Global warming sure doesn’t help, but the Colorado basin was dry AF even before the industrial revolution. IIRC, the Anasazi got fucked over in a similar way.

I think maybe you should’ve used less understatement.

Number of gallons of the water flowing during an unusually wet period, making the resulting number a fantasy relative to the amount of water normally available.

This isn’t a “prolonged drought;” this is normal. It’s the weirdly wet period a century or so ago that was the outlier!

The real problem here is that all the engineering and legal agreements governing who gets access to how much water was fundamentally built on a fantasy.

It’s a device that cuts grooves into wood using cutting buts that come in a variety of different profiles. It’s good for making slots (e.g. mortises for mortise-and-tenon construction) as well as decorative details, such as chamfers, roundovers, and ogee profiles. You can also use a pattern bit to copy a cut-out shape with it.

The trouble is, it isn’t symmetric that way. MAGA hypocrites would simply gleefully shout it from the rooftops as fact and it would end up being a propaganda coup in their favor, satire be damned.

See also: the bullshit asymmetry principle, The Card Says “Moops”, that quote by Jean-Paul Sartre, etc.

MAGAs want her to peg them.

If they weren’t trying to reference tons of JavaScript to do shit like that, they wouldn’t need the goddamned lazy loading in the first place!

The funny thing about !THE_PACK is that it has both meanings, every single time. The entire point of the community is exploiting double entendres and the ironic dissonance of using AGGRESSIVE tone to express wholesome/supportive messages.

That’s great and all, but I’m still waiting for it to be affordable to install my own so that it can also be a whole-house uninterruptible power supply.

Just kidding… mostly.

Realistically, your diary is safe enough on your Mac. (By the way: you say “I am certain I need to install a Linux distro or a BSD,” but technically, MacOS already is a BSD.) IMO the main threat vector you have to worry about would be Apple changing something to start harvesting your data itself, either for its own purposes (e.g. AI training) or legal compliance with Orwellian bullshit. That risk is a lot lower than the certainty it is with Windows, but it’s still proprietary software so it can’t be zero.

If you’re really that paranoid about it, any device without an Internet connection would do just fine, including something that isn’t on the Internet because it’s too old to be compatible with it (hence the typewriter, but a very old computer running DOS would do fine, too.) Otherwise, if you want a maximally-paranoid but still modern system, look into something like Tails or Qubes OS on a PC, or Graphene OS on a mobile device.

Then why were you even asking when you already knew?

Your bitching was like complaining about a footnote citation because they didn’t copy and paste the entire referenced work into the middle of the article for you.

RTFB[ible]. It says which passages were quoted; look them up yourself if you’re that fucking worried about it!

At least, that’s what you would do if you were actually “curious” and not concern trolling.

I did literally that.

The real solution is regulatory, though, because obviously my boycott has done absolutely fuck-all to change manufacturer behavior.

That assumes they wouldn’t deliberately want it to look like shit and have obvious remnants of Trump’s name afterwards.

There’s a better way that doesn’t even require a wizard.

You know what’s really fucked up? The zoning code (at least in my area) mandates minimum parking requirements for bars. The law expects people to drive to them and enforces that behavior to be accommodated!

You say that as if saving $10 on a bulb once every few years is worth the risk of spending $100s or apparently even $1000s if they get damaged.

There are reasons cars have been getting ever more unaffordable (above and beyond inflation), and stuff like bespoke model-specific headlights requiring complicated tooling to manufacture is one of them.

My Miata with pop-up sealed beams gets ~30 MPG. Any aerodynamic problems it has are due to being a convertible, not the headlights.

The place by me doesn’t require a membership either, although being a co-op, it certainly offers one. The prices are generally terrible – think “even worse than Whole Foods” – but the bulk spices are less outrageous. More importantly, you still come out way ahead buying only the little bit of some weird spice you need for that one dish instead of a whole jar, even if the price per pound is higher.