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I believe they’re saying that Chipotle is helping OP by making it so OP doesn’t eat there.

Yeah, I understood :-)

Glad I could help, in a fun way!

Then/than and loose/lose mixups bother me every time I see them and it’s “fun” to interpret them as written rather than as they intended!

Exactly! They’ve got it all planned out!

I mean, their use of ‘THEN’ rather than ‘THAN’ indicates that they’ll soon adopt the socialist agenda, so there’s still hope!

Frank. No clue why, but at least 60% of the time, it’s Frank.

I’m glad these two are going to keep working together! Their writing styles complement each others very well.

All righty – I didn’t realize I somehow found myself in a 3 week old thread. In case it happens to anyone else, I’m going to send my reply anyways, but I’m not going to reply directly to him because I see no point in engaging with shithead racists 3-weeks later!

The school he used as an example:
https://www.dcnewsnow.com/news/local-news/virginia/loudoun-county/loudoun-co-schools-report-nearly-900-racial-slur-and-hate-speech-incidents-this-past-school-year/

Uh … 900 uses of racial slurs / racist behavior reported and more than half of them being the N-word … seems to me like maybe they deserved to taught that they’re being racist because … [shocker] they were being racist!

Also, ONE fucking example of a moderately sized (~435,000) suburb isn’t the smoking gun they think it is, even if it turned out to be accurate (which, this isn’t).

Details on the specific incident they’re likely whinging about though:
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/partisan-war-over-teaching-history-racism-stokes-tensions-us-schools-2021-06-23/

You’ll notice that there is zero proof of what he said, just that right wing whack jobs lost their fucking minds and got stirred into a fury because of the CRT boogeyman.

If you’re a single man with infants (under age 1) and/or children (under age 5) then, THEY are eligible for the benefits of the program. Women are specifically added in because the program is designed to also help pregnant, breastfeeding and/or postpartum women who have their own nutritional needs. Women who don’t meet those requirements are also not eligible.

So, you don’t get help with food for yourself, but you can get assistance for infants/children … there are other programs to help you.

Search terms used on Google in Incognito mode: single man with children WIC eligibility
Brings you to this page: https://www.joinproviders.com/state/illinois/wic/
Which has the below information:
There are four kinds of eligibility for WIC:

1. Categorical: you need to be a mom, child, or have custody of a child.

Moms have to be pregnant, up to six months past pregnancy, or up to your baby’s first birthday if you’re breastfeeding.

Children are eligible up to their fifth birthday.

Foster parents, guardians and single fathers who have custody of their children are also eligible.

1. Residential: You need to live in the state where you’re applying.

2. Nutritional: A health professional needs to determine if you are at “nutrition risk.” This might mean you have a medical condition like anemia, or a diet that could be healthier. You can see a health professional for free at a local WIC clinic.

3. Financial: Your household needs to make less than the amounts listed in the income limit table below to qualify for WIC. A pregnant woman counts as two (or more) household members. If you know you’re having more than one baby, count each one as a household member.

The top link for that search is for a page in IL, but I saw similar for other states.

Is that planes that are packed to the gills or private planes that actually have space that people aren’t crammed into?

Also, 3-4/6 liters of what? ICE cars and modern planes aren’t burning the same fuel, so I’m not sure what this is intending to portray by directly comparing how much of each (in liters) that they burn (serious question, no snark)

Agreed that they can’t get a 40G link when attaching to a 10G device, but the 40G QSFP can be split into 4 10G SFP+ connections instead

It’s scary because there is an incredible amount of data that can be gained just by knowing when your lights are turning on and off (when people leave/return for the day and when they’re on vacation are examples). Combine that with information on what IP Address the app is reporting from and you may be able to get a decent bit of location data even without officially querying for location.

Without an account, potentially having this information is bad enough but mandating an account and then having it tied to your email address is worse (since most people aren’t going to make a per-service address).

Right now, my Hue hub is prevented from accessing the Internet and everything using the local API works without issue, except the app is trying to force a TOS agreement and without agreeing I cant do anything with the official app (add/remove devices, adjust on/off state, adjust brightness, etc…). Home Assistant control works, so, my lights still come on automatically based on my motion sensors and my light switches through HA will still turn them on and off and adjust brightness and all that … If I were relying on the official app though, I’d have no choice but to agree to their TOS or would now have to take all the bulbs out.

This really sucks because I paid a shit ton for these bulbs vs their competitors because I liked that they allowed local control natively without needing to mess around with anything to get it to work and had a quality product … Had I known this would happen I definitely would not have paid the hefty surcharge I did and would have gone with a competing product.

You can enable an email address for it and then can email EPUBs to it, so can use it without paying more to Amazon.

Yeah, but, I don’t see how that really changes anything.

On a smaller instance (or one that’s defederated from others … in either direction), that might very well completely shift focuses.

For the Fediverse specific community, if you want one with the most chance of getting to the developers, use the instance that they’re on, otherwise, I’d think to just let the cultures develop and diverge naturally as they’re likely to.

To be fair, to some of us this is a feature not a bug.

A technology post on a technology/infosec/IT focused instance seems to have a COMPLETELY different focus and conversation than one on the larger instances, for example and I don’t want those mixed in with people saying that AI is a Jewish conspiracy to take over the world.

There are smaller dedicated art focused instances popping up too. I’d expect that they’re going to have a better set of conversations around those subjects than the same threads on a general instance and I don’t want those mixed up.

If it’s a subject I really want to see a lot of discussion about, I’ll look at multiple threads… can this mean that some subjects won’t have as good of a conversation because people aren’t bouncing off of each other? Yeah, absolutely and that frankly SUCKS, but, as stated, it also means that some of the niche conversations have a chance to grow where they may have previously just been unseen due to how many people are talking.

To me, they’re on different instances for a reason, let it grow organically. The ones that stand out will wind up being the main ones people use.

As for amount of users. A decent amount of those are likely alts people created when instances were having problems or just to try out the different locations.
Or, people just didn’t like the Fediverse for all the reasons you stated, which is also possible, but I don’t necessarily think chasing numbers should be the end all goal

Just because your dogs brain was transferred into a robot body that doesn’t need exercise doesn’t mean that the dog doesn’t still want to go for a walk!

Works great for me too and has tons of options and flexibility.

No clue what they’re talking about other than they clearly don’t like FOSS:
Like most FOSS software, it’s ugly and doesn’t work.

For me, I wouldn’t say it’s ugly either, FWIW

What We Do In The Shadows
Tucker and Dale VS Evil

Are the two that make me laugh no matter what.

Shoot Em Up too, but for different reasons.