This inorganic composite glass is made of inorganic materials

umm…

Apparently there’s some bullshit narrative being pushed by Fox that Tim Walz is somehow responsible.

jesus tapdancing christ.

I went to a private Christian high school.

Attached to a church.

In the Bible belt.

They still taught separation of church and state in history and social studies classes.

It’s not that fucking difficult.

Get your shit together Arkansas.

Hey hey now, that was the limeys and the frogs:

Levant Crisis

Intercommunal conflict in Mandatory Palestine

The yanks didn’t get involved in all that until 1973:

Arab-Israeli conflict

Tactical Timmy likes to play dress-up.

Time to lay some pipe.

If you’re just doing a quick config edit, nano is significantly easier to use and is also present in most distros.

Vi/Vim is useful as a customizable dev environment, but in the present there are better, more feature-rich development tools - unless you are specifically doing a lot of development in a GUI-free system, for some reason.

Hmm…

Hummingbirds live 3-10 years depending on the species, cockatiels ~15 but possibly as long as 25 with good care, white storks 35+ in captivity and even longer in the wild…

So what happens when one of you/part of you dies? If you’re sharing the mental state, do all of you experience death collectively? and then the surviving parts have to continue living with that?

Captain Planet to the rescue!

gestures at all of observed reality

Two different people. Both headlines are accurate.

Hmm, “millions of years” is technically correct but “paradise” is very much in the eye of the beholder, and “stable” is really only valid if you’re considering very short and selective time windows…

https://all-geo.org/highlyallochthonous/2007/11/how-the-air-we-breathe-became-breathable/

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Evolution-of-the-composition-of-the-Earths-atmosphere-through-geological-time-Catling_fig3_368716310

Or rather, the longest stable period we’re aware of is when the atmosphere was full of methane.

Um, the core feature is privacy invasion. It does what it says on the tin.

It’s fine if some people want that functionality, as long as it’s not enabled by default.

Lump

Barring actual manufacturing defects, the cheapest quartz crystal timing circuit on the market will be far more accurate than the very best Swiss watch movement, by orders of magnitude. A mechanical watch depends on a spring whose behavior is highly environmentally dependent - it will gain or lose multiple seconds per day, being affected by the orientation, vibration and temperature changes it experiences. A quartz watch will drift a few seconds per month.

So there’s this radio editorial from 1973 called “America: The Good Neighbor”, written by George Sinclair. I think a lot of what Sinclair described has been lost, unfortunately, but this line always pops into my head:

You talk about scandals, and the Americans put theirs right in the store window for everybody to look at.

I feel like this part is still true. For better or worse, as a nation even when we feel shame due to the behavior of our politicians we don’t try to hide it, pretend like it doesn’t exist. Our politics is theater and we all know it. It’s on display for everyone to see.

You can read the whole thing here: https://thinkingagain.com/html/american_tribute.php

It is an artifact of history, and just… keep in mind that it needs to be read and understood in the context of the time it was written. The Apollo program had just ended the year before, and US troops had just withdrawn from Vietnam. The Watergate scandal was current news and is specifically what Sinclair was referring to in the quoted line above. Martin Luther King Jr. had been murdered only 5 years prior, and the civil rights movement of the 1960s was a recent memory. It had been only a decade since John F. Kennedy was assassinated.

And there was video and live discussion of all of it just on display for everyone to see on the still quite new platform of broadcast television.

Things haven’t changed much.

Oh no, it’s worse than that… we use the metric system to measure the customary system…

The Mendenhall Order marked a decision to change the fundamental standards of length and mass of the United States from the customary standards based on those of England to metric standards. It was issued on April 5, 1893, by Thomas Corwin Mendenhall.
[…]
Mendenhall ordered that the standards used for the most accurate length and mass comparison change from certain yard and pound objects to certain meter and kilogram objects, but did not require anyone outside of the Office of Weights and Measures to change from the customary units to the metric system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mendenhall_Order

Technically every unit in the US customary measurement system is just a weird conversion factor of an equivalent metric unit. At this point 1 yard was defined as 3600/3937 meter, which means 1 inch = 2.54000508 cm. By 1959 everyone finally agreed that this was stupid and redefined it as 1 yard = 0.9144 m (1 inch = 2.54 cm).

All measurements in the US are based on standard reference objects provided by BIPM.

And it tells the same time as a $5 Casio

Assuming the fancy watch is mechanical, your $5 Casio keeps better time with a quartz chip.

If it’s not mechanical then it’s basically the same device with an expensive shell.