Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes — our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking around. – G.K. Chesterton

Marketing is just fancy lying.

I find I complain less about cold weather than I do about hot weather… But I still like having the different seasons.

#2 is classic. #5 has never let me down. But ive never understood how people use #7: shitty wobbly tip

Sigh, so true.

Let’s finally move to the ISO 216 standard for paper!! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_216

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait. Do not even wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet. – Franz Kafka

Go to a bike shop that has a device or some way of measuring your sit bones (ie. the distance between them.) They’re the two hard bits that should be contacting your saddle when you ride. The shop I went to had this bench with a gel layer so you could see where your sit bones were pressing down.

I used to think all saddles were uncomfortable until I realized I have a relatively wide distance between my sit bones. I bought a proper saddle for my ass and now I’m comfy all the time.

He sure is good at threatening. Fuck him.

Keep them! Don’t ever throw them away! Someone will find them very interesting some day.

Just checked out their site. The first thing I looked at (a pair of joggers) says they’re made in Sri Lanka…

The Parker Solar Probe moves 120 miles per second as it passes around the Sun. That’s nearly half a million miles per hour!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parker_Solar_Probe

I only miss Musicbee on Windows. I’ve created an offline Windows VM for that one single program.

Lmao you got me

Maybe not greener “for now”, but these houses will still be functioning in the future when Sask is forced to move from fossil fuel power generation to some other renewable/low-carbon mix. SaskPower is already planning their net-zero migration, but it will be expensive.

The fewer new methane gas hookups, the easier it will be for us to wean off the gas down the road.

me too. 90% of what I need to do at home I can achieve on Linux, and the other 10% I just do on my work PC. And I’m learning Linux scripting which is expanding my computational abilities. I should have made this switch a decade ago.