There’s an interesting argument that honey can be vegan, by that criteria.

A bee colony is not generally trapped in a hive. They are capable of leaving, if it’s not to their standards, or they find somewhere between. The catch is that artificial bee hives are amazing for bees, compared to natural locations. The only catch is the “rent” taken by the eldritch creatures. They never take too much however, only taking excess the hive doesn’t need.

Basically bees could be argued to be paying rent, in honey, for high quality accommodation.

The false choice trick either works really well, or they clock it quickly and leave you for dust. Our minion caught on far too quickly.

Powering through the tantrums is sometimes all you can do. My record was about 30 minutes or so. By the end I was more wowed by their stamina than stressing. Once they realise that tantrums don’t work well, they move on to other tactics (for better or for worse).

We seem to have dodged that phrase so far. At three, her goto was “you’re not my favourite!!!”. The hardest thing was taking their feelings seriously, without laughing at the cuteness.

If it helps, training them to negotiate helps a lot. It lets them get a “win” while doing what you want. It also requires higher level thought, which seems to help suppress emotional tantrums. Finally, it encourages them to make known what is actually important to them.

Very rarely, if ever.

The only time it is justifiable is if it’s either pre-agreed or if there is a threat to the child.

If there is reason to think they are being groomed, or used in some way, then yes. E.g. a room search after getting information that they are holding drugs for a dealer. They should be treated like a police search. Only done when there is real reason, rather than just fishing.

If it’s pre-agreed that a device isn’t private, then the rules change slightly. A younger child’s phone or computer should be subject to respectful monitoring. It should also be part of an open and equitable discussion on boundaries and rules. Even here, the goal should be to protect the child from dangers, not to snoop on what they are chatting with friends about beyond that.

Privacy, is an important thing for children. It needs to be provided with guard rails initially, but should be respected as best you can.

That’s literally one of the advantages of induction over resistive. Resistive heat an element, that heats the pot. Inductive use a magnetic field to induce a current in the pot. That electric current then heats the pot directly.

The only heat in the stovetop is either bleed back from the pot, or resistive losses, which are quite low.

He played politics, while modernising Britain’s defences. He then fell on his sword, politically, so that Churchill could lead without too much political baggage to deal with.

Britain would have been flattened, without his delaying actions.

Wars have a weird amount of holding back. Going after civilian infrastructure is often seen as “ungentlemanly”, basically bad PR. Most Ukraine attacks like this seem to be to prove they can, not to cause significant civilian damage.

Basically, Russia has a number of nasty options, currently unused. Ukraine is also unusually dependent of foreign help, and so it is vulnerable to the world opinion changing. Ukraine is mostly proving its threats are viable.

You’ve basically summed up what I was trying to say better than I did. To Linux users, bug reports are a good thing. They help fix things. To middle management, bug reports are a bad thing, they hurt their bonuses.

One group needs to change, and Linux users are impressively stubborn.

It’s anecdotal , but I heard that Linux bug reports are actually a problem for some game developers. When 1% of your customer base submits 10-20% of your bug reports, middle managers get upset. Apparently several games have had Linux support dropped because of this.

While Linux often has more bugs in games (and so more reports), Linux users have also been conditioned to report bugs better. It helps a lot in FOSS etc.

A horse rider I know once had to get an x-ray. They asked him when he broke his neck, since they couldn’t find any notes about it. He didn’t know he had broken it.

Best he can tell, it was from a fall a few years earlier. He spent 6 months grumbling about how slow it was to heal at his age. All the while, 1 wrong twist and his spinal cord could have been cut.

I tend to refer to them as informational Vs conditioning ads.

Informational are actually useful. They let you know a company exists, or a new product is available.

The conditioning ads are the evil ones. They are basically hacking your brain. We often shop based on familiarity, rather than logic. We weigh seeing a product in an ad at almost the same level as a friend recommending it. Throw enough ads at someone and they default to “all my friends recommend it, it must be good.”

I would love to either block or ban conditioning adverts, without also banning informational ones. The former are a lot more slippery at trying to bypass blocks.

There is a path, from the ground, up your leg, across your torso (including your heart) and down your other leg.

This is the reason that downed high voltage power lines are so dangerous. Walking with a long stride can create enough of a differential to fibrillate your heart.

It actually takes all paths proportionally. This is partly why nearby lightning strikes are so dangerous. Even if the ground is a better conductor than your legs, enough current can still flow to stop your heart.

Unfortunately we now need to deal with our own shit. We can’t just ship it halfway around the world and forget about it.

It’s a catch 22. A lot of good products die due to people not knowing they exist (or remembering).

I have no issues with informational based advertising. Basically the polite “we exist” or “we’ve got this now” type adverts. I take offence to adverts trying to mess with my mental familiarity levels. I’m doubly offended when they get aggressive with pushing that on me.

A great example is steam ads. It gives you some when you first start it. It’s trivial to skip or ignore them however. It also sits back and gets out of the way as soon as you’re not interested.

Studies like this aren’t useful against the minority of bigots. It is very useful to counter the shit they put out.

Studies like this give concrete facts that can be used to counter nebulous opinions in the uninformed. There will always be the bigots out there, but we need to cut down the uninformed supporters they rely on to spread their shit.

I have a smart home setup. I originally used a Pi. Unfortunately, it started to become unreliable after about 12-18 months. Apparently it quite a common issue with long term Pi systems.

I eventually changed to a small NUC. A bit less power efficient, but it’s been bomb proof for a few years now.

Having known people with PhDs, it’s closer than you think. It says more about people with PhDs however!

PhDs tend to be specialists. At the extreme end, they can approach idiot savants. Idiot savant is a relatively good way to describe an LLM.

I always knew he was an arsehole, but I thought he was at least a like minded arsehole, when it came to saving the planet.

The trapped kids incident also the first proper crack I noticed in his image. Now, I wouldn’t touch anything of his with a 40’ pole.

While Putin was likely acting on their interests, the current situation has gone completely pear shaped on that front. Putin is stuck. If he backs down, he’s dead, if he doesn’t win, he’s dead. He’s currently riding the limbo between those situations, hoping for a 3rd option.

If he died, the powers behind him would likely take the chance to disengage. The current situation is bad for business, and plans need to be re-thought. It wouldn’t fix things long term, but short term, they would likely back down.