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As someone who spins and felts, the fibers in lint are too short for felting too. Both spinning and felting require the fibers be long enough to tangle and lint is the broken pieces of fibers that have fallen out of threads already. You can get it to stick together like felt but it won't ever be sturdy like a felt because the fibers can't get wrapped around one another or tangled up. Like trying to give dreadlocks to a guy with a buzz cut.

Some people use dryer felt to add color to felted things they have made but I think of lint like the crumbs at the bottom of the cereal box or chip bag.

I was thinking more from the marketing perspective " We keep your data on our servers!" verses "We keep your data in the cloud!" since the point was that the marketers of these things in particular are fucking up the terminology.

If you are already in possession of a server then you're probably aware it's not a cloud.

The same way they convinced everyone that they should say "cloud" instead of 'on our servers."

They stopped saying "algorithm" and started saying "AI"

Once it's used as a marketing term, the technical term loses all meaning in conversational language.

About a week from setting up Button #1 "Go For A Walk" and us pressing it before we go for walks to my 5yo rescue mutt pressing it himself when prompted "Do you want to go for a walk?" After about a month he was always hitting the button before we went out but often would come bother us in his old ways (nosing under our hands, whining, pawing at our feet) before he would hit the button to get our attention first.

We added "Puzzle" in month 2 because he only gets treats when he solves a "puzzle" (mix of dog puzzle toys and treat stuffed Kong). That one caught on immediately.

We thought he was getting them mixed up because he would give us all the signs we used to interpret as wanting to go out like a yawn and stretch, hit both buttons, and then stand next to the puzzle basket like we were dumb. We moved the two buttons really far apart.

The reality is he wants puzzles because he's bored far more often then he ever really wanted to walk, he's down from 4 walks a day to 2 once we started to trust that he really knew what he was telling us.

We added a "Food" button but he never used consistently because he understands the meal names "breakfast", "lunch", "dinner" better then the word "food" for mealtimes. We serve meals at the same time every day anyway so we eventually took the button back up because he never used it.

By "never used to", when are you talking about? I think the last time I saw a terminal catalog in the way you're describing was 1995.

Pretty much every thing after that was a modified Windows install of one flavor or another with an intranet or web catalog interface for the user.

I'll buy that they were kept longer in some.places than othern but where and when are you pointing to?

Most of them are following instructions they are getting from elsewhere to do those tasks and most instructions the offices are giving out are expecting a Windows computer. I still have a lot of users looking for the Blue E. headdesk

The vast majority of computer users at my libraries have been adults over 50. The kids in my areas use the Chrome OS Computers they are getting from the schools.

If we had a lot of under 25s coming in to use the public PCs, I agree that Chrome OS would be a good pick.

As a librarian this is an awesome idea but unlikely to work out long term for a couple of reasons relating to the libraries.

1. Patrons will absolutely freak out if the computer they sit down at doesn't look like the Windows machine they are expecting. Even the time-keeping software we use makes people uncomfortable and it's just a countdown clock for the 30 minutes they signed up for. I've had a very expensive Mac desktop for art and music software go totally unused for years because most patrons want a Windows computer to check their Hotmail. Librarian sobs
2. Unless the library 'technologist" or IT team is already really into Linux in their off time AND paid well enough to bring that experience with them to the office, the people tasked with keeping it running will fail within 6 months and revert it back to something they can fix fast. Generally there's one IT department that's handing the libraries and other government run service offices and they will not take the time to do anything out of the ordinary.

Maybe for a subset of computers in a large library like the stand-up quick access stations or catalog lookup computers near the books. Linux can and does a lot of good keeping these one-use stations going despite the fact the run on 1998 Dell Potatoes.

Travel companies have been doing this shit for years. The most egregious is that Apple users tend to get shown higher prices overall but it's been around in many forms for a long time. They call it "Dynamic Pricing"

While being totally wrong because it wasn't called Alfredo at the time and wouldn't be until like 1930s, they did often put oil, herbs, and cheese on pasta before the popularity of the tomato so you are still correct.

This was what I remember about the US restrooms before the auto-flush mechanisms came. 30-50% of the stalls in a ladies room would be unflushed and people would occasionally take their chances flushing it with their foot to get an unflushed one back in use if there was a line. Nice places had someone walk through the bathroom and flush everything, refill the paper towels and wipe down the sinks occasionally. Really nice places had people stationed in the bathroom full-time but they often expected $1-5 in tip for handing you a paper towel. Fuck, I'm only 40 but I'm old.

Dude was both sympathetic and what he wanted was kinda reasonable. He'll probably get it too.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/04/japan-may-seek-to-dissolve-moonies-church-in-wake-of-shinzo-abe-killing

Oh no, it was intentional on the part of the SA and foreign backers. Elon is the scape goat. They bought it for the man-sized rich toddler and let nature take its course. Can you think of someone less reliable to put in charge of Twitter to cause it to crash and burn?

Kanye West and Donald Trump were both too busy.

At a guess:

Sad SomthingAwful users create 4Chan > sad 4Chan users create 8chan > QAnon > Jan 6th

But I would also like a detailed explanation.

If they had found it right after it had been felled, they might have had a slight chance if they already had a crane nearby and ready and a firehouse.

Trees are basically a huge ring of tubes to carry water/sap/ tree blood, a thin layer of living wood between the bark and the dead wood inside from earlier growth. The tree relies on those tubes always being full of water because it doesn't have any way to push the sap around actively. The water evaporates from the leaves, buds, any part of the tree not covered by bark, and this pulls water from the bottom of the tree up to replace it. (Technically the water moves up due to capillary action of the close molecular interactions of the H2O and the tiny size of the tubes so it doesn't need a lot of "pull")

But if these tubes get cut, an air bubble gets in and that flow is interrupted. It's difficult or impossible for a plant to recover flow in that tube. If the cut is kept wet, it can keep air from blocking the tube, which is wide you are advised to trim flower stems under running water and never let them dry out if you are keeping flowers in a vase.

If a tree loses most of all of these tubes to air bubbles, it can't really recover. This is why "ringing" a tree kills it and also why there is a strict limit on the number of times you can tap a Maple Tree for syrup.

Teenagers, adrenaline junkies, other thrill seekers of all sorts. People jumping out of airplanes is a popular hobby worldwide and so is controlled falling down snow-covered mountains. People get happy doing weird stuff, what can I tell you?

I've used OurGroceries for a long time and I also think it would do the job.

Hahahaha. "Go back to"?

Just because you don't know what they are called today doesn't mean those sites stopped existing. Shock and gore sites have been part of the Internet for a long time because they fill a human desire, same as porn and gambling and anything that makes your brain think you're being naughty enough to hand out that sweet dopamine reward.

He's good, but this is a gem: Alton Brown on Mythbusters https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IaT90jhuB0

Outside the US, no one cares. Most people use WhatsApp and they don't care what hardware it runs on.