; your choice will likely depend on your timeframe. Have one of your options be “join our email list”; every time you organize an action or there’s an upcoming meeting, email everyone on your list.

Ask people to put signs in their yards and local businesses to put signs in their windows. It’s great if you can afford to buy signs, either yourself or by collecting money [check local laws for soliciting], but every bit helps.

Show up at every meeting they have, and get as many people to come as well. It would be lovely to have everyone joining you to speak, but even just the increased numbers and angry faces will have an impact. As possible, have each person speak to a different negative aspect of the data center, and have it be personal and relatable: “as a mom, I worry able the pollution”, “as someone who hikes/hunts/runs trips into the woods, I worry about the noise”, “as an elderly person/young person just moved out on their own/struggling parent I worry about the increased electricity rates”, etc. Be detailed but concrete.

Also, don’t just oppose this to local town councilors. Start pestering lawmakers at the county/district level, and province/territory level - this may be a local decision, but you can make an impact at higher levels as well - and if you get those higher levels on side as well, they can apply pressure downward.

Are there any local elections coming up? Run, or have someone else run, as a candidate, with one of their main planks being opposing the data center. The point isn’t to win the election; the point is for your candidate to continually force the other candidates to address the issue of the data center. That keeps it in the news, helps build momentum and pressure.

Contact news organizations: paper, radio, online, real-world, tv, podcasts, call-in radio shows - whatever you can reach. For every action you plan - council meeting, protest, letter-writing campaign, whatever - contact the media and let them know about it. If your event is upcoming, tell them a few days in advance so they can cover it live; if it’s something like a letter-writing or phone-in campaign, let them know in advance and ask them to follow-up with the contactee(s) a few days after, to “get their opinion on the recent protest” (also phrase this as an option if they can’t cover it live, they could call and ask about their response).

Designate someone to talk to the press and be available for interviews. If possible, it should be someone even-tempered, with clear talking points, a good public speaking manner, who looks good in business casual (which is what they should wear for interviews).

Contact other data center resistance groups and crowd source their ideas as well.

security researchers […] are revealing a collection of vulnerabilities they found in 17 audio accessories that use Google’s Fast Pair protocol and are sold by 10 different companies: Sony, Jabra, JBL, Marshall, Xiaomi, Nothing, OnePlus, Soundcore, Logitech, and Google itself.

This joke makes fun of the parity between ‘space’, as in the invisible character between words, and ‘space’, as in the void between astronomical bodies. In this case, it is said that the word ‘space’ was never meant to be there at all, but it was included as a word due to a formatting error.

Oooohhhh, now I get it!

Right after they reached deals to sell all of those lovely, long, detailed, crowded-sourced articles for AI training data :(

I am so sorry :'( She’s very beautiful, and looks so happy and content in your picture :)

Considering that Alexis Ohanian is involved, it looks like he wants another bite at the apple, so it’ll likely go downhill pretty quickly.

One of like eight types of pasta with one of like eight types of sauce. Tuna salad, creamed tuna on toast. One of about twelve different types of soup. Beans, rice, stir fry, hot dogs, burritos, turkey with stuffing, pasties, butternut squash bread, pancakes or waffles with honey and homemade raspberry jam, about ten different types of scones, about 17 different types of bread, almond cake with poppyseed and lemon, brownies, hummus, chips with salsa, veggies with green goddess dip, brie on crackers with quince paste, a bunch of different types of eggs, baked Asian pears stuffed with dates, sweet potatoes baked with apples, cinnamon roasted baked potatoes, feta stuffed tomatoes, a bunch of different types of sandwiches, pickled beets, garlic bread (mozzarella, marinara, or both optional), plain or vegetable pizza, vegetable salad with like six different dressings, pasta salad, sweet potato salad, roasted sweet potatoes, and stuffed peppers.

That’s the stuff I remember I have the ingredients for without actually getting up and checking stuff, I’m certain I could make more if I went and checked.

Side story: I’ve always kept a pantry which I’d refill during my weekly grocery shopping, and I’d always put extras in the freezer when I make stuff.

Years ago, I got really depressed and decided that, this one week, I’d eat out of the freezer instead of getting new stuff (the freezer was for like backup meals when I didn’t feel like cooking, the pantry was for staples when I did feel like cooking). The following week, I was like, “The food thing went well and I’m still depressed, I’m not gonna shop this week either!”

As I went through stuff, I found partially-forgotten and partially-used items that had been sitting around for a while. And at some point, I decided I was going to eat through u stores instead of buying any new stuff. The challenge began.

In the beginning, it was easy: I had lots of ingredients and could make lots of dishes, and there was a bunch of premade stuff in the freezer, along with a whole stash of various frozen vegetables.

But as time went on, I had to start getting creative, the way our ancestors did. I ran out of flour and made a fairly decent pizza with an oatmeal crust. I made pasta and seasoned it with salad dressing. I started rather liberally substituting in different spices.

After about two months of increasingly odd meals, I hit desperation times. I ran out of vegetables and meats, in almost all their forms. I still had a stash of pasta and rice, some bouillon cubes, and an odd array of various half-used things I had bought either on a whim or to make a single recipe.

That last month was hard. It was all carbs, and I was starting to become malnourished, but I soldiered on, just eating my way through everything.

I still remember that final day, when I opened the freezer and it was empty, the fridge contained a half-dozen bottles with the drugs of condiments in them, and the contents of the pantry consisted of one unopened jar of garlic powder and some salt.

I threw away the condiments, thoroughly cleaned the fridge, and went to the grocery store.

Reader, I had not left my apartment except to get the mail for over three months. The grocery store was bright, and a riot of color and sounds! Having not had fruits or veggies for over a month, the produce section was so seductive! Oranges! Pineapples! Bananas! Apples! I wanted them all, and there was nothing to stop me!

I went up and down every aisle, restocking my pantry of everything from butter and spices, soup bases to beans. I spent something like $600, and it was one of the best shopping experiences of my life.

And then I got home and realized I’d bought the normal account of apples I would’ve if I’d had a sudden urge for apples. And that would’ve been okay, if I hadn’t also bought the same “urge-satisfying” amount of bananas, and oranges and strawberries and …

It was a huge effort to get through all the fruit before it went bad, but I did that as well, and I loved it.

Anyway, OP, to answer a question you didn’t ask: based on previous experience and the current contents of my house, I’m pretty sure I have enough food for about four months, even if I don’t buy anything new. But, yeah, the recipes will get increasingly weird as time progresses, and the last carb-heavy month will be somewhat grim.

It’s stealing our water, poisoning our land, is helping erode trust in institutions and each other, hallucinates, gives bad advice and worse summaries, bothers our hearing, raises our electricity rates dramatically, all but ensures we won’t meet our climate goals, offers us nothing of value, is something none of us wanted and most of us hate, is constantly being pushed down our throats, and is intended to allow the wealthy to access the benefits of the talented while preventing the talented from accessing the benefits of wealth.

AI is a cancer and must be destroyed.

I get a farm share during the growing season. So every week I sit down with whatever I’ve gotten from the farm and clean, chop, dice, slice, etc. Then I make two large batches of food from whatever I’ve gotten from the farm that week, and some side stuff as well. Those get portioned info single-serving containers; half of them to into the fridge, the other half into the freezer.

Then I take everything that hasn’t been used in a dish, and I try to make a variety of salads - spicy, savory, sweet, fruity, cheesey etc. I make 10-12 salads - one for every lunch and dinner for the work week. Greens go on the top so they’re not crushed, crunchy stuff goes in a Ziploc on the side, and an old pill bottle of dressing gets tucked in as well.

Then I go over everything that wasn’t used in a salad. If it’s snack-appropriate, servings go into snack-sized ziplocs, with an old pill bottle of dip/dressing if appropriate. Anything still left over may get frozen to be used as ingredients later in the year, or processed and canned, pickled or dehydrated.

The first part of the week, I eat freshly made meals, salads and sides; the latter part of the week, I eat something from the freezer for mains and sides, and a salad from the fridge. I usually have 40-45 servings of 12-15 different main courses available, so I don’t really get tired of stuff.

My goal each week is to use up or process everything from that week’s harvest; and my goal each spring is to finish eating everything in the freezer and pantry before the next season gets fully underway.

Some of my standards: eggplant Parmesan, stuffed peppers and stuffed tomatoes, zucchini boats, twice-baked potatoes, vegetable pizza, French onion soup, seven-layer casserole, mashed turnips, pickled beets, sweet potato pie, pumpkin pie, blueberry pancakes, strawberry muffins, raspberry jam, butternut squash soup, lettuce soup, early greens frittatas, vegetable stirfries, cranberry sauce, cranberry scones, apple turnovers, spinach salad, peach kuchen, baked apples, feta-stuffed baked tomatoes, cinnamon roasted baked potatoes, kale chips, pumpkin and squash seeds, roasted squash, corn soup, corn salsa, chili, tomato salsa, tomato paste, marinara, pickled garlic and garlic confit, stuffed cabbage, celeriac stuffing, current scones, 9-bean soup, green bean casserole, daikon gratin, mushroom pot pie, veggie pot pie, colcannon, strawberry and rhubarb crisp, granola, etc.

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You think he knows or cares what a Nobel Prize actually looks like? Get a fake medal from MedalsAreUs, spray paint it gold, put it on a really fancy ribbon and put it in a pretty box.

No one would dare point out it was fake, and even if it he realized it himself, he’d never mention it to anyone else.