Everyone knocks the Soviets’ misadventures in centrally-planned agriculture, but between the Colorado River and the Great Salt Lake, the advanced American model for manufactured slow-motion ecological disasters might even top what they did to the Aral Sea.

Not everyone contemplating suicide is moved to the choice by depression, sometimes it absolutely does make sense, and having a non-traumatic option for pursuing it is something a truly civilized nation would accept. Should the guy with rapidly advancing Alzheimer’s and no living close family be consigned to living out…

The more premium version of Samsung’s Galaxy Tab A7 Lite (w/ 4GB memory and 64GB storage) that’s frequently on sale for $130 (including right now at Best Buy) would probably be a smarter purchase for most people, it’s definitely going to have a much longer useful life w/ twice the RAM.  

Well, this is definitely going to make it harder for Seymour Butts, Ivanna Tinkle, Amanda Hugginkiss, Ben Dover and Mike Hock to get reservations...

It’ll function, but w/ a Celery and a paltry 4GB of memory, it’s going to be painful. I just want to say it’s hilarious Microsoft thinks this machine is perfectly fine to run Win 11, but a 6700K Skylake w/ 32GB of PC3200, NVME SSD and GTX1080 is insufficient. It’s like watching a toll authority happily admit oxcarts…

I’ve owned at least one version of every PlayStation device ever produced and completely agree with this; no one who has been on PS+ for any length of time was likely to find anything compelling in the Essential or Plus tiers. Literally the only thing it has that I wanted is/was Returnal, which I had previously bought…

I just have to say, having lived in cities for many, many years, I have a ton of sympathy for people dealing with egregious noise pollution, from construction to fart cans to bad dog owners with pets exhibiting world-class separation anxiety, it sucks. But man, once I moved into an old house with plaster walls, all of…

Oh no!!!! Whatever will we do if almond prices temporarily spike before the Chileans can ramp up production?!?!?! Can the race survive multiple years on just pecans and macadamias? By any miracle will the cheap LED lighting that can grow 10-foot sativa plants in the Yukon work on tomatoes? Enjoy your expanding sandlot…

Yeah, I was in HS in the first half of the 90s in a very small district (all the graduating classes were well <50; zero traffic lights in the “town” where the schools were situated) and yes, it’s absolutely what people did. When the county you live in has a population density <20/sq. mile, there aren’t many…

Oh, you mean like the desert Southwest which we’re constantly reminded is already teetering on the brink of ecological collapse due to excess demand on water resources as it is?

But what if I actually do have some Grey Poupon?  

They’ve been doing it forever, Dubya’s grandpa Prescott Bush was one of the principal movers behind the attempted Business Plot coup against FDR that was thwarted by Smedley Butler. Republicans are less patriotic than cosmic nihilists.

Not really, I can see 10% of the planet’s surface fresh water from my living room, I’m pretty sure I’ll be fine. 

So while it might seem like a great storage solution for the Nintendo Switch and Steam Deck, do you really want to pay more for the tiny card you stick in your portable gaming machine than the console itself?

Just a fun takeaway line from 2016 Reuters article about the findings of an old but evergreen study:

The main thing to me is the drug charges, and this is coming from a Big League pothead. It’s their land, they get to make their own laws, and she broke them. People are acting like she is the first American arrested overseas on minor possession charges. In reality, thousands of Americans are arrested abroad every…

Funny thing about guns: triggers don’t give a shit about your age or fitness, depress one and a bullet comes out regardless. I’m so sick of fucking pigs and their fear, there’s always an excuse, just like in both these instances. We both know it wouldn’t have mattered one iota if the guy was 25 and ripped like…

Oh Biden, ever the temporizing Lord of Half-Measures.

Just posting an excellent article re: the baseless abject fear that grips most elements of American law enforcement: https://prospect.org/justice/why-uvalde-cops-were-too-cowardly-to-charge-a-mass-shooter/

I countered that predators don’t get fat and are notoriously difficult to raise.