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MinuteCast from AccuWeather does exactly this. It looks at your location, looks at radar data for storm systems approaching your location, and estimates when precipitation will start at your location and how intense it will be. It's generally pretty accurate, with some limitations. It seems to be pretty good for consistent rainstorms but it can get tripped up by pop-up thunderstorms, where the radar track can go suddenly from no rain to downpour. It doesn't make predictions more then 2-3 hours out because past that timeframe it's not easy to predict if weather will continue on its current track or change direction. Even with the limitations, I use it all the time. Mostly to tell if I should take the dogs out right away, or if I should wait an hour or two.

Billionaires, as a class, are likely already spending that much or more on lobbying for lower taxes. Or really lobbying for the status quo, since existing loopholes allow them to achieve an ultra low or even 0% effective tax with alarming regularity. The threat they make is wealth flight. "If you raise our taxes we'll take all our wealth somewhere else!" As a result taxes on the ultrarich have essentially been a global race to the bottom for decades. At least now there finally seems to be some indications that wealth inequality cannot be ignored the way it has been for so long. My hope is that we'll eventually see some international framework that effectively raise the tax floor for the 1%. It won't cover every nation, but if it encompasses the EU, US, Commonwealth and other aligned countries then that would go a long way.

Why are you an introvert?

Tough to say. I've always been comfortable in my own company, and I've always been a bit socially anxious. I didn't consciously choose to be an introvert, I just turned out that way. Studies done with twins separated at birth have shown that at least a significant portion of our personality develops based on our genetics. Despite being raised by different families in different environments, many such twins develop exceptionally similar personality traits. I imagine much of my introversion was set the day I was conceived. It's just part of who I am.

When did you realize you were an introvert?

I feel like I've always sort of known that I was introverted, but I didn't realize just how much until a few years ago. The company I was working for at the time had a retreat for my department, and one of the exercises we did was a personality inventory. Some of it was junk science (e.g. Myers-Briggs) but one of the tests was based on the Big Five personality traits, sometimes called the OCEAN model of personality:

• Openness to new experience
• Conscientiousness
• Extroversion
• Agreeableness
• Neuroticism

On the Extroversion scale I got the lowest possible score on the test. I am the most introverted a person can be! At least according to that particular test. When we were sharing and discussing the results, all of my teammates were surprised. One said, "But you don't seem shy!" Well yeah, because introversion isn't shyness (though the two do tend to be correlated).

Being a hardcore introvert means that when given a totally free choice between spending time by myself and spending time with others, I would invariably choose to spend time by myself. In actual practice there are lots of times where I don't have completely free choices, and decades of life experience have given me sufficient coping strategies for those times.

If you overcame it how did or why did you? Any advice for people trying to be less of an introvert?

I don't think I could stop being introverted, any more than I could stop being blue-eyed. I don't see my introversion as a problem to be fixed. When I go to a social event, I know that there's a limited amount of time I will be able to spend there because social situations are absolutely draining for me. I interact with people, I try to stay engaged, I usually manage to have fun and the end of the night I'm usually glad I went, but it's still fucking exhausting. My understanding is that this is typical for introverts, whereas extroverts tend to gain energy in social situations.

When I was younger I definitely had some social anxiety, and that I did address in my second year of university. My first year was very socially isolated, I felt very inhibited from talking to people so of course I made few friends. I had roommates that I got on with well enough, but we didn't have a lot of common interests and I tended to keep to myself too much. Because of course I did, I'm a hardcore introvert. In that first year I wanted to make more friends and not be so isolated and get included in more of the fun things going on around me, but I wasn't doing anything to get the outcome I wanted.

In second year I decided that I was being too much of a wuss so I forced myself to strike up conversations with anyone who was doing anything that was interesting to me. Some of those conversations were... painful. Eventually though, I saw some folks playing a collectible card game and I asked them about it. That led to me hanging with them, eventually they became friends and through them I met wife, who I've been with for 26 years now. Those outcomes only happened because I made the conscious choice to do some things that made me feel uncomfortable, in service of a larger goal.

Any advice for people trying to be less of an introvert?

I guess my advice for someone like me, an introvert with social anxiety, would be this:

• Separate your introversion from your social anxiety. The first is likely a fundamental part of who you are, the second is a reflex reaction to social circumstances. You likely can't change your core personality, but you can change reflex reactions to social situations.
• For social anxiety, try some Cognitive Behavioral Therapy on yourself. Think about your anxiety. Realize that's irrational, a reflex response somewhere in your hindbrain that's being incorrectly applied to your current situation. Put yourself in situations that trigger the reflex, allow yourself to feel it, and observe that feeling as it diminishes over time. Start with small interactions. Make a phone call you've been putting off, go to a restaurant and make a little chitchat with the server. Build up from there to more complex / involved / prolonged situations. Join a club, or volunteer. Think about who "your people" would be, and where you would find those people. Then put in the work.
• If you've got more severe social anxiety you may want to work with a professional. I studied Psychology in university, at least partly because I felt like an alien in social situations and Psychology gave me a useful framework for understanding the people around me. I only have a Bachelors degree, which qualifies me to diagnose and treat absolutely nobody for absolutely nothing. I'm sharing what worked for me, but that may not be what works for you. A professional who specializes in social anxiety would have a much more extensive range of techniques to try. If you go to a professional and they don't help, don't give up. Try a different professional, or a different approach. It may take a while to find what works for you.

Anything that pushes the CPUs significantly can cause instability in affected parts. I think there are at least two separate issues Intel is facing:

• Voltage irregularities causing instability. These could potentially be fixed by the microcode update Intel will be shipping in mid-August.
• Oxidation of CPU vias. This issue cannot be fixed by any update, any affected part has corrosion inside the CPU die and only replacement would resolve the issue.

Intel's messaging around this problem has been very slanted towards talking as little as possible about the oxidation issue. Their initial Intel community post was very carefully worded to make it sound like voltage irregularity was the root cause, but careful reading of their statement reveals that it could be interpreted as only saying that instability is a root cause. They buried the admission that there is an oxidation issue in a Reddit comment, of all things. All they've said about oxidation is that the issue was resolved at the chip fab some time in 2023, and they've claimed it only affected 13th gen parts. There's no word on which parts number, date ranges, processor code ranges etc. are affected. It seems pretty clear that they wanted the press talking about the microcode update and not the chips that will have the be RMA'd.

Thick crust, with mayonnaise and slices of raw potato.

First time images of the shooter were published by TMZ?

Not the first time, though it's been a minute...

Am I understanding this right that the scalper buys a legit ticket to extract the token, then it can be used any number of times to get in a venue? I thought their system should be able to identify a token/ticket has already been scanned after it’s first used? That’s why there are no re-entry rules at most venues.

I don't think the intent of the scalpers is to allow ticket reuse. Like you say, there are likely additional checks at the gate when a bar code is scanned. If a rotating barcode is cloned, only the first person to scan is going to get in. Everyone else who tries to use a clone of that now-used barcode is going to get denied entry because the door staff's scanner is going to throw a "ticket already used" error of some kind. So while it's technically possible to clone one of these rotating barcodes, just like it's possible to have multiple authenticators producing the same OTPs, there's no point in doing so.

What the scalpers are after is a platform that allows them to resell tickets without giving TicketMaster a cut. TicketMaster allows their rotating-bardcode tickets to be transferred to a wallet app like Google Wallet. Wallet apps like Google Wallet have features to allow you to transfer tickets to another user's wallet, but the wallet specification also includes a flag for whether wallet-to-wallet transfers are allowed. TicketMaster sets that flag so you cannot give (or sell) your ticket to someone else using your own wallet, instead you have to go through something that TicketMaster controls. For transfers to friends and family, TicketMaster forces you to use their app. For reselling tickets, TicketMaster forces you to use their reselling site. TicketMaster's primary motive is obvious: they want to take a cut of ticket resales, and this is how they do that.

The whole thing is a legal fight between two utterly shitty groups, TicketMaster and scalpers. Here's hoping they somehow both lose.

The money came from products they sold online as well as their OnlyFans sites

Why do these guys have OnlyFans revenue? I doubt they're selling pics of themselves. Why would the models featured in those sites not cut out the Tate brothers and just deal with OnlyFans directly? The models provide the content, OnlyFans provides the platform... so what value do the Tate brothers provide? I have to imagine the answer to the first question is "threats" and the answer to the second is "nothing." These guys are just digital pimps.

I'll second this. If you look at commercial top-sliced hot dog buns, they're basically elongated pull-apart rolls that aren't baked brown on the sides because they were baked right next to a bunch of other rolls. I found this blog post that has a good pic of what I think would be the ideal spacing:

The parchment paper is almost certainly optional. Neat trick to keep the buns separate but likely not necessary.

I'm not sure it fits 100% with what you're looking for, but I'll take chance and recommend Slice & Dice (Google Play, Apple App Store). Free demo, no ads, single in-app purchase to unlock the full version. This game is easily the best value-for-dollar mobile game I've ever purchased.

Oh for sure, those are a communal resource.