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Volunteer tutor for refugees.
Volunteer tutor for refugees.
Yeah, but that’s just it, there is no one thing that fulfils all your needs if you are forced to use a particular tool, but it lacks privacy or freedom or other features.
I use chrome because I have to and also am curious and I need to know about how Google runs its shit. I run Firefox because of various features it has that are good for web development. I run Safari because it is fast and relatively private outside of the Apple ecosystem And has some great developer tools.
The effort of one keyboard twitch to move from one browser to the other is not really any amount of friction for me. It’s easier than switching from one tab to another inside the same browser, so I don’t get your fixation on a single tool.
And as a PS, I won’t touch Brave with a 10 foot pole anymore because of their Fuckery with crypto.
I, too, am forced to use Chrome for parts of my work.
I just run Chrome for that set of tasks. Then quit, or tab to Firefox for regular browsing.
This is SOP when dealing with uglies like google, microsoft, amazon, adobe, or meta: do the toxic thing or software they require, as sandboxed as reasonable, then get back to daily life and more knowable risks.
License plate:
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Decommissioned mines can be used as gravity batteries.
I think the topic is less about largesse and more about being badass at really, actually literally like totally, super fucking important work.
Sells for around $5. A power blender could make that for around $0.20 in ingredients.
You would have to make the equivalent of 80 of those 1.75l oat milks to pay off a refurbished vitamix blender. That’s about a year for our house. We buy organic oats in full 25kg bags and vacuum pack them, so I am considering this.
BIFL isn’t usually really ‘for life’ since we buy practical stuff as adults.
But… when I was born in the '60’s someone gave me a simple, elegant little steel cup and plate, with cartoon bears engraved in simple lines for decoration.
The plate is still in the cupboard with the general plate population, and the little cup is perfectly sized for a double shot, so it lives on top of the espresso machine and gets used daily, adding special value each time because it’s a joy to use, and old like me.
I make artisanal bread by hand, takes about 10 minutes total effort–less than a bread machine when you include cleanup–and I eyeball the ingredients. It was a big upgrade for me from the machine.
I totally agree… except for the high power blender. Those are a different category from cheap blenders, they do recipes impossible without the power. Nut milk is a good example, where if you drink a lot of the stuff you can pay off the blender in under a year with savings.
I stopped using a bread machine because it was too much work. Fussing over the recipe and cleaning the bloody thing, plus it is always no-stick coating inside with all the lovely forever chemicals.
I do a slack ‘no-knead’ dough (5 min work) then 8 hours later bake at high temp in a preheated cast iron dutch oven that I got used.
Everyone raves greedily about the results and it’s very forgiving to work with. Cleanup is simple, and the bread lasts 3 days on the cutting board, cut side down. Freezes really well, too.
Cost is three cups of flour and maybe some oats plus a little instant yeast and salt, and 450F of oven for 40 minutes.
I charge $90(CDN), pay myself around $40. Solo contractor with occasional support staff.
Need to up my rate, it’s a bit low for what I do, even though I’m no genius or expert specialist.
The irony is overbearing: an article about the fog of war, in a publication whose slogan is “Fighting Israel’s media war.”
They tell you right in the header that it is propaganda.
Hmmm, what would Krishnamurti do?
What does it say when you blatantly name your company after the surveillance tool of SAURON, and hardly anyone mentions it?
Believe them when they tell you who they are.
This week’s rental for me:
Not going to buy those things or pay someone to operate them. It’s a good deal.
It’s worth contemplating how absolutism influences our various cultures. Genocide feeds on it.
Giant springs are fucking scary. Energy is dangerous when you store a lot in one place.
“Specific hatred” does not equal “don’t like”.
Websearch “your city” plus refugee services. There will be government and NGO listings; try the NGO people first, just a phone call and tell whoever answers “I am a tutor who teaches XYZ and I am new to town. Looking to volunteer my time and tutor skills. Who do I contact?”
They’ll set you up. In Canada, you might need a criminal record check first.