Buyer Beware. I got a “6 feet of Snickers” one year and it was just enough to fill the little plastic window on one end, then a huge chunk of cardboard, then the same number of Snickers on the other side to balance it. I got maybe 8 regular sized candy bars and I’m guessing my in-laws paid like $20.

I felt the exact same way, even down to those specific episodes. It had a lot of promise and started asking some profound questions, but it never really felt like it addressed anything. It’s not bad, but I certainly couldn’t have made it through a second watch.

Any idea why it would have been taken down? Doesn’t seem particularly offensive to anyone, even overly sensitive cops.

“I guess we learned not to do it again.”

Nice job! I’ve been wanting something similar for resin crafting and I have a bunch of spare 120mm fans, so I may end up copying this.

Check your insulin sensitivity (homa-ir, or tg/HDL ratio, or fasting insulin) to see what type of ldl you have.

Unfortunately that’s not something measured by the company that my employer sells the data to. Or at least it isn’t a stat that’s revealed back to me.

Gonna have to remember this before my next semi-mandatory yearly biometric screening for work. My LDL is the only thing wrecking my score.

Exactly what I thought of. A pretty good show.

I ate the onion. It would have been awesome, but since lynchings were still so common after the end of segregation I guess it would have been a risky profession.

At this point there are so many scandals and so many dead cats that I can’t tell them apart. Greenland is obviously a distraction because he’s already played it several times, even in his first presidency. I can’t tell if kidnapping a foreign official was a distraction or something he’s using Greenland to distract from. Epstein is the only thing I’m sure he wants us to forget. ICE is a great distraction, but it also seems like he wants us to ignore it for a bit while they gain strength and march towards their goals. Piracy/war with various countries is obviously profitable, but also seems to be getting milked as a distraction.

It seems more like they’re just trying to fatigue us with constant atrocities, like the Andor quote.

What are the blue blocks on the podium?

Decided to look into the yellow counties in Montana because I was shocked if they could even be 49%. Petroleum County (a truly American name) in Montana has 228 occupied households and seemingly no public transportation. However, 58.2% of the county is employed in mining.

So my best guess is a company bus that comes around and picks up everybody? It seems like the bulk of the remainder are farmers, which would mean they don’t “need” to drive anywhere. Although they do drive constantly across their property as part of the work, which feels like cheating.

Gotta post this to the !RichardScarryPosting community. This looks like something Goldbug would drive around in.

This is very very loosely the plot of The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell. They weren’t sent to necessarily convert the aliens, but the Catholic Church were the only ones willing to bankroll a trip that would take at least 60 years and have no possible ROI.

It definitely does not go as planned and, maybe unsurprisingly to modern readers, ends with the Catholic Church being cast as a bunch of perverts in the public eye.

I was gonna post it if nobody else did.

This is the strategy I am now forced to adopt as well. I bought a 2 TB SSD for my home server in late 2024 for $80, then it died exactly a year and a day later. I knew RAM was out of control, but didn’t expect to see the same SSD for $350.

So I guess it’s back to the old 250 GB SSD and rotating old stuff onto an ancient HHD, then hoping prices tank again before one of those implodes.

You can exchange money for goods and services? I thought it all had to go to the rich overlords.

I think size is the biggest factor. OS ISOs are pretty big, so having a managed download is helpful. If the 100 GB triple-A games were open source I would certainly expect torrents. But the FOSS things I download directly are pretty small, and the vast majority are done through a package manager or docker compose. So there may be a Goldilocks zone in the middle where it’d be helpful, but in those cases I’d expect a small installer that downloads the bulk of it for you.

So not much benefit for the consumer, but what about the provider? Spreading the traffic would reduce load on the hosting server which is a positive. You’d still have to handle the bulk of the traffic until the seeders outpace the leechers, but on long enough timescales it’d be helpful. Except you can’t really update a torrent, which means each release needs to start fresh. This still works for OS creators because updates tend to be far apart, there is a large user base, and there is still some market for older versions. For regular programs you may only get one of those three, at which point adding torrents may be more hassle than it’s worth.

That’s only five and a half movies per day! Easy peasy!