John Boyega won’t return to Star Wars because of racist fans.

Right, for the Americans here that hate metric.

Nope, just a wooden box covered in good leaf, surrounded by snakes.

And everyone in the galaxy knows about it. Han is a terrible smuggler.

Bulletproof glass, but they didn’t allow tools? Is this the company that made glass for the cybertruck?

There are 365 days in a year. If we keep the standard 7 day week, that gives us 52 weeks, with a single day left over. That day can be New Years Day, and be outside the standard week. Call it a special day, make it a holiday, whatever. Leap years would have 2 special days. Put the second in the summer to balance the one in the winter.

That means every year is there same. Divide the year to into as many months as you want, as long as each one has a ‘multiple of 7’ days. January 1? Always a Sunday. April 3? Always Tuesday. Leap year day? It’s on the calendar between Saturday and Sunday.

“Calendar Publishers Hate This One Trick”

I have to pay for Subaru-brand OnStar before the heated seats are even an option. I didn’t know the seats were subscription when I bought the car, they just said OnStar was free for a year.

Subaru does this.

Metal is a lot heavier than wood. You’d never be able to lift it to the moon.

About 15 years ago I looked at 3d printers for an engineering team. Between $20,000 and $50,000 range. The best option was a powder based system. Parts were fragile, print time was slow, clean up was a pain.

One of our customers was using an SLA system…parts were fragile, print time was slow…clean up was a pain.

Now I have a 3d filament printer in my shop that cost me less than $1,000, and doesn’t have any of those issues. Of course it’s not mounted on a robotic arm.

Imagine a federated Reddit with extremely lax (or no) moderation, and files. Access to a Usenet server gives you access to an almost unlimited number of communities discussing almost any topic you can think of, some topics you’ve never heard of, some topics you don’t want to be involved with, and (depending on which server you subscribe to) downloadable files.

I haven’t used one in years, so I have no idea how accurate the previous paragraph still is.

If you throw billions of dollars at a problem, you will always get the most expensive solution.

Project Gutenburg

The Count of Monte Cristo is excellent. No movie has done it justice. No movie has come close to doing it justice.

The Three Musketeers Saga is very, very long, and very, very inconsistent in quality.

Moby Dick is really good. Also makes for a good movie, because there’s a lot of stuff about whaling that nobody cares about anymore.

Start with those, I expect a report when you return, along with an essay about what you did during the summer.

Once I up or down-vote a post, I never see it again, unless someone responds to something I wrote. If there’s something I want to check later, I have to Save it.

If I respond to a post or comment, and then that gets edited, I’m pretty sure I don’t get notified. And since I’ve already up-voted it, I’ll never see it again (unless I Save it and remember to check it later).

If a post is more than a day old, and the info you’re editing is important, make a new post. Reference the first post if necessary.

I played with this a couple times. Once it located a nondescript stream in the UP of Michigan to within 200 miles. It knew the picture was taken in the UP. The second was a ferry dock in a foreign country (English speaking). It found a sign and that misdirected it to the other side of the country.

Both trees?

::guillotine emoji::

We all went for a bike-ride, and when we got home just played some Atari.

Still playing Atari…

I have municipal fiber, it’s great. Cheaper than Charter and 5x the speed.