aimed at beginners who confuse “hasn’t been updated for a year” with “hasn’t needed to be updated for a year”

once you have some experience under your belt, these are non-issues:

• deciding to “learn Linux” the hard way by starting with a specialized distro (Slackware, Gentoo, Alpine)
• switching to unstable or testing branches before you’re ready ’cause you want bleeding edge or “stable is too far behind”
• playing around with third-party repositories before understanding them (PPAs in Ubuntu, AUR in Arch)
• bypassing the package manager (especially installing with curl | sudo sh)
• changing apps for no other reason than “it hasn’t been updated for a year”

unblocked: https://archive.ph/zafrE

as was foretold in the sacred prophecies of Stargate

“Piracy is preservation.”

“I want to be rich enough to not think twice about extra guac.”

Let’s Talk About Thalidomide

“Itty Bitty Baby Hands and the Skipping Dipshit”

the cherry on top: regardless of who’s at fault, the cyclist gets blamed

need to educate drivers

this is one of the big ones that shows up in our car-centric worldview – just sticking to motorized vehicles: truck drivers are expected to know truck rules, car rules, and motorcycle rules – motorcyclists are expected to know motorcycling rules, car rules, and truck rules – car drivers are expected to know car rules and that’s it

when the majority of our population doesn’t know about (and subsequently doesn’t care about) anything else sharing the road with them … car drivers that are just as aggressive towards motorcyclists as they are towards bicyclists, car drivers are completely oblivious to stopping distances and momentum of big rigs …

after a 14 hour plane ride, the existential threat of transporters seems a lot less important …

considering how much Finland loves rally racing …

• Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (2007) – the background for
• Naomi Klein, The Battle for Paradise: Puerto Rico Takes on the Disaster Capitalists (2018) – published in the wake of Hurricanes Irma and María in 2017

Australia’s Carbon Capture and Storage is a straight up scam

took me a LONG time to recover from high school cafeteria’s Friday tuna casseroles (complete with canned peas)

(doesn’t help that most HVAC installers in the US are of a relatively conservative bent, no problems trash-talking heat pumps while they try to up-sell you on the latest forced-air system)

part of the multifaced aspects of fungi – cordyceps is both the zombie fungus and a performance enhancing drug

they can’t move around and communicate with us

• move around
• communicate with us

!fungus@slrpnk.net

• at the full-featured end, VSCode (OSS Code, VSCodium) has pretty much captured the market
  • for a while, Atom was a popular competitor until MS closed it down, you might have some luck with its successors: Zed or Pulsar
• mid-range, Kate and Geany have their fans
• deluxe text editors, join the Emacs / vim holy wars
• plain text editors, give up on extensions, plugins, etc. and just edit text