Legend has it that you can drink beer instead. A decent IPA should do it, or a bunch of decent IPAs and you won’t care

Pulled pork. Yesterday I smoked a 12 pound pork shoulder for 9 hours, and made tons of macaroni salad, so I’m set for meals this week!

I vaguely remember live tv of men walking on the moon. Not the first guy though, I’m not that old

You guys have all the fun! Most dreams I remember seem to be about fire or spiders

You may also have a freezer not working correctly: should follow OP’s recommendation of de-cluttering, but also clean the door seal and make sure it’s in good shape, and remove any ice accumulation.

Most consumer freezers will run a de-icing stage. They intentionally warm up for a little bit to melt accumulated ice. However when you melt ice cream then refreeze without churning, it freezes harder. A non-cluttered freezer should complete its de-icing without melting ice cream. A freezer with an effective door seal will have more consistent temperatures (and use less energy), without melting ice cream.

Alternatively, many chest freezers do not have a de-icing cycle so ice cream should remain softer despite the lower temperature those run at. Unfortunately I can’t claim to have verified this because ice cream gets consumed too quickly and never makes it to the chest freezer

It’s your freezer. I’ve also been buying Tillamook lately because it is softer and creamier: I can scoop it with an ice cream scoop. I certainly can’t drop a spoon in it, nor can I usually scoop it without destroying a normal spoon. I have to assume that you’re either using hyperbole or your freezer is not working correctly

Maybe I’m spoiled with fiber but I know I’d never want to go back, even just for video calls. Give how over-provisioned and glitchy most internet connections are, you do need a huge margin of overcapacity to get a reliable call in.

But yeah, as the other guy said, you’re going to need fiber to the town for more than a couple people. Even cable internet needs fiber to the neighborhood.

Thanks for finding the link and posting it.

I see they do want employed people, but I still say investing community fiber would be a better draw for people who can work from home

Retirees. There are millions of workers in the DC/Baltimore area, looking for a cheaper place to retire. This is sort of in the area and much cheaper.

My ex-SIL frequently spoke about looking over the border into West Virginia as a place to buy cheap land for retirement, however her priority was access to breweries and being able to visit the city, but Cumberland is awfully far out for that

Start with bringing in the fiber. I can deal without overnight delivery, a good sushi place or a brewpub, but I draw the line at fiber

Is there any Lemmy hosted in the US? Texas can put on a stunt against any US instance, but don’t see them even trying for anything from the rest of the world. Too much work/money with too little chance of success.

I wish I knew 3 vegans (or if they tell me who they are). While I have no plans to go there, I’ve been on a kick of learning to cook for other cultures. It’s been a wonderful experience learning to prepare new foods and even helping my teens experience a much more diverse cuisine than otherwise. I’m all for learning to prepare some vegan meals, but so far just lookin at recipes online is not giving me enough “flavor”

I’m most persuaded by the environmental argument for veganism and am totally open to less animal products or fewer meat days

Well I’m not wearing pants, but that’s because I work from home and only have to look dressed in Zoom!

I have to say that I consider moving hard left over my adult life to be maturation. When I was younger, I did believe that Republicans were fiscally conservative, I did believe they cared anbout family values, I did believe their claims about small government and trickle down . But over time I realized they really weren’t anny of those and I was just getting trickled upon. Over time, their claims have been getting farther from the truth, and their policies more spiteful and mean, more harmful. Most importantly I focus on building a better future, yet Republican policies tend to rob the future to enrich someone now. Republican policies make life harder on most people in order to ease the lives of wealthy. Republican ideas of family and family values differ from any Christian ideal I’m familiar with, and really aren’t connected to reality

You can go across the whole range of natural disasters and find that generally true. Human abuse of our environment make the disaster more likely and likely to be worse, but there’s not a direct involvement nor could you identify a singular entity as the cause.

Unfortunately it’s still all an “act of god” with regard to identifying blame

The only real solution is taxing ahead of time to mitigate an entity’s share of directly caused harm. For example oil drillers are supposed to post a bond to cap the drill site and clean up the hazard. Of course there’s another question about whether that bond is sufficient, or they are able to dodge responsibility, and why the “pro-business” politicians in charge are so ready to wreck the environment for their constituents

I know we’re supposed to hate Apple here, but this is a big reason I’m excited about the upcoming event. I really like their path of on-device AI. I’ve been reading some of their case studies on making models work in limited memory situations and they’re already using their own soc with multiple specialized processing nodes that you can imagine being extended to support on device ai. Now let’s find out what they can deliver

No WiFi please. There are much better technologies for home automation.

Matter/Thread has the potential to make this happen. Finally a common network across both wired and local low powered mesh-based networks that’s easy to use and can do pretty much whatever anyone would need.

Lots of hype, but very slow rollout means we’re just not seeing that potential develop. You really need to use older tech as well, which keeps it from being available to non-techies

Maybe, but cars are already pretty good about reading signs.

It’s the lack of signs that’s the problem. Self-driving cars are pretty good on a well marked and signed road: if that’s all it took, we’re there. It’s the ubiquity of exceptions and edge cases that’s the problem.

My car recently did a one month trial of self-driving and it was a lot of fun. Also eye-opening. It did work really well on well-marked roads. However it also made me notice just how poorly marked most are. For example, it was great about staying centered between lane lines. However most local roads don’t paint the edge lines, or even the center line is worn off on many roads. Then the car is confused. I can’t even imagine what the car would do if everything were covered with snow, which does happen a lot around here

Amazon basics, stainless steel 1liter, $21

I “splurged” on a cool looking glass one that lights up when in use for $30, during Covid. I was concerned I’d never use it and I really don’t, but one of my teens drinks tea and the other is always up for hot chocolate so it’s gotten plenty of use

That looks so cool. I might have to try that.

How has it been with staying place? Tension rods don’t always stay reliably. I’d prefer something permanently mounted

I think it was CityNerd whose video I recently watched where one of the points was too many local flights still in Acela corridor.

Acela is the closest US has to a high speed train and connects cities with huge populations, transit and the right distance for hsr. It’s hugely popular and has taken many flights out of the air and cars off the road, but it’s not enough. It’s still the most congested airspace in the US and there are 450 flights/day between major cities within the Acela service area. Current Acela levels of service are way below what people are demanding and it’s not enough. Nowhere near enough. Those 450 flights every day entirely within the Acela service area shouldn’t exist. We need train service good enough to start banning local flights