@tootbrute

Many do. I don't, but I always wear socks in the house, and much of the year, carpet slippers as well. It's very difficult to keep the floor clean enough for bare feet, and slab-on-grade construction means cold floors even in summer in Texas.

@i314159265

That would be SIX YEARS AFTER Russia invaded Ukraine. SIX YEARS with Russian forces occupying territory which Russia had made the most solemn possible guarantees to respect, in exchange for Ukraine's surrender of strategic thermonuclear weapons.

Zelensky had nothing to do with it. He was elected AFTER the invasion.

@elb

Honestly, I'm not sure it's wrong. How often is your terminal window actually full of meaningful character data that you're trying to pay attention to?

Editing a page of text is one thing, but something like htop can be quite bewildering.

@feld @yogthos

What are you talking about?

When it comes to long-distance rail lines in the USA, they already exist. They just don't carry passengers, and some of them have had the rails torn up and sold for scrap. But to electrify existing lines, or even rehabilitate abandoned ones, doesn't require laying out alignments and acquiring land along them.

Besides, when it comes to road project, there's somehow never any problem getting the land, even for privately-owned toll roads.

@purple @goosey

Perhaps the thing to do is to put some kind of dropcloth over the bed first.

@goosey

You know, I may use this on "A Step Farther Out" soon. Because it's exactly what I mean by "energy is the liberator".

@tomasino @goosey

It wraps!
It slaps!
It honks!
It chonks!
It borks!
And makes julienne fries from things you have never even seen before!

@clacke @laemeur

I'm always going to feel super awkward anyway, so I'd rather not get sick. And anyway, half the time I want an N95 mask to reduce my pollen intake…

@quoll

Considering how many sysadmins have blanket-blocked Russian IPs over the years because of spam, scams, & other unwanted behaviour, does it matter?

@rysiek

Indeed, one doesn't even need to be Russian, per se.

Stalin was a Georgian, and yet typified the "Autokrator of All the Russias" as purely as anyone since Ivan III of Muscovy first conceived of the title.

@rysiek

As a cosmopolitan myself, I try to acknowledge the weaknesses of my own intellectual position.

Nationality is a social construct, but we humans are social animals after all. I am an avowed opponent of "Blut und Boden" ideologies, & not shy in saying that the principal purpose of borders is the control of those within them, but I am somewhat more sympathetic to the concept of "nationality" in terms of shared cultural background, narratives, metaphors, et cetera.

@bkhl

If you've been required to wear a mask and eyeglasses, you may be entitled to condensation.

@clacke

During the Brexit debate, so far as I can tell, nobody brought in Churchill against it. And it would have been so easy! Here it is, the man's most famous speech, perhaps the most famous speech since the First Catilinarian Oration.

"I daresay you saw in the newspapers this morning the historic declaration in which… we have proclaimed our willingness… to conclude a union of common citizenship (with France)."

https://youtube.com/watch?v=jB5wZtV1MWM&t=1614

@art

Nudity-friendly tavern!