To be clear, please continue to enjoy your food the way you want it. Just know what the words that exit your mouth mean. Life shouldn’t be safe, and many of life’s greatest pleasures are not safe.

Is it a Canadian beef problem? Nah, it’s just a problem with the definition of “safe food”. If the food is not cooked to 165F, then any bacteria, fungi, and parasites that are present could still be alive. There are no guarantees that the beef didn’t have tapeworms, and since ground beef is usually from multiple cuts, there’s a larger chance that a tapeworm has been ground up and spread throughout. It’s a tiny chance, but it’s still a chance. Steaks are less of a risk, because it’s a single cut, and the chef can visually inspect it.

The waiver is stupid, but it has less to do with capitalism and more to do with the legal system. People sue for anything and everything, and I don’t blame companies for trying to defend themselves from that. They asked the dude to sign a waiver, because they’re afraid he doesn’t understand the risks and might sue if he gets sick.

Funny thing is: in this case the guy didn’t understand the risks. He thought they were saying their beef is sketchy. What they were really saying is: all ground beef not cooked to 165F could be sketchy. I think he’s dumb, because he doesn’t know that a medium cooked burger involves risk but has been requesting it everywhere he goes. If he had known what a medium burger is, he would’ve just said “yeah yeah yeah”, signed, and ate the burger like an adult.

I’m not you pal, buddy. (but we might be friends now)

Nah, the disgusting part is the consequences of factory farming and humanity’s domination of the planet and desire for meat.

Well-done burgers are the band-aid for the deeper problems.

Dude is incredibly stupid, because he’s been ordering under-cooked burgers without any conception of what he’s requesting for “Bob”-know-how-long.

He might like medium-cooked burgers, but he has no idea what that even means. The food at the hotel isn’t less-safe than other places. They just didn’t assume he read the fine-print at the bottom of the menu and were the first to inform him that it’s not safe.

Yeah, they delivered the waiver at the wrong time, but dude should’ve already known what he was ordering wasn’t safe. I order over-easy, soft-boiled, and sometimes sunny-side-up eggs. I know the risks, and I accept them.

Unless you put an a ton of effort into it, ground beef is only safe well-done. To get safe under-cooked ground beef, you need to discuss your intentions with your butcher and grind the beef yourself. Even with grinding a single, quality cut of beef, you’re still gambling.

Also, fuck you, I’m not your friend guy, here’s a rocket ship ().():::::::::::::::::D~~~~~~~

Dumb American disgusted by his own stupidity

Yeah, this is one of those constant annoyances that you kinda just live with. It doesn’t matter that much, because compound words were at some point not one word, and there may be separate words that you use today that will join together during your career. Electronic mail became e-mail became email. As long as the casing doesn’t hide the meaning, you’re doing it right. Also be consistent. Don’t recreate such monstrosities as XMLHttpRequest.

Those glasses are hideous, but the Superhero Burger looks reasonable.

I love that they couldn’t get Jim Carrey to do the commercial, so they just kept him out of frame or unlit.

Let’s hope MLS solves some of this, but there is a certain amount of necessary complexity with syncing encryption keys for groups as people come and go.

I’m very annoyed by issues decrypting messages in private conversations. Nothing is changing, so it should just work after the first message, but no. Random messages can’t be decrypted unless I refresh. Very frustrating.

Sounds great!

And I think we can define the a fair win condition thusly: if timeanddate.com reports an average high for a month in BC as a whole or in any regional district greater than 50 C before October 2028, you win; otherwise I win.

The loser donates 50 CAD to a food bank of the winner’s choice.

Historic weather links that’ll be useful for checking the data (change the URL for the month & year you’re checking):

• BC
• Alberni-Clayoquot
• Capital
• Cariboo
• Central Coast
• Central Kootenay
• Central Okanagan
• Columbia-Shuswap
• Comox Valley
• Cowichan Valley
• East Kootenay
• Fraser Valley
• Kootenay Boundary
• Metro Vancouver
• Mount Waddington
• Nanaimo
• North Okanagan
• Okanagan-Similkameen
• Squamish-Lillooet
• Strathcona
• Sunshine Coast
• Thompson-Nicola

I’m referring to the “High & Low Weather Summary” table. I’m sure we’ll both just be watching to see what happens in Thompson-Nicola regional district.

This seems fair to me, because we both of pretty good odds of winning. With how extreme the weather events are getting and how rapidly things are accelerating, there’s a good chance that we could see a 5C increase in the high for Thompson-Nicola by October 2028, but maybe not, and any of the other districts could surprise us.

Well, I can set an appointment in my calendar, if we can agree on terms. We might as well have some fun at the end of the world. 🙃

I like 5 years for timeframe (that would be end of summer 2028), and >50 C vs. ≤50 C for temperature.

I’m good for up to 100 CAD.

I’d be good with defining the measurement as monthly average high temperature for the southern half of BC, but I can’t see anywhere that does that. I feel like including the top half tips things in my favor.

timeanddate.com seems neutral and has good averages for BC as a whole. 10 years seems more fair if we’re doing the whole BC average.

What are your thoughts?

Well fuck me

EDIT: You’re actually underselling it. It hit 49.6 C

So, it pretty much already has hit 50 in BC. It’ll probably break 50 next time a heat dome hits.

Lytton really shouldn’t count when talking about BC as a whole though. I still stand by it being a couple decades before we see 50 C across large regions.

Myst, Superhot VR, Beatsabre

That’s a great idea! I’ll look for one next time I’m out thrifting.

50 C would take a lot of roasting to get to; we’re pretty far north and there’s a lot of vegetation. It might be a couple decades. With the heat domes hitting Texas, they’re still just peeking at 45 C in non-desert areas, but low 40s would be devastating up here, and we could see that in the next 10 years.

The agency says daytime temperatures are expected to reach 38 C in the Boundary region, while temperatures in the south and central Okanagan, south and north Thompson, and Fraser Canyon regions will reach up to 36 C.

That’s gonna be toasty!

1. Code in Emacs or Jetbrains (depends on language and laptop cpu)
2. Run make to build, run, debug, or clean (I like makefiles for documenting basic tasks)
3. Commit with git when chunk of work is done

I tend to do everything locally on bare metal. I never liked putting stuff in containers or running a vm.

VS Code is a great editor, though. It actually feels a bit like Emacs.

The “personal responsibility” re: climate change bullshit is toxic and plays straight into the capitalist narrative.

I totally agree, but people also need to be careful when they’re trying to place blame in general. My main question is: how could it have possibly been any different? Anger and blame are pointless and unhelpful. Unless it’s like the oil company situation where they knew and then actively deceived. Those fuckers should be beaten to death in front of their families (this is totally a joke, of course, or is it? idk).

Much of this comes down to human nature and one thing leading to the next like dominoes. The US is setup as a representative democracy & humans can’t see beyond the tip of their noses -> people vote for today and ignore the future -> politicians don’t risk their jobs over something their voters don’t care about -> climate change kills a shitload of people, eliminates snowmelt, and scorches bread baskets -> mass migrations, war, famine, chaos. The most important questions is: what will we do with today to shape the future?

In the US, climate change/global warming has rarely been important to voters.

Here are the “issues of the day” for the presidential elections since the 60s (scraped from here):

• 2020: COVID-19 pandemic, racial tensions, deeply polarized electorate
• 2016: Health care costs, Economic inequality, Terrorism, Foreign policy (Russia, Iran, Syria, Brexit), Gun control, Treatment of minorities, Immigration policy, Shifting media landscape
• 2012: Role of government, Spending & tax rates, Nuclear Iran, Arab Spring, Global warming, Campaign finance
• 2008: Great Recession, Financial panic, Bailouts, Iraq War
• 2004: Terrorism, Iraq War, Job growth
• 2000: Impeachment, Presidential ethics, Good economy
• 1996: Waco standoff, Oklahoma City bombing, Good economy
• 1992: Persian Gulf War, Fall of Berlin Wall and Breakup of Soviet Union, Recession
• 1988: Stock market crash, Iran-Contra, Progress in US-USSR relations (INF Treaty)
• 1984: Recession and Subsequent Recovery (start of bull market for stocks), Defense Spending
• 1980: Iran hostage crisis, USSR invasion of Afghanistan (Summer Olympics boycott), Inflation
• 1976: Watergate (Impeachment, pardon of Nixon)
• 1972: Vietnam War, International Relations (Detente with USSR, Visit to China), Watergate
• 1968: Vietnam War, Civil Rights, Assassinations (Robert Kennedy, Dr. Martin Luther King)
• 1964: Great Society (Civil Rights), Vietnam (Gulf of Tonkin), Good Economy
• 1960: Sputnik/space (keeping up with USSR technologically)

Regular people aren’t totally innocent here.

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Landlords that deny installing AC units are going to kill people over aesthetics. Period. There is no future where they aren’t necessary. The next killer heat dome could be next year. 619 dead in 2021 was just the beginning, a warning of what is to come.

Probably some sort of crime. It’s definitely not sanitary.

The fingertip is believed to belong to the sender of the letter who suffers from psychiatric problems

Well, that will show him! /s

Honestly, it’s just sad; this person needs help.

https://archive.ph/WMbw2