“But on the flip side, my family and friends will see a scary looking command and immediately be put off.”

More to that… these are exactly the people we have all been telling “If you see someone on the internet telling you ‘type this!’ DON’T DO IT!”

ALT-F4 being the benign one.

rm -rf / --no-preserve-root - not so benign.

I remember a story of someone getting the recursive tag wrong on the chmod command and managed to chmod 000 themselves out of everything on the system… including chmod.

For years and years the barrier to entry was mom or gramma buying a clipart CD for $4.99 at the grocery store, bringing it home, and expecting it to work.

Now that’s not a thing anymore, but they still aren’t using it. So I guess the barrier to entry now is they see that ad for the casino app that “pays you real money” and they expect to download it and expect it to work.

Until mom and grandmom can load up the computer with all sorts of malware that breaks everything, they really aren’t interested.

Quick reminder of everything Jesus said about LGBTQ+ folks, you can look these up!

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This was actually a thing in Hogwart’s Legacy, you had the option of capturing and breeding animals.

My favorite story along these lines…

Someone compared Monster cables to un-bent coat hangers.

https://gizmodo.com/audiophile-deathmatch-monster-cables-vs-a-coat-hanger-363154

“Seven songs were played while the group was blindfolded and the cables swapped back and forth. Not only “after 5 tests, none could determine which was the Monster 1000 cable or the coat hanger wire,” but no one knew a coat hanger was used in the first place.”

When we start fighting wars over fresh water, Trumps plans for Canada and Greenland are going to be seen as genius…

Dude had no criminal record so nothing preventing him from owning a gun, BUT… as a coke head, if he was using at the time he bought the gun, he would have had to have lied when filling out the purchase form and that would have been a blocker.

Florida does have a red flag law that could have been used to seize his gun(s).

https://www.fighterlaw.com/how-do-floridas-red-flag-gun-laws-work/

“In 2019, National Public Radio reported that Florida courts had approved 2,500 risk protection orders to confiscate firearms over a period of 1.5 years. That equals out to nearly five people per day that had their firearms seized due to red flag laws–more than any of the other 17 states that have adopted a similar regulation.”

Who defines “valueless”? In my opinion, anyone who says something like that has no value and so…

People hear about cloud seeding, which is very much a thing, and go “See! See! I TOLD YOU!” When it very much is not the same thing as “chemtrails”.

https://www.dri.edu/cloud-seeding-program/what-is-cloud-seeding/

Freestyle Libre was my first CGM and as soon as I had the opportunity to switch to Dexcom, I did.

Each new sensor was wildly low or wildly high, with no option to calibrate. It was really only good for measuring changes, not the actual glucose reading itself.

So "Oh, it’s going up, +5, +10, +20… probably accurate, but is it 80, 180, or 240? Use a finger stick to know for sure.

I know, right? 😂

When I met my now wife’s 13 year old, his first question was “So I’m building a Linux machine, which file system should I use?”

We had a good discussion about the pros and cons of the different file systems.

He’s gone on in the AI space, speaking at conferences and delivering papers and such.

The power differential makes it rape.

What about the voltages and the hz?

In before Trump starts ranting about “the Nigers”. You know it’s only a matter of time…

Yup, like butter. Salted vs. Unsalted. You need both for different purposes, but just looking at it, no way to know.

Eh, I’ll give them a pass. You can’t tell just by looking at it so it makes sense to mark “Smoked” vs. “Not Smoked” otherwise people are going to ask… “Is this smoked?”

Chuck Grassley is 92 years old.

He was college age from 1951-ish to 1954-ish.

Gas prices were $0.27 to $0.29 a gallon back then.

https://www.energy.gov/eere/vehicles/fact-741-august-20-2012-historical-gasoline-prices-1929-2011

Adjusted for inflation, that’s $3.37 to $3.49 today…

https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/

Buuuuut… Another way of looking at it…

The minimum wage in the early 1950s was $0.75/hr.

https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/minimum-wage/history/chart

So a gallon of gas was between 36% and 39% of an hours worth of minimum wage work.

The current minimum wage is $7.25 an hour. A gallon of gas at the current average of $2.847 is 39% of an hours worth of minimum wage work.

https://gasprices.aaa.com/