I think my favorite is dandelion wine, which a friend made for a party by picking dandelions and making the wine themselves. Quite good, and also quite strong

Which bourbon is your favorite?

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Probably the closest you’re going to get

T-mobile, because I got some plan years ago that gave me true unlimited data instead of “unlimited”, and I don’t want to try to find another plan with that.

My plan has like 10GB or so of tethered data, which pro-tip, you can get around by adjusting the TTL of packets sent by devices connected to your phone so that they appear to be coming from your phone. N.B. that t-mobile doesn’t like this and may cut your service off.

Please don’t respond to personal attacks with more of the same. Just report and/or downvote and ignore them

This really isn’t what we’re going for in this community, and it’s also not productive. Nobody’s going to change their mind because they were insulted on the internet. That energy is better spent effecting real-world change.

This will possibly be a contentious thread, so please be extra nice and assume the best of the other person when commenting!

I’m saying it sucks that Reagan pushed back on metric by abolishing the board responsible for the Metrication of the US, dooming us to the current situation where we’re stuck in the middle

The Metric Board was abolished in 1982 by President Ronald Reagan, largely on the suggestion of Frank Mankiewicz and Lyn Nofziger.

One more thing to throw on his pile of sins.

The only real defense of our current system is that in construction, it’s easier to divide 12 inches into thirds than metric. Seems like a pretty weak rationale still, and we should also just switch to dozenal anyways

I’m going to type faster than ChatGPT generates, and I’ll hallucinate more

Yeah it totally isn’t easy reading lol. Just compared to The Silmarillion it feels that way.

I remember liking it, but I read it long ago so don’t remember a ton of it. I might’ve liked it because it’s Literature and you’re obligated to like it.

I like the Shrike a lot, does that count as a character? I always imagined it as something cooler than depicted in a lot of art though, like something completely unreal, with angles and points that look like glitches in reality, like your GPU is trying to render something while its melting.

Nah, those are easy reads. The Silmarillion? Now that’s daunting 😈

Including the ones by Brian Herbert? I’ve never heard anyone say a single good thing about those.

The audiobooks for HHGttG are quite good if that’s your sort of thing. Stephen Fry does a great job on the first one. I didn’t quite like the voices in the other ones, but they were still overall well done.

In the middle of reading Tress of the Emerald Sea, by Brandon Sanderson. I haven’t read any of his stuff other than his completion of the Wheel of Time series. I saw that Tress is a good standalone book in the series so I figured I’d try that out. It’s good so far, but seems rather YA compared to what I assume the rest of the series is like.

You probably won’t be the first person responding to issues at work, because the people in Eastern timezone have probably already started to handle it by the time you’re up. Likewise, if you have a deadline like “end of day”, you have some extra breathing room over the other continental timezones. The downside of that is that if things are still broken by EOD Pacific, you’re most likely to have to work late to fix it.

One nice thing about working in earlier timezones is that if a lot of people at your company are Pacific, you’ll probably get a few peaceful hours before things really start going.

That sounds very intentional?

Have you ever managed to get everyone together in one place?

It’s good you clarified the UK. 3h30 on a train in the US gets you to about the next town over 😢

It’s not quite that bad, but I’ve really wanted to take Amtrak cross country, which should in theory be easy to do because of all our open land. And yet, it would take like a week or something ridiculous like that.