The one thing that upset me watching the Artemis II mission broadcast was the constant use of imperial units.
NASA uses metric units internally. They had to intentionally translate than back into imperial units for the livestream. Please, folks. Use the better units.
Economy tickets and hostels also cost money.
My preferred version:
Further left of leftists than leftists are is liberals, supposedly.
Some bullshit term invented to sow further division amongst the political left, most likely.
I mean, the earliest known currency is almost exactly as old as the earliest known cities. Farmers would deposit a large amount of grain at the local temple (which were effectively the tax collection sites of the time) and were given clay tokens on exchange, which could be used in place of actual goods at tax time.
This system was set up because of the nature of farming: you make a lot of product in a short time, but most of the year you’re just waiting for your crop to grow. These tokens allowed farmers to pay their tax duties up front, and then have physical proof that they’d done so when paying taxes outside of harvest season. But it was only a matter of time before people started trading those tokens amongst each other. “Give me a goat and I’ll give you these tokens so you don’t have to pay tribute next season.”
Before that, villages were pretty much just hand-to mouth communities of just a few families. Surviving, sure, but not in the kind of complex society where one needs to draw equivalence between extremely different forms of labor.
Also, lsd lasts a LONG time, and it’s easier to find a whole day to fuck off into space when you’re younger. I’ve got a kid, I can’t get 12 minutes of free time at once, let alone 12 hours.
Two outlooks, neither work?
Glad everything is normal aboard Orion!
Fuck, I only pat it twice.
My cubicle office job often involves going downstairs to the lab so I can take measurements with equipment far too expensive for me to have at home, and even too expensive for the company to lend out to employees’ home offices.
A lot of return-to-office work is bullshit, but making absolutist blanket statements like that just weakens the argument rather than helping anybody.
Mint is a good choice for your first linux.
Sometimes hiring managers aren’t allowed to provide any feedback because it can create legal liability.
But usually they just don’t want to.
“Arch isn’t a difficult distro! All you need to do is run pacman -Syu now and then! Even my grandma could handle it!”
(Which is true until something goes wrong and now you’re way more on the hook to un-fuck the system than just about anything that could ever go wrong on a Debian or Fedora based distro)
Yeah, it really is. A plaintext document that generates an entire OS?
But it can be “software I forgot I installed and consumes resources despite me not really using it”
Labor has value. You have access to some amount of labor each week that you value at [your salary]. Your employer values your labor at [some higher value, because they only pay you if they believe you’ll bring in more money than you cost] and thus “wins” at the trade.
It’s also the French word for rooster (though spelled “coq” in that language). If these kids are learning multiple languages at once, that could cause some confusion, given how often French and English overlap.
There’s a big difference between a $100 sound system and a $1000 sound system. I’ve gotten the “audiophiles are dumb” lecture for suggesting someone upgrade from 2x4" computer speakers to actual studio monitors for working on their music. But their speakers literally could not reproduce some of the frequencies thru were trying to make, so they mixed the bass WAY the fuck too loud.
But yeah, diminishing returns start to kick in around that point. Quickly becomes the eternal story of a Fool and His Money.
“Weird people are more fun to hang out with”
Like, fuck Microsoft, but this is just adapting to a world where people regularly have multiple computers on a network. ESPECIALLY business computers, which are the bread and butter of Microsoft’s income.
Tibet, Hong Kong, and Taiwan may not agree with that thesis.