Take this report with the biggest grain of salt you can find.

Key points:

• The Republican-led Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic…
• The committee’s 520-page report, released on 2 December, offers no new direct evidence of a lab leak
• The Republicans’ report, led by committee chair Representative Brad Wenstrup (R–OH), extended far beyond the origin controversy:
  • The World Health Organization “caved” to the Chinese Communist Party and allowed it to conceal the severity of the pandemic.
  • Masking and vaccine mandates, school closures, and lockdowns were of questionable value, and U.S. public health officials put forth conflicting, opaque messaging on those issues and more
  • Operation Warp Speed, launched by then-President Donald Trump to develop COVID-19 vaccines in record time, was a success and a model for future pandemics. But the report also criticized the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for pressuring its senior scientists to accelerate full approval of one of the vaccines.

Most containers default to UTC, and depending what you’re running, that may be fine.

I only mount /etc/timezone / /etc/localtime if I’m running a container where it needs to be on the same timezone as the host (DB containers, anything where I want the logs in local time, etc). Not all containers use the TZ env var, so bind mounting the timezone files from the host is a guaranteed way to sync them.

Thank you for understanding the difference.

The former is understandable, if a bit morbid. The latter is just sick in the head.

Yep. Retro-futuristic / art deco is kind of my vibe. Like, I used cheats in Bioshock just so I could walk around undisturbed and admire the architecture.

The ultimate risk to the American republic is that Democrats give up their unilateral observance of basic norms. The system can survive, just about, one of the two main parties going feral. … The story is what far worse behaviours it might augur from the Democrats in future, given the incentives they face.

Behaviours such as? Giving up on normal leaders and elevating a demagogue of the left: a Huey Long for our age. Or choosing which election results to honour. Or embracing a leftist version of deep state theory: a total rejection of the US system.

Isn’t that what half of Lemmy has been screeching for? Basically “Save us from their fascism by instituting my flavor of fascism?”

So far, so good. He’s made a few good points that I’ve tried pointing out before. Reading on…

Ok, now WTF? The author expects an apology from the democratic party for simply abiding by tradition that the sitting president is the nominee? The whole point he’s trying to make in this article is that the norms need to be respected. Yeah, this went off the rails quick.

Then he goes on to list all a good handful of the ways Trump abused power and tried to overthrow the government before finally wrapping up with a “What about Hunter Biden?!”

In conclusion, the author made a few good points in the beginning, contradicted himself halfway through, and wrapped up with a whatabout.

Score:

I think this from Burnham’s quarters is the only modern one I’ve seen that I would really like to have.

But what I really want are these:

• Light from Kirk’s apartment
• Balok’s command tower

I must have really old tastes in light fixtures. Every one of the lamps I liked were designed in the 50s/60s and are long out of production lol.

They pay her in boxed wine, probably.

Soooo many accounts blocked the last few days. Bad things can happen to bad people without frothing at the mouth and going full bloodlust, but so many people here seem incapable of that.

I get it, the victim could not be any more unsympathetic. But the responses here are beyond sickening. Thank you for being level headed; I appreciate you.

Supreme Court: (Points at literally anything) That’s unconstitutional!

Also Supreme Court: (Re: Post-Constitutional Movement) This is fine.

I don’t know how to make that look like crayon, but use your imagination.

And tax free if they get their way.

I do have all of those in my cabinet, but wasn’t aware they would help with falling/staying asleep. Def agree about not becoming dependent on melatonin supplements; I try not to over-do it, but sometimes when I have important stuff to do first thing in the morning, I don’t want risk being a zombie from poor/no sleep.

Story of my life lol.

I’ve been taking melatonin gummies before bed, and those seem to be helping.

Lol, yeah, they definitely don’t have to suck. When they first put those in, they were actually pretty fantastic. But Kroger Corporate said “not on my watch” and cranked up the security to obscene levels and made them horrible. There’s just not another decent grocery story close to me, so I’m stuck. Yay food deserts 🫠

In Javascript, Math.random() produces a float value between 0 and 1, so I multiply by 1000 and round it to get a larger integer. The value %2 == 0 is a non-library way of performing isEven() on the random integer (value % 2 is 0 if even, 1 if odd, and the ==0 makes it return a boolean). When used in the if statement, it’s essentially a coin flip.

Alcohol got me through the last administration. Cheers to round 2 I guess.

It absolutely is. Almost like it was designed to be as frustrating as possible for some kind of social experiment.

Because the bagging area is like 9 feet away at the end of the conveyor.

They’re basically reversed from what the cashiers use where you load your items onto the conveyor to be scanned. On these, the scanning platform is a little, tiny table on one end where you scan your items and then you put it on the conveyor that takes it to the bagging area.

When the belt gets a little less than half full, the machine makes you go bag some stuff.

All the while, my groceries are melting lol.

Edit: Like this

The other style where you can bag as you go (pictured below) also make you wait 2-3 seconds, but if you’re scanning a lot of little items (seasoning packets, yeast, those little water flavor enhancer things, etc), they don’t trigger the scale and you have to wait for it to realize you’re not stealing or something. Either way, they’re not suitable to scan a whole cart of groceries. Like, if you fill up the carousel and try to set some bags down until you can put them in your cart, it’ll call for backup and you have to wait for the single cashier that’s attending to 12-15 of these abominations to come and verify you’re not trying to steal.

Yeah, it’s like they wanted to include that stat but also kind of gloss over it to not “all people are stressed” the article. I can see why they did, but yeah, lol.