How do you take control of the cable nightmare?
Source: Help! There is a seething mass of snakes under my desk | Ars Technica
I’m looking for a solution for all the cables that I need to have around my computer. A few comments have good ideas.
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Do you ever feel like throwing in the dating towel? David Kanegis has some advice for you.
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American democracy was too robust to let that happen. He was too dangerous to win, and to win would be too dangerous. It couldn’t happen because it couldn’t happen.
Source: President Donald John Trump – The Atlantic
This whole thing is pure genius.
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This site focuses on the security of routers. Period. If you are interested in faster WiFi, look elsewhere. The site covers configuration changes to make a router more secure, and, picking a router that is more secure out of the box.
Showgoers is a Chrome extension that allows you link up your Netflix player with a friend’s so that you can watch the same Netflix movie together over the internet. With Showgoers installed, watching a Netflix movie with friends online is as easy as sharing a URL.
This looks pretty nifty. Maybe if I had a Netflix account…
Point the people you support (read: your family) to this guide. For a lot of people still using Windows 7, Vista, or shudder XP, it should be pretty useful.
Windows is severely lacking in cats riding t-rexes though. Perhaps when the service pack comes out they’ll fix it?
The Verge is a site that I try to never visit unless I’m using a landline based Internet connection.
I’d hate to see what the site does to people outside the US, where data caps are still quite common and you have to pay overages by the megabyte.
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Baking is science, but cooking is like sex.
What worked one time might not get you where you want it the next time. You use your experience to adjust, tweak & finesse. When you get it right you just know.
Sometimes you need things to be hot, hard and fast, sometimes you need it gentle and slow and easy.
It takes a lot of passion, and dedication, and patience.
When people like what you do, they tend to moan, and say "oh my god" a lot, and their eyes roll back in their heads. (that’s the best!)
All the comments in this thread are golden.
Via Things you have to explain to people who haven't worked in kitchens : KitchenConfidential.
I love (and hate) dating Russian men – Salon.com.
I got this from @feministripper. She knows what’s up.
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This module is like violence: if it doesn’t work, you just need more of it.
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What is exposed about you and your friends when you login with Facebook – Boing Boing.
Just in case you needed something else to make you reticent of using Facebook for logging in to anything.
But you can eat sustainably every day of your life and give to charity every year, and it all gets wiped out with one line of coke. Who cares if you were a nice guy if in your spare time you burned witches?
via Cocaine trafficking horrors: Users are complicit in the atrocities of the drug trade..
I know many, many people who think “what’s the harm in a little fun”, preferring marijuana, cocaine, or meth to alcohol or cigarrettes.
The difference lies not in the legality of any of the drugs. It lies in the suffering. People making alcohol usually love their jobs, lovingly making a product that people can rave about.
The others get made by poor people suffering under the yoke of violence and poverty, with the exception being the legal trade in recreational marijuana in some states.
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There was really no threat of invasion though. While the final battle between the Mexica and the Native/Spanish forces is often lumped together as the "Siege of Tenochtitlan" there were skirmishes and battles happening around the Lake Texcoco basin.
via 400-Rabbits comments on What were the fortifications of Tenochtitlan before Cortés' conquest?.
I had always imagined that the Siege was mostly an overland affair, never really taking into account the fact that the whole city was on an island. Yeah, sure, the fact Cortes had ships built is mentioned, but you can’t have a clear idea of how they were used with two or three paragraphs in a school history textbook.
It shows the influence of modern geography on the perception of events that happened centuries ago.
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My work has taken me on visits to a lot of classes. The thing that I have noticed is that a poor person will have zero idea what to do with a 401K should they get one. A rich person will have no idea how to cash a check if they don’t have a bank account. It’s a completely different skillset with disparate goals and values and norms. It is definitely a different culture.
For example: You need to score some illicit drugs. How do you do that? Rich answer: Ask your assistant. Middle-class answer: Ask your teenager. Poor answer: Walk outside.
Why I Make Terrible Decisions, or, poverty thoughts.
I’ve been there. I can consider myself fortunate that I’ve been able to let go of most vices, most wants, and am able to go for long stretches of time without actual employment.
But a big part of that is thanks to the middle-class trappings of my lower-class life. I live in a house with a full kitchen, laundry room, all utilities; all for a ridiculously low price. Were I renting an apartment by myself, I’d be working two jobs just to be able to pay rent, nevermind having the time to cook at home and go to the movies every so often.
I am fortunate to know how people of all social walks have lived, having been exposed to all of them at least briefly throughout my life. I know how to deal with rich people without having them try to own me. I know how to interact with middle class people in a fair manner. I know how to hustle with the poor like one of them — I know I’m poor but I try to afford myself the luxury of not feeling poor. Feeling poor saps your body of energy, robs your mind of steel and your spirit of joy.
But I can attest to the knowledge that it is hard to look at the stars while your back is bent toward the ground.
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Subtitled “the invention of the American meal,” Three Squares is an engaging and eye-opening look at the economic and cultural forces that have shaped the country’s shifting formats of consumption over time — and, in turn, the changing meanings and value judgments that Americans have attached to those eating patterns.
As a child of two countries, I can attest to the differences in food culture even when both of those countries are neighbors, but derive from completely different source cultures.
In Mexico, born of Spain and the old Mexica empire it, the food schedule is something like this:
In my experience in both countries, it has been lunch that has been influenced the most by Mexico’s imitation of the cultural mores of the United States. For children and teenagers, lunch is usually had during recess at school. For adults, it varies wildly depending on the job and the availability for time, like breakfast.
Now, in the US, it usually goes like this:
Mind you, these is what I remember from my own family experience. Being of Mexican origin, my elders tried to keep the schedule mostly the same but things had to change by necessity and adaptation of the social mores of our new adopted home.
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