I don’t live in the US, where I live specifically we have water at a flat rate like you but in other areas of the country there are water meters and people get water bills.

There is talk that we may have water meters in my city soon. I’m actually looking forward to it. People think it’s a new bill they didn’t have before but really it’s a different way of paying the same bill. The bonus is that if you cut your water usage (or were already a low user) you can reduce your bill and pay less than you did before.

The other reason it’s a good thing is that it’s estimated a huge proportion of our water is lost to underground leaks on private property. Without water meters they have no way to track down what property has the leak, so property owners aren’t even aware they are there.

Reading through Geologic time scale, it defines an age as equivalent to a chronostratigraphic stage, which it says are normally millions of years. But you’re right, interestingly the current Meghalayan age only started 4,200 years ago.

It seems all the recent ages are only a few thousand years each (until 2018 the last 10,000 or so were one age, but this was split in three in 2018).

After all that reading I still didn’t really understand how they decided that this was a new age.

But anyway, I agree there isn’t going to be any difference between 2,000 and 4,000 years so we might as well consider Pompeii fossilised even if not strictly true under the definition. I’m just surprised we consider anything within human history to be a previous geological age, but it seems we do.

I store mine digitally, but don’t take any special precautions.

My kids are aware I journal but haven’t shown any special interest yet. They are still young and only learning to write. It’s something I’d like to encourage for them, but I’d like them to do it with a pen and paper so I might need to change my approach for a while for us to do it together. Something I’ll do if they start to show interest.

Is Pompeii from a past geological age?

2000 years ago doesn’t seem important on geological time scales.

Oh that’s a good idea! We have some of those. I didn’t think about that. I think that would be ok, thanks for the suggestion!

Sweet thanks. There aren’t dimensions so was wondering.

It looks perfect so thanks for the suggestion!

Ah yip they still have them. Did you get the full size or the mini?

Thanks for the suggestion! Where did you get it from?

Ah right, I get it. There aren’t many things that fit into this category.

Let’s be honest here, if it was as close as you’re implying, a solid 50% or more of people would not have avoided the accident. Just look around when you’re out driving and see how many people are paying that close attention. I still think auto braking is better than nothing. Remembering cars have ABS and you’d still be able to steer around as needed. Presumably the car would let you override by pressing the accelerator.

Well so far I don’t wrap them at all. When I was a kid they were in a plastic bag but I’d prefer to avoid that.

The benefit to cars auto braking is that cars can start braking a second before a person, with a much quicker reaction period. Plus we saw in your video how many people driving are paying attention 😅.

But this is not an argument for self driving, cars can and do have this function with the driver also paying attention for the best of both worlds.

This is actually a perfect use case for a car controlling itself. Automatically applying emergency brakes is something cars (not just self driving cars) have been doing for a while now (in higher end cars).

The thing that puts me off a Tesla (other than the owned by a nazi who bought his way into government thing) is that the fatality rate is double the average, and the weird doors that unless you have been explicitly shown the emergency handle, you’re trapped inside after an accident because the normal door opening latch loses power as part of requirements to not electrocute emergency personnel.

The Cybertruck is scarier, because the emergency personnel will struggle to break a window to get you out or use the jaws of life to cut you out on account of the armoured doors and bullet proof windows.

I have a 4 year old starting school soon. Anyone got tips for a good lunch box?

I’ve never been too happy with the ones the other kids have. Having compartments is good but then it screws you over when you want to put a banana in.

I’m wondering if the answer is just a big open lunchbox with smaller containers inside?

I’ve been thinking about the discussion the other day about ice packs to keep things cool if you want to put in something that isn’t going to like being warm, but wouldn’t that attract condensation and make sandwiches all wet?

If I’m honest I’m actually wondering why none if those drivers were paying attention. Cars blow tyres or otherwise stop, it’s not limited to misbehaving teslas. The tesla wasn’t braking hard and suddenly, it just slowed down.

In my mind the drivers should have been paying more attention.

Sorry, I know we like to hate on teslas here. I still wouldn’t buy one (or be a passenger).

There isn’t really a reason for the app not to fake your journey through the tunnel. It knows you’re about to enter a tunnel, and it knows you will probably lose GPS signal. It should just show you driving through that tunnel until an estimated time you should exit, then if you don’t reconnect in time it should pause at that spot until you catch up.

It does, but I’m still interested in the line of thought (even if hypothetically).

Who decides if vaccines, blood transplants, or stem cells count as hurting people?

If the government banned all three, would it be ok to stop anyone advocating for them from entering the country?

If you’re using Nextcloud All In One then it’s easy to enable it in the AIO settings.

If you’re not, I suggest looking into it. It’s the new officially recommended way of installing and it’s been great.

Nextcloud has an export/import data function but at the time I did it I only had a few GB of data so not sure how well it scales.

Only when they enable it 😆. We are also here waiting with excitement but it’s nice to know there is someone else that can be the guinea pig 😋

Thanks for the links. I read through both, I think I will read this book when I get a chance. I already dislike facebook so much that it will be hard to drop any lower on the scale, but it’s good to reinforce why.