There’s these large bodies of water called oceans. I believe it goes there (what with always going downhill and stuff).

More and more rain water runs off into streams, rivers and eventually the ocean because there isn’t enough foliage to slow the water till it is absorbed by the soil. The foliage is typically replaced by concrete and asphalt (urban) or fields (rural).

Also the increased average temperature of the planet is causing changes in weather patterns and reducing rainfall (in many areas) and increasing the variance of rainfall causing cycles of drought and flood.

Hang on to your hats folks, it’s gonna get worse before it gets better (if it will get better at all).

I couldn’t tell from the picture, but she looks a lot fatter.

I might be ootl on this one. Who is she?

:.|:;

Well maybe if you ate a little less, we wouldn’t need widebody airplanes!

Reply to his every tweet with that.

Lisa needs braces.

In my head canon, Pippin helped gandalf avoid this fate.

Federated meme generator.

There is one big caveat to universal time:

Future dates: If you use utc here and a time zone definition changes, you’re boned. You have to store local time and offset for just this one usecase.

I’m 40+ and still love spinners :)

I have been using unstable on desktop for at least 15 years. Every time a new stable was released that would cause a month of just staying off updates till things stabilized. Recently it’s not even had that issue.

I’ve had to pin a package or two in that time, but unstable has been rock solid otherwise. I even run it on my server.

There are no Linux gatekeepers. There are assholes everywhere, that’s the human condition. I came across these assholes and I learnt that I should take advice and consider it myself.

If you close your brain and listen to random online people without thought, you’ll have a bad time, Linux or no Linux.

This stereotype of people in Linux or open source as assholes is FUD spread by people who have a vested interest in spreading it.

I’ve found people mostly very helpful and courteous.

Looks like you don’t know the two rules of dating.

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The big issue is that by adding more and more features, a browser has become an operating system and so complex that you can’t hope to make a new one from scratch.

The last “new” browser engine (that wasn’t built by a corporation) was KHTML which was stolen harvested first by Apple for Webkit and subsequently by Google for Blink. KHTML then rotted without support.

The most recent attempt was to build Servo in Rust. Mozilla “ran out of money” (they depend on Google for their existence), and it’s already rotting.

The point I was trying to make is you can choose the mood (or the mindset) with which to face your current circumstances.

Either what you face is a situation or a problem. By definition a problem has a solution and a situation does not. If it’s a problem (there is a solution) you work on the solution. If it is a situation (there is no solution) you can’t change it, so just accept it and move on.

I find that I get joy everyday from the little things - tasty food, good company and nature. I don’t let the big things dictate my mood.

Life is what you pretend it is. A study found that a year after a life changing event (losing a limb/winning a lottery) most people were not any more or less sad.

You can consider that you are a forgotten one of billions of on a tiny speck of rock lost in the vast swathes of space-time and so nothing you do matters.

Or you can consider that all that space-time and other stuff has about as much influence on your life as your life has on it and choose to ignore it and enjoy the life you have free of consequences.

Or anything in between.

The only constant is that life is short. What do you want to do with your limited time?

“Bleeding long term hires” are reading the tea leaves. Better to get a new job when you have one, finding a job when you need it is much harder.

Talking about tech startups:

Depends on the startup. If they have a good team, they might get acqui-hired. If they have any patents or other IP, they might get acquired (for not much). Investors get the bulk of these types of exits, and the founders and employees get screwed.

If the startup doesn’t even have that, they may just wrap up the operation and go out of business.