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I knew that Amazon order with the catnip toys went missing for a reason!

Part of the reason is likely that farming equipment is bloody expensive. A new combine harvester can cost nearly a million dollars, and there aren't a hell of a lot of used electrical machines on the market yet. Each farm will have several machines that currently run on gas or diesel. How many can the average farmer afford to replace how fast?

In the McCarthy era, whatever the average person said usually didn't make it past the actual people they said it to (and those people's gossip buddies, possibly) unless someone had an axe to grind and wanted to get them in trouble. Today, anything you say has circled the globe ten times, been indexed in multiple systems, and fed to someone's AI assistant before the hour is out. Yet another way in which technological change is a mixed bag.

got to admit the first season wasn’t exactly memorable

Yeah, it's pretty much mediocre from start to finish. Not horrible in any category, but the only thing that makes it stand out from all the other "loser is thrown out of adventuring party, then shows that he's actually pretty competent and gets a harem masquerading as a new party" shows of the past few years is the fact that they made a second cours of it (and now, apparently, a third).

though, I wouldn’t be surprised if it was the resurrection potion

Loulan's words to Jinshi about people who have "already died once" being let off the hook feel like they almost guarantee it, but I guess we'll find out for sure next episode.

"Has never been higher" = "less than a fifth are okay with it, but hey, that's higher than 1%!"

If the problem is purely allergies, careful exposure to the allergens under controlled conditions should have some of them able to walk around without suits within a generation. Although they'll likely need to carry hayfever meds and epi-pen equivalents around.

. . . with GTK4 already out there. Anyway, I'll stick with menuconfig, since it's better for configuring a kernel on a system that doesn't yet have a GUI.

That they didn't have enough technicians trained in this to be able to ensure that one was always available during working hours, or at least when it was glaringly obvious that one was going to be needed that day, is . . . both extremely and obviously stupid, and par for the course for a corp whose sole purpose is maximizing profit for the next quarter.

The problem is, music lyrics in many languages aren't always representative of how the language is actually spoken—you can get tortured grammar or pronunciation and strange vocabulary that the artist chose to make a point—and depending on the type of music, it may be difficult to make out the words at all. That doesn't mean it's useless, but you have to be somewhat cautious with it.

Beryl's former students need to band together and get him some etiquette lessons if he keeps having to rub elbows with the royal family, or he'll sooner or later end up feeling terminally embarassed about something to do with a dessert fork.

My bet is that Gentoo will either cleave off just the necessary functionality from systemd and add it to logind, or produce the needed patches for Gnome.