A Windows update broke my wife's install earlier this week. Her laptop has Manjaro on it now.

To be fair, both bikes and fences are made of pipes. What else is made of pipes?

Pipe bombs.

Just make sure no one named Ted Faro gets anywhere near the project.

The barnacles must be a more recent phenomenon, I was there a couple years ago. There were still fish skeletons lying around, but mostly this:

LOL, we don't need to liquidate Apple. Current projections are that if NOTHING is done to reform social security, the trust fund will run out in 2033, and we will be able to pay out about 77% of benefits via annual revenues the following year, down to 65% in 2096. The exact percentage varies based on revenue and population trends, but we're talking about the majority of social security benefits being payable indefinitely, if nothing is done to reform it.

We could fill the gap and keep the trust fund going while paying out 100% of benefits by simply raising the cap for wages subject to the social security tax.

This social security hysteria shows how effective right wing propaganda has been at convincing all of society that government can't do anything. There are multiple options for saving the trust fund. Congress just needs to pick one and do it. The problem is that half of congress wants the elderly to starve to death.

Started at 2 10 years ago and will max out at 5 in 5 more years. Get a union.

Some say we won't be rid of the threat of World War III until after the next world war.

The public didn't have the document until now, but you can bet Republican leaders & committee chairs at the very least were well aware of it, and the information that this was not only US Gov't policy, but internationally backed by our allies has been widely reported since the beginning. I have to assume McCarthy knows and doesn't care.

Highway engineer here. It's asphalt (or bitumen), which is a product of crude oil refining. It's all the stuff that stays at the bottom when you heat crude up to over 1000°F. Because it's so sticky & viscous, it has to be heated up to around 300°F in order to be used. Asphalt is the "binder" in a pavement mixture that includes silt, sand, and rocks in various quantities and sizes, and these days the asphalt binder is usually modified in some way to improve its performance in the climate or application it's going to be used in.

A chipseal is made by spreading a continuous layer of small rocks on a prepared surface and spraying the hot asphalt over it after, which binds the rocks together. It's similar to Macadam pavement which was developed in the early 1800s and continued to be used well into the 1900s, often as a base layer for a more modern hot-mix asphalt pavement. Tar used to be used in paving a lot, but tar is made from coal and environmental regulations don't allow it anywhere that I know of. There's also a more state of the art technique that involves a looser layer of slightly larger stones, sprayed with a modified asphalt emulsion (modified in this case meaning with rubber or polymer for elasticity, and emulsion meaning it's mixed with water to make it easier to work with), called a stress-absorbing membrane interlayer, used for reducing reflective cracking from an existing pavement surface into a new overlay surface. Modified asphalts & emulsions are often used for chipseals these days, too.

Lecture over.

Also 8% of US agricultural output by dollar value. Let's not forget that we need conservatives as much as they need us.

Now I know y'all be lovin' this shit right here.

You mean the app that sold the physical presence of children to fast food restaurants? Good riddance.