It became a running joke (at least in my circles) that if you want to spot a Canadian, look for a Roots bag or MEC gear. Only Americans would wear a Canadian flag. Though this was before Roots enshittified and offshored all their manufacturing to China, and before MEC dissolved their co-op through evil shenanigans and went privately-owned.
I've had a lot of dogs and they don't really shove their butts into my face quite as much or in the same way, hahah
The grocery we use keeps boxes by the checkout. Saves them throwing them out, since they get hundreds from suppliers.
Cat doesn't give you a whole lotta choice in the matter.
That's a relief!
The Isle of Skye is bleak.
One r two fs
It's not even that it's low-tech. Tape is high-tech, it's been updated over the years. LTO10s are targeting 36TB of data per tape.
It's the pig-ignorant newbies thinking "hurr durr tapes are 1970s tech". Hard drives are also 1970s tech.
They have their advantages and disadvantages, is all. They're not well suited for situations where you can't guarantee a clean room (or enclosed tape reader), for instance, since the tape medium is exposed to the air. Dust can mess it up REAL good.
But for some situations, it's indispensable.
Honestly I don't care enough. If I happen to be in the interface I'll probably turn it off, sure. It doesn't inform any decisions, I barely register that the number exists.
Perhaps not. My subjective experience of my Withings scale is that the reported fat percentage has at least remained where I've expected given my general activity level. ie, fat percentage goes up when I'm sedentary, down when I'm active.
But it's more a curiosity than a useful metric regardless.
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