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And yet Haymarket was in Chicago.

That was fun. Well done. Thanks!

A government stipend to make public art or open source software or literature or whatever sounds pretty great. It's hard to see how we get there from here. But it'd be great.

France has something like it for artists I think.

I'm the other way. I always thought "picture an apple" was a metaphor.

I tell myself Stardust turned out this way. It sure doesn't start that way. And it's Neil Gaiman which... Feh. I want to remember it as a movie where everyone respects everyone else in the end.

Looks like it's mostly a UK, Australia, and New Zealand thing.

It's in mph. 240 kph. Article says: "this article lists all the systems and lines that support speeds over 200 km/h (120 mph) regardless of their statuses of upgraded or newly built."

I liked the third half. But it's quite a shift

In projects I work on we use NOCOMMIT for these blockers and they'll fail the build. It's honestly lovely to have something to leave yourself a note that the build catches for you.

PKD is special somehow. He's the one author where, I think, the movies are better than the books pretty consistently. Maybe it's luck or my flawed opinion.

I've not read them all but that sort of feels like how the culture novels are.

I'm not super involved, but I believe it's possible to engage with Wikipedia ethically and well as a PR firm or the like. But being honest is part one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:PR_Professionals_%26_Editing