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In addition to what others said about the availability of the source code itself, there's a whole legal framework around it.

A company could have code where the source is publicly available, but they still could say that you are not allowed to copy, fork, sell/distribute it. In that case, there wouldn't physically be anything preventing you from doing it, which sounds strange, until you think about how that's the exactly how it works for books, music, movies, etc.

There's also an in-between for software that's not publicly open source, but is open source to users. A company could sell you their software, and deliver it to you as open source code.

The reason a lot of people's coffee at home isn't good is that your standard, cheap drip coffee maker doesn't consistently heat water, so the starting temp of the water has a big effect on what temp actually hits the coffee. Lots of people also skimp on adding coffee to their machines, and often machines aren't even built to be able to handle the volume of grounds necessary given the batch size. You end up with water going through grounds that have already given up all their goodness. The coffee tastes harsh, which makes them think it's "too strong" which makes them use even less coffee, which makes it worse, and then they throw some strange not-cream white syrupy stuff in it to make it taste like gingerbread or something. This is all compounded by so many people using spice grinders to grind their coffee (not helped by manufactures selling spice grinders mislabeled them).

For gas station coffee (and a lot of restaurants), the coffee is made with super hot water to get every bit of potential extraction out (and occasionally, it's served at that temp, resulting in horrific burns). Pots of coffee either insulated at this high temp, or kept warm via a warming plate get "cooked".

Also, so many people never clean their coffee maker. If you run plain water through most people's coffee makers, the resulting water will smell and taste gross. Old, oxidized coffee oils are pretty nasty, so cleaning equipment with something other than a water rinse is really important.

If you want to really dial in decaf, the process used for decaffeination is another variable to pay attention to.

If you are at all inclined to be a tinkerer, that espresso machine is one of the best. It's basically really solid bare bones that can be modified to be equivalent to a machine easily 5 times the price. Look up "gagguino".

https://www.goral-shoes.co.uk/products/the-smugs-horween-natural-pre-order

Certainly out of my price range, lol. To make a long story short, though, sneakers (and all other athletic foam-based shoes) are inherently not durable, nor designed to be. To get long life out of footwear, you really need to wear more traditionally constructed (i.e., no foam) shoes or boots for 95% of the time, and save athletic footwear for when it's needed. You don't even really need foamy shoes for all athletics.

I'm lucky if I can get 700 km out of a standard pair of running shoes, but foamless (or foam-lite) "barefoot" shoes like xeroshoes have a 5000 mile warranty.

It's okay for some items to be "wear items" while others are held to a different standard.

I think there has definitely been a huge increase in the use of merino wool. It's nice and soft, doesn't stink, and handles moisture well, but the fibers are so much smaller than most other types of wool, that they aren't nearly as durable or warm.

I have wide feet, and I can't stand having my toes squeezed. What you want to look for is a boot with stitchdown construction. Your most common decent boots have either a storm welt or a Goodyear welt (basically the same thing, but storm welt is better in wet conditions). This involves the upper material wrapping most of the way around your foot and stitching it to the welt (a strip of material around the perimeter of the boot) and the midsole. The welt is then stitched to the outsole. Replacing the outsole then just involves popping those stitches. A cross section of the boot turned sideways looks like a "þ".

Stitchdown, on the other hand, rather than wrapping in on your feet, turns outward before being stitched down to the midsole and outsole. This results in more of a "D" shape, which is nicer for wide feet.

Not to shill a particular brand, but Jim Green has a lot of good boots (of the work and casual variety) as well as shoes that have a nice, wide toe box, and would be repairable/resolable by any cobbler.

I'm just now learning that "hollywood hills" is an officially delineated neighborhood, including some regular-people housing that's not actually in the hills. Granted, I think the fire was up in the hills, though it was completely contained.

From the Hollywood hills? To their second or third houses

It depends on the level of humidity. In really humid areas, the dust basically fuses to surfaces rather than sitting on top of it. It's a lot more annoying to clean.

You don't like the British accents that swap the "tt" for a glottal stop? "Buh-ins"

There are a million of these throughout the US. I think it's done intentionally as a shibboleth.

In addition to what others said, they likely have different percentages of livestock. Beef vs. Dairy vs. Sheep, etc

Tbh, I don't think I've ever seen hormone treated milk for sale in the US. They always say "not treated with rbst", then have the disclaimer that rbst does not produce significantly different milk.

I just assumed the hormone treated cow milk was used for making industrial foods like cheezit cheese or something.

As others mentioned, the geoguessr community has a lot of resources, but it's largely focused on locations on streets (cause the game is built on Google streetview). Things like streetsigns can really help narrow down a country.

As someone else mentioned, Open Source Intelligence (OSInt) is what you want to be looking for. Investigative journalism sites like Bellingcat actually show their work, which is really cool. For example, they wanted to find the location of a massacre in ethiopia, so they used an app called Peak Visor to match the topology of the mountains in the background to triangulate the position. There's also tools to use the angle of shadows and things like that. They have tutorials on their site.

Seriously. In the grand scheme of things, they have super important jobs that should pay fairly well. They should make enough money that on their salary alone, they can afford to keep homes in both DC and wherever they are coming from. $175k isn't really enough.

...and they need to make way stronger laws preventing them from engaging in any unethical revenue streams.

I definitely don't want to make the impression that I don't think immigrants are hard workers. I've certainly worked with a few.

My main point is that the system is designed to keep undocumented immigrants in the "informal economy" by paying under the table. They can absolutely make equivalent (or even greater) wages because their employers save a lot of money by not paying all the right taxes and benefits. If employers were forced to provide the same working environment and benefits to all their employees, the system would fall apart.

There's also obviously plenty of, for lack of a better word, entrepreneurs. Unlicensed childcarers, contractors, landscapers, etc.

In all honesty, the plan is likely not mass deportation, it's increased fear combined with pandering to racist fans. Mass deportation would hurt the bottom line of too many important people. Undocumented immigrants don't "do the work legal citizens aren't willing to do" or "work harder than legal citizens". Those are both racist liberal talking points. The reason they appear to work harder and do jobs that others don't want to do is that the whole ecosystem of fear is designed to keep immigrants working jobs below minimum wage and/or in appalling working conditions.

If they really wanted to reduce illegal immigration, they could pass laws giving protection to any immigrants who report illegal working conditions. There would still end up being immigrants working in the "informal economy", but at least big employers would have some risk.

Relevant and interesting if you've never heard the story.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/great-feather-heist-180968408/

Your mistake is in what you are making your comparisons to. You can't compare your solid wood bookcase to an Ikea cardboard bookcase, you need to compare it to the fancy brands that actually do make things from solid wood.