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It's ironic that the design of blockchain is to be impossible to edit as security against fraud. Because crypto is famous for all the fraud, And the block-chain's nature makes the fraud permanent and fixed.

At least one of the currencies had to fork because fraudulent transactions couldn't be undone.

It's a myth that more Americans died in the Civil War than any other conflict. They inflate the numbers by counting slavers as Americans. I mean we didn't put the names of the Vietnamese on that wall did we? (fucking thing would stretch to Richmond if we did)

I've never owned a Mac, but that Mac mini puts all mid-range desktops to shame. Even a home-build on the same budget can't compete.

Even before inflation, jerky was stupid expensive. Slim-Jims were, per-pound, more expensive than prime beef.

As someone who owns a kill-a-watt, this is depressing. I can quibble with the assumptions Energy Star makes, but being able to compare apliences at the store, apples to apples is one of the most pro-customer things in America.

I called a cop "Napoleon" once. He assumed I referred to the 18^th century emperor. Not big readers, cops.

Also, history ended in 1986.

Imagine thinking neoliberal Western Democracy was the final and ultimate expression of ideology.

The only way to rapidly expand a workforce is to relax standards. So they're about to hire 20K loosers who couldn't make it as a cop.

And I don't even want to speculate about the calabre of person who would be attracted to that line of work.

All you need to know about Adams is that he tried to book a flight to Rapa Nui through Turkish airlines.

That was because Turkish nationals had been buttering his toast with cheap flights all over the world.

I think it might be more about temperature differences than pressure differences. That is to say hot exhaust cools rapidly and any water vapor condenses. Some aircraft leave no contrails, depending on atmospheric conditions.

Here is a chart to predict contrails on a high-bypass jet engine

And here are aircraft leaving contrails without any jet engines

And some more leaving no contrails at all

CC and subtitles are awesome. Making them cheap enough so that they're universal even on cheap online content is one of the actual benefits to AI technology.

In the early days of the regime, the federal government fired thousands of ATCs. I'm talking of course about Regan.

MAGA did not fall out of a coconut tree.

It is wise to welcome death. It is likewise foolish to wish for it.

Those blinds are super easy to replace and much cheaper than any deposit. The Landloard (or the toady and furtive maintenance man) have likely sourced those from the closest (or the second or third closest if it's cheaper) hardware store.

If you study the mounting of the existing blinds. It's probably pretty easy to buy a similar replacement so you won't even have to install the mounting hardware. Your cat didn't damage that.

the big box store can often cut blinds to fit your windows if they're not standard size.

After the advent of DNA testing, many anthropologists and archeologists were embarrassed because skeletal remains were missexed.

Even my A&P textbook had this garbage in it. It claimed racial difference in the skull and sex difference in the Hip bones. But it's bullshit. The most reliable way to sex a skeleton is with DNA.

'The Mismeasure of Man' by Gould is a fascinating history of bio-determinism and psudoscientific attempt to measure it.

I'm sure conservatives are outraged by this glaring example of cancel culture and defend to the death her right to free speech.

There is an unintended benefit to putting an obstacle between people who don't know how to use the terminal and pasting code into it.

It is very important when handling hot peppers to wear gloves or wash you hands thoroughly.

You need to use a cloth and soap to mechanically rub the oil off your skin.

Dihydrogen monoxide has a higher PH than Hydrochloric acid.

I once set the hook to "Freddie the freeloader" as the ringtone on my flip-phone. Big mistake; for years I associate that amazing song with the annoyance of answering the phone.