So…hang on, Pakistan, officially, supports israel…?

Really?

This timeline is so f_ing pretzeled

Well, I’m definitely intrigued. Would love to see more study on that aspect.

I kind of used to do this, but it was largely due to chronic deprivation. Working 2 full time jobs and apl that

Install a bare-bones linux distro. I bet PuppyOS will work. May not even need a plug.

Similar to silicon? I had not heard, I’ll have to look for that. Very cool

I have a lot of specific arcana about geochemistry that may sound interesting. It’s not. I mean, it is to me and my small circle of nerd friends, but we can see the people within earshot go comatose when we geek out.

ETA: like how oxidation - reduction conditions can either mobilize or affix certain minerals (based on their valence state, and other available elements) into/out of groundwater.

Also how rocks are not fixed as what they are after they lithify. Water flowing through the pore space later on can nearly completely change the rock’s characteristics. Groundwater is freaky-magic.

I am now super curious to try this…

Bit if it’s consensual, isn’t it a cosin?

And if you’re outside in daylight, is it a tan?

50s, and I started noticing between 30 and 35. I definitely take longer. A small cut used to heal in like 48 hours when I was preteen. Now it’s at least 2 weeks for a similar thing. I actually have scars on my legs from briar cuts received about 3 years ago. Very minor, never healed.

Well, “why” is just curiosity and wanting to explore new things. I had been learning some programming on Windows, but had heard rumblings about linux. I explored Red Hat, wasn’t wowed. It was fine, but not enough to lure me away. That was 26 yrs ago.

14 yrs ago, I created a dual boot on my laptop, with Ubuntu/Gnome. After about 2 yrs, I made Ubuntu my daily. A windows auto update tried to wipe linux off my drive, so I put Windows in jail, shrunk the partition as small as I could, and removed it from the boot sequence. I don’t distro hop, I used Ubuntu until earlier this year. It was always good enough, never awesome, but i learned things and felt a whole lote more secure than on windows.

About 6 months ago, I switched to Fedora/KDE. I’m sure I could find lots of benefits to other distros, but I never felt much need to shop around. BTW, I absolutely love Fedora /KDE in a way I never felt about Ubuntu. Maybe it’s just KDE vs Gnome. It just feels so much more comfortable.

So, you’re saying there exists a real world model where regulatory bodies have teeth…