I recently read this fantastic post by a fellow lemming regarding the modern advertising landscape (using advertising in the most generic sense), and this paragraph really sums up what I think is the root cause of this infuriating unspoken commitment to inaction (emphasis mine):

Even if you ignore the ads, the tone they normalize leaks outward. The expectation that everything should acknowledge the problem while changing nothing. The reflex to treat moral language as branding. The sense that awareness itself counts as action.

Seriously though, go read the whole thing.

I think you may feel more at home in Non-Political Comics then. (Tbh I understand, sometimes I have to live over there for a few days. No need to be rude about it though.)

Seriously, you can always just buy more RAM…

^(oh. oh dear me.)

ICE agents are given promised a bonus

ftfy

I never understood the whole aversion to “the friend zone.” Like, isn’t that exactly what you need to be first before you can build a romance on top?

To commandeer their superior grammatical sensibilities?

Because we’ve largely been fooled forced into thinking that awareness itself counts as action.

This thought brought to you by this fantastic post by a fellow lemming.

I prefer editing if and only if the recipient can see the edit history.

But your car is a heck of a lot harder to install a privacy-focused custom ROM on.

I would guess they face forward because they want it to blow into the street during clean out rather than onto the sidewalk? Alternately, if they have to pull across the street, maybe they don’t want the main hose to kink if pulled sideways.

What I really don’t understand is why they don’t make one of the smaller side hose taps the same size as the front pumper tap. You could have an adapter already on it too, so you can connect either size hose just as quickly. Nvm, I did some research and this is already a thing, often with 45 degree hydrants called the “Chicago Standard” (not enough, IM^(uneducated)O).

Yes, but then these…

15k🔺 16k🔻 81 🔺1,096🔻

…both sum to -1k🔻, when the ratios are wildly different. If you really wanted to change the system, I would submit for consideration total votes and down:up ratio %:

31k 🔥 48% ⚖️ 1.2k 🔥 0% ⚖️

In fact, you could easily do that at the client level if you wanted. I’d try it out for sure, I know I’ve seen it elsewhere.

Yeah, there are certainly options that offer nearly the same level of functionality (or at least, discounting the features most people don’t use), but none that are anywhere close as easy to set up.

In addition to ordering/favoriting the search plugins like others have mentioned, it would also help to blacklist folders like that from the search indexer when you notice them. That’ll reduce background processing in addition to cleaning up search results.

Exactly, systemd (or if you prefer, the systemd family) is designed to be the bedrock of your system. When that’s true, it’s truly one of the most intuitive and streamlined experiences available. When it’s not, and a distro instead tries to just use bits of it piecemeal… well, I hope you find great personal fulfillment in wrangling jank. 😅

This was me with “gucci.” shudders

But like, the massively higher land use isn’t inherently a problem. For example, if we covered only the land the US currently uses to grow inedible corn for ethanol production in solar & batteries, we would produce enough to power the entire US, Canada, and Mexico 24/7/365, plus a good amount extra. Plus, by employing agrovoltaics, you could still farm actually useful crops underneath them, meaning the land use of the panels becomes in practice a fraction of the area they cover.

See also:

• You Are Being Mislead About Renewable Energy Technology

Sources:

• Trading some corn-ethanol land for solar offers ‘tremendous opportunity’
• Corn Ethanol vs. Solar Land Use Comparison
• Primary Energy Consumption: CAN, USA, MEX

I have no doubt that there would be those trying to make technologies that negate the need for magic, and I’m sure that many would see success in such endeavors. However, I think that regardless of they invent, someone else will then come along and make the same thing, but further enhanced with magic in some novel fashion. In my mind, magic isn’t inherently special, it’s just another set of technologies that, like any other, allow the leveraging properties of the natural world to accomplish a task more efficiently.

Secondly, the roles of production and R&D would be separate only if the scale of production is large enough. I’m thinking this would start at the local blacksmith level, where working the forge and creating new alloys may absolutely be done by the same person (or team) who is passionate about their craft. If the world jumped directly from that era to the factory era overnight, you’re absolutely correct that the evolution of a wizard from worker to researcher doesn’t make much sense. But, that’s not how society evolves—it’s a gradual process. And I think that in an environment of gradual evolution, those that understand the most fundamental secrets of the craft on an intuitive level from the beginning often end up being near the top of the food chain in the end.

I think perhaps also the scale I have in mind is just smaller than what you’re imagining, which could lead to our differing views. Neither is more or less correct I don’t think. 🙃

Some used PCs with no disks are bought only to be booted into a live Linux distro and then some time later resold in the same condition.

Do I have enough ___ stockpiled? No. Hoard more. Rinse and repeat.

Meme smarter, not harder. 🤌