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Linux Mint on my old Dell E6350 (workhorse home machine that never leaves the desk).

Pop!_OS on my regular grab-and-go laptop.

UPS stores charge a fee for notary service. It's around $20 where I am in the Midwest.

The entire section "General Interference with Organisations and Production" is a perfect description of how academia works.

"The politics of the university are so intense because the stakes are so low." -- Wallace S. Sayre

7+ years is not unusual in the humanities. The sciences need to ease the hell up.

I'm not saying it's space whales . . . but it's space whales.

And so it begins.

I wonder if the fact that school is out for summer break in most of America has had an effect on user numbers. Most schools let out in early to mid-May.

Media Bias Chart to the rescue: https://www.allsides.com/media-bias/media-bias-chart

How do state laws such as this not contradict federal interstate commerce laws?

Looks to me like a failure to plan properly. It's not like the companies didn't know this could happen. If you put your faith in Congress, be prepared to be disappointed by Congress.

CFO heads should roll over this. It's their job to be up to speed on tax changes and plan for eventualities like this.

This will end well.

The thing is, I just want to sleep on the sofa; I don't want to buy it.

Grifter gonna grift.

The Animaniacs owe so much to Tom.

Scammers gonna scam, grifters gonna grift.

Horrible advice. Most people don't talk well; they ramble, they stumble, they beat around the bush. Do not write in "simple language." Instead, write in plain language: https://www.plainlanguage.gov/media/FederalPLGuidelines.pdf

Get ready to switch, because Signal is dropping SMS support on Android: https://signal.org/blog/sms-removal-android/

Remember when Second Life was the next big thing? Pepperidge Farms remembers.

He should have tested the statement requirement policy before resigning. All he had to do was provide a statement that his research does not advance SPSP's equity, inclusion, and anti-racism goals but that it is important to the field on its own. Then he would have a stronger case to point out the irony of the policy itself being discriminatory. Right now, he just comes across as a whiner.

Because of course they did.

Be sure to have an ad blocker for Boing Boing. My god, the irony of a site that rails against the bad practices of web commercialism embracing all the bad practices of web commercialism.

Yes, but do you know about the Mongrel Banquet Club? The secret cabal of OSRians and their behind-the-scenes machinations? Google it my friend, google it. Many of the weird folk you allude to were members, I hear.

Pretty easy to search for titles and find that the publisher is/was Flat World Knowledge, as many of books are now in newer editions.

Free File Fillable Forms is owned by On-Line Taxes, Inc. of St. Joseph, Missouri, not Intuit.

https://freefilefillableforms.com/home/privacy_security.php https://www.olt.com/main/home/leadership.asp

Because we're surrounded by idiots, that's why./s

Ads will eventually make TikTok shit to use, too.

Gravitational. Pull. Of. Pepsi.

Wow. They sure do a lot of work trying to justify a shitty logo. And it worked. Let that be a lesson for us all.

It seems what this device is especially good at is separating fools from their money.