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In my city, the ambulance service is run by a private contractor, but the city government offers ambulance insurance to residents. It's included on my monthly water/sewer/trash bil…

I am not a fan of what's being done to the Department of Education, but the linked article states nothing about anyone's payments increasing 4x. Also, the 41% is in reference to th…

I can find courts in Oklahoma by entering "Oklahoma" in the search box and selecting Oklahoma from the dropdown menu. Are you not getting the dropdown? It sometimes takes a few sec…

One of the reasons we've used it for centuries is that in the days before treated water it was safer to drink. Microbes in water had the potential to make you very sick or even kil…

They scaled back at one store only. This hardly seems like a trend. The Wal-Mart near my house just finished a major remodel this month, and they increased the number of self-check…

Gumroad might work for you. They take a flat 10% fee.

While I'm pro-union in general, not all unions are equal. Some are powerful. Some are weak. Back in the 1990s I worked part-time for a unionized grocery store chain and was a membe…

There are several license plates missing from Oklahoma. A quick glance shows that the Cherokee Nation and Pawnee Nation plates aren't included. There may be others as well, but I d…

They're just not digitizing hit songs, they're digitizing forgotten artists and rare recordings. The Internet Archive is extremely valuable to music historians like myself in findi…

The website for one of my local news stations, the one I prefer for severe weather coverage, causes Firefox to freeze. That started happening a few months ago, so I now have to use…

I've been heavily using MuseScore 4 lately and haven't noticed that type of latency on the Linux AppImage. My only gripe with 4 is the inability to open multiple scores in tabs. It…

Cool Worlds did a great piece on this a few weeks ago. It's worth watching if you have an interest in this subject. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHgAcbpsujI

And as of this minute, your comment is the number one result for that search.

If you're using Firefox, there's an add-on called |Disable JavaScript that allows you to just click a switch on the toolbar to turn js on and off.

Google Books has issues of Billboard magazine dating back to 1942. It used to be valuable for research, but it's become much less so over the years. Currently, search results that …

This reminds me of Lovecraft. His mythos was based on the premise that Earth has been inhabited by a series of alien and native civilizations, mostly malign, over the past billion …

It's not a question of legal authority. It's a matter of if a company wants to do business in the EU, they have to follow EU laws. The EU isn't imposing laws on other countries. If…

I bought a 32-inch dumb TV just a couple of weeks ago. It was only $77US, on clearance at Walmart from $129US. The brand is Element, which I'm unfamiliar with, but it works nicely …

The problem with moving away from SMS authentication is that not everyone in the world has a smartphone or is able to use something like a Yubikey. SMS is the lowest common denomin…