As De Gaulle (ever the source of a great quip, be it real or apocryphal) supposedly offered, “the graveyards are full of indispensable men.”

I’m on the fence about this.  On the one hand, there are laundromats everywhere, and especially nowadays it’s pretty easy to just keep around enough clothes that you only need to go every three or four weeks, and can do it all at once by using multiple machines.  On the other, paper cups and Solo cups can render a…

I thought Monte Verde in Chile (between 14,500 and 18,500 BP, and of course thousands of miles beyond New Mexico) rendered “Clovis first” kaput quite some time ago...

Anytime you hear a Republican whining about people “dropping out of the workforce” or the mythical “labor shortage”, what they’re really saying is “the serfs are getting uppity so it’s time to grind their faces a little harder.”

Yeah, I have an interior office at work, the sole “window” is a tiny slit that looks out into a large warehouse space where I guess I could watch forklifts and pallet jacks buzzing by if I was so inclined, but suffice it to say, it may as well not even be there as it admits no light. I also don’t get any cell…

I guess that means DeSantis is no more than 18 mos. away from snagging some more star free agents.  

They can also huddle there in fear, which is what they’re going to spend a huge proportion of their time and mindshare on, if my time living in South Africa was any indication. Setting incredible wealth just across the expressway from shanty towns that wash away in the rain is brilliant public policy, assuming you…

Oh, you still could, it’s just a question of dosage...

I mean if 10 million middle class people gave $100, that could also pay the $6 billion tab.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but it seems to me they’ve also restricted themselves to guys who are maybe upwards of 170 lbs or so, various middleweights, basically, whereas Tyson is another proposition altogether, he’s at least 50 lbs heavier than that. Even setting aside everything else (much of which lies in his favor…

These stupid companies insist on pretending that every single end user is a dimwitted commercial entity just happily waiting to be milked. It’ll be a cold day in Hell before I pay one red cent for a fucking subscription for Office or Acrobat.

As much to the point, he’s a great driver but he isn’t even close to being a “definite” Top-5 “most famous athlete”, considering there are almost certainly five players more famous in soccer alone; I don’t even really watch it except during World Cups and can easily imagine Messi, Ronaldo, Neymar and Zlatan are all…

Well, for starters, by the end of this year the number of installed surveillance cameras worldwide will cross the one billion mark. Huge storage demand, very low performance requirements. Mechanical drives are going to be around for a looooooong time.

Definitely, though as you note at least the current one is reasonably restrained. Compare that situation to Wisconsin’s awesome old black on yellow plates (some of the best in the country) vs. the stupid modern design with a silhouette of a dumb farm (of course) aaaaand...a sailboat (WTF? Why? Why!?).

Amen, you can find barely-used Steelcase and Herman Miller chairs, serious pieces of equipment engineered by long-established firms with a proven focus on ergonomics, and designed to last decades, for a song all over the place—consignment resellers on CL, monthly public surplus sales at universities, even some…

Actually, one could argue it existed since the Dragon’s Lair arcade laserdisc came out, so 1983?  

Well, also remember that there are dozens of professions which are statistically far more dangerous than law enforcement, yet you don’t see loggers or fishermen or steelworkers constantly whining about how society doesn’t genuflect enough and treat each of them like the fucking Gaius Marius they believe themselves to…

Yeah, no quite, the information is easily discerned by anyone who can type. Here are the top reviews for the $18 heatsink I bought last month:

Seeing Dexter and The OA place but The Expanse completely absent is like being told Surfer Rosa sucks by a collective of 311 and Kid Rock fans.  

Yeah, well, call me crazy, but I don’t see the expectation that a big-budget adaptation of a classic sci-fi story, written by an American author, made by an American studio, should treat American audiences like something other than an afterthought as really all that radical. Back when I lived in Chicago there was a…