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The fun continues! Portland is now expecting an ice storm starting tomorrow morning.

I'm with you: we should do more to protect the increasingly rare commodities of peace and quiet.

Gotta start somewhere though, and just having something will look better than gaps on your resume (as stupid and unfair as that is). Good luck!

Do you two not have Martin Luther King Jr. day off tomorrow?

Yeah when I took my dog out yesterday it was certainly cold (-5° F), but what made it really uncomfortable was the wind driving the snow and ice crystals into my face. Today it's still cold (about 10° F) but there's much less wind so I was actually almost too warm with how I bundled up (SmartWool base layer on top and bottom, t-shirt, fleece, a down jacket warmth layer, and an insulated shell, snow pants, gloves, hat).

"You can lead a horse to water" and all that.

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RIP

How's everyone surviving out there? I saw a news article earlier that something like 50-60% of the US was expecting some inclement weather this weekend. Here in Portland, OR it's been hovering around 15 degrees F all day but accounting for the gusty arctic winds (30+ mph), the "feels like" temperature has been closer to -5 all day, which is shockingly cold for here, considering that typically in the winter it's more like in the 40s, maybe upper 30s. We've only got a couple inches of snow but it's just brutally cold and windy, in a city that isn't used to handling it, let alone snow. @Fizzzzle do you have power? I saw that about 155,000 people in Portland don't currently have power. So far I've still got power (and therefore heat) but it sure is miserable taking my dog out, even briefly. How about you all? Everyone hanging in there?

Don't worry, it's just more proof of the elitism of the swamp. </s>

Before I saw that it stands for Ferroelectric RAM, I read "FeRAM" as "Iron RAM" and now I'm disappointed.

Seems like another step along the path of phasing out physical media altogether, but I guess we'll see.

Has anyone heard anything (good or bad) about the MaxPro? It was on Shark Tank a few years ago and Shaq recently became an investor, which has boosted their publicity. Anyway, I've been debating getting one. In short, I need to start exercising more, and in addition to getting back into running I think I'd like to do some weight-lifting type exercises, having never really worked out in a gym before ( ). Since I'm new to it I don't really know what I'm doing, and the device's app and digital guide service seems like they might be helpful (though I've heard the app isn't very polished). Would I be better off with just using some dumbbells at home and/or going to a regular gym? I guess the machine is pretty expensive compared to e.g. working out in my company's gym, but it's not outrageously so IMO and I'd even be able to use HSA money for it if I wanted. I do like its compactness and the ability to take it with me if I travel, not to mention preferring to work out at home over in public, and it seems like it would enable a lot of different exercises over the dumbbells.

Pretty much the same for me; never drank it growing up, thought I didn't like it, etc. until I kept getting it in Germany. Now I'm thoroughly addicted.

I didn't know this was an option until now, but apparently you can pay monthly ($14.99) for Prime. I'm currently paying $22.99 per month just for Netflix in order to have 4K video. Even the "basic" plan without ads is $15.49. All this to say that you do get a hell of a lot of value for Prime vs. Netflix, for example.

Some early impressions of the MSI Claw:

I love seltzer and drink 1-2 cans per day. I don't have a particular brand preference, but some general favorite flavors are (in no particular order): Polar Cranberry Lime Waterloo Blackberry Lemonade Waterloo Peach I own a SodaStream and make seltzer regularly, as well as an occasional cherry soda. I also really like adding a bit of juice to a glass of seltzer water; it adds a bit of flavor and cuts way down on the sugar of just juice.

It's not a "permanent" door. It's called a "plug door" and it's only semi-permanently installed on planes when their carrying capacity is planned to be less than the plane's maximum. Edit - To be clear, I'm guessing most of us haven't heard of a "plug door" except for maybe @Pretzel, but that was probably something else.

Gotta score those internet points I guess. Not to defend the monstrosity that is the Cybertruck, but... who knows what the driver was doing or wasn't doing. Presumably there's some low-acceleration mode that the truck has for snow, right? Right?

I think I'll wait for the 5xxx series to upgrade since I'm still pretty happy with my 3070 Ti, but that 4080 Super is sure tempting.

Alright folks, let's get it back on topic. I think "the best" streaming service just depends on which one has the content you want to see. For me that's generally Netflix, just because I tend to go mostly for Hollywood movies and I think they have the largest number.

I'm trying to get back into running too, and to make the winter running easier on myself I recently bought these shoes. They have Gore-Tex and I live in Portland where it usually rains all winter. I also got a jacket similar to this one (they're not selling the actual jacket anymore). And of course once I spent about $300 on winter rain running shit, it has barely rained at all this winter. Do you have a recommendation for running lights?

Of course you're entitled to your opinion, but hopefully you also see the general problem with taking your experience with TWO trans people and applying it as a guiding principle to ALL trans people. The two people you know may have had some difficulties or regrets, but thousands of others have not. In fact, one metastudy of 27 other studies (source here) puts the number of people who regret it at less than 1%, of people who transition, and this meta-analysis includes adolescents. I don't think it's wrong to be concerned about people under 18 having major surgeries of any kind, but supporting a law to ban transitioning is, IMO, frankly to support the oppression of people for no good reason. Medical professionals agree it is a completely acceptable and supported procedure (including for adolescents), the number of people who regret it is tiny compared to the number of people whose lives it improves, and it has literally zero effect on you.