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A bus works just as well and satisfies your complaints. Many people neither need nor want the full flexibility of car ownership. Many people neither need nor want full control of t…

Apple in this analogy would be a subway. It runs on Apple tracks by Apple rules. If you live in the city, doing city things, you might never need a car, and the subway meets all yo…

A list of cocktails without a single Long Island Iced Tea variant? That's blasphemy! Now I feel like it's been too long since I've drunk a Blue Motherfucker.

> Is the Apple fandom strong enough to get Tim Cook his own private army of zealots when society breaks down? Not when he has to compete for them with Zombie Steve.

So, I can crack the 2nd and 3rd joints of my fingers just by flexing them. My thumbs don't crack, but I can push the first joint through the range of motion until it locks and push…

Representative democracy is by nature oligachic. Practically, there was no other way to organize a large state until modern communications technology, so that's very understandable…

If you hadn't excluded them, Morocco has a 2000 year old managed food forest.

Unintentionally. People have been mixing biochar into soil for fertility since the beginning of agriculture with slash-and-burn, but terra preta is the result of waste dumps (human…

I read v1. It's good, but I prefer Ray Seyfarth's book. Not much interest in v2 - I haven't touched Windows in nearly 20 years and this seems much less OS-generic than the previous…

I've never lost data on OpenBSD+UFS, unlike Linux and ext4 or btrfs. I would rejoice if zfs or hammer2 or some other modern fs was ported, but it's no big deal to run on my laptop.…

If you want less labor-intensive enchiladas, try stacking El Paso style instead of rolling. They have to be eaten on the spot rather than stored casserole-style, but I much prefer …

> Everyone has to find an answer to the meaning if life. For the non religious/escapist, you have to stare into the void and find an answer at some point. You don't though. There i…

Kobo makes the best linux-based readers, but they're somewhat more expensive (I have a Libra 2 and a Sage, my only complaint is lack of a good web browser). Onyx Boox has some nice…

Here's mine: https://www.discogs.com/master/180181-Klondike-Kat-Mobbin-Mu... (Klondike Kat - Mobbin' Muzik Melodies - 1997)

My cats only chew hard things like kibble, but never chew their wet food, and if given meat or fish, they tear and swallow without chewing.

Cats don't really chew much anyway. If sabre-tooths have a rough tongue like other cats, they can probably scour flesh off bones with that with little need to work over the meat wi…

Civilization refers to cities, not literature. Urban societies need writing and complex social rules to survive, but it's not as if those things can't or haven't arisen in other ty…

American labs are also funded by the US government. Are they equivalent to the US state? Do Chinese and US labs/researchers exist solely in the international sphere, without any do…

Do American companies think about the "financial politics" of their decisions? I somehow really doubt it. Government takes sides and sometimes applies leverage to get companies to …