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A PC that ran for weeks on AA batteries, plugged into any network, fit in a shoulder bag, accepted ROM and RAM chips... in 1985. The greatest personal computer. The TRS 80 Model 100. I miss it.

Marvel at the Quick reference: share.counter.social/s/0e48b8

From my archive for your amusement a little pre-internet history:

In the 1980s a company, PC Pursuit, made it possible to avoid long distance* telephone calls to dial in** to thousands of BBS systems***.

Here is a large sample of those BBS numbers (attached).

share.counter.social/s/5cd8ca

*, **, ** See, in ye olde days, phone calls could be local or long distance.... you know what, just read this wikipedia page: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telenet#

Want to help save the planet* while cleaning up a body fluid spill?

We've all been there.
Make sure to follow these best practices**:

youtube.com/watch?v=TMjT_fCrAR

* not clear what is 'sustainable' here.
**no affiliation to Purell

Hole-y memory management does Gnome-shell just indefinitely use more RAM until the chips melt? Gah. Back to xfce.

The GOP goes for robust socialism, spending $200k-$1M taxpayer money PER JOB. What's the opposite of a pork project?

Too bad they picked the wrong pig - Foxconn pulls this stunt all over the world.

Empty promises in Wisconsin
theverge.com/21507966/foxconn-

Being that our state is a donor state to the Federal Treasury this is particularly egregious. Vote Blue to end this nightmare of and ‘administration’

ktla.com/news/california/trump

“what they told us was that everybody in the first three rows had been tested that day and tested negative.”

Okay Chris, I see your mistake, check it out: You believed A SINGLE DAMN THING the WH said.

Don't do that.

thehill.com/homenews/administr

Commander in Chief, honestly

If I did the things you do

I couldn't sleep, seriously

Do you even know the truth?

We're in a state of crisis, people are dyin'

While you line your pockets deep

Commander in Chief, how does it feel to still

Be able to breathe?
youtube.com/watch?v=n9Y-lS1trh

In a few days we'll have a super new moon, so make your plans for...not seeing it.

Also Halloween will sport a micro full moon. Like, really small. So.

The IEA (oil think tank):
"Power generation from renewables is the only major source of energy that continued to grow in 2020"

+12% per year, will quickly become dominant form of generation.

reuters.com/article/idUSKBN26Y

Someone tossed a cigarette butt in the trash, burned down the post office. So the USPS deployed this:

Senate Republicans have been carefully following social-distancing protocols on Capitol Hill for months

Like Hell. Hart is a maskless Disneyland.

thehill.com/homenews/senate/51

Also is it even legal to hold virtual hearings? Settle that before ramming more judges through.

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