Counterpoint: if you, personally, can save some dollars so you're mainly spending on the things you can't grow, that's hardly a bad thing. Also, working with soil is known to be good for you. Exposes you to soil bacteria that are known to boost mood.

And it sounds corny as fuck and I didn't really take it seriously until I did it, but homegrown produce can be so incredibly much better than what you get off an industrial farm.

Just let people participate in feeding themselves and be happy, fuck.

EDIT -- to make a pedant happy

Considering how expensive fresh produce is getting, it doesn't have to change the direction of inflation to be worth it.

Apparently, in the very clear minds of Republicans, if you got busted drinking at a college party at any point after Oct 7 2023, that's sUpPoRtInG hAmAs nOw and you deserve to be deported to Gaza.

...Guess RFK's not the only politician with brain worms

...That's why people don't like the service fees, etc. It's difficult to know, as a consumer, how much you're actually being asked to spend. If you're rich, haha who cares? Everybody else has to do this thing called "budgeting."

Look up what people used to say about digital art and tell me if history repeats itself or not

15% commenter here. My number came from the source I used, I'm not enough of a Greek history fan to know one way or the other, thanks for clarifying

Sorta. The stade was based on the pous which varied. But not that much, and in ways that are often consistently documented. Around the time Eratosthenes was alive, give or take a couple hundred years, it was documented that 1 Roman mile = 8 stades, which gives us something to go of off. While there are other possible definitions, we do have one that we know is probably closest to whatever Eratosthenes used.

EDIT - the numbers regarding the error range in this source is likely inaccurate, but goes into the units issue

https://maa.org/press/periodicals/convergence/eratosthenes-and-the-mystery-of-the-stades-how-long-is-a-stade

I didn't realize the market was so fragile and needed conservatives to control it so closely. You learn something new every day!

It's utterly disturbing how easy it is to get into so many networks and devices just by looking up their default password or plugging in the default password on the side of the box. Absolutely the first thing you need to change on a new device if it comes with a preset PW.

Somebody's gonna make a federated TikTok, aren't they? We're gonna have TikTokers flooding the Fediverse. We're so fucked.

Misinfo! How can he argue against misinformation laws when he actually died five years ago and has been played by a stunt double this whole time?

What gets me is how controversial things like this are in the US. Non-competes are antisocial, because they blunt one of the few mechanisms capitalism has to keep employers in check -- labor market mobility. One of the things that's supposed to make capitalism kind of okay is the fact that "if you don't like it, you can go elsewhere." Well, if you're not allowed to start a business or get another job in your line of work for like years after you leave, how the hell are you supposed to actually do that? How does the labor market route around bad employers when workers are literally trapped?

Way I see it, a non-compete is just an employer's way of telling you they'd keep you trapped in a box in your off-hours if they could.