The US has no national ID system.

The business is genociding the out-group. It is just the cost of doing business to them.

I always knew Mondrian was painting cow production machines.

Were you not in the age group to watch Mr. Rogers? Because he turned out to be exactly what he appeared to be: kind.

A lot of his works are still good. I just won’t buy new ones, I won’t give him any profits.

None of them, really. Mr. Rogers was genuinely as awesome as he seemed. As a young adult, John Von Neumann, Grace Hopper, and Claude Shannon became my heroes. None have anything particularly bad that I’ve seen.

There are some people whose work I admire whom I don’t like, e.g. Harlan Ellison was famously an asshat. But they’re not my heroes, and the work is not the creator.

And the ability to schedule deliveries to happen on a day of the week when you’re likely to be present. And the notifications that your delivery is near, so you can be ready to pick it up (important for expensive items).

Notably Death Cap mushrooms aren’t present worldwide. A number of the poisonings are from people who learned about mushroom foraging in one area, then moved to California and didn’t learn that the safe mushrooms from their home have deadly lookalikes in California.

I think it depends on why you all meet for the first time.

You’ve all seen an “adventurers wanted” poster, gone to the listed address, passed the interview, and been hired? Fine.

You all randomly meet in a tavern, hear a rumor from one of the locals, and decide to work together with complete strangers? Stupid.

You’re all agents of the authoritarian wizard king “Friend Wizard”, assigned to enforce their authority. You’re also all members of different prohibited secret societies with secret missions to steal from & sabotage Friend Wizard. If you die Friend Wizard will resurrect you, the first 6 resurrections are free and more 6-packs can be purchased. Your DM is running Paranoia in D&D, wacky hijinks will ensue. Silly.

With lentils, I like to use stock instead of water for cooking them. That also works for potatoes, beans, and quite a few other boiled foods.

People always point to email as a decentralized system that works. They forget that originally nearly everyone got email through their ISP, and now nearly everyone gets their email through their OS vendor (Google, Apple, or Microsoft), or for businesses one of the few commercial mass mail services like mailchimp that don’t get blocked by spam filters. Self-hosting email is likely to result in a major hassle with undelivered emails due to anti-spam measures these days.

When was that, 1980?

It’s tomato soup in a bread bowl with cheese. Delicious. Since the one of the first recorded uses of the word “pizza” is for a round bread flavored with rose water & sugar as the toppings, I think “tomato soup in a bread bowl with cheese” is close enough to qualify.

Bring together 2lbs flour, 2oz yeast starter, 4oz breadcrumb soaked in warm water, and enough salt. When the dough is made, let it rest, covered in a warm place to rise, as is done with bread. Then knead it again on the table for a half hour, adding in, little by little, 2lbs fresh (unsalted) butter. Knead until all of the butter has been worked into the dough and it has become soft, split the dough up into two or three pieces, and with each make the pizza in a tourte pan which has fresh butter in it. Bake it in an oven with melted butter on top. Make several holes on top with the tip of a knife so it will not puff up too much. When it is nearly done, sprinkle with sugar and rosewater. This pastry should be baked slowly and serve it hot.

Of course they want to “own the libs”. They believe people get more conservative as they age, so kids have to be libs. And they definitely want to be able to own & trade children!

Why would anyone pick UTF-16LE? All the disadvantages of UTF-8, none of the advantages. The only reason to use it is when dealing with legacy systems that used it.

Code point order would be somewhat decent, but even better is to use the user’s chosen coallation order from their locale settings if possible.

The languages in a language menu should each be written in their own language. So German should be “Deutsch”, English should be “English”, Japanese should be “日本語”, etc.

Music CDs or data? Music CDs have built-in error correction, data CDs don’t. You can certainly extend the lifetime if they’re stored in the dark in a cool, dry place (UV light, heat, and humidity all damage the dye that gets burned to encode them) but they’re not reliable archival storage without error correction.

They don’t last very long. About 5-10 years at most, and that’s if you bought special archival burnable DVDs. If you depend on them for backups, you should check the integrity annually (always include a checksum like SHA256 with any backup archive).