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"Democracy" in these discussions increasingly just means the 21st-century bureaucratic status quo. It no longer has anything to do with antiquated notions like "the will of the peo…

They've been saying 11 million for at least a couple decades that I can remember. It's probably a lot higher now, but no one in a position to find out has ever wanted to know.

I don't use docker, so I stuck with an ancient version of TT-RSS for years. But last week I couldn't get it to play nice with my new FreeBSD system and its updated PHP, so I instal…

If you bookmark Dave's blog, you have to check his blog every day to see if there's something new, even if Dave only posts monthly. Or you check less often, and sometimes discover …

It's strange how all these modern communication methods (blogs, forums, RSS readers) so often fail to have features that were available in Usenet newsreaders 30+ years ago. We had …

Also, as programming languages have gotten more powerful, I think they've gotten so they require a particular kind of mind to work with. I could teach anyone with a little interest…

It'd cost me about $10k to replace the stack of Commodore equipment I gave away to a scrap dealer 20-ish years ago, if I bought it all used now. But I'm still tempted to start, may…

The monitor built into the C128 was a big step up. Not as good as an assembler since it didn't have labels, but you could do a lot with it.

Right. As I touched on elsewhere in the thread, our local jailers know all the homeless people in town because they show up regularly when their mental illnesses and/or substance a…

A quarter of a percent still seems like a lot to me, even if it's not a "crisis." But we can't do anything about it until we face up to the problem. Spending more money won't help.…

I've always wondered: do speakers of other languages enjoy spelling bees and puzzles based on spelling and wordplay as much as English speakers do? It seems like spelling bees woul…

Yeah, my Linux desktop PC is five years old and definitely wasn't cutting edge when I built it, and I can't see any reason to upgrade it. I just put a new CPU/MB/RAM in my 9-year-o…

Same here. I'm a fast typist, so the effort and slowness of pen and paper make me think more about what I'm writing. My longhand notes make me feel more like I've really gotten the…

One option would be org-mode's capture templates. If you had a capture template for structured journal entries, you could keep your daily file open for notes, and then pop open a c…

Yeah, "underfunded schools" is a talking point that bears no relation to reality but was great for pulling at people's heartstrings, because "think of the children!" But taxpayers …

Especially since those private employers twisted their employees' arms (or fired them) not because they thought the employees were a risk, but because there was an OSHA mandate pen…

Yeah, there's normal political corruption and graft, and then there are some who go above and beyond, taking unnecessarily destructive actions that don't even appear to benefit the…

Indeed. We've been begging them to throw us in the briar patch of a government shutdown for decades. The first one I remember was about 1990 when Democrats threatened a government …

My high school French teacher said if we really wanted to learn a language, go live there for a couple months. Of course, that's easier said than done (and paid for). But if you ca…

A few years ago the manager of our local Menards got convicted of stealing over a half-million dollars over 5 years. She only got 180 days, too, and was allowed to leave the jail f…

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Unfortunately, she doesn't say what kind of fence she's talking about. The kind of fancy privacy fence people put up between yards, maybe; but I'd be impressed if they're cheaper t…

Right. Adam tells Ben to go die in a fire, and Ben says, "Come on, moderators, that's obviously a violation of the CoC." Then Adam says, "No, because I was only responding to Ben's…

Often the moderator is the project lead (or one of them), who may not be suited to adjudicating personal disputes and probably has better things to do. That can result in siding wi…