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Because they are the ones who lent the US the money. China is the #2 holder of US treasury bonds and currently own about 1T worth. (4% of the US national debt) Japan is the #1 hold…

It's really not. If you buy a house with a mortgage, and later sell the house before the note is due, you will not owe the full amount of the accrued interest. Unfortunately the re…

As a mechanical engineering intern in the early ‘90s, I worked for a company that among other things, designed food handling equipment for McD. For them a lot of automation is abou…

I’ve been using Yandex more and more. Better search results, less censorship. Thanks, Rooskies!

I just 3D printed a little clip that holds the scroll lock key down. Or, there’s always the mechanical or electronic mouse jigglers you can buy off of Amazon.

Just a reminder, Viasat and their partner Ligado Networks (Formerly Lightsqared, remember them?) are a clear and present danger to the continued operability and reliability of the …

Excel 97 had a rudimentary flight simulator game as an easter egg.

European society exists today, but experienced societal collapse at the time, which extended for hundreds of years. Y'know, the Dark Ages?

Not related to the game, but travel protip: pre-request the “Asian Vegetarian” meal option whenever available. It’s frequently prepared by a local restaurant rather than some giant…

My car does this and it's annoying as crap. Luckily it is easily disabled. Audi calls it GALA - "Graduated Audio Level Adjustment."

Pretty close. They started offering Ubuntu preinstalls on 24 May 2007. https://www.delltechnologies.com/en-us/blog/15994-2/

No unicorn pictures in TFA. Skip it.

The existence of the Electoral College, which was specifically designed to give slaveholding states an advantage when selecting the President. The gerrymandering of electoral distr…

If i meant NYC, I would have said NYC. Damn condescending of you to assume otherwise. I think I know where I lived. My water came from the Lloyd Aquifer.

No. A randomly arranged amorphous mass of protein is not a drumstick. There is no bone, there is no skin, there is no cartilage, there is no connective tissue. Would it not make se…

Sure, you let me know when we can grow a decent drumstick in a petri dish.

I say we engineer a breed of Mike the Headless Chickens. Just enough brain stem to stay alive, not enough brain to care. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_the_Headless_Chicken

The ENTIRE point of the story is that industrial meat farmers raise a breed of chicken which has been engineered to only live a short lifespan before consumption. Laying hens are a…

That depends entirely on your groundwater. In Florida, absolutely, it tastes like shit. When I lived in New York, it was great. Reservoir water, of course, is full of literal shit.…

I liked this command-line tool better back when it was called Finger, and the contactee controlled which information was current and correct in their .plan and .profile files.

Um, there are no locks on the current modern Suez canal. The difference in height between the Med and the Red is only 28 feet. The resulting current is negligible and seasonal. Oop…

Allow me to present Triple Divide Peak, from whence you may urinate simultaneously into the Atlantic, Pacific, and Arctic oceans. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_Divide_Peak_(…

Amazing... my aeromedical examiner, Dr Richard Pellerin, served as a special forces medical corpsman in Vietnam in 1969/1970. He also filmed his own observations and recently digit…

Gcode: Logo you can use to build stuff.

When I was a kid, some of our phones were hard wired, some used a giant 4-pin modular plug. RJ11 wasn't invented yet. Pepperidge Farm remembers... http://www.classicrotaryphones.co…