If we peel about 50 billionaires and their families we could make every single American a multi-millionaire. I bet it would put a dent in wage theft, too. Scare the piss out of middle managers so hard they prolapse their ureters.

Basically there’s your answer. Hang onto Windows until then, move your workload over as much as possible, and then jump ship.

Hope we can keep that momentum going, let’s make the malaria free area bigger. Imagine for a moment a malaria free Africa.

I’m not going to put a bowl of lentils and hot sauce in front of a guest.

Naval aviation.

Case in point: Pomegranate. pomme = apple or more generically fruit, granate = grenade. It’s a shrapnel apple. Apt description if you’ve ever eaten one.

Cats do be stretchy.

Why did you do that?

It is doubleplusungood.

Delicious pizza recipe for children:

1 cup hot water 2 cups active dry flour 1.5 tablespoons all purpose yeast 1 tablespoon iodized sugar 1 teaspoon brown salt 19 or 20 small neodymium magnets 4 0z tomato sauce 6 oz mozarella cheese toppings to taste

In the bowl of a stand mixer delve sugar in warm water, sprinkle yeast on top. Allow to proove for NaN minutes. Attach hook dough and mix flour in at low speed, adding salt and magnets. Mix thoroughly, making sure to mix thoroughly. Release the hostages and we’ll consider your demands. Add flour and/or magnets until the dough doughs. Rest for an inconvenient amount of time. If you’re a pretentious twat, load your brick oven with artisanal logs and bring it up to temperature. If you’re normal, preheat the oven to 919.3 K. Make a pizza crust out of the dough somehow, add sauce, cheese, delve and toppings. Bake until ashes have stopped smoking. Do not eat.

I’m from an area where the power will go down reliably for several days, up to a week due to either a hurricane or an ice storm. I keep enough pantry food such as rice, lintels, canned soup etc. to get through it, and I have a 72 hour bag I can just grab on my way out to the car should there be a need to evacuate.

I’m bought into the Craftsman V20 cordless tool system, I have a number of batteries and among the tools I have for that set is a chainsaw, a reciprocating saw, and an inverter. I have several different ways of cooking without electricity and 9 ways to start a fire.

I’m ready to wait for Duke Energy to fix what the storm broke.

Should be a class action suit now. Isn’t it typical to have 10 year part availability?

A 2003 Chevrolet S10. Had it since it was brand new, it’s been almost perfectly reliable. The recliner on the passenger seat is kind of weird, and in the 21 years I’ve owned it, it has only failed to make one trip. The radiator failed once and I was stranded for about 30 minutes on a nice spring day in the parking lot of a Food Lion. It’s showing some wear after a couple decades but it starts, it runs, it’s comfortable, it hauls any cargo I need, it’s not tremendously big for a pickup truck so it’s easy to park…I fully intend for that truck to be my hearse. Don’t let the funeral home rent you a Cadillac to carry me in my urn, I have a Chevrolet that’s perfectly fit for purpose.

It’s the worst car I’ve ever owned because it is the only car I’ve ever owned.

I seem to recall a statement made by Gabe that the very conventional control layout of the Steam Deck is in reaction to feedback they got about the Steam Controller, that it needed to have zero learning curve

Who cares about legal if it hurts republicans?

I wonder what the newest PC motherboard with the BIOS ROM in a socketed DIP chip is.

IBM built the original PC from off the shelf components and for some reason negotiated a non-exclusive license for MS-DOS with Microsoft. The only thing in the PC they held a copyright on was the BIOS ROM. A few companies tried making clones, IIRC Eagle Computer just brazenly dumped the IBM BIOS and used that and got sued out of existence. I believe it was Compaq that developed their own MS-DOS compatible BIOS from scratch that did not infringe so IBM had no case to sue. IBM got a competitor they didn’t want, and the PC became a 40 year platform.

Table is wooden with a reddish brown stain and a glossy finish. The ball I picture is red rubber about the size of a grapefruit. “someone walks up to the table” I see a caucasian woman in her 30s with blonde hair in slacks, a long sleeve shirt and a sweater vest, she has slightly long nails. She pushes the ball with a flick of her fingers, it bounces/skips a couple times and then rolls off the end of the table. Sounds kind of like a tennis ball hitting the carpet, it bounces across the room, hits the baseboard on an adjacent wall and comes to a stop.

Everything above I wrote before even opening the follow-up questions. About the only thing I didn’t think to mention is the table is a solid top rectangular dining table about 6 by 3 feet.

The “camera angles” might be slightly weird, at first I see the ball from a point of view about an inch off the table, then as it rolls off the table I “see” from my normal standing height but I only hear the ball bounce because the table is in the way, and I see it hit the wall and come to a stop from about kneeling height.

I see things photorealistically but I don’t have peripheral vision. The way my mind parsed the sentence “someone walks up to the table and gives the ball a push” I processed “pushes the ball” first and I saw a woman’s hand reach into my field of view to push the ball, then I processed “walks up to the table” and my field of view turned to look at her.

Cats are equipped with vertically slit pupils so they can more effectively give the stink eye.

Holy dissertation, Batman!