That it only goes up to 2021

Finally, torrenting Linux distros becomes a thing, rather than a curiosity

$1.8 million in penalties against fabrication shop owners alleged to have violated the silica rule. Stop-work orders were issued to 26 shops where dry-cutting of artificial stone — a prohibited practice — or inadequate respiratory-protection measures

I don’t know enough to have a good opinion on a total ban but it seems like a good place to start is increase enforcement and fines big enough to remove the profit incentive for cheating

Fantastic that seeing consequences for some of their actions …. And there’s no presidential pardon keeping him above the law

Aw come on, he’s not proud of massive increase in disease, people starving, needy people losing benefits, voter suppression, or depriving people of human rights? He’s not proud of loss of prestige and influence, alienating friends and allies (even Canada, that is a huge accomplishment), destruction of American science, education and technology?

Five years ago I splurged on a higher end laptop than I’ve ever had, and regretted it from the beginning. Even when new, the battery barely lasted an hour, and hyper-v was unable to do the VMs I wanted

But I needed Windows for two reasons: tax software and gaming with my kids. Well my tax software also supports Mac and my kids are in college, so there goes my reasons.

So I booted up the windows laptop to do my taxes. It started with not knowing my pin, my bad. But the alternate login was to use the mandated online account that I don’t use. That password change sent email to my ex: yikes. Then ad after ad after popup, so crazy how unusable it became

So yeah, laptop sucks and is showing its age, big waste of money, no more reason to be tied to windows, poor experience ……. Really selling me on a Mac for my next one

recently there have been problems with the grid

Also a problem with politicians. It’s not like it’s a surprise o r sudden

My NetGear router still has a uselessly incomplete implementation of VLANs after 5+ years of updates, I was ready to replace it out of frustration. Gen 6 wireless is getting old hat anyway

But doesn’t that argue against your earlier point? If our myriad of earthly problems are generally political and economic system, then Artemis does not take away from addressing them.

I’m sure that’s a common way for McDonalds to add yet more rules to their franchisee agreement

wtf, have they met a constitutional human right they haven’t violated?

I think I’ve seen this somewhere ….

• https://www.horrordna.com/movies/screamers-blu-ray-review

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LLMs have terrible intelligence, creativity, and adaptability

But terrible creativity is already enough to make a difference. While I’m typing this I’m also listening to a video of an ai reading an ai generated script. It’s not great: neither authors nor narrators have any reason to fear yet - on quality. But it is entertaining and I don’t have to pay much attention. It’s ai slop that is actually providing value

Maybe. But if new automation replaces menial labor (humanoid robots), drivers, and greatly reduces all sorts of paperwork and even low end “creativity” jobs, and scale vastly more than previous automation, what type of work could those new jobs even be?

They’re not repair nor development nor deployment, they’re not service economy or menial labor, they’re not any variation of driving or most gig economy, fewer are creative, fewer are paperwork jobs or even management …… what’s left are skilled labor, personal services, medical, business owners, and I can’t see any of those making up for millions of jobless people. We can’t all be plumbers or nurses

I’m not sure it’s actually a good thing for electors to go against their voters but it’s a workaround that may make things better by ensuring the winner is the actual overall popular vote winner

One of my key takeaways is that it may have some value in aggregate, like this study, but does not tell an individual how smart they are

Yeah, corn syrup doesn’t count. I never willingly use that.

Buying real maple syrup by the gallon is not in groceries. You can get it that size but need to seek it out. I don’t use it enough to bother, plus then you need a separate pitcher and need to refill that all the time

Always looking for a good birch beer …. 27 flavors ?!?! ROAD TRIP!

Edit: DAMMIT

• https://www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2026-03-26/squamscot-soda-newfields-nh-for-sale

Great idea - I’ll look for them.

I’ll have to track down the link but I had a great one for Chicago - but it’s a damn expensive pizza to have delivered from there