It, uh…makes…food…uh…come in…?

Replicators, which are universal and basic.

Firefox is not eliminating MV2 extensions. You can stick with Firefox.

They said “seemingly.”

Nice. I’m planning to install it after work.

The tab previews are pretty nice. Good QOL, assuming it doesn’t kick my GPU into overdrive to make it.

My midwestern US schooling taught me almost nothing about African or diaspora history beyond the slave trade. When I learned that there was a whole big huge continent whose history I didn’t know, I was fascinated. Simultaneously, I was awakening to the systemic injustice that Afro-folks experience in the United States, and wanted to learn as much as I could about their background and context.

I mean, in fairness, at least the Mig-29 and F-117 are contemporaries, and deployed by enemies. I’ve seen playsets that include (iirc) an F-16 and a B-17 dogfighting against one another.

You currently only have three choices in web rendering engine, unless you want to go REALLY esoteric:

• Blink

• WebKit

• Gecko

Blink is Chromium, meaning Chrome, Edge, Brave, Opera, Arc, Vivaldi, ug-c, Konqueror, etc. It is built, maintained, and controlled by Google, and currently has an approximately 81% market share on the internet.

WebKit is Safari, and is only really usable on Apple products (and is the only engine available on Apple’s mobile products outside the EU). It enjoys about a 9% market share as a result of its wide install base.

Gecko is developed by the Mozilla Foundation for Firefox, yes. But if you want any sort of web independence, you have to have a browsing engine that is not controlled by a major corporation. Otherwise, you’re just going to have a duopoly that can make whatever web decisions they want to.

Well, that was just an example. We can ban the cars in more places than just school zones, I’m happy with that.

One thing at a time.

The idiot trashy human beings aren’t trying to kill my kids except when they’re in a car on the street we’re trying to cross, so I think getting rid of the cars would help tremendously.

We walk our kids to school pretty much every day, and I 100% agree.

Almost exactly three years ago, at a school about four miles away from ours, a driver killed a seven-year-old girl on her way home from school, and the very next morning a driver ignored the signal and cut me off as I was trying to walk my own kids across the street. In the next couple of months, a city ordinance meant to improve pedestrian safety was shot down by the state because it was “anti-car.” Since then, any efforts at traffic calming around schools has been slow-rolled and ignored at pretty much every opportunity. Car dismissal is prioritized at our kids’ school (we’ve actively had to go inside and pluck our kids out of the car line at the beginning of every school year so far because they don’t pay attention), bus dismissal gets second place, and this is the first year that the crossing guard has been there every day.

Literally the only positive thing that we’ve seen around our school is that they’ve reduced the road from two (very thin) lanes in each direction to only one; that has helped tremendously, but even just this morning a driver who wasn’t paying attention almost hit the crossing guard as we were about to step out into the street.

I am shaking with rage even thinking about it right now. The situation is dire out there, and our elected officials are doing worse than nothing. Our school administrators are making it worse.

Talk about radicalizing. I want to start slashing tires.

WebKit is really only available on Apple devices in any meaningful way.

It’s wild that they actually responded to the pedantry comment with the exact pedantry I was trying to pre-empt.

Sometimes, with caveats (I researched this a while back). tl;dr: probably yes, if you get puzzles manufactured by the same company around the same time.

• There are “puzzle companies” that are actually just design studios who farm out the manufacturing process to a puzzle printer. Depending on the printer, they’re very likely to reuse puzzle dies even between design companies; so you might even be able to remix two puzzles by different companies, if they use the same print company.

• Certain high volume printers rebuild their puzzle dies from scratch every so often (so the design would be entirely different depending on which print run you’re working with). Ravensburger in particular had a thing on their website (it might still be there) about how they can’t get you individual replacement pieces because they’ve almost certainly already rebuilt the die since your copy was printed. And most companies end up just replacing the entire puzzle if they leave out a piece.

• Some puzzle companies make puzzles where the design and the cut are related somehow (Magic Puzzle Company built a whole line on those). Those are unlikely to be reused between designs, though you do end up paying extra for them.

• Even if you get a pair of puzzles that were cut using the same die, they might not line up the way this image shows. If the die was removed and flipped around between one puzzle’s cutting and another, the cut would be “upside down” on the other and they would fit together in a very different way.

Yes, hence the disclaimer. Grumman delivered the Lunar Module in 1968, Grumman delivered the LLV in 1986, Northrup delivered the B-2 Spirit in 1987, and the companies combined in 1994.

Just to head off any pedantry: I know this isn’t how it went, but it’s funnier this way.

US Government Employee: “Okay, awesome. So that’s a solid contract for the Lunar Lander for NASA. Great doing business with you.”

Northrop Grumman salesman: “Yeah, sure, happy to help us win the space race against the Soviets!”

Gov Employee: “Now if you’ll excuse me, I need to go figure out who we’re going to get to build a stealth bomber for the Air Force.”

Grumman: “Oh, we can do that too!”

Gov Employee: “Whoa, really? Thanks, that really makes the rest of the week easier. I appreciate it! Now all I need to do is find someone to make some cute little mail delivery trucks for the USPS.”

Grumman: “You’re not gonna believe this…”

There’s a guy on the internet who does videos comparing Vancouver real estate with literal European castles of a similar price. “Not livable” money in Vancouver can get you “has gardens and outbuildings with servant’s quarters” in some parts of Europe.