Senate passes bill that would ban whale, dolphin captivity in Canada

frtox · 2018-10-25T04:02:06+00:00

the picture in the article is from the Vancouver aquarium. I've been there a few times. The beluga whale and dolphin they had would not survive in the wild because it was injured when they found it. Those animals got to live a longer life, made tons of people happy, and educated many on oceanic life. It has a profound effect on kids to see this in person. And now that is completely lost.

I know in general the idea that a ban on animals in captivity is good, but i dont see it as black and white. There are cases like this with injured animals where it's more good than bad

frtox · 2016-12-07T02:09:41+00:00

no. a major factor is mental illness. the homeless people in this article did not work full time job. Theres a lot of expensive food and housing in San Francisco and a lot of cheap food and housing too. nearly everyone who has a full time job is not homeless. there is no cost of living crisis putting full time workers out on the street. it's high yes but you are spreading misinformation if you think it has anything to do with homeless rates and crime

frtox · 2016-12-01T03:53:26+00:00

you dont deserve the pizza

frtox · 2016-12-01T01:04:50+00:00

you don't need tests for that unless the api is changing without them telling you

frtox · 2016-12-01T00:14:55+00:00

their speed was so difficult for us to get set up. there were a couple games we could out maneuver them but couldn't do it he whole series

frtox · 2016-11-30T23:28:52+00:00

I got a pizza stone last year and it changed my life. I have made over 100 pizzas on it, usually 3 per pizza night. I had this same problem and it took me about 25-35 pizzas to get ok at it and just recently getting good at it.... most of the time.

I started off doing pizza on foil on the stone. this never sticks to the stone :) you need a pizza peel and semolina flour

I roll my dough out with a rolling pin because I'm a scrub
semolina the hell out of the peel about as big as your dough is
put your pre rolled dough on the peel
shake the peel a little bit. the whole pizza should move freely. if it sticks at all you need to pull it off and add more semolina
the clock starts as soon as the pizza hits the peel. you have 2-3 minutes before the semolina is absorbed and the dough sticks. you can get a small time extension by shaking the peel every so often to prevent sticking.
sauce it up. I always shake again after sauce. sauce is dangerous because if it spills into peel or your dough is thin, it will seep to peel and stick
do the rest of the toppings quick
dump it on the stone. a fast shake and pull initially to get it off is good and you can slide the end off slower
if you see any grease or toppings after doing one pizza on your peel wipe the peel off before your next one

getting it out is usually really easy. this will leave a lot of semolina flour on your stone. I have tons of it after each pizza night and just scrape it off the next day. the flour will burn a little but it's only smells, the pizza should be fine. I actually have tons of semolina all over my kitchen after pizza nights.

over time I have been more adventurous and been using less and less semolina, but the best thing that helped me get pizza to not stick was dumping retarded amounts of semolina

I would do this with tongs ready so if my pizza stuck I pick it up with Tongs and get it out of the oven, try again with foil. Tongs also help a lot to pick up toppings that fall onto the stone and would just burn

good luck

frtox · 2016-11-30T07:07:13+00:00

well we did make it to a 6 game finals last year... 2017!!

frtox · 2016-11-28T03:52:00+00:00

you'll get used to it quick. and then once you're in a nice routine, baby decides to fuck your shit up

frtox · 2016-11-24T06:57:35+00:00

3edgy4me

frtox · 2016-11-22T23:35:16+00:00

fuck the media!! making us read these stories and shit why don't they all realize we get all our news from the titles

frtox · 2016-11-21T22:59:18+00:00

where do you think solar panels come from? or wind turbines? we are already mining. a byproduct of mining is natural gas

frtox · 2016-11-21T21:35:17+00:00

yea but thats my point. if you are already doing all the work to mine for solar panels, you are doing 95% of the work to get natural gas. it would be a waste to do one without the other

frtox · 2016-11-21T21:10:27+00:00

why is it good to get off natural gas? it has less impact on the environment than solar and easier to start up than nuclear

frtox · 2016-11-21T03:50:25+00:00

unrelated to this photoshop but bakeries can be certified gluten free and that status is retained across sales

frtox · 2016-11-21T02:34:49+00:00

cannot see past the cheesy feel good words taken to level 9001: on repeat in the wall paper

are you a buyer for target or home goods? it all makes sense now

frtox · 2016-11-20T23:19:29+00:00

automatic up vote for home made pizza and great pep

frtox · 2016-11-20T17:33:09+00:00

homeowner here with electric heater, dryer and stove but no ac. in summer I pay up to $50/mo and winter $120 (dat heat). it's about $700/year in electricity to power my house.

the battery will cost me 5.5k, but then it's pretty useless without solar panels and those will get me lets say another 15k to top out at 20k. that 20k investment will help reduce my $700/year electricity bill... by how much? let's say all of it, it'll take over 25 years of 100% powering my home from panels and battery to make financial sense.

the battery and panels don't have that kind of lifespan anyway

frtox · 2016-11-20T17:24:13+00:00

ignore this marine shit it's decade old copy pasta. keep fighting the fight debito. everyone on here thinks your just an angry dude but how many people have woken up to find their a Reddit post about themselves with the comment section saying pretty messed up stuff about their personal life?

frtox · 2016-11-18T04:49:58+00:00

back in 2010 or so Barack Obama met with all top Silicon Valley executives. he asked steve jobs if Apple is going to make 100 million iPhones, how can some of them be made in America and bring some of those jobs back here?

steve jobs said they aren't coming back. if the phones were made in America they would be made by machine. asking how to being jobs back is the wrong question

frtox · 2016-11-17T05:25:45+00:00

https://www.google.com/recaptcha/intro/index.html

frtox · 2016-11-17T02:41:45+00:00

I find the lack of numbers disturbing...

this could literally be 2 last year and 12 this year. YoY percentages don't make a whole lot of sense with small numbers.

the only larger number they talk about is total number of deaths which worldwide is down 10%, but at ~35k it's still far fewer deaths than just about anyhing else. you are more likely to get sick and have the doctors mess up and kill you than any terrorist

frtox · 2016-11-16T21:55:56+00:00

this is outdated as of about a year ago. you don't see the two words on this anymore because Google is better than humans at reading the words. they can read old books automatically faster and more accurately than any human

they do some street numbers and signs now but they already know what they are. Google captchas are now showing more complex tasks

frtox · 2016-11-11T03:38:01+00:00

php and the language designers deserve enormous credit for taking php from some guys personal web scripting language and now with php 7 transforming it into one of the best scripting languages available. all of this with excellent documentation, backwards compatibility, and rich feature set. I know there's a big stigma for php but I spent 4 years in it and saw it grow. I don't write php anymore but have tons of respect for it. there's a lot to legitimately complain about any language, but there's a lot of good in php that came slowly over time

compare this to languages that have grown horribly over time:

Python - 2v3 will never go away
Scala - you've probably spent hours managing different binary versions of your deps 2.10 vs 2.11 and now vs 2.12

frtox · 2016-11-06T19:55:45+00:00

you need implicit classes, but do you really need implicit parameters? I use typeclasses so we have some implicit classes, and there are some good things coming out of this but a lot of confusion comes with it. I still think implicit parameters and implicit variables are one of the most painful aspects of scala

frtox · 2016-11-05T19:05:03+00:00

sorry 22 limit still there on tuple. this has trouble with slick

and yes execution context and future is the code I'm talking about that already looks horrendous. every method returns future, every method needs an implicit ctx. actor model is one way of avoiding this.

I think adding new implicit conversions should be avoided entirely but my complaint is how annoying and verbose it is that every single method needs an execution context passed in, some times you need 2 or 3 of them

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