"I'm ready for $15/gallon gas are you?"

I don't know, but recent rise in price, which isn't even the highest in recent memory, got me thinking about at what price would people actually stop buying gas. $15 is a good candidate, probably enough to shed the bottom leg of the K curve. Nearest gas is $6.799 and there are people buying it. Damned if I know why.

So who were the First Men on Britain? Recently, there was some news about a Neanderthal site somewhere in England, which kinda suprized me, but during ice ages it would have been walkable from the mainland. As humans, seems like they would count. And whatever sounds they made would be Britain's native language.

Ding!Ding!!Ding!!!

During 45 I wondered if MAGAs saw President Hillary say the everything word for word that Trump said, would they see the batshit crazy? Now with AI it may be possible to rerun 47 as President Kamala.

My faith in humanity is such that yes, they would see how batshit crazy President Hillary is, but when they hear Trump say the exact same words they swoon like a lovesick teenager. Like when President Hillary called the Wisconsin secretary of state and told him to find enough votes for her to win the state.

"There's a tendency for people to think of official representatives visiting now and doing secret deals with governments, but when someone talks about aliens having visited Earth, I imagine things like a group of scientists and thrill-seekers coming down to collect organic material samples and have fun back when mammals weren't really a thing yet."

This.
Space aliens have come to Earth...and were immediately eaten by dinosaurs, because it was 100 million years ago.

"say, mexico invaded the united states"
LOL.
That was one of the my first thoughts when Putin invaded Ukraine.
Analogous to Putin's claims, Mexico would invade to protect the Spanish-speaking peoples of the US and reunite the historic homeland. Basically, CA, NV, AZ, NM, some of UT and TX are Mexico's Donbas.

True EV costs need to factor in the diabetes and obesity from eating more junk food during the extended refueling stops. Where is RFKJr when you need him? (Oh, that's right, he's busy eliminating vaccines.)

I've wondered why no one seems to have built charging stations with an arcade.

So triggered.

I have a gas and a battery mower, each one worse than the other. Both old, battered, and free. Though, I replaced both 12V 18Ah SLAs in the battery mower 5 months ago.

The battery mower has an effective runtime of 20 to 30 minutes. The gas mower burns through a tank of gas in 90 to 120 minutes and its oil in about 30 minutes. I would have bought a new gas mower last year when its predecessor finally died, but the granola munchers who run the state made that illegal.

While a battery mower is the perfect solution for millions it doesn't cut it for me. With that short of a runtime the grass literally grows faster than it can cut it. And this, the first season with it, has been a low growth year.

One aggravating thing...a gas mower runs a full power until the last couple ounces of fuel. A battery mower starts losing power almost immediately and is basically useless in 40 minutes, but never stops spinning. I don't know how long, but it likely will spin for hours until it cannot overcome air and internal mechanical resistance.

According to one guy, DVD re-releases get overcompressed making look like crap.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
New releases may also suffer this now. I doubt studios ever cared about video/audio quality and now that physical media is not the money maker it used to be...

The actual Safeway was sued for doing something very similar to Coles...
https://www.mercurynews.com/20...
This was a private lawsuit.
Separately, district attorneys of several California counties reached a settlement for different kinds of cheating by Safeway, et al.
https://da.sonomacounty.ca.gov...

Who in those countries has $20 (presumably USD) per month for discretionary spending?

As a Californian I prefer Standard Time. The agony is: the time change means an extra hour out in the freezing dark (which might become permanent). And an "extra" hour of daylight at the end of the day doesn't do anything for me. I'd like to see an experimental run of PST for a couple years to see how bad it really is.

In an interview the BC premier said they'd been waiting to the US Pacific states to go DST, but since that needs action by Congress BC decided to stop waiting. WA and OR both have laws that go DST as soon as Congress authorizes. CA[lifornia] is ready, but requires a supermajority legislative vote. So if this Eternal Sunshine Act becomes law most and probably all US Pacific states will join BC in forever DST.

"If you try to drag an Edge window while the browser is opening a tab, you can't. That's because the application is responsible for that. On Unix systems this isn't a thing because the Window Manager is responsible."

My superficial understanding is that wayland goes the Windows way with applications implementing window controls themselves.

Even with an Xorg window manger I've seen firefox and evince come up unmanged without the borders and controls provided by fvwm, providing their own instead. Screws up things they don't understand like "stick" so I can move the window to a different page. Failed debugging lead to some sort of MOTIF_HINTS.

But when they did drop dead they didn't drop as far because they were shorter. Thank you, malnutrition.

Don't forget to power them up once in awhile.

And MLC instead of QLC or higher on the fresh-off-the-line offerings so once in use they should last longer and a stray alpha particle won't wipe out as many bits.