Most people have taste receptors in their gut as well as on their tongue. It helps regulate how quickly your muscles contract to move stuff along through your intestine.

Some people don’t have as many, and some people build up a tolerance to capsaicin (in both their mouth and gut).

Dump it out and use it like any other popcorn. It’s pre-salted and the bag contains the oil you’d otherwise need to add.

But don’t put it in an air popper; the oil is likely to catch fire or just cause the kernels to burn.

And why would the army consider domestic tracking a threat? A threat to whom?

Pacifism isn’t the same as being a doormat. It doesn’t say he attacked anyone, just chased them out with a whip.

He is also reported to call his disciples to strap on their swords at one point though, and at least Peter took him literally. So he obviously wasn’t a “pacifism at all costs” kind of person.

And The Band Played Waltzing Mathilda comes to mind for me…. The Aussies already learned the lesson Americans are going to have to learn very soon.

Yup. He overturned their tables and yelled at them to get out of the temple.

Of course, that would be classified as terrorism today….

I’d be more likely to just assume delivery quality was going downhill and look for another streaming video hoster/provider. Why would someone link slow speeds to a plugin that filters out the stuff you don’t want?

Currently blocking ads consists of keeping uBlock Origin up to date. Not blocking ads generally means going to a different platform after a single ad roll.

I have no issues with pre-roll ads; it’s the interstitial ones that drive me away.

Pacifist yes — definitely not an anarchist. He instructed his followers to obey all laws in all situations that didn’t conflict with loving God and loving other people. However, he despised “tradition” and flaunted it constantly.

If they know I’m blocking their ads, why wouldn’t they just block the video altogether? That’s what they currently do.

If it’s already blocked, slowing it down to “blocked… but slower” seems rather pointless?

Regular store digital walkie talkies come with “encryption” these days, which is essentially an xor encryption on the channel packets. Trivial to decode, but the person has to first know what frequencies you’re on and then what shift you’re using.

So, it won’t stop a government from providing the decoded data as evidence, but it would likely stop anyone from knowing what you’re saying in real-time.

At an individual level, the more you know, generally the more miserable you are. This likely operates at a societal level too.

Depends on the action needed.

Personally, I feel like for health and safety items, after 48 hours the renter should be able to call someone to do the repair on their behalf and bill the landlord any reasonable fees / withhold that money from the next month’s rent.

Walkie talkies only :)

My kids don’t use LLMs because they take longer and do a worse job (still) than just writing it up themselves.

They DO use LLMs like people used to use Wikipedia, and Encyclopedia Brittanica before that: to surface information to investigate.

But I’ve taught them that writing is a method to communicate your knowledge, not to pass some sort of educational hurdle. So using ChatGPT would be useless anyway, as it doesn’t contain their insights.

It’s about protecting a world view that props up his value system by dismantling anything that might call it into question.

Just imagine what would happen if there was a protest to protect Palestinian immigrants.

LibreOffice is offline; each person can run the software in their own device to create and edit documents.

It’s features are equivalent to 2010 Office. That’s not necessarily bad, but it’s not how people usually work today.

Collabora lets you host documents on a central server and have multiple people edit at once, dynamically tracking changes and allowing full revision management. Or, you can keep your documents local and not host them if you don’t want to.

He pre-dates ALL CAPS. For him, that means it’s a new paragraph in a legal document or he forgot to turn off caps lock.

He’ll underline it instead.

You’d think when they asked him for his ID and he showed them his badge and ID card, they’d realize they got the wrong person.

What this illustrates is that ICE does a horrible job of checking people’s identity. It took validation by multiple state officers to get him released.