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[Shazam]

Originally Posted by Muta

WRGMG is ANOTHER long-term construction project on 9th Ave by the new substation, now featuring traffic down to only one lane and backed all the way up to Crowchild Trail in the morning. Sigh.

Where are you seeing this? There was emergency work done on Monday near there but it was done yesterday.

[Muta]

Originally Posted by Shazam

Where are you seeing this? There was emergency work done on Monday near there but it was done yesterday.

Yes, 'twas on Monday. 9th Avenue has a been a slog for one repair/replacement project after another for what seems like several years now, most of them lasting several weeks/month each.

[Shazam]

Originally Posted by Muta

Yes, 'twas on Monday. 9th Avenue has a been a slog for one repair/replacement project after another for what seems like several years now, most of them lasting several weeks/month each.

Yeah I was going to tap out of working DT if it was still there today. 9 Ave has been a mess since Nov.

[troutman]

Originally Posted by fotze2

You don't use the re-usable ones you absolute monster?

You can compost the paper filters.

[Fuzz]

Plus paper is supposedly better for cholesterol. I use the bamboo ones, because they say they are sustainable, so I can pretend I'm not a monster.

[WideReceiver]

Someone can’t separate paper coffee filters?

Better stay out of the grocery produce sections.

[PaperBagger'14]

Originally Posted by Shazam

Yeah I was going to tap out of working DT if it was still there today. 9 Ave has been a mess since Nov.

It will continue to be a mess, between the Enmax substation and a few new projects closer to macleod it’s not gonna be great this year either.

[Barnet Flame]

Originally Posted by troutman

You can compost the paper filters.

Do you?

[Locke]

Originally Posted by Barnet Flame

Do you?

It doesnt matter if he does, it just says that you can!

[Fuzz]

Originally Posted by Barnet Flame

Do you?

I don't know why anyone wouldn't(well, in Calgary or places with compost programs). You chuck the grounds in the compost anyways, the filter goes straight in the bin with it. I do keep mine for my own compost bin though, because it's great for the garden.

[fotze2]

I take one and use it and then discard it in the garbage with the grounds, but I take another fresh one at the same time and huck it straight in the compost and that cancels the one that went into the garbage. Like how carbon credits work.

[Fuzz]

Originally Posted by fotze2

I take one and use it and then discard it in the garbage with the grounds, but I take another fresh one at the same time and huck it straight in the compost and that cancels the one that went into the garbage. Like how carbon credits work.

[Wormius]

I am kind of new go Reddit, but trying to follow a thread or something, and people start reciting lyrics or tv/movie dialogue because of some cue. It’s the single-most most annoying thing I constantly encounter on there. It’s not funny or clever or original. Why do they do this?

[Barnet Flame]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

I don't know why anyone wouldn't(well, in Calgary or places with compost programs). You chuck the grounds in the compost anyways, the filter goes straight in the bin with it. I do keep mine for my own compost bin though, because it's great for the garden.

I’m a lapsed Calgarian, so wasn’t aware of the compost program.

When I’m there in ten days, I’ll make check on what my buddy does and confront him about it right away if he isn’t making full use of the program.

I may wait until the end of the trip to do that so that I have sufficient empirical evidence and partly so he doesn’t tell me to check into a hotel.

[Fuzz]

Originally Posted by Barnet Flame

I’m a lapsed Calgarian, so wasn’t aware of the compost program.

When I’m there in ten days, I’ll make check on what my buddy does and confront him about it right away if he isn’t making full use of the program.

I may wait until the end of the trip to do that so that I have sufficient empirical evidence and partly so he doesn’t tell me to check into a hotel.

If you are unsure of his placement of any materials, we have a great website that tells you exactly what goes where. This should help build your scolding list.

[Locke]

Originally Posted by Barnet Flame

I’m a lapsed Calgarian, so wasn’t aware of the compost program.

When I’m there in ten days, I’ll make check on what my buddy does and confront him about it right away if he isn’t making full use of the program.

I may wait until the end of the trip to do that so that I have sufficient empirical evidence and partly so he doesn’t tell me to check into a hotel.

Just be sure that old discarded pots and pans go in the blue bin for recycling!

And I dont care what they tell you! Motor Oil is compostable!!

[Shazam]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

OK, now do the placebo effect, or the power of positive suggestion when prescribing.



Here's a good read too:
https://thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2...ribing-or-not/


You can go way back to this book....
https://www.amazon.com/Lessons-Presc.../dp/1164868373


But you don't have to go that far for a paper with that title, from 2024:
https://www.researchgate.net/publica...g_Prescription


I think it's a bit dismissive to say it is all science when we don't even understand the mechanisms of many drugs.

But none of that is art.

If it were art, it'd be using hair loss medication to lower blood pressure.

Like if a doctor is using an A or B list, that's hardly art. Everybody and their dog knows that people react differently to medication. That's not art. That's science. And the science says to try the most common effective treatment first, because it is most likely that it will be the best treatment.

When an IT doof calls the same function three times because he can't figure out recursion, that's "art'. When OpenSSL was attacked by heartbleed, and peopele actually looked at the source code and were aghast, those were "artists" that wrote that collosal pile of crap.

If there's one thing that always gets you Fuzz, it's that you prescribe far too much weight to simple labels.

[Sliver]

Originally Posted by Wormius

I am kind of new go Reddit, but trying to follow a thread or something, and people start reciting lyrics or tv/movie dialogue because of some cue. It’s the single-most most annoying thing I constantly encounter on there. It’s not funny or clever or original. Why do they do this?

Just unfunny nerds, dude.

[Fuzz]

Originally Posted by Shazam

But none of that is art.

If it were art, it'd be using hair loss medication to lower blood pressure.

Like if a doctor is using an A or B list, that's hardly art. Everybody and their dog knows that people react differently to medication. That's not art. That's science. And the science says to try the most common effective treatment first, because it is most likely that it will be the best treatment.

When an IT doof calls the same function three times because he can't figure out recursion, that's "art'. When OpenSSL was attacked by heartbleed, and peopele actually looked at the source code and were aghast, those were "artists" that wrote that collosal pile of crap.

If there's one thing that always gets you Fuzz, it's that you prescribe far too much weight to simple labels.

I just want to highlight the hilariousness of this example you chose.

[DoubleF]

Originally Posted by Wormius

I am kind of new go Reddit, but trying to follow a thread or something, and people start reciting lyrics or tv/movie dialogue because of some cue. It’s the single-most most annoying thing I constantly encounter on there. It’s not funny or clever or original. Why do they do this?

Is it some type of inside joke? Or is it a bot that automatically does it when a cue is inserted?

I haven't been in a while and I don't know if it's still there, but I seem to recall that any time the name Eric Francis was mentioned in the Flames reddit, a bot would start messaging profanity.