I check a hatfull of old links -every day- (a sort of hobby), and am constantly surprised to see all they’ve stashed away there.

Recommend their browser extension for that. If you come across a page that fails to load, it will tell you if it -knows- people have asked it save a copy. If not, and you paste the failed URL into the ‘Search URL’ box, there’s about a 2 in 3 chance you will come up a winner.

If you land on a working page that you really like, and it doesn’t have a memory of it, it will -usually- save it for you if you click on -Save Page Now-. Yeah, that’s YOU backing up the good stuff.

Lately I’ve seen stuff going back as far the late 90s. One of my most-useful extensions… and there’s a lot out there worth saving!

I see quite a bit of humanity in many answers. Keep in mind a sample of people who choose to hang out here instead out there in the rat races (e.g. the Big R)

Are you say its only the water temperature that matters, then? Is yer last name ‘Kelvin’ by any chance?

That’s the trouble with electrics … once you buy one, you feel compelled to use it to get your money’s worth, ammiright?

Anyway, a true purist wud NEVER use an electric, wud tha? It’d been over a nice smoky hearth to give it that tang, like figgy puddin’.

Sooo … that’d be bad, then?

I’ve doon thot several times now. And so I -almost always- remember to check that the left digit on the timer is one.

In the US, if you go to the store and ask where are the tea towels are, they’ll look at you funny, then suggest you look in the T-shirt department.

I’m not a commie, and if god forsook me, how would I know?

OTOH, I still mostly only drink Red Rose and Tetley, and given enough steep time … say 10 or 15 minutes … they’re not so nasty. And I was born -next- to Canada, so I can’t be -too- disabled.

10-cent bitcoins

PHew. I feel so much better now that AI’s are working on the problem.

Did you notice that the currents in the southern oceans have reverse directions, bringing up more CO2 from the deep waters?

Oh sure. Belief is always sweet than science.

“Uhhhh would that mean … I’d have to stop driving my car?”

"It seems that we live in a very dark time, and we do. The human race has been on a very destructive path for quite a while, and we have these hideous weapons and hideous powers that can turn that destructive path into true cataclysm.

But at the same time, an awakening is occurring and that awakening is being leveraged through the internet. It’s a consciousness awakening all around the world. And it’s that awakening of consciousness that the best hope for the future of humanity lies. - Graham Hancock

I first read that as ‘spam and eggs’ and thought … who the hell wants lab-grown spam?

Trump will go away. Scientists will not go away. Science will get smaller, but that may well be good for it … scientists are inventive. Have you seen the simple tools they used to make all those discoveries back in the middle 1800s?

The more efficient we can get, the less resources we use. Early TVs each drew HUNDREDS of watts. As did early computers. What changed? Scientific insights.

We can do what we can do to stop making it worse. Work togetther to change our habits. Do what we can to make do with less and feel good about it. “Every dollar is a vote”, definitely. Work with the people who know what’s in store for them, like farmers. Skip a trip now and then. Use mass transit more. Keep improving our home, if we have one, so it’s better-insulated. Use better options for heating (wear more clothes instead of burning more fuel) and cooling. Stop admiring consumption and buy lasting, healthier products. Walk away from wasteful consumption, the investors will turn elsewhere unless companies respond.

We can keep in mind the world we’re making, and how we will best to live in it. And become living examples of alternatives that are inevitable.

That needs to be done with a combination of hardware and OS. The hardware needs to allow setting the maximum analog audio voltage delivered at the audio outputs. The OS needs to let users make that choice and then enforce it.

Of course, more highly-compressed audio will still sound louder. For that you’d need to be able to measure the average delivered voltage and compensate for it. Also easy to do in hardware. Audio has always been an after-thought in consumer electronics (since TV’s came along anyway) and computers have continued that tradition.

Back to the days when there were only a few TLDs… like .net .org .com. I’d then campaign for a law that disallowed any income-seeking behavior … adverts, tracking, cookies, porn, scams, promotion, surveillance … everywhere EXCEPT .com. Break that law, you lose your business and your servers, the CEO does serious time in jail, and noone working for that company is allowed back on the net anywhere until forever.

‘1925 we shifted’ … no, Over the century that followed, yes, to a great extent. While our handlers have continued in their ways, much of the great mass of humanity has moved (and history shows it, if you’re familiar with it all) into a much better place. Tens of millions died across Europe in the '20-40s … not repeated since WW2 and the A-bomb. The current admin notwithstanding, *humanity itself has shifted away from the bastards … and they know it … and they’ll soon (not soon enough) be dead.

MAGATs are junk humans.