A system of measurement in which something like 15/16 of an inch is seen as a sensible way to measure a small distance. Not much else to say.

Impressive to feel you understand a country of 1.4 billion people from a single picture, let alone call them “pathetic” and “amoral.” The world’s most populous country with dozens of languages and cultures. One single picture. Like I said, impressive…ignorance.

I lived in India for years, in multiple cities north and south, and I’ve traveled all over the country by train on my own as a foreigner. Easily some of the best experiences of my life.

India is dozens of nations posing as one single nation state. To generalize it is impossible. To generalize it from a single picture is a degree of simplistic thinking I’m not sure I’ve ever encountered from an adult.

The world seems full of people who work as unpaid corporate lawyers. I’ve run into several of these types in person. I imagine that the Venn Diagram of these people and those who snitch on their colleagues is a circle.

Even more power to those who already have power, and less power for the rest of us. What could go wrong?

Weirder still to just use the general Spanish word for cheese to mean a specific type of cheese.

Exactly. Anyone who thinks the Dems will save them is delusional. It’s time to move beyond a two-party system, and especially a system in which the two parties are right wing and ultra-right wing.

I’d love to hear more about why PDFs might be riskier than, say, azw or epub. Is it something inherent in the pdf format, or are pdfs so comparatively common they’re a more attractive vector of attack?