Westchester County in NY apparently had an absurd snafu with the paper they printed ballots on.

NY-17 results may not be available for a few days.

Humans measure our food in dietary calories, and our caloric food can be broken down into four groups. In order of ascending caloric density:

• Carbohydrates, like potatoes and other plants.
• Protein - beans, meat
• Fats (oil,.butter, etc)
• Alcohol

Those of us in affluent countries tend to have too much caloric intake, so strive to limit using fad diets like dropping the bottom or the top while keeping vitamins and those proteins human bodies can’t generate.

If you have the opposite problem and limited funds, you need to think in a budget of “calories in vs money spent.” Bread and potatoes are relatively low-calorie, so may not be enough to have an effect.

Two actual suggestions:

1. If you’re buying store-bought bread, investigate if you can bake your own. I can make a loaf of covid-era sourdough for almost just the cost of flour, and since the flour was milled it keeps a long time and I can stretch dollars buy buying in bulk.

2: if you do have a kitchen anyway, consider beans. Good bean recipes can be very cheap if you start with dried instead of canned, are relatively calorically dense, and respond very well to long cooking. Especially if you need something easy to chew.

At the broadest level, what you are describing already exists. It’s called a “pharmacy” here in the US, and generally includes both a selection of medicines with an acceptinly low risk of harm and diagnostic equipment that can be accurately used without formal training.

For a more electronic example, there have been numerous attempts to augment what used to be a purely manual profession over the years. Several of these are adapted and incredibly useful – any doctor I see can view a shareable electronic record of my treatment, prescriptions are electronically transmitted to a pharmacy, and there are even custom interfaces for electronically checking standards of treatment or insurance coverage.

What you won’t find in general availability are “virtual doctors” that combine an inquiry as to your problem and an application of potential solutions, because humans are absurdly complicated ongoing chemical reactions whose communication is absurdly unreliable.

Or, to put it another way: a lot of people are trying, but it’s a hell of a lot harder than you imagine.

Alt text is, at a minimum, “here’s what you need if for any reason you can’t see the picture.”

What that means depends on what the image is. If it’s a screen-shot of a post on a different platform, that minimum’s the platform, any username or date, and the text of the post content. For a meme image joke, it means a brief description of the image.

Good systems also let you add more than the minimum, like the “mouseover” extras on XKCD, but these are extra. And they shouldnt detract from the image itself.

That is such a bizarre and wonky scheme in the Great State of Washington it almost makes me believe my mom when she says “New York is the best run state I’ve ever lived in.”

I wonder how much of that is due to the old “no tax on the internet” loophole that helped Amazon get so big…

Thanks for sharing! (I love learning new things.)

I think it’s relevant to note that (part of) Canada choosing to exempt specific purchases of medicine is entirely different than some implicit right of Oregon residents to avoid sales taxes.

Canada/US trade is international and has always had weirdness at the border, thanks to tariffs and “duty-free” shops and the like.

I know that residents of Oregon, New Hampshire, Delaware, Montana & Alaska have 0% sales tax for goods and services and can apply to have it rescinded when they’re out of their states upon them visiting one that has ST (with valid ID to prove residence).

This is not true at all.

USA sales taxes are imposed on a portion of the sale price for a purchase made within a state, irrespective of the residency of whomever is making the sale.

Some purchases are exempt from taxes, such as those by a registered charity, and if collected you can ask for a refund from the state with proof that tax was collected and your exemption, but being a resident of a state that has no tax of its own isn’t one.

I live in NY. If someone from any of those states came to Buffalo or NYC and bought a car or a box of legos or something, they’d be charged sales tax and any attempt to get a refund would be denied. (And if it wasn’t collected and the state found out, the vendor would be billed).

Confusingly if I drove to Delaware to buy a car and new PC and brought both back to NY for my personal use, NY does charge an unevenly applied “use tax” that would be the difference between local sales tax and foreign sales tax.

(And the tarrif charged by the feds on import of foreign goods is entirely separate, paid on import, and utterly irrelevant to your state of residency or even naturalization status.)

Them too, but that’s really is a distinction without a difference. Thank you for pushing back on eurocentrism.

(I mean, unless you’re claiming Germany [and Italy] started the war in Europe in direct respone to their ally’s invasion?)

Don’t do the zionist work for them by limiting your criticism to just the rational people who should have stopped this.

WW2 was started by Adolf Hitler and the Nazis, not Neville Chamberlain.

You should trust signal tree the same way you trust a front door lock that has never been broken or picked despite repeated attempts to do both.

.Just remember that police only go through the door when it’s easier than breaking a window or tearing through a wall.

There are all of these stories about signal because it is notable when someone gets around it

That there’s anything approaching secure communication on a cell-phone dominated Internet whose.operating systems are either “snobbish walled garden” or “ad agency living in the corpse of a search engine” is astonishing. In the same way that a gun safety that keeps a toddler from shooting themselves with an otherwise loaded gun is astonishing.