quote: "Otteson and his wife plan to sell their home in Redmond and move somewhere with lower costs of living, such as Vancouver, Wash., or Hillsboro, Oregon".

Not surprised one bit as this has been an ongoing trend for techies in the SF Bay area to Seattle for decades.

It'll be less a problem with small offgrid farms and more an issue for rural to suburban areas with full utilities because most of these people have no clue how to farm.

Yup. They should go to 'Methford', Oregon instead...

Yup. Very close to today's economy. I survived on a diet of Rolled oats, Kielbasa and Top Ramen for almost three years in that timeframe. Rent and auto insurance took 80% of my wages.

Yup, was small, but impactful to many. I was just entering the workforce at the time; minimum wage in the US was I think $3.15/hr, gas had just topped $1.00/gallon for the first time and the cost of living had gone up about 20%. Wasn't fun holding 3 part time jobs and working 60 hours a week to pay for just basic living expenses.

The 1990-1991 recession actually made it difficult for many to afford gas. It was a shitty couple of years.

TL;DR

"The team found that liking the smell and the taste of onions was associated with lower odds of developing either type 2 diabetes or having high blood pressure."

As a Californian yank who has spent a combined 2 years living in East Sussex, England and León, Spain; let me just say this:

There's dumbasses, highly ignorant chads and plenty of wankers on both sides of the pond who will readily make stupid comments.

Any comments about the US being hotter than the EU really comes down to a lack of basic knowledge that most Europeans don't have Air Conditioning and are therefore unprepared to deal with prolonged heatwaves.

Sure, we Californians for example endure entire months of continuous 33'C weather, but we're prepared for it here. We expect to have two seasons here: Summer and Spring for fucks sake.

Europeans however don't expect that and the only criticism you all are entitled to here is that this isn't going to go away. All you Europeans need to be pushing for infrastructure now instead of fucking talking and talking and talking some more about it.

Hoping Canada wins now ...

Linux: No ads, it's free and easier than ever to install.

They increase the cost of consumer electricity and water; they increase the temperature of the local area; they generate (in some cases) heavy metal pollution and (in most cases) sound pollution.

What's not to love? ;)

Great until it grabs some skin or hair

I always get downvoted for saying it, but I don't care because the real water savings never came from stupid showers: It comes from not growing crops in the damned desert; it comes from not growing grass on lawns in arid environments; it comes from not raising so many cattle.

Most low flow shower heads have a plastic insert in them called a restrictor that can be removed to make it work like the high flow ones.

It's nothing more than a small cylinder that can be pushed or pulled out from the shower line and manufacturers use these restrictors because it allows them to sell the same unit in multiple markets.

EDIT: Forgot to add water savings reasons.

No wonder there were so few Chinese sourced hack attempts in my corporate F5 firewall logs last night lol.

“I thought STRIKES were supposed to be ‘unlimited’ when we were picking our jury?” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social.

State law, a law that's been around for over a hundred years, limits it to 10 strikes.

That's what he gets for thinking again.

But but JD Vance said no one would be influenced by her!

Bill announces a collaboration between the two, starting with an open source implementation of BOB and Clippy AI for Linux....

Best line:

"Actually, that's not complete reporting, Olivia. I have a source that tells me it's the Wrong Every Time Floor Action Response Team – WETFART. The #WETFART team is a loud and slippery crew. Beware."

Microsoft: We can't spy on your usage when you use wordpad, use O365 instead! (guessing since MS recommends using O365 Word in its place).

TBH, I haven't used wordpad since Windows 98. Not saying others don't use it, but Notepad++ and a myriad of other options are better anyway.

Bye bye Discord, you were never that good to begin with anyway.