campboy

100%, if there were another option with the same build quality (particularly for laptops) I’d love to try something new. Everything else is kinda mediocre in comparison.

(The funniest thing is when folks on some Thinkpad or Dell think their machine has a comparable quality… It really doesn’t. You might not care in much the same way someone might care or not care about Tesla’s historically poor fitment, but there’s a real difference regardless).

Maybe you could engrave the relative positions of some nearby stars onto a plaque or something like that? Ceramic lasts basically forever, right? Maybe you wouldn’t get “Tuesday, Deceduary 110th 2132” level of precision but you could perhaps get something pretty precise with the right choice of stars?

Are you for real or just joshin’?

The source is the article? That’s rather one of the points of the article.

I’m usually not more than casually interested in this kind of work (both generally biology stuff and specifically weight related stuff) but I found this to be absolutely fascinating.

Briefly, this post appears to lay out compelling evidence that the obesity epidemic has its root in some kind of environmental “contaminant” — something new in the environment in the last 100 years, that became prevalent in the 80s, and follows some physical laws like accumulating in watersheds etc.

However I have no idea if any of it is remotely reasonable, I don’t have the skill to read the linked studies, etc. Anyone here have experience with this blog and can speak to whether I’m going down some weird conspiracy rabbit hole?

This is proposing to incentivize homeowners to vote against parks or even actively dismantle them to get a tax break. That seems pretty silly.

Sounds like you’d prefer homeowners to be against public parks; I guess you’d rather folks without their own private property not have access to open spaces?

Even without lawns people will use leaf blowers to blow leaves, off their driveways or xeriscapes or whatever. So we should ban gas powered leaf blowers regardless.

> So, go back another 50 years, to the 1870s of "Little House in the Big Woods".

It’s cute for sure but I don’t know if I’d use a novel for children as an accurate portrayal of the median subsistence living experience 150 years ago.