@Hosch250 I've been more thinking that if Yang doesn't get the nomination, Trump should offer him a senior advisory or cabinet position having to do with the economy. I'm sure Yang would be fine as a president, but really seems to have some stuff figured out with economic stuff, and might do a better job with that.
@pbm but you could get 'round it pretty quick. There seems to be something of a fad for calling circularly-challenged islands 'round' - consider the example of Round Island, Mauritius - especially given its proximity to the more obviously circular 'Serpant Island' next door. More confusingly still, while Round Island is inundated with reptiles, Serpant Island has no snakes. But I digress... — Strawberry3 hours ago
I wonder if the names got mixed up by accident somewhere in the process.
I can see the cartographer getting turned around and just putting the labels in the wrong places, and then not figuring it out until after the map got sent to the printer
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Open question for all y'all: This question: https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/166670/must-a-sapient-species-be-a-true-omnivore-to-exist/166672#166672 I have an answer that's received the largest single total of downvotes to date on this site. Now, I have no problem with getting that many downvotes if my answer is indeed stupid, but I'm pretty sure it's not. Is this usual?
The top comment also has more upvotes than the highest ranked answer on the question, currently. Also kind of unusual.
@Halfthawed Vegetarianism is in some ways a non-theistic religious belief to some people. Some people get mad when it looks like you're going to mess with their steak, and some people get mad if you look like you are going to eat a steak.
And the thing is, every human is different. Some people can get by really well with no animal proteins. Some people do really really poorly. And some people do bad if they get certain proteins. There isn't a 1 diet fits all solution, so you should listen to your body and doctor.
Yep. Most of my family is more or less allergic to soy, nuts, and/or beans.
For example, I love nuts, but can only eat limited quantities. I'm allergic to beans (they make me throw up; not medical-emergency type allergy--more inability to digest), and I hate soy (which is how my bean allergy started).
Some of my family love soy, and some can't eat it.
Meat is the only protein we can all eat.
And I can't eat bird (same issue as with beans, for some reason) and some of my family only eat beef prepared in certain ways. There's a reason we have just 7 meals to rotate :)
Heard a lady give a talk about how she was vegan for a number of years, and all of those raw greens did something unfortunate to her thyroid (iirc), so now she's basically allergic to most plants and has some weird health problems.
Basically, it's something they have really high in them that your thyroid normally makes, but when you get it naturally, your thyroid "forgets" how to make it.
Because it doesn't want to give you an overdose and also figures why waste the energy that could be used for something else.
Cooking them breaks it down, so when my family has them, we steam them.
They get pretty gross. Hot, melted leaves coated with olive oil. Blech.
I loved kale and cabbage in my teens. I sometimes wonder if I didn't have a shortage of whatever it was because I was growing so fast, and somehow my body knew it. I don't like them much now.
I have a lot of work to do. I'm thinking about stopping my current solution and starting from scratch, or I'd offer to quick finish and sell to you.
I stepped back from it for a couple months and realized I took the wrong path on one major thing, and I've got a lot of work to do on other things.
For example, I'm currently running Bootstrap 3, and I need to get that to Bootstrap 4. I originally set it up with SQL Server, but I'm leaning to going with Postgres now.
I started before C# 8 was out, and now I have a lot of work to do updating everything to use the new nullable reference types.
And, most problematic, it originally started as a prototype to replace my last work's systems.
They rejected it, although some people thought it was promising if I finished turning it into a finalized project behind everyone's backs.
Well, once you figure it out I'd be interested in picking your brain. Though I'd probably want to keep going with SQL Server, since that's what we use in house
Sounds good. It's mostly that I need to figure out if a CMS is what we need or not. It's been a long time since I set one up, and I kind of hated it, but that was long ago and maybe there are better ones now
Yep. Just warning you--stay away from EAV structures.
That, TBH, is pretty much the #1 reason I was looking for new work. The lack of a path for advancement and the buy-out were just the cherries on the cake.
There was also a hard-coded "admin" role assigned to an "internal" user that would be the default master user that the site owner would use to access everything.
The admin role was marked as being an internal role, and couldn't be chosen for anything or assigned to anyone.
Just be aware, building a CMS is really hard--probably the hardest problem a "normal" dev could attempt to solve. It has to be flexible and fast, and any assumptions that "it will always be this way" will come back to bite you.
And my experience wasn't even in a CMS so much as a customer engagement system with very specific goals around some features.
Maybe I'll invite you to a Discord server and start a new OSS variant.
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