To be clear, please continue to enjoy your food the way you want it. Just know what the words that exit your mouth mean. Life shouldn’t be safe, and many of life’s greatest pleasures are not safe.

Is it a Canadian beef problem? Nah, it’s just a problem with the definition of “safe food”. If the food is not cooked to 165F, then any bacteria, fungi, and parasites that are present could still be alive. There are no guarantees that the beef didn’t have tapeworms, and since ground beef is usually from multiple cuts, there’s a larger chance that a tapeworm has been ground up and spread throughout. It’s a tiny chance, but it’s still a chance. Steaks are less of a risk, because it’s a single cut, and the chef can visually inspect it.

The waiver is stupid, but it has less to do with capitalism and more to do with the legal system. People sue for anything and everything, and I don’t blame companies for trying to defend themselves from that. They asked the dude to sign a waiver, because they’re afraid he doesn’t understand the risks and might sue if he gets sick.

Funny thing is: in this case the guy didn’t understand the risks. He thought they were saying their beef is sketchy. What they were really saying is: all ground beef not cooked to 165F could be sketchy. I think he’s dumb, because he doesn’t know that a medium cooked burger involves risk but has been requesting it everywhere he goes. If he had known what a medium burger is, he would’ve just said “yeah yeah yeah”, signed, and ate the burger like an adult.

I’m not you pal, buddy. (but we might be friends now)

Nah, the disgusting part is the consequences of factory farming and humanity’s domination of the planet and desire for meat.

Well-done burgers are the band-aid for the deeper problems.

Dude is incredibly stupid, because he’s been ordering under-cooked burgers without any conception of what he’s requesting for “Bob”-know-how-long.

He might like medium-cooked burgers, but he has no idea what that even means. The food at the hotel isn’t less-safe than other places. They just didn’t assume he read the fine-print at the bottom of the menu and were the first to inform him that it’s not safe.

Yeah, they delivered the waiver at the wrong time, but dude should’ve already known what he was ordering wasn’t safe. I order over-easy, soft-boiled, and sometimes sunny-side-up eggs. I know the risks, and I accept them.

Unless you put an a ton of effort into it, ground beef is only safe well-done. To get safe under-cooked ground beef, you need to discuss your intentions with your butcher and grind the beef yourself. Even with grinding a single, quality cut of beef, you’re still gambling.

Also, fuck you, I’m not your friend guy, here’s a rocket ship ().():::::::::::::::::D~~~~~~~

Dumb American disgusted by his own stupidity

Myst, Superhot VR, Beatsabre

Landlords that deny installing AC units are going to kill people over aesthetics. Period. There is no future where they aren’t necessary. The next killer heat dome could be next year. 619 dead in 2021 was just the beginning, a warning of what is to come.

Thank you! Here’s the actual PDF doc of their clarifications and here’s the original DSA

The specific language for number of users is:

average monthly active recipients of their service in the Union, calculated as an average over the period of the past six months

And the definition of active recipient:

(p) ‘active recipient of an online platform’ means a recipient of the service that has engaged with an online platform by either requesting the online platform to host information or being exposed to information hosted by the online platform and disseminated through its online interface;

So you just need 45 million EU citizens looking at a platform to qualify as a VLOP. Amazon probably qualifies, but it would be easy for them to prove they were unfairly discriminated against as well.

Did the EU even define the term “Very Large Online Platforms”? I think this is the bill, but it doesn’t ever define the term. Amazon may be right, purely because the legislators are incompetent idiots.

I fully support this. You do you. It’s your computer; you can do what you want with it. Whether you’re using it for work or play, if it’s the way you like it, then it’s not wrong.

Frostpunk is phenomenal! It sucked up all my free time for a couple weeks.

Oxenfree is gorgeous.

Oh man, there are so many great games if you’re willing to play old stuff (although it looks like the summer sale is over):

Still on Sale

• System Shock (remake)
• Psychonauts 2
• Myst 25th Anniversary Collection
• Death Road to Canada
• Alan Wake
• Alan Wake’s New Nightmare
• Project Zomboid

Classics

• Jazz Jackrabbit Collection
• Jazz Jackrabbit 2 Collection
• Contra Anniversary Collection
• System Shock: Enhanced Edition-
• System Shock 2
• Grim Fandango Remastered (I can’t recommend this one enough; best game ever)
• Mortal Kombat 1+2+3
• The Settlers 2: Gold Edition (this one is also fantastic)
• Theme Hospital
• Dungeon Keeper Gold
• Dungeon Keeper 2
• SimCity 2000 Special Edition
• SimCity 3000 Unlimited
• SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition

As a software dev, so much this.

PWAs are super fucking cool, but current web browsers are a SuperFund disaster site, so they make PWAs suck, and PWAs are partially to blame as Google and Apple keep adding features to browsers to mirror their phones’ native features. Every PWA is going to be slower than a native app for the foreseeable future, regrettably, and they’ll always be nothing more than a browser with the decorations hidden.

I hate this reality with a passion, but native apps are faster because it’s an app on your phone and not an app in a browser on your phone.

PWAs are great, because Apple and Google have no say in whether or not you can use them, and they get no cut if you spend money through them (scumbags at Apple taking 30%).