Too many OSS tools to really be able to mention them all. Thank you to so many GNU/Linus, OpenBSD, BSD*, and other developers!
I’ll mention these:
Without TeX I’d go insane writing technical and scientific documents. You’ve saved me thousands of hours of work!
Oh, and my current time waster game: Kohan: Immortal Sovreigns.
Do US state level national guard organizations often make strategic agreements with nations around the world?
We’re in Germany. There’s always more bread.
Cheese and a slice of sausage is a breakfast. Bread optional.
Any and all reliance on energy from a foreign source is a national security risk. Many nations are going to be finding that out in a very painful way soon.
Just the 20khz whine that’s always there.
To quote a novel of greatness:
“In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
And somehow it led to me using Linux like fraking forever.
STD’s aren’t diagnosed (mostly) just by looking at people. That’s exactly why they’re so tough to eradicate.
Wear protection and protect yourself. You did just fine here. If he is unwilling to be up to your safety needs, then he’s not worth keeping around.
Of fuck. I’m not far behind you on that 30 year number. Wtf happened?
Oh, don’t worry, someone’s got a solution for you. Hopefully it’ll cost even more than a normal tow.
I can still log into my Slashdot /. account, I think. That’s from 1997-98?
Another company who has a tow truck might be really happy to know how many of those cars are parked illegally. Find the scummiest one you can too.
Yeah, it’s insane how entitled people get about using public spaces to store their private metal boxes just because the boxes have wheels.
Bonus fun: Spokane’s city govt named a parking garage a historic building worthy of subsidizing for preservation. It also won an award for ‘excellence in use of concrete’. Spokane’s just that awesome.
https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2025/oct/20/getting-there-spokanes-parkade-becomes-one-of-few-/
I made a similar map to this for Spokane a few years back. I focused on downtown and it was bad.
Then I did one for North of the river. Holy moly it’s a sea of asphalt there.
MIT ran a study decades ago to find the features that were most indicative of success among their PhD students. They looked at hundreds of features like intelligence, money, age, grades, prior schools, etc.
The #1 dominating factor above all others was perseverance. How much the person would just keep working despite obstacles mattered more than anything else.
The same goes for people running and starting businesses. Intelligence isn’t the dominating factor, perseverance is.
They also have very strick guidelines about how quickly the bike roads are plowed after/during snowfalls. They keep the routes open and useful so people can trust the transit modality all year round.
The US just plows the snow onto the bike lanes and then complains about how bad biking is.
One of the anti-everything groups in our city actually put out a public statement about how people advocating for public transit “just wanted to be able to go out partying and then ride transit home!! REEEEEEE!!!”
Many people went “yeah, duh?” <confused looks> Isn’t that a phenomenal reason to have great public transit? It literally saves lives and promotes enjoying life.
Calvinism is such a blight upon humanity.
Oulu, Finland is a massive biking center. The weather is winter most of the year. Their infrastructure for bikes is amazing so people use it, even when it’s cold.
Henceforth, a minimum of an individual personal transport pod must be used at all times when leaving the comfort spaces! No facilities are made for unprotected movement around the surrounding area.
That explains so much about why the various stations on the Berlin Ubahn lines either do or don’t have shopping inside of them!
And even that was a fractured history. The Netscape to Mozilla release was heavily influenced by Netscape being bought by AOL followed by the Netscape team dumping a non functional browser (they ripped out a ton of code they didn’t own) on the open source world. People had to basically patch the stubs until it built and then rebuild from there. By the end, Mozilla barely resembled Netscape, but it did get the community finally building a serious open source option.