One nit, pangea wasn't the first supercontinent, we know of at least two, maybe three before it. The stone of the Adirondak mountains was formed as part of the Grenville mountains, which were built by a suprecontinent 1.5 billion years ago (the adirondaks got tall be'ause of a much more recent, unrelated thing, but their stone is very old). The Grenville runs from Hudson Bay to Texas

Thats true. And then America stopped. And then the people who had actual on-the-ground experiance died of old age. Its really another effect of the slow tragedy that is the auto industry

Literal oligarch here

They are comparing roman concrete to portland cement, the most common formula. The kind of strength being emphasized is durability, because roman concrete has unique chemistry that allows small cracks to fill themselves. Modern special-purpose concrete blends can outperform roman concrete in other measures of strength, however.

Its quite possible to have a pinch in the tube which will fail during inflation. In my experience, thats all brands; a tube simply can't withstand 100 psi at a pinch point. This failure is not that, however. This is almost certainly a manufacturing defect, as metioned.

This new mechanic is going to add a ton of depth. I'm super excited.

Also, even without quality mechnics at all, recyclers will itroduce a nice qol bump.

that second part is exactly why there is a lack of hci work in the linux space. Hci is a specialty, just like coding is. The standard ask of "create a pr with the code" is asking peopae who don't typically code to do so, in addition to doing the work of researching the problm, designing a solution, and then testing that solution for suitability.

Since the only mechanism most open source projects have for accepting contribution is code, and the ask is usually for code, there is never even an opportunity to submit design work.

Whoa, hey, I just came back to this post and saw your edit. I'm really impressed by the way you listened to feedback and icorporated it in your stance.

And hey, these behaviours and the industries supporting them are really damaging. And fightinig those industries will require individuals to change behaviour. If we take action to live car free now, then dismantling the fossil fuel industry won't affect us as much later.

I see you haven't met hexbear yet

Motorcycle: 600 pounds, very good sight lines, ability to hear surroundings, maneuverable around obstacles

Car: over 2000 pounds, poor sight lines, poor stopping and maneuverabilty, lots of distractions.

motorcycles are more dangerous to the operator

cars are more dangarous to other road users

If we look at the rhetoric, the soviet state was certainly left wing, but the main policy was state capitalism. To my mind, state capitalism is not a right wing (favors private control of industry) nor a left wing (favors worker control of industry) policy.

This is definitely a case where pure left/right dichotomy doesn't serve to accurately describe the situation on the ground.

What this number suggests to me is that Tumblr has revenue less than 20 million dollars. I figure:

• about 100 employees
• based in new York
• average $100,000 salary
• 10m annually in humans
• 2-3m annually for office expenses
• 20-30m annually for hosting

Some of these numbers can be up or down, but when I worked at a similar company in New York, we had operating expenses in the same range. (Coincidentally, we had revenue on the same range, and got sold off in a fire sale)