BigNote

joined 1 year ago
[–] BigNote@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh good, a pompous, nonsensical, deeply condescending, deliberately inflammatory, provincial and unhelpful comment! That's just what we need, said no one, ever.

[–] BigNote@lemm.ee 30 points 1 year ago (4 children)

My cat's name is Nancy Reagan. She's almost lived up to it. And no, she doesn't like you either and if you try to pet her you'll get what you deserve.

Some cats have official titles. I had another cat whose title was "Chief Inspector." He was known to do home invasions and conduct snap inspections of my neighbors houses. He had more friends in the neighborhood than me.

[–] BigNote@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

More often than not.

[–] BigNote@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But that's a Federal violation, so not the same thing at all.

[–] BigNote@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Well obviously it's very difficult for the poor to leave and if you aren't poor it's actually a pretty nice place to live.

[–] BigNote@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Also most of the loyalists in the colonies fled to Canada during and immediately after the American Revolution, for obvious reasons.

[–] BigNote@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This. I entirely understand that some people don't have that option, but it's worth reiterating that if you have a choice, you're best off not to have partitions at all.

I run Mint on an 8-year-old Mac desktop machine with no partitions and it's lightning-fast for everything I need it to do.

It's also worth mentioning that I have said desktop machine because my wife is a pro photographer and Apple and Adobe have colluded for decades to create a kind of "planned obsolescence" whereby professional photographers are ostensibly locked out of the current industry standard unless they run a very recent version of Photoshop that by design isn't compatible with hardware architecture that's more than about 5-years-old.

[–] BigNote@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

And it was obvious that they'd already decided to invade Iraq long before Powell's infamous UN presentation.

[–] BigNote@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago
[–] BigNote@lemm.ee 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

Is it not the case that kale, broccoli, cauliflower and cabbage are all basically derived from the same plant?

This is what I've been told, but I am very ignorant of such matters and while you will say that I can simply Google the issue, which is true, it's never been enough of a priority for me to do so, goddammit.

As for Sequoia sempervirens or Sequoiadendron giganteum being forms of broccoli, I do in fact know enough dendrology to know that it's bullshyte.

[–] BigNote@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Potatoes are native to the Andes where there are literally hundreds of different varieties. Every valley has its own landrace variety.

[–] BigNote@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

TBF we use metric wherever it's needed as in science, engineering and the military. Imperial is more for everyday use and at least some of it, like feet vs meters, is more intuitive than metric since it's basically the length of a grown man's foot.

But again, wherever it actually matters, we do use metric.

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