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Pluto stole the attention back, not by name, but by best known of its class. Still the king.

However, Eris is more massive…

Historically it’s fine. Technically it’s not. The thing is, it’s still a type of planet, it’s not like it’s now called something completely different. It’s more specific to fall in line with the likely many, many neighbors that are out there.

I’d rather them take the time it needs to get it right, whoever wins, than to rush and have to do recounts over and over. Keep in mind that many doing this work are volunteers. Let them do the job.

You had one job. Sorry.

Not to start it. For that you just need a lever. Handle of a fork or spoon works. Once it’s punctured you can use your finger, carefully and slowly. Some people aren’t good at that though, so use your best judgement. You can always use the same level to continue pushing it inwards.

So much better than the old pull tabs. They could be dangerous when they did work, they were a safety hazard if not disposed of, and a tab on those that came out? Now you have a problem, that was not an easy fix.

I spent some time on the VA’s phone lines while caring for my dad, and kind of grew to like Opus No. 1. There are far worse default options out there. More importantly, I prefer the necessary interruption to let me know I’m still on hold and they’re going to come back to me not be every 20 seconds, and not be at a volume twice as loud as everything else.

I really hate nothing at all. I’ve been hung up on before and didn’t realize it for a minute until I looked at my phone. Why don’t smartphones have that old disconnect sound that landlines would do? Maybe some do.

Also not a fan of the piped in radio music that apparently is being picked up under a bridge, so it’s a faded volume and keeps going in and out. Usually the music isn’t bad, but can we tune it in better?

The bad news - that mess was already being played out before 2016 started. Both the overall plan by the GOP laid out decades before, and the media’s weird courting of Trump as a valid candidate. The GOP saw their chance and ran with it, and the obedient media followed their lead, just as they had been trained.

Are you citing Last Tuesdayism? It’s really hard to tell if that’s true either.

New Mayan cycle. Or something. They made a movie and everything.

We have to go back and get Nader interested in growing flowers or something.

The goal was to fix the oops in 2012, but something’s better than nothing.

Your desk was against the wall? Guess it didn’t wobble around while you colored in the circles. At least that was a useful skill to retain from high school.

Because people once in a while get together enough to make this happen, then ignore politics for two years. We have a representative government, but we can’t assume they are doing their job well without checking on them from time to time and reminding them why they’re there.

And part of it isn’t their fault - the House has the same problem many classrooms have, too many kids per teacher to do an effective job with each one of them. So the loudest or the neediest get the attention, and the rest fend for themselves. We’ve got to find a way to reduce how many people each representative actually looks over. This also would more accurately split power in districts.

No question made in good faith and ignorant of possible answers is stupid.

The answer to the question posed is simply people have differing opinions on how a downvote in particular should be used. My thought is that it should be for a post that has no relevance in the thread. If I disagree, then I post a comment. An upvote should be used where you think more people should see it, not necessarily if you totally agree with it.

An up or downvote without more engagement just to agree or disagree is lazy, but at least the upvote is serving a little purpose.

The simple science is that plants do grow in heavier CO2 environments, sometimes very well. But they grow differently, which is a problem for food plants, because they don’t produce what we want from them as food unless we also add heavy nutrients and water. In a greenhouse environment, this can increase production. In the outside, it’s far more difficult to get good results.

So they aren’t wrong, they just don’t understand the bigger picture. Change one thing, other things change too, not always in the direction you want.

Are these the same manufacturers that use lots of imported parts, including from China, in their own car? Hmmm.

He’ll absolutely question any changes that don’t favor him, but there is nothing he can do directly to stop it. The worst that can be done is give him attention as he has a melt down, but that gets media their clicks, so they will.

It’s also a huge country that’s very diverse, so one region or state isn’t going to be aligned with others they don’t even know to have solidarity.

But there will start being hot spots for the same reasons in Europe. It’s possible the US has better tools to control and pacify any movements (with work dependence - money and healthcare, being one of them).

Not bashing Ollama, it’s great for getting started, and finding new models. I just had to switch over when I couldn’t set up the MoE model. The good thing was Llama can use Ollama blobs, so no loss of the older stuff.

That wasn’t my experience, but maybe I just didn’t run across the right instructions, or it was the particular model. Llama lets you adjust parameters far more. Two sides of the same coin, really.