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Cake day: August 26th, 2023

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  • Plain white basmati rice.

    One cup rice. If it’s not washed, wash it.

    2 1/4 cups water.

    1 heaping teaspoon salt.

    Put rice, salt, and water in pot.

    Bring to boil. Stir a little to keep rice from sticking too much.

    Soon as it boils, take off heat, put heat to low, then put pot back on heat and put a lid on it.

    ~ 20 minutes later, check. Should not be any water in the bottom of the pot. If no water, eat!












  • user replaceable battery?

    I’m no apple fan, but some of these features don’t really mean much, like the screen refresh rate, data transfer rate, or codec support. Pretty small subset of users are going to care about these, the vast majority of people just browse, play simple games, and maybe run a map or spotify or whatever.

    That said, the 16 is built to use Apple’s AI, and that’s pretty much reason enough for me to not want to go anywhere near it. I’ll buy an older model before I support this AI crap.








  • These are mostly shootings that happened in the vicinity of a school. Natives attacking a schoolhouse while settlers are essentially at war with them. Targeted attacks on individuals who work at the school. The actual intent of using a school and everyone in it as random targets to be slaughtered in some act of pointless revenge or whatever doesn’t happen until much later.

    So shootings in the vicinity of schools is definitely not new, but shootings as a deliberate act of terror or screwed up revenge is definitely something that has taken off since the 1980’s.



  • They’re paid by the job, not by the hour.

    IOW they get paid a fee for the visit, a fee for any tests, etc.

    Thank modern insurance for that.

    They do not get paid any extra to have a conversation with you or to spend actual time with you to discuss whatever issues you are facing. I think the caveat is more that the GP/PCP is more likely to speed by you as they’ve got 20 more patients to see that day and a specialist will probably spend more time with you because they’re only trying to work on one issue rather than deal with weird pains, blood tests, talk to you about your weight, etc…