If I’m not mistaken, I’ve heard stories about it being prohibitively difficult to vote (long lines, inadequate staffing & # of locations, banning vote-by-car, a COVID response) in urban areas. Can’t imagine a lot of those barriers exist in more rural areas.

On the topic of American welfare programs, season 3 of The Uncertain Hour has some really good history and current coverage of issues with the system

I’ve used carrier video calling before, the option appears when I call my wife. We both have Verizon, though, and I’ve never checked if I can do that with other people

Best Scooby Doo adaptation is the Venture Bros episode with the gang, and I will die on that hill

Hell of a write up Stamets!

Naturally

Truly, a time to be alive.

My wife and I constantly lament how we were born a few decades too late. For everything

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The power drill my dad got me a decade ago still works, and locked me in… I have done some med-duty ranch work with it and it still drills

I’m scared to mention Kobalt in here

If I had a nickel for every utility I worked with that handles billing of capital projects on a spreadsheet, I’d have 2… Which isn’t a lot, but still odd that the backbone of their billing is excel

So far I’m enjoying the hell out of it! I hadn’t realized that LG has been a pretty solid player in the TV scene lately

LG c3 at Costco

Just got a 77" LG OLED with a center stand

I used the guide from this guy when I built mine and it was immensely helpful in getting the storage system up and running. That docker-config file shared in another comment is also pretty handy.

https://perfectmediaserver.com/

Yeah, I recall someone from the BBC saying something similar when it came to covering Brexit. It would take their producers days to find a credible, coherent voice that was pro-Brexit, while the anti-Brexit folks were basically lined up to voice their reasoning. That dichotomy was never revealed to listeners and caused some strife amongst the news team as it seemed disingenuous to present both sides as equal

Do yourself a favor and go pirate it now

They’re mostly in rural parts of the states where private (read: investor owned) utilities determined the region wouldn’t turn a large enough profit to expand there and the state’s public utility commission didn’t mandate their expansion