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bluewing

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  • Delicious

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  • Eh, such products minimize the waste of things that would otherwise be thrown away and lost. Us humans have been processing the scraps and leftovers of our food into other edible products for as long as we can remember - Waste not, Want not.

    The problem is the disconnect modern urbanites have from their food and not knowing how it gets made. If you like deli ham eat it! (in moderation as all things should be), it's not all that different in processing than a hot dog, sausage, or hamburger. Or even cheese.....

  • Kids Are Working in America’s Meatpacking Plants

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  • So you think a low payed adult worker will either?

    Ain't none of you people ever been inside a packing plant have you?

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  • Yes it is.

    When processed, the meat bits, (and yes they are leftover meat bits), are ground into a paste with water added, (nearly all ham you buy has "Water Added" listed on the tag - exception would be something like "country ham" or prosciutto ham), then pumped into a carboy, (the paste is then called babbit), seasonings are then mixed in and then molded by machine into a glorious block 'o ham! To be sold at your local Deli as part of a delicious sandwich for which you happily pay your "hardly earned" monies.

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  • Never let ideology get in the way of practicality. I like your MIL.

  • In Leak, Facebook Partner Brags About Listening to Your Phone’s Microphone to Serve Ads for Stuff You Mention

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  • Do you one better - My mini-desktop is plugged into a monitor with no microphone or camera.

  • How dare you use a text editor because it's easy to use

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  • Emacs users laughing at VIM users.

    Emacs - A pretty good OS you can use as a text editor.

  • So much winning

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  • Just 30? Either the rest don't care or they are hoping to profit off the publicity of saying "no" if the Trump campaign does use some of their music.

    Like most "stars" they are more about themselves than the general good.

  • Austrian surgeon 'let teenage daughter drill hole in patient's skull'

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  • With a serious head injury you ain't going back to work in the morning. Not defending the surgeon, but the guy probably might never work again because of the injury. Hell, his whole personality might be changed because of it. And there is no way to know how the operation might have turned out or not.

  • Costs Less? When That Happened?

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  • You for got to mention the free and heavily discounted prices to get Mac computers into schools to get kids hooked on them. Which is something they still do to this I think.

  • DuckDuckGoose

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  • I used to be a Toolmaker long ago and far away. And there is a, and not undeservedly so, stereotype of Toolmakers as cranky old assholes. And the job tends to make us intolerant assholes.

    I too had reached a point where I had enough of being angry, cranky, and hateful to everyone and myself every day. So I finally took all that cranky angry hatred and decided to channel it into something more constructive - I became a Medic for the next 15 years. And when that pissed me off enough I decided to teach math in my tiny rural school for 4 years until I retired.

    I am a very slow learner........

  • DuckDuckGoose

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  • Damn it! It's Duck, Duck, Grey Duck! NOT goose!

    ***A Minnesotan argues about the important stuff

  • "Now everyone will have an easy reference table at hand!"

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  • Not really. As a former math teacher, I used to have kids do speed drill quizzes very similar to that elements chart drill a couple times a week. As in how many basic facts, (addition, subtraction. multiplication and division), with the correct answer can you do in one minute. There are just some basic skills you really need to learn and master before you can move on and learn how to blow things up.

    The point of the quiz was not to expect you to get them all correct all the time or even get to the end of the quiz, (I was aiming for 30 correct answers in that one minute out of maybe 60 or 70 problems). But the idea was to build a very basic skill set for you. And so that you wouldn't be afraid of the numbers, (this is a real stress point for students), and to lessen the fear of learning and adding to your skills by eliminating the stress of where to start. If you confidently know what 7x3 is, that's one less detail you need to work out and worry over when doing a math problem, (another stress point for students).

    Education methods sometimes seem dry and useless and even mean to a young student. But they do actually have thought and reason behind the why a teacher might do something. I could never be bothered to try and teach you something that was pointless. I simply didn't have the time for that kind of effort. Nor do the vast majority of teachers in a classroom.

  • "Now everyone will have an easy reference table at hand!"

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  • But before you can look it up, and I'm all for it, you need to know something is possible. That's what education does for you.

  • "Now everyone will have an easy reference table at hand!"

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  • I have nothing against calculators. But I have taught some elementary and jr high school math classes in my old a feeble age. The "why can't we use calculators" and " what do I need to know this for" was a constant whinge I had to listen to and deal with.

    Why I want you to know how to solve a quadratic equation isn't because that's what you are going to do for the rest of your life. But rather, I want you to see something like that in the far future and go "Oh, I know what this and that it isn't gibberish. And I can whip out that smart phone I got and google it to find the howto steps to solve it." And I want you to acquire the discipline to learn things. Besides, just knowing what 7x3 is, makes everything else so much easier to learn in math. That removes fear and stress point and builds the confidence to tackle more complex ideas.

    I probably own more calculators than most here. So, I'm all for them. And I did always allow any student to use a calculator in class. I would just hand you a slide rule.....(and yes, I'm that old to have used them in class as a kid and I still own a couple). But, when I was teaching, I really wanted my students get their fingers dirty with the numbers themselves and to learn how those numbers work. While getting the correct answer is very important, as a teacher, I was perhaps less concerned with the correct answer and more concerned with HOW you got that answer. Because if you know what you did to get that answer, you are far more likely to get the right answer than the wrong answer.

    In the end, I think education needs to be approached from the idea of making learning more fun. No matter the subject. Sadly, that's a very difficult trick for any teacher in the typical class room to accomplish.

  • "Now everyone will have an easy reference table at hand!"

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  • I have nothing against calculators. But I have taught some elementary and jr high school math classes in my old a feeble age. The "why can't we use calculators" and " what do I need to know this for" was a constant whinge I had to listen to and deal with.

    Why I want you to know how to solve a quadratic equation isn't because that's what you are going to do for the rest of your life. But rather, I want you to see something like that in the far future and go "Oh, I know what this and that it isn't gibberish. And I can whip out that smart phone I got and google it to find the howto steps to solve it." And I want you to acquire the discipline to learn things. Besides, just knowing what 7x3 is, makes everything else so much easier to learn in math. That removes fear and stress point and builds the confidence to tackle more complex ideas.

    I probably own more calculators than most here. So, I'm all for them. And I did always allow any student to use a calculator in class. I would just hand you a slide rule.....(and yes, I'm that old to have used them in class as a kid and I still own a couple). But, when I was teaching, I really wanted my students get their fingers dirty with the numbers themselves and to learn how those numbers work. While getting the correct answer is very important, as a teacher, I was perhaps less concerned with the correct answer and more concerned with HOW you got that answer. Because if you know what you did to get that answer, you are far more likely to get the right answer than the wrong answer.

    In the end, I think education needs to be approached from the idea of making learning more fun. No matter the subject. Sadly, that's a very difficult trick for any teacher in the typical class room to accomplish.

  • It is what it is

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  • As an old medic, I will warn each and everyone of you to never, ever, ever go out to eat with a group of EMS people. Unless you really want to be scarred for life.

    Life and death be real and very often not pretty.

  • Actually asking (rule)

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  • Originally Factory Default. But after several surgeries and I'm forced to use the CLI to manually intervene to pee now, it has completely broken and is meaningless.

  • Microsoft formally deprecates the 39-year-old Windows Control Panel

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  • Just a curious question - Is there any VR sets that work with Linux Distros? I'm not much of a gamer to need or want one. Just want to learn for learning's sake.

  • Microsoft finally officially confirms it's killing Windows Control Panel sometime soon

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  • And there is no reason not to either. You would still be looking at the cli in Unix with that attitude.