Depends on how you view the trinity. Many Christians believe they are one and the same, just different lens on god. It would be like saying just your feet ran a marathon.

Quite literally never. Society and civilization, from the earliest days, has been a story of subjugation of a lower class by a higher class. Technology and force have enabled this.

How else could you compel a farmworking class to provide for other segments of the society?

Some sorts of goods should be prioritized over some sorts of bads. There would be no terrorism if we locked every human in a box and kept them there, yet you do not support this position, why? I jest, but I think public discourse is an unalloyed good and I would rather we not compromise informal small discourse for the sake of anti-terrorism, anti-CSAM, etc. These things won’t be fully rooted out, they’ll just go to ground. Discourse will be harmed though.

The idea of a parking app is better than the physical process of using a meter generally. But I have not really seen an app flow better than the physical process despite having parked in many cities. In fact, I can come up with a simple physical process better than the apps by far: tap the meter in and tap the meter out with your NFC chip in the card.

Pay for the exact time, or if you forget, pay the full time period you’re legally allowed to park.

Instead, on my city’s app I must select a car (despite having only one), select a zone (despite GPS), and then manually enter my card (despite it being my account default). Every time.

The Pay By Phone app works well for me. It automatically figures out what parking area you are in from the phone GPS, it already knows your license plate, and it has your credit card.

Basically the flow for me is open the app, and hit how long I want to park for. And then the app will let me know when my parking is running out and I can add time on my phone without going back to the car.

The article explains that some local councils in Britain are removing the pay-by-card (NFC etc) parking meters in favour of an app, payment by phone, or at a nearby shop. This is to reduce costs.

It’s funny because going back to that discussion, people thought it was heavy handed but I agree with you. I hadn’t even heard about this drama, so I think it worked.

I have been dealing with extracting photos from Google photos in a reasonable way. That experience has reminded the only backup is the backup you fully control. Download your content, duplicate it on a second disk, and use a general purpose cloud storage system to sync it.

Does google takeout not work? I’ve been intending to help my partner move off of Google Photos and takeout is what I had planned.

It works well.

You can submit bulk requests but as of a few years ago the full resolution isn't uploaded unless you are on their premium plan, the best option is to pull them from the devices directly.

There is a dual point:

- many of the organizations cut certainly have done evil which the average American would not support.

- I do not expect Trump to do less evil. I expect him simply to command it more directly.

Some sort of goat maybe?

Goats can be territorial, but I'm not aware of them having any particular inclination to guard chickens or livestock.

Livestock guard dogs work better, but then you're dealing with a large dog that isn't a pet and isn't socialized like a house dog.

Can't your livestock guard dog also be a pet that's socialized like a house dog? Are the two mutually exclusive?

Based solely on what I've read and experience with them when I'm on a bicycle...

Not really, because you want to dog to be bonded to the livestock, not the humans. The dog lives outside amongst the other farm animals. They tend to be more territorial and protective than pet dogs. All that said, I've seen them used more with sheep than poultry.

If your dog is hanging out with you, it's not guarding the henhouse.

A personal philosophy in medical decisions: - unless there is a severe risk I might die from lack of intervention (on any reasonable timeline besides life), I avoid intervention.

In some cases (my messed up jaw and a whole 9 wisdom teeth), I broke this rule. But generally, it has served me well.

I have a similar viewpoint; over a decade ago, I had a nuisance tendon issue and went to a specialist who recommended surgery.

The surgery had a risk of serious, life-long consequence if it went wrong. He said that if I can live with the tendon issue, we can delay surgery indefinitely... so we delayed.

A month later, I stopped doing a certain workout at the gym, which resolved the issue within days. No need for surgery at all.

I do think that some specialists can be so focused on their speciality (i.e. surgery) that they don't think outside of that paradigm (try a different workout at the gym), and it's up to the patient to effectively shop around to get the best advice.

His approval rating is quite high considering the circumstances. Will take months to really understand, but at least half of America abhors the federal government.

The only president with approval ratings lower than his current rating, this early in their presidency, was his own first term: https://news.gallup.com/poll/116677/presidential-approval-ra...

And its dropping from the low point it started at https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/favorability/dona...

I don't know what "considering the circumstances" are but his approval ratings are historically abysmal, not quite high.

Can you imagine if the media were actually reporting on what's happening honestly, especially Fox News?