valleyforge @valleyforge@qoto.org

Just some lighting I found wandering around town

This man is legitimately a genius. If he doesn't have a career doing this in the future then something is wrong

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9pzS4icink

The Atlas Shrugged poster in the background just makes it better

https://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html

This is a great story

@freemo I want to say black because it absorbs light but polar bears are white and they seem like they know what they're doing.

http://ww2.justanswer.com/uploads/dodgerench/2011-07-04_135334_4-_way_connector.png

These bastards. The plastic tabs always break.

Anyone who's never had to deal with 20+ year old Chrysler plastic electrical connectors is lucky.

@wjmaggos I don't think people do meth because of the marketing

It's just occurred to me that zippo lighters use the same mechanism as old kerosene or oil lanterns. Of course they do they're about that old.

@wjmaggos You think people need to be propagandized into overconsumption?

If you haven't tested your backups then you don't have backups

The Adventures of Tintin is a thoroughly underrated movie

https://urbit.org/docs

Your introduction page should let me know what your project is instead of starting with the details of how it words

The "cryptocurrency community" is really pretty toxic

From a report written by the Mexican general Manuel Mier y Terán about the state of the Texas territory in 1828, after the start of American immigration:

"...among these foreigners are fugitives from justice, honest laborers, vagabonds and criminals, but honorable and dishonorable alike travel with their political constitution in their pockets, demanding the privileges, authority and officers which such a constitution guarantees."

Apparently Americans have been yelling "I know my rights" for at least two hundred years. I can hardly be prouder.

https://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=3&psid=551

@shibao good you need it

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Give_me_liberty_or_give_me_death

This is a great speech. If you haven't read it you should.

Occasionally I'm reminded that it was Richard Dawkins who coined the word "meme" and I'm always surprised when I hear that