And if this was a teacher with a real incident in a public school, you’d expect their response to involve a parent/teacher conference with administration, possibly a behavioral intervention plan or other outcomes. Email isn’t enough.

So close.

It frequently is just some of the people in those countries doing it.

This doesn’t mean that no one is responsible, but that not everyone is responsible to the same degree. Trump and his enablers? Totally responsible. Everyone else? Lesser responsibility depending on what they did to enable in the past and what they’re doing now to reaist.

The cost of energy inputs for desalinization and mitigating the environmental impacts of saline outflows make it impractical for many users of water (many irrigation, agriculture, and industrial users.) The Sun still operates the best desalinization plant on a global scale.

I’m a fan of the new and notable feed on the main page myself. KEXP is also a great source of new acts which are typically not on major labels.

Snaps are ok, but zippers are my personal preference. Bonus points if I can unzip the entire outfit when it inevitably gets soiled with some bodily fluid or solid.

This is a challenge all distributions have which want to keep stability, which means shipping older versions (ideally with long term support) with only security updates for the lifetime of the distribution. It’s totally ok for upstream developers to not support any of those old versions too; they’re not being paid either.

The openssl change was communicated with upstream at the time, but no one from upstream pointed out the issue (not surprisingly, because the change seemed like an innocuous fix to an unassigned variable.)

We (Debian) fix bugs and send upstream the changes all the time, so this kind of thing happens. (Upstreams introduce these kind of bugs too; it’s the nature of software development.)

Those suck. Even worse are the calendars that force you to scroll by month (or hide the secret menu to pop up the year selection.)

Just let me enter a date!

No safe amount means that any exposure increases your risk of bad outcomes. The increase may be negligible, but if it’s detectable, it’s there. There are many compounds that do have a safe level (like water) but may be hazardous above a specific level.

A more useful metric is often the number of excess cancers (or deaths) caused by different levels of exposure. But that requires nuance which is hard to communicate effectively.

Ploopy trackballs and mice are awesome. Get one!

I use a bunch of sabbath covers for switches that either do nothing or shouldn’t typically be switched. Easier than installing blanks.

You probably already know this, but there is a collectors market for player pianos and other automated musical instruments. See AMICA in the US. (Not sure about non automated ones; heavily depends on the instrument.)

He’s likely using some kind of AAC which doesn’t require typing. It’s typical for them once you’ve selected a phrase using icons, you can repeat the phrase by selecting it.

There are some nice decaf coffees out there if you like coffee but don’t want the caffeine. Almost anything using the CO2 process will be pretty great.

Mon oncle. Jacques Tati, and obstensibly French even though it has almost no dialog.

The other word for twenty in English is score. Pretty rarely used, however.

I’ve not seen an intersection with four blinking yellow lights in California; typically two ways are blinking yellow (caution) and the other two are blinking red (stop).

I always wondered what Pete the cat looked like in real life.

Try taking the metro or metrolink instead of driving. It’s not perfect, but it keeps getting better and better.

They just recently approved (November 26) the 3.5 billion USD RFP for track and systems, and the rail head for it is finally complete. So sometime in 2026 they will start laying track.