I just want to counter their propaganda is all

If this were really true, there would be no crime right now. Nancy Guthrie has been missing for months now despite the perpetrator being caught on camera in an affluent neighborhood where there would be many Ring, Flock etc. cameras. These companies overpromise and underdeliver as they all do. Their main purpose is get people to pay them. They are much less competent than they claim to be.

I liked it and I’m not really into sci-fi because I need good prose to read more than the content.

I haven’t been on the air in a while either. My dipole antennas are out of commission right now because the stakes came out of the ground, and now I have my antennas tangled in the tree and I will need to take them down in order to untangle them.

If you are into HF, we are basically at solar maximum right now, so it is a great time to get some DXing in.

I am reminded of those water bottles that have encouragements to drink water printed on them. This could be a powerful source of motivation for some

Gnerfed programs

I hate GNOME because of the lack of customization, but then I use KDE basically unmodified

Thanks for the correction

Last time it happened, trillions in tax dollars were funneled right to the top. They would be stupid not to try again

Romanian deadlifts fixed my back problems. Sedentary people have weak hamstrings and glutes and tend to bend at the lower back instead of hinging at the hips. Romanian deadlifts will strengthen these muscles and teach you better body mechanics.

What? You don’t want to buy a few tranches of GPU backed securities?

Ian Murdock, Debian’s creator, was working for Pixar when he made it

1 is the United States country code, so that would complicate things. Also the US sort of pioneered telecommunication, so were probably first

The goal is zero employees and 100% profit.

Yea our brains were not meant to deal with a barrage of meaningless stimuli all day

I’m trying my hardest to think of a pigeon hole principle joke

This is the same racist trope we told ourselves about the Japanese and then the Koreans. Obviously only Americans have the Innovation Gene

Yes I’ve been to the Pantheon and those walls are thicc

Roman concrete is unreinforced, meaning no rebar inside to rust. You can’t use modern construction techniques with unreinforced concrete. It can’t handle tension well.

Maybe this is just my Northeast US prejudice, but brick is so much classier. Also concrete doesn’t age, but rebar sure does