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  • I looked at at crime rates in American cities in 2012. The highest was in Flint, Michigan, which still has a lead pipe problem.

    The Romans ate off of lead plates and enjoyed watching gladiators fight, women being raped by animals and other atrocities in the Coliseum. I’ve read dissertations that perpetuated the idea that lead poisoning was a major factor in this cultural phenomenon.

    I was born in 1971 and grew up breathing lead fumes in a large city. Yes, I believe leaded gasoline and lead paint have been a serious problem.









  • Fedora. About 20 years ago I installed Fedora on my spare PC. I don’t remember the exact date but I can tell you the Fedora version was Yarrow. Yeah, a long time ago.

    Anyways, my Fedora Yarrow installation worked great for less than 2 days. One update and I suddenly didn’t have internet. The Fedora maintainers decided to drop the driver for my ethernet card even though that particular hardware had existed for only 3 years. I was furious! WTF are you doing dropping drivers for 3 yo hardware?! Yes I can reinstall the driver but I shouldn’t have needed to. Linux has always had a hardware support problem and they were dropping drivers for hardware that wasn’t even 5 years old.

    I’ve ran mostly Debian -based distros since and never had a similar problem. And I know that it’s petty and even silly after all this time but I’m never touching Fedora again.




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    16 days ago

    You know what you need to do --end the relationship. It’s only going to get worse. Never let someone abuse you if you don’t absolutely have to. There might be times that you’ll miss her but someone like that will escalate their abuse if you endure it.