I was reminded of this book immediately! A savior for a boring afternoon. It was like knowing how to tie elaborate knots. You learned some killer designs that made you king of the paper airplane at school.
Yup. In 7th grade during recess we made airplanes. One day I made a Barnaby and threw it up in the air. It caught an updraft and just disappeared into the clouds. With that, I became a paper airplane legend at school.
It's possible people don't like sheep ranchers. Or maybe its just that one rancher. We have the goat herders in our area that fence off parts of the undeveloped land during the summer because it's a fire hazard. Those guardian dogs never leave the fenced area, and they will let you know when you are too close very quickly.
That's the thing, they don't roam. My Great Pyrenees when younger would sometimes refuse to come in, and we have in our back yard a very low fence, like barely knee high in places, and a few other spots she could leave the yard.
But they're patrollers - they establish where they're meant to protect, and they stay in that area - they don't want to be lured away, because that means their home area is unprotected.
Some coyote hunt like that - they'll send a lone dog out to try to lure dogs to come investigate or play and when the animal does, the pack will get it. We went camping with friends and brought our GP, and when you could hear that, very near by, she was energized and on high alert, but she was locked in on standing right by us, between us and the howling.
It's broken. I entered a zip code (sacramento) and it said it needs more detail but can't offer a map any closer than pittsburg to narrow. Pick by region is a dead end if that's not your region.
That's what I get for trying to limit myself to client-side APIs but I'll take your repro and try to address it. Here's the tracking issue if you're interested: https://github.com/olivierlacan/indigene/issues/251
My situation is similar to you. Additionally I can't take NSAIDs. I've been doing RF ablation sessions every 3-4 months (along with steroid shot occasionally.) After a year it's much improved on the pain side but as you know, it's like there's a limited amount of activity you can do and once you go over it, you're stealing from tomorrow, the next day and so on (which means rest on those days.)
Inversion table for 15min a morning also helps just to unload the spine. You can try to do the start of an abdominal crunch to build stomach muscle there while unloaded.
USA is large and people live everywhere, including hard to get spots. USPS just works in all those places. Privatization would discriminate against those people in a heartbeat. See: rural broadband in the US.
> Charging people a price relative to the cost of a service is not discrimination.
Yes, it is discrimination. Treating people differently on any basis is discrimination on that basis.
It may or may not be illegal discrimination depending on the specifics and the governing law, and it may or may not be unjust discrimination depending on the specifics and the applicable moral framework, but all discrimination means is differential treatment on some criteria.
I disagree. It is not discrimination between 2 people to charge one $200 for a 2 hour private lesson and the other $100 for a 1 hour private lesson. Even though the name of the service is the same the precise service being provided to each person is not the same
> I disagree. It is not discrimination between 2 people to charge one $200 for a 2 hour private lesson and the other $100 for a 1 hour private lesson.
Sure it is discrimination on the basis of duration sought, not discrimination on the basis of personal characteristics, and while it is discrimination, its fair to characterize it as bot discrimination between people, since different people making the same choice would be charged the same. Its obviously, in any case, not discrimination anyone would object to, but objectionability is a matter of the basis of discrimination, not the fact of discrimination.
Refusing service entirely kinda feels like more like something that fits the word “discrimination.” UPS/FedEx can refuse service to you for almost any reason.
But, perhaps you’re right, maybe the word “discrimination” is the wrong word. Either way, from a national policy standpoint there are very good reasons to subsidize rural areas for basic infrastructure services like mail and internet.
USPS from an operations standpoint is pretty much profitable. Congress basically doesn’t even allow USPS to fix itself when it absolutely can fix itself without major service cuts or privatization. For example, their pension fund can only invest in low-yield securities, while normal companies have more flexibility, so that inflates the cost of their retirement program.
You can auction off the universal service obligation to willing bidders without having a state owned enterprise with a government monopoly.
> Either way, from a national policy standpoint there are very good reasons to subsidize rural areas for basic infrastructure services like mail and internet.
Rural areas extract and produce many resources that urban areas depend on. Agriculture, fishing, oil, gas, uranium, wood, maple syrup, etc.
You can’t get workforces to live in those places or businesses to operate there if there’s no roads, internet, mail, schools, hospitals, etc (or if those things are prohibitively expensive).
Don’t forget that subsidy doesn’t always mean the difference between whether it’s expensive or not, it can also mean the difference between having and not having.
Another reason is that too much regional wealth inequality can be bad for national stability. It can lead to things like civil wars and unrest.
> Rural areas extract and produce many resources that urban areas depend on. Agriculture, fishing, oil, gas, uranium, wood, maple syrup, etc.
Sure, and market prices reward them for that in relation to how useful that is. No reason for a subsidy.
> You can’t get workforces to live in those places or businesses to operate there if there’s no roads, internet, mail, schools, hospitals, etc (or if those things are prohibitively expensive).
Why do we want to workforces to live in rural areas? In any case, land prices will drop to establish equilibrium.
That sucks for land owners, but the workforce doesn't care whether they get their benefits in forms of lower rent or explicit subsidies.
> Don’t forget that subsidy doesn’t always mean the difference between whether it’s expensive or not, it can also mean the difference between having and not having.
Singapore has plenty of rural areas lining up to export to her, without paying any subsidies (above market prices) to them.
> Another reason is that too much regional wealth inequality can be bad for national stability. It can lead to things like civil wars and unrest.
That's a good argument for breaking up nations into smaller units, sure.
agriculture is the ultrawealthy though? i dont need to subsidize the very-rich
fishing isndone off the coast, and the fishing boats can land in town or in a city for processing. the ships leave seattle, then go out to alaska to catch fish, thrn come back to seattle with frozen fish
oil, gas, uranium, etc make money hand over fist and can bring people in and out of the mines on a 2 weeks on, 2 weeks off schedule. they dont need a rural village beside
i think the real reason is that local rich people in rural areas are far too powerful, and federal resources ensure that the people that live in rural areas are too wildly oppressed by the local nobility. we hope that one day the nobles will be overthrown and there will be more proper righta and freedoms out in the middle of nowhere
My dog's favorite treat is the most expensive one. Or the one that causes the most intestinal (and therefore cleanup) issues. All it takes is a pause and some brief math to see that a lot of (good for your dog) dog treats are $16/lb. That's not even remotely the most expensive. It's cheaper to feed them straight meat. I've resorted to making my own treats. It's like $4/lb, plus you know exactly what goes into it (mostly ground turkey, yams, rice/chickpea flour).
Not OP but one thing you can do is boil or lightly-pan-fry (don't use any spices, or at least check that they're dog-safe, _do not_ use garlic) chicken thigh or chicken breast, cut it into small cubes and freeze it in sandwhich bags.
Dogs love it because it's just little meat cubes. Thaw it before you give them.
As an ex-Navy Seal, and JAG officer who retired for the slow life of owning a hardware store in a sleepy small town, only to accidentally uncover a international multi-million dollar conspiracy with help from the voluptuous town sheriff twenty years my junior... this math all adds up nicely.
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