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• Post #3858636

  DDT was useful, too.

• Post #3260631

  The sooner software makers have to bear full legal liability for their badly designed, faulty products — just like every other class of product manufacturer has to — the better.

• Post #1932590

  It's become clear to me that the United Nations, despite continuing to do many good and useful things, has become unfit for its primary purpose: preventing war. Difficult question: How to restructure the UN to achieve that aim? Most difficult question: How to get the many Nation States to agree to such (hypothetical) restructuring, particularly the warmongering permanent members of the Security Council? #systemDesign

• Post #1932588

  Can we just stick to stating time using UTC±x zones, please. I neither know nor care nor can be arsed to find out what your FubarDT timezone thing is.

• Post #1932586

  Your irregular reminder that BMW is an intelligence test. If you bought one, you failed.

• Post #1932585

  Weather forecast for 222mm of rain next Wednesday. Time to build an ark. Actually, we'll be fine (house on high ground) but we might easily get rained in for a few days if the road floods, as it occasionally has done in the past. Many of our neighbours who've moved here only in the last 5 or 8 years have *no* idea what they might be in for. Personally I have my doubts about the forecast; model artefacts happen when you have floating point numbers driving an inherently chaotic s...

• Post #1932584

  So that's the last of the Winter crops sown (Broad Beans, mainly to build up the seed-stock for the next season). I've missed gardening these last few years. #winterIsComing

• Post #1392161

  RE: https://archaeo.social/@AncientEgyptianDate/116418576709867450 Happy New Year!