A recent new hire at work messaged me earlier this week on Teams to ask "Do you use Teams?" I replied yes. But based on the times that they've messaged me since then (lunch hour when I show as "unavailable" as well as after hours) I think what they MEANT to ask was "are you instantly available at all hours?" No. No I am not.
Hey PDX folks! What local organization(s) do you think is/are doing the most effective job at combating homelessness? I'd like to donate a portion of my new raise.
I'm obviously not the arbiter on what is or isn't antisemitic hate speech. But I keep seeing vague claims that the protests have been making antisemitic chants, etc. I can't find any details on these supposed chants.
Clearly antisemitism is bad and wrong. But is this just one of those cases where anti-zionism is being mislabeled? Or is there seriously a problem with antisemitism in these protests?
Much probably comes down to how you define it. If you believe "from the river to the sea" is antisemitic, then absolutely.
I am not fully sure about the history (though I have looked into it a little) and can see arguments on both sides. That said, all of the people, the students, I have talked to seem to be using it a support of Palestine rather than an attack against Jewish people.
But it lives in the gray area where one can interpret it whichever way fits their views, it seems.
@FantasticalEconomics@Karstan “From the river to the sea?” I remember Netanyahu using that in a speech recently. I guess he must be antisemitic. Oh, wait, it’s not antisemitic when you use it to mean exterminating the Palestinian people. My bad.
@Karstan they've been working on that for a while. Will be neat for the travel e-bike on a plane. (Though I wonder why we can't just pop cylindrical cells into a compartment.)
The owner and CEO of the company I work for just "liked" my 20 year work anniversary on LinkedIn. Should I mention to him that if he really liked having me in this position, he probably should have given me a raise sometime in the last 4 years?
Anyway, the only reason I logged in to that hellsite is because I just decided to actively look for another job.
This is my first year in a LONG time that I'm not using one of those bullshit tax filing services like Turbotax. Just finished filling out my tax forms myself. Fortunately I'm getting refunds for both state and federal taxes because a) there's no way this is gonna be postmarked today 😆 and b) it just occured to me that I don't have a checkbook so I would've had to go get a cashiers check if I'd owed.
@Karstan oh I was remembering wrong, except at the west end on one side? The network is so patchy right there. I think 11th might have been one of the annexation boundaries, where there's curb and sidewalk on one side but not the other.
I dunno why they don't just bring back airships and fill them with hydrogen. It's cheap and plentiful, our technology is FAR beyond what it was 100 years ago, and I can't imagine hydrogen is any more dangerous than JET FUEL.
My older sister, a doctor, and her middle-school aged child both have nasty cases of COVID. My sister only masks when seeing patients (not in other parts of her hospital) and my niece not at all. She's been calling me daily to complain about how unfair everything is. So far I've managed to only point out once that they probably wouldn't be sick if they wore n95s regularly.
Since 99% of the #vegan fake meats out there contain soy, wheat, corn, nuts and/or coconut oil (foods I can't have) I've been developing my own protein patties. Just something to give me a break from ALL-LEGUMES-ALL-THE-TIME. My latest version is mostly pea protein powder, tapioca flour, and chickpea/fava bean flour (along with stuff to add flavor).
But without access to a commercial pressure cooker/extruder I'm stuck on how to add texture. I tried jackfruit but it didn't play well. Thoughts?
I'm doing some searches for natural fiber athletic clothing (namely running shirts) and ALL the natural fiber (plant-based, I don't consider wool to be a natural fiber) clothing brands are almost exclusively for women's bodies. Not that I'm against wearing something branded for women if it fits me okay. But I'm not seeing anything that fits that bill. :/
Just heard NPR describe Barbara Lee as "really far to the left" and then support that description by playing a sound bite of her saying "killing 25,000 civilians; it's catastrophic and it will never lead to peace". 🤦
I'd like to live in a world where "killing innocent people is wrong" isn't an extremist view.
@Karstan@seachanger The new cute thing for the murderous moderate is to refer to Black people and their allies as "Far Left" and it shouldn't be a surprise. Rev. Dr. King was considered a communist because reasons too.
NPR desperately wants to be everyone's pal, and that's one of the central weaknesses of the culture they reflect. If it means making Black folks look extreme, they would call that serving the audience.
@Karstan Just have a float valve that stops before it is empty. Valve at the outlet/ lower point would be the most effective at holding the siphon, and most prone to freezing, and is it mechanical or pneumatic or... Maybe just a small-ish tube and lower sump that stays full, needs to be primed once per rain event, that could be done with a pump, or fill a garden hose with water and close valves at each end, get it in place and open them.
@enobacon I like it! I'll definitely investigate and test something out this summer. The biggest hurdle is going to be finding a spot below the elevation of the sump pump but still on my property. Not a deal killler but could drastically simplify things during an event like this.
Of course, there's a sewer line not 4 feet away and definitely lower than the pump well... 😬