https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DydIK14AvXI (I think qualifies more as brown noise than white noise)

I’ve had a couple systems that started with nothing more than vi, but rather more that started with nano (don’t think I’ve come across any that started with vim) – that being said, I’ll tolerate vi long enough to get micro installed

“The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism.”

—Hannah Arendt

“I told you once that I was searching for the nature of evil. I think I’ve come close to defining it: a lack of empathy. It’s the one characteristic that connects all the defendants. A genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow man. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.”

—Captain G.M. Gilbert, Nuremberg Diary (1947)

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seen Liberty in City

specifically, fried chicken is near universal

since Wired didn’t want to: ICE List – and they have a wiki

ImageMagick really is a Swiss Army Knife of usefulness …

unpaid

“You honestly didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. Few people ever cried more than once, if you’d used that up, you laughed.”

—Michael David Herr, Dispatches (1977) (writing for Esquire during Vietnam War)

just make sure you’re in the right mindset when you watch Grave of the Fireflies – great movie BUT it is an emotional gut-punch

“I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.”

—Stephen Jay Gould, “Wide Hats and Narrow Minds” (1979)

Haiti paying reparations to France

it’ll pass … like a kidney stone

Closet Land (1991)

For the young the days go fast and the years go slow; for the old the days go slow and the years go fast.

—Anna Quindlen, Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake (2012)

Estonia – yes, I’d have a hell of a time with the language, but EU citizenship and politics that don’t sound completely fucked are really appealing

so … the same accuracy as our “precision drone strikes” then …

then where do you put tuktuks?