Economics is a religion, not a science.

How economics became a religion | John Rapley https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/jul/11/how-economics-became-a-religion

When I’m on Windows, I use subst A: %USERPROFILE%\GitHub to mount my local repos as drive A for shorter paths.

Honeydew is unpopular because when you buy cheap honeydew, they can include too much of the rind without you being able to tell until you eat it.

Maybe not always easy, but easier than fighting with Windows for control of your own computer now. #copilot #TimAppleAward

A tank of gasoline isn’t safer if you’re worried about fires, there’s just less sensationalist media coverage. The tires are expensive, but that’s because they are inherently more durable: we drove over a tack last week and our tire was fine. Brake wear is about 80% less, because EVs favor regen instead.

We have a 2023 Nissan Leaf with a 215 mi range and the least popular CHAdeMO connector, and we’ve driven it all over Washington state. We drove from Spokane to Lake Quinault for Thanksgiving.

Don’t believe all the petroleum-invested hyperbole.

One is positive spin, one is negative spin.

Any solution that has to start with purges is an inherently bad solution. Collapse isn’t much better, the people that have already borne the worst of things will be the hardest hit. But it might also be wishful thinking: If the last ten months hasn’t caused it, what will?

At that speed, the risk of running over anyone is pretty low.

Are you fucking kidding me‽

The Mellon fortune again? After Cordelia Scaife May used it to help establish our racist immigration system?

https://web.archive.org/web/20190815020220/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/14/us/anti-immigration-cordelia-scaife-may.html

I wouldn’t worry. It’s not like an Excel error has ever caused human suffering at a global scale or anything, right?

https://inthesetimes.com/article/the-excel-spreadsheet-error-that-justified-global-austerity

What happened to all the phone apps that made an effort to detect IMSI catchers, like SnoopSnitch, which appears to be abandoned (F-Droid reports some fishy anti-features?).

Glory to Arstotzka, I guess.

Transportability is a huge consideration. Pawpaws can’t be transported nationally, for example. The plants we eat have been bred for maximum marketability, which includes getting the produce from where it grows to where people need it.

I currently use it, and have largely mitigated issues in a similar way.

Microsoft can’t seem to figure out sync, ever since Briefcase, if you involve multiple computers you invariably end up with more and more conflicting copies. It’s embarrassing.

Office itself is insanely bloated is a world with Markdown, open data formats, and easy access to scripting. They used some pretty unethical tactics to make OOXML a “standard” to stop governments from switching to an actual standard: ODF-based Libre Office.

Zen has “workspaces”, which I don’t get at all. Profiles seems like too much, containers works fine for me.

Crazy all the useless nonsense Mozilla has room for, since they helped kill RSS by dropping browser UI support for it for “simplification”. It was the same rationale for removing live bookmarks and Shift+Enter to add .net to an address and Ctrl+Shift+Enter for .org.

Is anyone keeping a list of these Hatch Act violations?

In DC. My state has been fighting harder against this stuff than almost anyone else.

They don’t teach the classics in school anymore.

I don’t know why they didn’t use that tagline in 1986.