Yes, I remember when I was a kid and my family built their house, it was a big deal that we were the first we knew with the new style phone jacks instead of those

Yeah that’s mighty frightening. Last time I was in that situation, I had no dependencies and it was bad enough. Now I have a mortgage, 2 kids in college, and am wondering if ageism would let me get another job of if I had to

My 401k is up, especially compared to the Trump crash in March but in general as well. Not enough to retire though. I still have a job but it’s looking precarious: lots of layoffs

Just got back from moving the second kid into his dorm room. College expenses for two kids are mighty frightening

Thanks

But aren’t Waymos all BYD? If it meets all safety standards for Waymo to register it, it should meet them for the rest of us …… in a sane world

YEAH CAPITALISM - no competition allowed. Protect us from those damn commies …… and their free market competition

Nope. Even with his name, nope. Even with hints at some of his music, nope. So I listened, nope. It is not the kind of music I would ever listen to nor do I follow celebrity “news”

pretty good commuter rail that you can take all the way to the state border north or south (idk about west - western mass is considered to be a fictional location by many Bostonians)

We really ought to have regular commuter rail to Springfield, but in the meantime ….

• Fitchburg line goes pretty far west
• Amtrak long distance takes one east-west train a day, and like one or two north-south train past springfield
• Pioneer Valley Transportation (PVTA) has a pretty good bus system, fare free to all!

The official statement linked here claims some actual violent terrorists used the services to coordinate attacks ….

Of course it also lists antifa and cop city protesters among them

They didn’t say anything about any investigative breakthrough. Cynical me went right to “it was so easy, why haven’t they been doing their jobs all along?”

Probably not. It’s an Apple thing that comes with iCloud. iPhones aren’t very popular here but maybe someone else can recommend generic/Android/Windows/Linux equivalents

This might even require a specific level of iCloud subscription, I don’t know, but I use

• password generator, including family sharing and cross device sharing. I believe even cross device passkeys but I’ve never tried
• “Hide my email” generates a unique forwarding email per site
• “private relay” maps me to a general location not tied to my mobile vendor

Whether through an app or web browser on any Apple or windows device, it autofills a login with unique generated email, unique generated password or passkey, and anyone trying to find my location through my connection will get a regional answer

For example, my login here is a unique address not used anywhere else and not tied to me any other way.

You’re using very secure options for a few specific areas, but security is about being systematic and comprehensive. There’s a lot of complexity, so a lot of potential holes. You probably don’t need better security on the places you already make good choices, you need to find a way to cover more possibilities.

If you’re talking about cloud accounts, there’s not much else you can do: it’s al up to the vendor.

Minor possibility: I use unique generated email addresses/usernames, in addition to unique generated passwords or passkeys. There’s authentications are hard to guess, different at every site, intruders can’t even easily connect my accounts at different cloud vendors

Thanks. Looks pretty good. Measurements might be tricky - I’ll have to see if I have a food scale but things measured as one packet will be a real challenge. And some of our ingredients aren’t translating into terms we use ………

What is “0.5 Pck vanillin sugar”?

Upvote for the rice cooker. A real game changer. Rice may not be that hard to make but you have to pay attention. So much better to have the rice maker handle it while you pay more attention to everything else

For cases where I’ve seen this and know the answer, you nailed it. No bake whatever are even easier to make and not as rich. I don’t know if anyone actually prefers them but people seem to prefer making them and some people feel less guilty eating them

You just have good taste

152 “essentisl” tracking cookies? No thanks

Yeah, no, I’m too impatient to bake a potato in the air fryer. Microwave is adequate and much faster, or propane grill is good and faster, or oven is higher quantity.

Given that the most typical use is spreading it on a slice of bread, I’ll argue, no I’m not out of touch, everyone else is. When the “serving size” can’t fill the expected use case, it’s not the consumer that’s wrong

A worthy trade. Massachusetts has fewer guns than most and you’re welcome to all of them if you annex us. Boston has had hundreds of years of friendship with Halifax, especially, and we’re all for joining up