Depends on the type of pine tree. Lot of the uses mentioned by others are dependent on the type. If you can identify the type, I’d try searching it.

In addition to the uses some have mentioned, some have medicinally useful compounds that can be extracted by alcohol.

So two anonymous observers saw someone else receive an indirect and somewhat ambiguous comment? And this is a bullet proof definite smoking gun admission? Or just… mildly informed speculation that could mean a thousand other things?

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It’s sitting right there DNC, a path to a land slide victory, might piss your friends at the yacht club … but it’s the path to victory.

Beef is a lot more expensive in Europe in my experience, but is also of a much higher quality. You can get an equivalent quality in the US but you’ll have to go to a specialty butcher or a farmers market and it will be more expensive than an equivalent cut in Europe.

And frankly the cheap stuff in the US is still too expensive for me to make it a regular part of my diet. So, if I’m going to have it, it’ll be a treat, and I may as well buy the better stuff in that case.

American Fanta is corn syrup and artificial orange flavor, Fanta in Europe is orange juice and cane sugar.

Still a soda, but like, actually a food instead of an industrial byproduct.

It’s so funny, because people act like open AI has a viable business model, but they’re loosing money even on their paying customers, even the highest tier of subscription. The product they’re selling really isn’t good enough to charge the price they would need to charge to pay for the operation costs, let along the training costs, and that’s with Microsoft giving them a bunch of servers for essentially free.

Like, there isn’t a path to profitability for them, certainly not on this scale. They’re just praying that if they throw enough data in to a big enough model that somehow it will start doing something different than what it currently does. It’s not a plan, it’s a prayer, a cult.

“ don’t worry, we’ll offset some of the demand by restarting nuclear plants to prevent burning as much fossil fuel”

“Wait so we could have just had those running already rather than burning fossil fuels?”

“Noooo… because… uh… reasons”

Oh boy, can’t wait for them to start selling off all those houses they’ve been buying so they can get the cash they need to cover this and then crash the housing market.

Because he wants to do a huge tax cut, or even get rid of income tax outright, and he needs revenue to replace that.

it goes deeper than just “investors are greedy” though. Most people making these investment decisions are doing it at the behest of other people who have handed them their saving in exchange for returns. Those people aren’t privy to the nature of how money is getting invested and why, they hire someone else for that, the investors.

The investors may be making short sighted, stupid decisions, but they’re doing it because they’re pursuing their own personal incentives, get a raise, a promotion, or just not get fired. The managers are doing the same. If they don’t do it, someone else will.

It’s not the fault or moral failing of any one individual, but a fault in the system of incentives. A failure in the fundamental structure of how we decide how investments are made, in how we accumulate capital for investment.

I almost never see malt vinegar in the US unless it’s at a UK themed restaurant.

Like, it’s not really much of a thing in US food. Maybe as like a source product for distilled vinegar? But I think that’s mostly made from corn not malted barley. Honestly I see imitation “balsamic” or red wine vinegar way more often than malt

when average users start fleeing en mass, it’s already to late, and arguably it’s approaching a critical mass where there is enough common knowledge and “friends who use that” to make the jump easier. Right now, the average user doesn’t have much of a reason to jump, but if Google has to restructure their business model due to their ad monopoly getting crowbarred, they might implement stuff that would be enough to get average users to start jumping.

At least with eggs and chicken, it’s mostly a collapse of the industrial farming system. This outbreak of bird flue has been going on since 2022 and has yet to really be contained or dealt with. Nearly 165 million chickens have died from H5N1 or been culled to slow the spread in the past 3 years. There have been 14 facilities with a million or more chickens totally wiped out since the start of the year.

Weirdly, it’s had much less effect on “pasture raised” egg prices. Almost like the disease is a lot less of a problem if the chickens aren’t stressed and crammed shoulder to shoulder for easy transmission.

great, just, one issue.

“The company says the content served to bots is deliberately irrelevant to the website being crawled, but it is carefully sourced or generated using real scientific facts“

Nah, screw that, actively sabotage the training data if they’re going to keep scraping data after being told not to. Poison it with gibberish bad info. Otherwise you’re just giving them irrelevant but not unuseful training data, so no real incentive to only scrape pages that have allowed it.

but think of the shareholders! How would they feel if the company stoped growing? They need to cram their attempt at an audio content monopoly down your throat or else they’d only just be a music streaming monopoly.

I wonder how effective it would be just to put a bunch of data on servers meant to poison the training data they’re scraping. Like, make it data that only a bot trying to get everything would find, not something that users would see or encounter.

Huh, funny, isn’t that. Almost like Israel’s leadership was lying through it’s teeth.

It’s so absurd, the website’s appeal lies entirely in the user driven experience created by volunteer moderators and user submitted content. Yet the path of profit growth for them lies in company placed ads, and LLM bots spamming comment sections to astroturf. The more they push for profit, the less appeal to users the site has.

He can say what ever he wants, apparently, but he has to run it by a court to actually prosecute people, and we’ve already seen that the courts are not just giving him the outcomes he wants.

Hell, even the Supreme Court, as stacked as it is, isn’t just rolling over for him.

The question is what happens when he continues to just ignore court orders and rulings. Will he be held in contempt? Will there be actions to enforce the decisions of the courts?

That’s the actual question at stake at this point