Since you’re new to a Linux environment, it’s unsurprising that if you’re just told to enter commands, that’s a difficult way to learn. Are you taking a course, or is this self-directed? With a standard $P$G Windows prompt, you know what directory you’re in, so there’s no need of a utility like pwd. It sounds like reading up on basic *NIX commands would be a big help here – assuming this is coursework, your professor will be unimpressed by asking what pwd does, so the other option is to seek out resources.

A real advantage of WSL is being able to use Linux commands in a Windows terminal, so if you’re not familiar with terminal commands in general, at least there’s no unlearning to do. I’d do a search on YouTube for “basic Linux commands” and then look at the man pages for the utilities to see what they do, as well as explaining flags. You’ll get completely different formatting from “ls” vs. “ls -l”.

It’s not as though Trump is capable of reflecting, anyway.

Another story that presumes everyone has a garage where they can plug in a BEV. If not, the data provided by the story suggests a middling difference between a public fast charger and 87 octane. Surely there must be a renter or two slumming it while reading the Times.

Much hinges on how the state defines “sleep” and “outside.” If a tent is included, hope no one wants to go camping anymore or have sleepovers in the back yard. Napping in a park for an hour in midafternoon? This seems horrifically overbroad given the law as described, and I’d assume anyone who can afford a lawyer will have the charges dismissed.

Nah, that’s just the term The Register uses derisively.

Made possible by inflation! Ask your Fed chair if debasement is right for you.

I chortle at your attempt to teach a two-decade newspaper editor “media literacy.” I’m fine with – and agree with – your point through “less significant” … but you aren’t backing up your “greenwashing rag” conclusion. It appears to be pure opinion, not analysis.

Amazon provides their own numbers, and the rest is reported. The hed is not Amazon’s. It’s called sourcing.

Look, I’m not a fan of “AI,” but I do care about the quality of reporting, and Kyle is solid. I know it’s en vogue to immediately bash anything that’s not flaming vitriol, but learn some media literacy instead of just having a knee-jerk reaction because Amazon is a source. That’s going to happen when covering Amazon. Where else do you expect to get those data?

Let’s say this is total horseshit, which it may well be. Do the other figures provided still tell the same story assuming Amazon is understating water use by an order of magnitude? Yep. If all you care about is water use, railing against golf courses and calling for an end to lawn watering is going to be more effective.

If all you care about is AMAZON BAD, then your response makes sense.

I didn’t post because I think all is fine and dandy, but what I’m gathering is the issue is local moreso than aggregate. People are up in arms in Temple over planned bit barns.

I tend to trust Ars. Consider the source. Though I fully expected a response like this.

I totally forgot about McSweeney’s. Good to see it’s still up. Also, great piece.

This is a threadbare sensationalized piece that draws on a KSHB article that was linked at the bottom. In the future, please post the original source, not a blogger’s reaction. A good rule of thumb is if any part of a hed is IN ALL CAPS, you don’t have reported news on your hands.

Temple, Texas.

I got up with the alarm at 4:55 a.m. today, having not made it to bed until 1:30. The final outcome of the past three years was 60 miles away. I’d resurrected my starter batteries Saturday, and one of the bartenders from the brewery I park near came by Sunday to flip up my liftgate, then biked off (I really need to regain upper body strength – I was flipping that thing up daily while building out the van.).

After which I canceled my internet service and returned my 5G hotspot.

So, nothing left tying me to Austin, plenty of diesel in the tank from when last I drove in August 2024. And without A/C, it was imperative that I do the drive at the coolest part of the morning.

I got here at about 6:30, having gone on an accidental minor excursion before arriving at my new home. Then the malaise set in after getting on the bed. I’ve been mostly useless all day, but I managed to scarf down some Hamburger Helper one of the parents had cooked. This is the first time since 2023 that I’ve had fixed housing and all my possessions in tow.

By 11 a.m., the heat index was already 99F, so I think I timed this well.

Sure you’ve got the right canal, there?

I would not consider that a truism. As soon as “demands” comes up, ask yourself: Demanded by whom, and for what purpose?

Of course sharing a meal is enjoyable. It doesn’t need to happen on rigid timeframes dictated by others.

Food is fuel. It can be enjoyable fuel, but that’s what it is. No one is going to the gas station and continuing to try to pump gas into an overflowing tank.

I don’t view this through the lens of food shortages so much as that “three meals a day” was drummed into our heads by capital in the first place. It’s unnecessary, but we spend more on food by strict adherence to these expectations, which is always the goal.

I had a wildly different experience growing up in the '80s, although anecdotally, it was socioeconomic. There were dogs who were pets and inside most of the time, and then there were guard dogs people tried to slap a veneer of love on.

I hate the way the pendulum has swung all the way to “Pweshus needs to be in the produce aisle with Mommy.” And then dogs shit on the floor in grocery stores. I’d much rather have them in someone’s yard for 20 minutes than where I’m trying to buy fresh foods.

The “furbaby” phenomenon is marketing and gaslighting at its finest. The only reason people have gotten to the point that they think it’s appropriate to take a dog everywhere is that the endless growth machine saw lowering birthrates and figured recasting pets as children would partially offset slowing revenue on the human baby end.

Absolutely no one in the '80s thought it appropriate to bring a nonservice pet into a public place, and it’s not like people individually came up with the notion that this was now fine. But people don’t realize they’re being manipulated … it feels much better if you’re convinced that’s just who you are, and that’s all it takes.

This is, of course, the way a lot of things have gone in the past 40 years, but I generally don’t run into other such issues at HEB.

We were talking (there will be more to come on “we” elsewhere) today about planning locations for raised beds in the yard, but as this is Texas, the window for a summer harvest is closed, so there isn’t much of a rush.

Ideally, we could get in a fall planting and see what winter crops fare decently. I’ve been out of the gardening scene for over a decade, and I don’t even know what zone we’re in locally. There’s going to be a lot of remedial learning before I’m anywhere near what I once knew.

My main goal is always New Mexican strains of C. annum, followed by crucifers and Allia. And of course some herbs. I’ll happily put the effort into whatever else others would like, but here we get back to colocation and amendments, which I’m rusty as hell on.

Still, it’s fun to be thinking about such things again.

So it was an income stream.