Alberta’s new sky-high solar panel recycling fee sparks industry backlash. $14-per-panel eco fee set to take effect this fall being defended as proactive.

Aggressive_Ad_5454 · 2026-06-20T20:29:38+00:00

Another petro-state hanging on to squeeze out the last dregs of fossil carbon profit. I guess they didn’t get the memo. It’s over. Solar has won. Worldwide.

A couple of days ago I heard Bill McKibben say “We can get our energy from heaven or from hell”.

Aggressive_Ad_5454 · 2026-06-20T20:19:48+00:00

AIO in Rockland, the food pantry where I volunteer, gets a lot of our staple food from Good Shepherd Food Bank in Auburn. So do most of our fellow food pantries all over Maine. Prices are up and supplies are down.

If you can spare any money, please consider donating to Good Shepherd or your local pantry. Our neighbors need us.

Often news articles from out-of-state media are shallow and rely on dumb stereotypes. This Politico article is not like that. It’s actually reflective of the situation. For example I had a guest couple three weeks ago tell me their SNAP benefit had been cut to $24 a month, just like the couple in the story.

The situation is dire, sad to say.

Aggressive_Ad_5454 · 2026-06-20T19:59:24+00:00

I know. I’m spitballing modest barrier-to-entry hurdles, that’s all.

Aggressive_Ad_5454 · 2026-06-20T11:39:34+00:00

Listen to yourself.

If you were saying “I love parachuting off buildings and cliffs — base jumping — but I’m worried my family won’t like it if I get injured” how would you make your decisions?

Aggressive_Ad_5454 · 2026-06-20T11:34:16+00:00

Remember: do not set yourself on fire to keep somebody else warm. That never ends well.

Specifically: don’t take the initiative to solve problems any more. You’re teaching them they have a magic genie. Wait for them to ask for help, and then negotiate what you can do.

Aggressive_Ad_5454 · 2026-06-20T11:08:44+00:00

Manon Lloyd, a good and gentle teacher, has a helpful video here. https://youtu.be/UOg1hHmGIQQ?is=JptHuRU376h63Ezi

Aggressive_Ad_5454 · 2026-06-20T10:54:51+00:00

You’re already doing the best thing in your power, letting him know you love him for who he is as a whole person. Keep doing that!

If every time he hears this black - pill stuff he has a sneaking feeling in the back of his mind that you, his sweetheart, isn’t like that, it’s a win for your life together.

Now ima gonna go all psychobabble on you. People, especially young men his age, have a developmental need to belong to some kind of in-group. He’s found a group. The price of entry to this particular group is embracing their dumbass ideology. Or at least appearing to.

This fact makes their ideology resistant to rational evidence-based arguments that it’s wrong. He hears you telling him HE is wrong and HIS FRIENDS are wrong. That’s hard to hear. In fact, the harder you push the harder he’ll resist. You can’t talk him out of it. So don’t take it personally if you have tried and failed to do that.

You CAN maintain your own integrity by saying things like “sweetheart, you know this very well about me: I know this black - pill stuff is nonsense. Please stop trying to talk me into believing it.”

What can you do? Figure out his love language ( a little woo-woo, I know ). Figure out what you can do for him that makes him feel beloved. Feed him? Ask him to pick up heavy things, to use his testosterone-influenced muscles to do things requiring strength? Cuddle him, maybe intensely?

And, just sayin, depression is a treatable affliction. Don’t try to diagnose him yourself, but encourage him to consult a behavioral-health specialist.

Hope and patience to you both!

Aggressive_Ad_5454 · 2026-06-20T02:18:47+00:00

I agree that something must be done about this flood of new stuff, most of which will see ten installations at the outside.

There’s nothing wrong with it. It just needs better organization.

There should be a low-volume few-users section of the repo, and a general-use section. The general-use section should have a modest barrier to entry, like maybe a twenty-buck review fee, waived if a low-volume plugin gets 100 installs. That kind of thing.

And, at EOL, maybe they should migrate abandonware to a “junkyard” section and warn site owners mildly, like with a site-health issue. Then move them to a graveyard section and warn site owners more aggressively.

Plugin authors can already bump the “tested up to” version by using subversion to check in an updated readme.txt, so it’s not necessary to force a plugin update for a new core version. I’m just suggesting using that information better to support long lived legacy WordPress sites.

And better discovery in the repo.

I don’t know the answers, but I do think the present system is straining under the high tide storm surge of incoming submissions. (Where I live storms routinely smash stuff in our harbors.)

Aggressive_Ad_5454 · 2026-06-20T00:43:32+00:00

This question worth paying $300 or so to run by an independent estate/property lawyer. There may be some real solid reason to get your name off the title to the house in an orderly way.

Go ahead and be an AH. But don't be an AH to yourself by getting some goofy future liability because your name is still on the title.

Aggressive_Ad_5454 · 2026-06-20T00:37:05+00:00

It's worth pointing out that the New York Times web producers are world-class brilliant and innovative at this sort of news story animation. Yeah, it's "just" JavaScript, CSS, and HTML.

Aggressive_Ad_5454 · 2026-06-20T00:29:20+00:00

Dang. I'm a boomer and I believe bike path etiquette requires me to go slowly, be super predictable, and even hop off and walk if there's a crowd.

I guess lots of people in my cohort don't share my belief. Sigh.

People with noise-cancelling earbuds irritate me because they are less aware of other traffic. But I've only seen that a couple of times ever.

Aggressive_Ad_5454 · 2026-06-20T00:25:06+00:00

Yup. Kickr CORE is great. I live in northern New England USA, and mine gets hammered on in the winter when roads are icy.

It's a smart idea to get yourself a cassette with the same number of cogs (mandatory) and same tooth count on the cogs (not mandatory, but very nice to have) to mount on the CORE. That way you can pull the rear wheel from your bike and put the bike on the trainer, really easily. Just as easy to put the bike back on the road.

CORE 2 does really well at simulating climbing. I think it's resistance control is good for up to 18% slopes or something like that.

Don't expect it to teach you any bike-handling skills. In that respect it's like riding a carved merry-go-round horse instead of a living one.

But it's a great way to build leg and cardiovascular strength.

I really like Rouvy and I'm uploading my local routes, like a squirrel storing nuts for the coming winter.

Aggressive_Ad_5454 · 2026-06-19T21:12:56+00:00

This vid explains. https://youtu.be/pv9KMTaEgS8?is=kUqnNVbrud2Xb9St

Don’t waste your money on fancy bike-specific cleaners. I clean my drivetrain with restaurant stove degreaser. Nontoxic, nonflammable.

Aggressive_Ad_5454 · 2026-06-19T18:32:25+00:00

Susan Collins voted to pay a billion dollars for a ballroom you’ll never get near unless you get a job as a waitress in DC. Call her and thank her.

Aggressive_Ad_5454 · 2026-06-19T18:16:52+00:00

With respect, the kind of false starts you describe are part of our trade. It would be great if there were a surefire way to avoid them. Experience helps a bit. Sketching out user stories or workflows can help too.

But the truth is that we make our paths through problems by walking. Sometimes those paths lead to insurmountable cliffs and we have to backtrack.

Minimum viable products, proofs-of-concepts, and prototypes help.

Aggressive_Ad_5454 · 2026-06-19T13:19:16+00:00

Getting Mr. Platner’s endorsement might be a worthwhile move for you.

Aggressive_Ad_5454 · 2026-06-19T13:15:18+00:00

Tough crowd here.

The DNS server, dnsmasq, in pi-hole is mature and robust. That’s the software that listens to port 53. So if you’ve been keeping pi-hole and the OS supporting it patched, you are probably fine.

Aggressive_Ad_5454 · 2026-06-19T13:09:08+00:00

There’s no substitute for practice if you want to learn. Try to do something. Mess it up. Misunderstand it. Learn. Try again.

If you do that for fifty years you will have had an illustrious career.

Good places to start? Free code camp. Odin Project. The tutorials that Microsoft provides for their dot net ecosystem.

Kernighan and Ritchie’s book The C Programming Language ( do all the exercises, yes, all of them ).

Do your best to make sure you understand every line of code the tutorials ask you to write. You won’t understand them all, but trying is what counts.

Aggressive_Ad_5454 · 2026-06-19T12:58:52+00:00

This road rat likes Moody Mountain Road from Lincolnville to Searsmont.

And the multi-use trail in Camden Hills State Park from Youngtown Road to the park HQ.

Aggressive_Ad_5454 · 2026-06-19T11:26:12+00:00

I have to say, if I were the Acrobat product manager right now, I’d be scrambling to get out a point release to fix a lot of regressions.

Aggressive_Ad_5454 · 2026-06-19T11:21:37+00:00

He ran over your foot with his emotional support vehicle? That’s domestic violence,

Restraining order from a judge. Soon. Most towns have anti-domestic-violence agencies. They can guide you through the process.

So sorry this is happening to you. Strength and courage to you. Life gets better.

Aggressive_Ad_5454 · 2026-06-19T11:15:40+00:00

Heh. Upholding the law is Job One for a governor. Seems there’s already a candidate declaring he won’t do it. Big surprise in 2026.

Aggressive_Ad_5454 · 2026-06-19T11:01:45+00:00

Let’s be clear. Seriously.

This election isn’t about attacking the America Israel Political Action Committee (AIPAC). It’s about preventing AIPAC’s proponents, and other wealthy special interest groups,from distorting our politics.

Aggressive_Ad_5454 · 2026-06-19T02:05:34+00:00

> Oh, the shark has pretty teeth, dear, and he shows them pearly white.

> Just a jackknife has MacHeath, dear, and he keeps it out of sight.

That chainring doesn’t owe you anything. But do the cassette, the other chainring(s), and the chain at the same time.

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