If you are talking about simulated trading (no real money), it’s called “paper trading”.

I read up on it for a while a few years back, but I never tried it cause I like chewing and variety.

It’s important if you are talking about soylent as in the brand, soylent as in a soy and lentil based beverage, or soylent as a generic term for meal replacement beverages.

Some of these meal replacements are designed to just replace 1 meal a day, or 2 meals a day, etc, so you could develop a deficiency after a little bit. There’s a DIY community to share recipes along with “nutritional completeness”.

https://www.completefoods.co/

Everyone has different dietary needs, so even if a shake technically has all the nutrients you need, it might not have enough of everything unless you eat way more calories worth than you need. Humans are pretty adaptable, though.

I think the definition is a food product made from a combination of soy and lentils. Some variations are “nutritionally complete” others are not.

For a disease to be prevented from spreading, you need a certain percentage of people to be immune. It’s different from disease to disease and also depends on the vaccine itself. Some diseases like Covid can still be spread to people who are vaccinated (though obviously the worst of the symptoms are mitigated).

For the sake of example, let’s say you need 90% immunity for a disease to not spread. Maybe 5% of the population cannot be vaccinated due to immune conditions, being too young, etc. That gives 5% of wiggle room.

Then there are acolytes of the fraudster, Andrew Wakefield, who faked data to get a flashy headline to get published in a prestigious journal. That includes RFK jr., Jenny Mccarthy, mayim bialik, etc. Clinging to their views for so long makes them unable to change them even if you show them proof that they are wrong. That might be another 1% of people.

There are a very small percentage of people who shun vaccines for lets say “true” religious reasons. Most of the people who try to claim religious reasoning for refusing vaccines are members of religions that are completely fine with vaccines. They are usually just really stupid people who are scared of needles and/or don’t think it’s that big of a deal with modern medicine. That’s probably another 1% of people.

Then there are people that are homeless or otherwise outside of the system. Vaccines are one of the most cost effective methods to improve health of a country, so despite the nightmare that is our healthcare system, you typically should never have to pay for a vaccine. It may be a bit more work than someone who is homeless and/or has substance abuse or mental health problems can prioritize. That might be another 1%.

All together, that would put us at 92%, above the threshold for a widespread epidemic, but all of those categories of people who don’t get vaccinated tend to be in communities, and so we can have outbreaks in those communities.

They weren’t intentionally infected, they were just deliberately not given the cure. It doesn’t make a difference at the end of the day, but it is important to distinguish because that is probably part of how those involved in the study justified their actions.

E.g.,

“I didn’t give them the disease, so I’m not responsible for what happens to them”

I know some people with a similar house. I guess the bright news is that when a house gets that old, but it’s still standing, you probably have some time, lol.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_syncretism

Basically, people combine religions way more than they pretend to. Think about a holiday like Christmas/Yule. It’s allegedly a Christian holiday, but somehow there are elves, reindeer, evergreen trees, and gift giving involved.

Throughout history, religious conversion wasn’t really about personal belief. There have been political conversions where a leader has “converted” for an alliance or marriage, and therefore a whole kingdom is allegedly a new religion, even though the people are still doing what they always have.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianization_of_Kievan_Rus’

There have been crusades, Muslim conquests, and colonization forcing conversion at the end of a sword. People kept practicing their existing religions during all of these.

Eventually, public and private religions, religions of neighboring people, etc. blur together.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folk_Catholicism

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messianic_Judaism

The way people should think about it is not whether or not they break even compared to having not purchased the house. The real comparison is if they end up better off than if they paid rent that whole time instead.

If you bought a house for $300k, paid $420k for it over 30 years, and sold for $320k, you could think of it as a $100k loss, but you’d still end up $420k ahead of someone who had the same monthly payment going to a landlord.

I can’t think of a time I’ve ever had a landlord fix a problem. I wish I lived somewhere that you could just deduct repair costs from the rent, or otherwise withhold rent.

If the hose-to-drain route isn’t feasible, many dehumidifiers come with a built in pump, so it will pump water out when the tank is full. These can go against a hydraulic head, so you could even put one in a basement with no plumbing, and run the drain line upstairs to a drain.

Also, you probably know this, but for anyone else, don’t bother with any dehumidifiers that run on a Peltier element instead of a compressor. They will be slightly cheaper, but they’ll use the same amount of energy for like 1/20th of the capability. They advertise them as “quiet” or “compressor free”, but just don’t do it.

I’m generally not a fan of IoT devices, but I know some people with a water metering device that will detect any leaks, and can be configured to easily shut water off in the event of detected high flows indicating a burst pipe. You can also shut water off when you go on vacation so you don’t have to worry about it.

Homeownership is man’s continuous battle against water.

Yeah, a heck of a lot of household troubles can be put on the backburner, but anything involving water intrusion needs to be fixed right away.

One of my problems with phones over the last few years is touchscreens that go all the way to the edge combined with UX elements that require swiping from the very edge. It basically becomes impossible to use if you have a case.

In engineering speak, that’s referred to as “percussive maintenance”.

I had a situation ten or so years ago working on a machine that displayed an error code i didn’t recognize. I looked in the manual, and it had descriptions for error messages like (E1, E2, etc.), but the message was a couple numbers higher than the highest error in the manual (and as a side note, it’s really dumb to program a machine to give an error message without a corresponding key).

I looked through the handwritten old log book for the machine, and found someone referencing the same error code in the early 90’s. The error back then occurred after the machine was moved, but it cleared up after being moved again. We guessed that the issue was a loose connection that got jostled back into place. The machine had just been moved slightly again before our issue, so we assumed it was the same.

We ended up opening the machine, and just poking around until we hit the right wire that reconnected itself and cleared the error message. We wrote that down in the log book as a “digital re-alignment” (digital as in fingers).

Looks like you are stuck with fruits, grains, herbs, and ornamentals in the front yard, then, lol.

I think you are missing my point. The Fulbright program was started by the US that does exchange between the US and other countries, and the cost is shared. The trump administration is cutting funding for anything it disagrees with.

If the University of Helsinki advertises to US students to come to Helsinki to research climate change through this US program, the US just won’t fund it. Likewise if they advertise to Finnish students to go research equitable housing policies at an American university, the US just won’t fund it.

The only people hurt by advertising for people to do Fulbrights on topics the trump administration doesn’t like are the people who want to do that kind of research who will fill out applications that will never be funded. If you are asking people to submit proposals on those topics, you are asking them to waste their time.

Obviously, Finland can (and I really hope they do) fund Americans to study in Finland, and Finns to study in the US, independently of the Fulbright program, but the fulbright program itself is subject to the whims of the US govt.

If I’m reading the auto-translated Swedish right, it seems like the issue is Finnish universities are advertising the scholarship program for students who want to go learn in the US, and they are using terms that are leading to programs being canceled in the US.

The US counterparts have asked the Finnish Universities to change how things are advertised because they don’t want the program to be shut down since it is important. If I was in their shoes, I would be asking the same thing.

Seems overall upsetting, but not nefarious like this article makes it sound. I don’t think it’s really a moral victory to keep the advertising the way it is, and just have the program cut off; everyone loses. I suppose that since it’s a program to promote cultural exchange, it’s bound to be shut down by the US govt anyway, so maybe it is best to just go down with the ship (not sure if that’s an idiom that translates to finnish).

My manual says:

DO NOT USE IN CARAVANS, TENTS, MARINE CRAFT, CARS, MOBILE HOMES OR SIMILAR LOCATIONS

So i guess you can use it indoors, but I definitely don’t.

Yeah, I want one of those, too. I think it fits different needs, though. Stove vs grill.