Well spotted! Looks like it’s very closely related.

bourgeois(adj.) 1560s, “of or pertaining to the French middle class,” from French bourgeois, from Old French burgeis, borjois “town dweller” (as distinct from “peasant”), from borc “town, village,” from Frankish *burg “city” (via Germanic from PIE root *bhergh- (2) “high,” with derivatives referring to hills and hill-forts).

burgher(n.) 1560s, “freeman of a burgh,” from Middle Dutch burgher or German Bürger, from Middle High German burger, from Old High German burgari, literally “inhabitant of a fortress,” from burg “fortress, citadel” (from PIE root *bhergh- (2) “high,” with derivatives referring to hills and hill-forts). Burgh, as a native variant of borough, persists in Scottish English (as in Edinburgh) and in Pittsburgh.

Holy hell I thought you were joking - I didn’t know there was an Android version of foobar!!

A long time ago I started using OneNote, which was great for many things including simply saving either a snippet of a page as an image or copy/paste the portion I wanted to save - it also included the URL of the page.

This had the benefit of making it searchable.

Today I’d recommend starting with something like Joplin or one of it’s competitors. I’m partial to Joplin for how it stores data (essentially files in a folder so it’s easy to copy/sync) and it’s cross-platform capability.

1. Apple has always designed things for people who want to do things without having to be a technologist. For which I will always credit them, massively.

2. Apple has always designed things to work together seamlessly. Again, massive kudos, even though I condemn their using this to lock people in.

Then there’s Job’s cult of personality, marketing Apple as for people who are better than the plebes.

I’ve never been a fan of Apple as a company, but I’ve always given massive credit for the good ideas behind making things that just work.

That’s overly simplistic.

And I’ve disliked Apple products since the first Mac in 1983, though I could appreciate their intent.

How is radio slower than light? Isn’t it all part of the EM spectrum?

That’s what the Baby Cabal wants you to think…

I’m not a civil engineer, but the most fundamental thing I can think of is heavy rain would sooner cause road flooding with a central low spot, while have two sides of drainage provides double the drainage, plus any overcapacity will first flood a sidewalk.

Curious to hear what a civil engineer has to say.

And now I did too.

Cool, thanks for sharing, I had no idea

Upvoted, but it’s “fewer” in this case (countable)

Why does “privelege” have to do with it?

It’s just simple ignorance on your part - you didn’t realize what’s commonplace to you isn’t commonplace to someone outside the US, nothing more.

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We wouldn’t be here if we hadn’t already answered the second question affirmatively.

Hahahaha, love that turn of phrase!

Encyclopedia is a good one actually, all that knowledge (and history). You could bet on political/war outcomes, and invest in materials tech.

I have an Optiplex that at one point I had 4 2.5" drives in, had to use some duct tape and glue, but it worked fine.

The “sky is falling” has been the fear-monger’s go-to for all of written history.

Don’t let them get to you.

Is shit fucked up? Well, yea, always has been, always will be.

It’s the nature of humanity and society.

History really is the best teacher for gaining perspective - start with relatively recent history and modern English with Shakespeare’s era, see how way more fucked up it was then, both socially and in nature. And that’s fairly recently.

Then go study the Nordic peoples approaching the year 1000, just before they invaded England in 1066 (as the Normans) - their paradigm of the world (and reality) was unimagineably harder than it is for us today. Just listen to their mythos, and how it reflects the harshness of their existence.

Perspective really drives things home.

“Compress”? What?

I’d say maybe “starting to work”.

Ok, just STOP.

Needed to be said. Take your time to recover - this other stuff can wait. You can spend time considering stuff, thinking about how to better manage your space and time, but don’t try to do anything right now.

I know, that’s hard to do (I’m a hypocrite about this, for sure) but it’s tough advice we all need (myself the most).