Saw it walking in a small town in the Netherlands, once. Disconcerting.

2.5 hours, so roughly 200km? Bikeable, if there are navigable roads and you have the health for it. Yuck at the bus option being so bad.

Yeah, though our hard drive backup will fairly quickly become trash, I think.

I put everything in our fire safe in silicone bags so I hope that does the trick.

Stable. :)

I’ve been using Ganeti for like 15 years now, and I’m not sure what proxmox offers besides a nice GUI. I know how Ganeti works and getting up to speed on a new one doesn’t seem super interesting to me. Is anyone here familiar with both?

I hope results come soon enough ti effect the situation in Pokrovsk, which is on a knife’s edge right now.

It used to be a rule that Americans wear Canadian flags, and Canadians wore MEC gear. But MEC sucks now. :(

Your basic rice jazzes up well, too. Scoop of soup stock, scoop of turmeric, scoop of cumin, can of peas, cook it all together in the instant pot or rice cooker. Soy sauce and a raw egg, whip it together.

Calibre can handle a directly plugged in Kindle, no need to copy them to your PC first. I deDRMd them, then was able to just plug in my Kobo and copy all my books to the new device.

Switched to Kobo as part of my general “screw the USA” policy. Threatening Canadian sovereignty will not fly.

Really enjoyed Armison’s take. He almost portrays Fester as someone who’s gone so far around the bend that he’s looped back around around to sane.

Totally. I was more commenting on the theory of gold having this magical inherent objective value. Which it doesn’t, it’s a commodity like any other.

Honestly as a value store, land is probably better.

Lots of things are rare. Doesn’t mean I’ll give you my potatoes for em.

At best gold becomes something desirable once there’s enough security for me to value having pretty things.

Value is what you can get for something. If you can’t trade it for something, with anyone, it has zero value.

A dollar has value because you can trade it for a potato. In an apocalypse, you cannot trade gold for a potato if nobody wants it.

Value is a subjective thing.

What value? Can’t eat it, makes shitty tools. It’s shiny, but I’m not going to trade ny potatoes for shiny in a survival situation.

You can starve sitting on a pile of gold.

For gold to be valuable you still need social stability.

The ISS is rickety, showing its age. It should be retired soon. Decades of structural flexing and delay has taken its toll and it’s going to be cheaper to replace than repair.

Unfortunately they will likely do neither. :/

Buy quality things that will last a long time.

Paraphrasing Terry Pratchett, the man who buys a good pair of boots will have dry feet for ten years, and the man who buys a pair of cheap shoes every year will spend more and still have wet feet.

Yes, but you still have to ask why people aren’t using the bike lane. There’s usually a reason. Like the lane only lasts a block or there’s cars parked in it. Etc.

That’s not enough, if the lanes don’t connect to anything or they’re unsafe or incomplete. People not using something probably means there’s something broken about it.

Would you use a highway that didn’t go to your destination?