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Hail the Omnissiah! He is the God in the Machine, the Source of All Knowledge.

For me, other than the speed and convenience, I was amazed that I could use my same Suica card (on my iPhone) in Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka, and Fukuoka. Even though each region has their own card, they have mutual use in most areas.

Japan, South Korea, Ukraine, and Taiwan are parties to the nonproliferation treaty, like Iran. Oddly, Israel isn’t.

Rabid Beavers? Don't worry everyone, I'm sure Buc-ee's has already filed suit because rabid beavers is covered under their trade dress.

Hmm, what could have happened 47 years ago. Is that when the current islamist regime overthrew the dictator that the US & UK put into place by orchestrating a coup against the democratically elected government because they wanted to nationalize the oil industry? Seriously this 47 years ago BS needs to stop.

As someone who has been sober for 10+ years and still avoids events where alcohol is served, the word Gin doesn't cause me any stress. Just one point of anecdata.

When there is not enough AC, people sweat. It’s better for half to sweat to death so the other half can remain frosty.

I don't know about number 3. As a 53 year old Gen X'er, I still haven't come across things that see against the natural order. The main things I don't understand are things like the Humane AI pin, which didn't seem against the natural order, I just didn't see the appeal or usefulness of it. Maybe it just doesn't seem like there is much new being invented.

Stopping marketing mail wouldn’t change the number of accelerations per mailbox. USPS would still need to check each stop for outgoing mail. The only difference would be in weight carried.

> The cards observe it is Friday.

Um, where I am it's still Thursday.

The main lesson I learned was I didn’t have to live in a snowy place. I left SW Michigan in 2000 and haven’t looked back. I don’t like being cold, but I loathe snow and ice.

There is that, but I get the impression that you could hire an expert to help.

"So they told me that using the download page to download something was not something they anticipated" This has to be my favorite part.

I expect the bible is in virtually every public and school library in the US. It’s hardly a banned book by any measure.

I hate it because the last thing we need on sidewalks, at least here in Seattle, is more junk making it impossible to walk anywhere.

Reminder that social security is funded entirely by a separate tax and not debt, so unless you are planning to cut benefits but continue the tax it would do nothing to reduce the deficit or debt.

Hong Kong and New Zealand are Berne Convention countries so that would be the grounds for extradition. I don’t remember other countries signing up to enforce Ofcom’s laws.

I highly doubt that anyone is doing 8 hours of BJs a day to pay for their habit.

I believe the answer is that English is a stupid language. Also, starchy (containing a relatively high amount of starch) doesn’t have a hard c.

> all legal to the T

You might want to check that because it's not so cut and dried: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_status_of_fictional_porn...

Don't forget Yoshinoya, Sukiya, or Cafe Gusto.

The national guard was deployed to Kent State by the governor. The last time the guard was deployed without the governor’s consent was to protect civil rights marchers in Selma in 1965.

The Toto washlets I used in Japan were plenty powerful, plus they had adjustments for pressure and temperature.

The problem with this is we live in a 24 hour world. When I worked 2nd shift, I got out of work at 2am so I would have to “choose not to” use the highway to get home. Also, emergency vehicles also use highways.

True, but there is this mythology that all prisons in the USA are private prisons controlled solely by corporations, which is wildly untrue. Public prisons aren't much better than private prisons, due to the fact that they are just punishment and not rehabilitation. On your second point, undocumented immigrants also count in the census and give more weight in representation and elections, even though they cannot vote. In a perfect world, we would expect elected officials to represent all of their constituents, not just those who voted for them, but we are far from that.

Nationally, there are less than 10% of incarcerated people in private prisons. This number starts to vary widely from state to state though, with some states having more than 50% and some having 0%.

They are still working on a realistic vocal fry?

HCL isn’t a programming language. This seems to be the main misconception about it and Terraform.

The US supported Chaing Kai Shek and the Nationalists over Mao and the Communists after WWII. Also, Mao was a staunch Stalinist so there is the holdover tension there. Mao continued with that even more so after Stalin died and was determined to be basically the Stalin of Asia.

Also China was abused by the west prior to that, though mostly Europe so there is probably no love lost there.

I would recommend Frank Dikötter books on China, The Tragedy of Liberation, Mao's Great Famine, and The Cultural Revolution.

1) I use terragrunt to generate all the 'boilerplate' files, for example the backend configuration to ensure they are all in spec.

2) I use terragrunt to provide inherited values, such as region, environment, etc. I have a directory tree of `dev/us-west-2/` I can set a variable in my `dev/environment.hcl` that is inherited across everything under that environment. This is useful if you have more than one dev, prod, etc environment.

3) I use terragrunt to allow shared, versioned root modules. I don't include any terraform in my terragrunt repo. The terragrunt repo is just configuration. In my terragrunt.hcl I can reference something like `source = "github.com/example.com/root.git//ipv6-vpc?ref=v0.1.3"` to pull in the version of the root module I want. Again this is useful if you have multiple dev/stage/prod environments.

None of this is actually possible with plain terraform.