Edward -> Ted is a pretty common preferred name. It’s very common for people to go by their middle or second name over their first. It’s also very common for Americans with non-English sounding names to adopt a more English-sounding name, whether it be a first name or a last name. For example, lots of Chinese people will have an English name they choose to go by, in addition to their legal Chinese name. And of course many trans people adopt different names post-transition, while not necessarily changing their legal name.

You may be right in your implication that Ted Cruz prefers not to go by his birth name for political reasons. I just don’t like the association because of how it can affect all the people mentioned above. There’s nothing wrong with having a different preferred name from your legal name.

Anchos and chipotles are worth their weight in gold! It’s my goal to learn how to smoke and dry my own.

I always put mushrooms in chili for the textural contrast and for the extra savouriness but I think it’s blasphemy to purists.

I don’t play AAA games anymore (haven’t in years) but I still feel somewhat sympathetic to their plight. What has happened to them is the same thing that happened in the music industry and the film industry and a long time ago in the book publishing industry.

The marketplace is too crowded with quality stuff and so it’s extremely difficult to compete with what’s already out there. The only real answer is to take massive risks and hope you can hit a home run. Unfortunately, AAA studios just like big movie studios aren’t set up to take risks anymore. They’re set up to spend a huge amount of money on a project that’s supposed to be guaranteed to succeed. Indies can survive more easily in this space because they’re small so they can take more risks.

It’s like the dinosaurs after the asteroid impact. The big ones are dying off and the tiny ones are surviving and will eventually become birds. Or something I dunno!

Onions, garlic, chili powder, cayenne powder, smoked paprika, cumin powder, coriander powder, oregano, salt, and black pepper.

Sauté the onions, add the garlic, then add fresh peppers, add all the spices, add tomatoes, add the browned meat.

Chili is pretty simple. The key thing to get right is the spices and salt. If the flavour is weak then add more. Keep tasting and adjusting until it’s good.

Except the US is not one person. It’s a bunch of people, some of whom you can call abusers, others would better be called friends and family.

If someone in your family is in a relationship with an abuser do you abandon your family member to their fate with the abuser?

I suppose that’s one way to never be disappointed!

The relationship isn’t dead, it’s just going through a tough time right now. Half of Americans never voted for Trump and are appalled by all that’s happened. They’re poised to take their country back from all the MAGA insanity, starting with the midterms and over the next few years to follow.

It doesn’t spell it out, it leaves it as an exercise for the reader. But it does tee it up for us!

I saw it as a swipe at centrism. The green-orange clown being the centrist under review.

And it is a paradox of tolerance issue: trying to tolerate both a friendly ideology and a murderous one merely leaves space for the murderers to murder.

Get rid of OSAP altogether. Make university free and fully taxpayer funded and introduce negative income tax for students.

Unless you’re talking about “free for domestic students, even more exorbitant for international students” then your idea would never fly. Free tuition for the children of wealthy foreigners paid for by taxpayers? You’d be lucky to survive your first term in office after passing that.

Ontario domestic students’ higher education is heavily subsidized by international students paying ultra high tuition right now. If you took away that source of funding and had taxpayers pay the full brunt (even just for domestic tuition) you’d have a revolt and would be routed in the next election, with a conservative who would totally dismantle the system.

Care to explain why you think that?

Yes, though at least with C you have the compiler to optimize the cruft out of your binary and end up with a nice, clean program.

With JavaScript this is going to incur some runtime cost everywhere this library is used, even if it only happens once when getting optimized out by the JIT compiler.