So… What’s a good alternative?

The available worlds looked pretty grim. They had little to offer him because he had little to offer them. He had been extremely chastened to realize that although he originally came from a world which had cars and computers and ballet and Armagnac, he didn’t, by himself, know how any of it worked. He couldn’t do it. Left to his own devices he couldn’t build a toaster. He could just about make a sandwich and that was it.

-Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

Arthur Dent realizes that he, as an individual, is pretty useless for improving a society, but he can make a damn fine sammie.

I’ve never received pushback for opting out, but the screeners are often surprised.

I’m sure it’s just a matter of time before it’s not optional, since no one else seems to care, but I’m going to keep opting out for as long as I can.

Ok, I guess I’ll be that guy. Every time they are mentioned, it’s always people proseltyzing. It made me consider one, but I never pulled the trigger. All of the arguments I heard felt kind of unconvincing, and I couldn’t justify buying one without trying it first.

Then I bought a house, and it came with two of them. I was excited to try them out and see what all of the fuss was about. The thing is… The ones I have suck. Now, one of them seems to have weak pressure, so it could just be a bad one. However, the other one feels like it’s trying to clean the back of my teeth, and it still doesn’t do anything I couldn’t do with paper. Sure, it might get the job done slightly faster, but I still need to use paper to at least dry off after I’m done.

Maybe a better one could change my mind, but for us, they sit there, mostly unused.

“feature” 🤮

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So their actions didn’t matter in the end.

Point of order: Just because the end result was the same, doesn’t mean it didn’t matter.

ETA? Estimated Time of Arrival?

In this context, it means “Edited To Add”. I do wish they abbreviated it some other way, since “Estimated Time of Arrival” is a much more common meaning. I would accept “E2A” or something stupid, as long as it was more unique. Alternatively, they could just use “Edit:”.

Edit: added link.

I can tell you about the last time I flew Spirit airlines. I was on vacation in a place with really nice weather. Back home also had really nice weather, and it was basically clear skies all the way in between.

However, there was a hurricane in Florida.

Spirit canceled my return flight about 12 hours in advance, and booked me on a flight for the next day. Never mind that my hotel reservation ended in a few hours, so I didn’t have a place to stay or a rental car planned for the extra day. They said they didn’t have to offer me anything because it was “weather related”, on account of the hurricane that was literally more than a thousand miles away from either my departure or arrival airports.

Would a different airline have handled it differently? I don’t know. I’ve had other airlines do a better job rerouting me after a cancellation, but the conditions were different. Regardless, I’ll not be giving Spirit any more of my money.

“Who’s to blame?” Texas governor Greg Abbott repeated back to the reporter. “That’s the word choice of losers. Every football team makes mistakes,” he continued […] “The losing teams are the ones that try to point out who’s to blame. The championship teams are the ones who say, ‘Don’ t worry about it, ma’am, we’ve got this.”

• Heather Cox Richardson, July 8, 2025

Have you, Greggy? Have you “got this”? Because there are a lot of missing and dead people who would probably disagree if they could. Do you know why “losers” ask questions about what went wrong? It’s because they’re not happy with the outcome, and they would like to do better. Are you happy with the outcome, Greg?

Don’t worry. Scientists will fix this once and for all in 2620.

Crap! Someone else is using my PIN. I should change it.

As someone not familiar with Manjaro, what is it about Manjaro that would prevent it from updating?

Sorry, I was just being silly. I am aware of the English meaning. I even linked to the same page you did. I guess I failed to communicate my snark properly.

Confused German noises …

Thank you!

Another user posted a different link for the actual vote.

Edit: I’ve removed the screenshot because the page is currently showing the wrong vote.

It seems like either they changed the page, or everyone is having trouble reading it (or maybe I am?). Here’s AOC’s vote on that page, listed as “Yea” for “motion to adjourn”.

The “Nay” vote is listed as winning, but everything about this feels backward, so I’m not sure what to make of it.

Great. Now I get to be the “I’m not familiar with that unit of measurement.” guy.

7.62x54

3,291 J (2,427 ft⋅lbf) to 3,400 J (2,508 ft⋅lbf)

.50 BMG

The .50 BMG round can produce between 10,000 and 15,000 foot-pounds force (14,000 and 20,000 J), depending on its powder and bullet type, as well as the weapon it is fired from

A towel is the most massively useful thing a hiker can have…