I have, among other things:

• a “small” '90s truck
• a minivan
• a two-seat sports car with a trailer hitch and a utility trailer

Guess which one(s) can actually fit 4’x8’ sheets of plywood?

Primitive Technology

Makes houses, tools etc, starting from just his hands and natural resources. No knife. No axe. No rope. No tarps. No dialogue.

Make sure you turn on the captions for that one.

ಠ_ಠ

I was about to reply to the same thing to another comment about 300 tabs, LOL

It means a change either applied completely and successfully, or not at all (think “atomic transactions” in databases).

Are people really this illiterate, or is it an affectation?

“‘Lebanon?’ Pfft, more like ‘lebensraum,’ amirite?” – Netanyahu, probably.

It’s so nice it’s posted twice.

Not the person you asked, but I’ll give my answer: I don’t know where I’d go, but I’ve been learning French for the last few years, in part, to increase my options.

(The other reason I picked French is that I’ve also been considering getting a sailboat and becoming nomadic, and France owns a whole bunch of tropical islands.)

As Georgia votes, fears of a stolen election and a return to the Kremlin’s orbit loom large

Same here in the other Georgia, TBH.

I’m a particular fan of the “flipping the tables of the vendors at the temple” behavior.

See how you feel about it after watching this: Aging Wheels/Technology Connections EV Road Trip

I don’t know why it works so well

Because the torque you can apply to the lid is usually limited by grip strength/friction, not arm strength/leverage.

I would modify that to say use microfiber for things you really need microfiber for (e.g. cleaning glass or waxing cars, where you really need it to be lint-free and non-scratching) and get bulk packs of cotton bar towels from a restaurant supply store or Costco business center for everything else. This minimizes the release of microplastics.

*Israel-Palestine war. Israel is attacking way more than just Hamas.

Even though the story involves drum memory instead, your mention of delay-lines reminds me of The Story of Mel, a Real Programmer. Y’all should read the whole thing (it’s not long), but here’s a quick excerpt:

 Mel's job was to re-write
 the blackjack program for the RPC-4000.
 (Port?  What does that mean?)
 The new computer had a one-plus-one
 addressing scheme,
 in which each machine instruction,
 in addition to the operation code
 and the address of the needed operand,
 had a second address that indicated where, on the revolving drum,
 the next instruction was located.

 In modern parlance,
 every single instruction was followed by a GO TO!
 Put *that* in Pascal's pipe and smoke it.

 Mel loved the RPC-4000
 because he could optimize his code:
 that is, locate instructions on the drum
 so that just as one finished its job,
 the next would be just arriving at the "read head"
 and available for immediate execution.
 There was a program to do that job,
 an "optimizing assembler",
 but Mel refused to use it.

When the Vengabus has poorly shielded speakers.

I could mention toasters or pinball machines or flickering light bulbs or unusual people movers, but instead I’ll save some time and just link the whole obligatory channel: https://www.youtube.com/@TechnologyConnections

Roosevelt Island in New York City uses pneumatic tubes for trash collection!

Ironically, it actually sucks less than the famously terrible way the rest of the city does it.