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Yeah, they're not perfect examples, but those shows' characters live in the suburbs and spend most of their time even farther afield. The cities seem to serve as somewhat jarring j…

Oh, this sounds like fun. It depends on how you define 'rural', but off the top of my head: Parks & Recreation, Schitt's Creek, Breaking Bad, Ozark, Sons of Anarchy, Dallas, and th…

>Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no …

No.

I don't think that's accurate today. I recently cancelled my NYT subscription from their website, didn't even need to call them. How long ago was your experience?

The "Supreme Being" in the French Revolution was not necessarily the Abrahamic God. One major cause of the revolution was the Church's corruption and overreach during the ancien re…

This is a shame, but not very surprising. The area around the reactor is a protected wildlife reserve, but the Columbia River Valley is a bit of an elegiac place to visit. It feels…

Espressif chips are excellent for making projects that work well, but it's a bit harder to recommend them for education. It's tough to get truly "bare metal" code running on their …

Toyota's interest may not be in Level-5 autonomous taxis. They have a history of striving to fully understand every part of their supply chain; this could be a play at developing a…

That question doesn't really make sense in the context of a US workplace. The employee:HR relationship is fundamentally adversarial over here. HR's job is to protect the company, i…

At least those phishing exercises are done with the informed consent of the organization. If they go too far and impact day-to-day work, or if people complain, the executives under…

Not so much if you live in North America. There are a few plug-in options, but it seems like the good ones are staying in Europe and Japan because in 2021, the big automakers still…

>We aren't going to see a cultural shift in timescales shorter than a decade. Why not? We already did. 2000 was still in the era of "never give out accurate personal information on…

I actually still use WSL1 and vcxsrv to do that when I use Windows. It is seamless, even the icons that show up in the Windows taskbar are correct. If this new WSL2 experience work…

There are a lot of good quotes along these lines. My favorites: "I never let my schooling get in the way of my education." (Mark Twain) "Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I rememb…