Counterpoint: if you, personally, can save some dollars so you're mainly spending on the things you can't grow, that's hardly a bad thing. Also, working with soil is known to be good for you. Exposes you to soil bacteria that are known to boost mood.

And it sounds corny as fuck and I didn't really take it seriously until I did it, but homegrown produce can be so incredibly much better than what you get off an industrial farm.

Just let people participate in feeding themselves and be happy, fuck.

EDIT -- to make a pedant happy

Considering how expensive fresh produce is getting, it doesn't have to change the direction of inflation to be worth it.

Look up what people used to say about digital art and tell me if history repeats itself or not

15% commenter here. My number came from the source I used, I'm not enough of a Greek history fan to know one way or the other, thanks for clarifying

Sorta. The stade was based on the pous which varied. But not that much, and in ways that are often consistently documented. Around the time Eratosthenes was alive, give or take a couple hundred years, it was documented that 1 Roman mile = 8 stades, which gives us something to go of off. While there are other possible definitions, we do have one that we know is probably closest to whatever Eratosthenes used.

EDIT - the numbers regarding the error range in this source is likely inaccurate, but goes into the units issue

https://maa.org/press/periodicals/convergence/eratosthenes-and-the-mystery-of-the-stades-how-long-is-a-stade

I didn't realize the market was so fragile and needed conservatives to control it so closely. You learn something new every day!

The Lifeline program is still available. The way they explain it is confusing, but the "discount" covers the complete cost of service for most Lifeline providers, so it works out to free. You just need to be receiving any federal public assistance -- Medicaid, food stamps, TANF, anything.

ACP was more of a broadband program with phone service attached, Lifeline is more of a phone program with some data attached. If you happen to have an unlocked phone, many lifeline carriers support bringing your own device to some extent.

https://www.fcc.gov/lifeline-consumers

Bet a killer feature for this would be pluggable recommendation algorithms.

EDIT; Clarity

It's utterly disturbing how easy it is to get into so many networks and devices just by looking up their default password or plugging in the default password on the side of the box. Absolutely the first thing you need to change on a new device if it comes with a preset PW.

Fun fact: tons of wheat and corn farmers had shit yields last year in my area. It's not even that the temperature was higher, the weather was just all over the place and it fucked the plants.

Of course, it's government policy to overproduce so much wheat and corn we can feed a substantial chunk of the world, so it'll take longer before the basic staples start getting hit, but just you wait.

Somebody's gonna make a federated TikTok, aren't they? We're gonna have TikTokers flooding the Fediverse. We're so fucked.