It’s a hot take! Wouldn’t be good if it weren’t inflammatory.

Pepper Mills are overrated.

So the fine edge of the blade can warp as you use it. The honing rod helps straighten that back out to improve cutting. The whetstone actually removes bits of steel in order to create a new edge. Honing should be done regularly, but using a whetstone to sharpen the blade is periodic.

A honing rod and whetstone fulfill different functions. You should ideally be using both for knife maintenance.

Anyone have thoughts on this? I’ve only played a little, so most of this doesn’t mean too much to me yet.

Does anyone know if Voyager supports instance blocking?

Veh-soo-vee-us.

Still OSHA, I believe. I did a quick google and they seem to have rules for fishing boats.

OSHA does not approve.

Beautiful art, however.

Serious answer:

I can’t speak for anyone else, but I believe in a religion because I’ve found it to be personally beneficial.

I was a pastor for many years and saw much of the best and worst religion had to offer. I haven’t stepped foot inside a church since COVID broke out and don’t know that I ever will again.

My personal beliefs are still a significant part of my life, but I understand why someone would ask the question that spawned this discussion.

Beautiful art for a fascinating moment in the Bible. For those who’d like to know more, I wrote a small blurb:

So this is one of those oft-misunderstood moments in the Bible. Mary is sitting at the feet of Jesus while Martha works too host everyone. Martha gets all huffy at Mary for boy helping, but Jesus protects Mary.

What’s interesting is there’s subtext here that isn’t about housework or hosting.

Sitting at the feet of a rabbi is where ones learned to become a rabbi. Paul himself says he learned at the feet of Gamaliel, a famous rabbi of the day.

Martha was upset that Mary was presuming to learn like a rabbi. She likely thought Jesus was Just being nice about it, so offered a pretext for him to dismiss her. Jesus shut that down hard. Women are welcome to learn to become teachers in the kingdom he’s building.

-Luke 10:38-42, Acts 22:3 (nrsv)

Yeah, I don’t believe either myself or the article are trying to assert that singles should be left hanging. The point is that failing social safety nets mechanically lead misogynistic outcomes.

I don’t blame you, but YouTube is one of the only streaming services I actually pay for. I have for years and it’s totally worth it to me, but I watch a ton of YouTube content that you can’t find anywhere else.

I’m pretty sure the always online drm was used to justify transactions in there first place due to the real money auction house.

It sounds like the argument is that men are more likely to succeed if they don’t have to worry about managing the day-to-day activities aka a housewife.

While it may be helpful for his career, it generally comes at an overall decrease in happiness for the homemaker.

Society is harder than ever, with restaurants being more expensive, childcare difficult to sort out and far more expensive than food, and so forth. A trade wife makes all those obstacles go away.

The actual answer is society needs to step up its game and support couples better, because failing social safety nets has an inverse correlation to rising misogyny.

I checked about a month ago and the consensus was giant mess.

Just watched the PMG video last night. I still don’t really understand what’s happening. The only clear thread seems to be that the owners of ZA/UM seem to be awful.

Yes and no? My team is scattered around the US, so if my east coasters hit a snag early, I genuinely don’t want them in a holding pattern until I get around to it. Same for my coworkers on the west coast.

Some of the intensity of it has been that I assumed control of a team that was already severely mismanaged and had missed it’s initial deadlines by a month.

Of course that manager got promoted to an area that better suited his skills and I was asked to step in and try to right the ship. Our final deadline is today and we only have minor and cosmetic bugs left (that we know of).

We have plenty of new features to add moving forward, but with the project back on track and the foundation established, I’ll be able to set better deadlines for everyone’s work life balance.

I will probably always have some temptation to pull long hours for my team scattered around the country, but it becomes much less urgent now that we’re past our insane crunch.

Maybe it’s hopelessly naive of me and the next deadline will also become a crunch, but I have some control over those future dates, so I hope it will be less of an issue.

This is exactly why I lived the Far Side.

That movie was absolutely insane in the best way. No idea if it still holds up.