The planet money podcast has had several episodes where this has come up. I think the last one about the resistance to free filing tools is a good one

This was the part that I wouldn’t do just because I view the sink as mostly clean and plunger as mostly dirty. So unless I were to sterilize the sink afterwards I wouldn’t put a plunger in the sink.

This is a good steel man response, very much like Facebook posts I have seen lately. It’s really sad how much the right has abandoned listening to experts and just assuming we can apply “common sense” answers to fix problems that are complicated.

This aligns with what I have heard from folks I know in that world. Fear motivated by exaggerating one off and isolated incidents. The information silos in the conservative world (especially news) is frightening.

My 4 year old’s memory ability is all over the place. One day forgets mid sentence what he was talking about about or can’t remember if he is wearing pants, then later says, “remember 3 months ago when you promised me a Popsicle” or repeats verbatim the theme song for some random show.

Lol, right. That’s laughable saying that china is fighting colonialism and not replacing it with their own version.

Prairie dogs along the front range of Colorado, deer in the Colorado mountains…

Wish I could try Wayland, can’t seem to get it to load. Fortunately when they pushed the update of Wayland as default they didn’t remove x11 support. Still been pretty happy with kde neon for the last few years

Please don’t do that while hiking around others, lots of people go hiking to get away from constant sounds like that.

Bit difficult to keep using it since they killed sms interoperability. I understand the security concerns but if no one uses it, doesn’t really matter does it.

I had a similar experience, also hard to find interesting things because searching tags didn’t seem to work well. Maybe there isn’t enough stuff uploaded yet.

Gentoo and Debian, https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Logo_Collage_Linux_Distro.png