JaymesRS

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[–] JaymesRS 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Calibre automatically updates Goodreads so that ends up being my backup.

I’m torn between The StoryGraph and Hardcover. Hardcover is the better app/site in my opinion, but it’s still quite young so the book database is rougher with a lot of duplicates or missing metadata. But it also has a public API so hopefully someone will write a Calibre Plugin and I can stop with Goodreads all together.

That said, I pay for both, and Hardcover even with missing data beats StoryGraph by 10%, imho.

I’m JaymesRS on all the places, and I’m always looking to follow others.

[–] JaymesRS 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I read Gabe’s post (😄) and am also working through Quenby Olson’s Miss Percy’s Pocket Guide (to the Care and Feeding of British Dragons). I’ve been enjoying it so far but it’s definitely a slower read than I was looking for at the moment.

[–] JaymesRS 10 points 8 months ago

“Never say goodbye. If you don’t say goodbye you aren’t really gone. You just aren’t here right now.”

[–] JaymesRS 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

If you were in reality a bot, are you confident that you would know?

[–] JaymesRS 13 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Short version is that the admin went frEe SPeECh ABsOLutIsT, it went about as well as that kind of thing usually does and most users left.

[–] JaymesRS 0 points 8 months ago

When did this community become a podcast announcement feed for Krystal Ball and Saagar Emjeti?

[–] JaymesRS 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I’m aware, but I also know that we get a sizable chunk of our imports of garlic and mushrooms from China.

Like I said, it is more than I thought, but less than I expected. Given how global a lot of products are anymore, it wouldn’t have surprised me if it was more than the 2023 numbers showed.

[–] JaymesRS -1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I had to go look it up, it’s more than I thought, but not as much as I ultimately expected. I included all food products for completeness. 2023 numbers:

| product | value | year| |——————————-|———-|———| | Fish, crustaceans, molluscs, aquatics invertebrates | $1.31B | 2023 | | Animal, vegetable fats and oils, cleavage products | $850.73M | 2023 | | Vegetable, fruit, nut food preparations |$833.00M | 2023 | | Miscellaneous edible preparations | $670.05M | 2023 | | Edible vegetables and certain roots and tubers | $358.31M | 2023 | | Meat, fish and seafood preparations | $278.46M | 2023 | | Cereal, flour, starch, milk preparations and products | $248.89M | 2023 | | Coffee, tea, mate and spices | $233.34M | 2023 | | Sugars and sugar confectionery | $204.28M | 2023 | | Oil seed, oleagic fruits, grain, seed, fruits | $171.07M | 2023 | | Edible fruits, nuts, peel of citrus fruit, melons | $131.20M | 2023 |

[–] JaymesRS 4 points 9 months ago (8 children)

How much food including fruits and vegetables like garlic or mushrooms do you suspect we import from China?

[–] JaymesRS 22 points 9 months ago

¡HOLA! ¡SOY PROTEIN!

Today is Leg Day. El Día de La Piernas.

[–] JaymesRS 54 points 9 months ago

Sounds like the Boebert crime family is at it again.

[–] JaymesRS 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

It was mainly a media critique. For example This was how The NY Times covered it. Trump’s 68% of the vote is “coasting”

a title from the yew york times framing trumps win as coasting but biden as protest votes hurting biden

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