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A lot of companies that make things have two separate lines: consumer and enterprise. Consumer is for us poors that the company doesn't need to respect. You can buy more expensive, higher tier consumer items but it's just as fragile. You're paying for more bells and whistles. Enterprise grade is stuff that will actually last because it is often sold in a lot as part of a contract and the contract won't be renewed if the items suck. These things are often just not sold to consumers because why would you ever buy consumer-grade garbage if you could buy this?
For something like computers, this looks like how pricey "gAmiNG" laptops look all fancy but fall apart in about the same timeframe as the lower end laptops for students. But if you've ever handled the sort of laptops for banks or businesses, you'd wonder why laptops can't all be like this. People swear by Lenovo Thinkpads for a reason. Dell's Latitude (general productivity) and Precision (has the power of a gaming laptop but far less bs) lines, HP's probooks, all feel really nice and last for-fucking-ever. But you can't buy them in a store even if you wanted one.
So the trick is to buy what big organizations are buying, but you likely gotta get 'em secondhand when the orgs are done with them. For basic clothes, mil surplus might be a good port of call, for technology see an e-waste recycler or sometimes government auction (you just gotta know what to ask for; ThinkPads, Dell Latitude/Precision, HP Probook/Zbook). Otherwise try to thrift old, pre-enshitification items. The blanket I had as a kid is still going strong and has lived to bury multiple sets of newer bedding (which have worn thin and torn). Kitchen items, see if you can shop at a restaurant supplier.
TL;DR: if you need an item, think "which business needs these to function" and see where they 1) buy theirs (suppliers) or 2) sell their old ones (surplus) and buy that. If you can't do that, look at older, pre-enshitification things.
I think the battle is long since lost on what the “-coded” suffix means, but I (old movie guy specifically invested in queer coding) seem to be unable to let go of how annoying I find the fuzzy popular use of the term. This is probably a flaw in my character.
Coding is intentional, it’s a way of communicating indirectly with the audience through a shared language of signs. That’s why it’s called coding, because it’s communicating in code. It isn’t when a thing reminds you of another thing.

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Can you explain the 1973 war and its relation to the oild crisis? I don't think you have a post about it
I love getting asks that really call for a book...and then trying to answer them meaningfully in less than 1,000 words. It's ridiculous and fun, even when nuance is sacrificed on the altar of brevity.
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We'll get to 1973 after a little context because you can't understand Sadat without understanding Nasser and you can't understand 1973 without undertanding 1967.
Before 1967, Egypt occupied Gaza, Jordan occupied the West Bank, and the whole Arab world was still pissed off that the military power of five Arab nations had failed to wipe out a tiny nation of dhimmi, Jews who were mostly refugees, in 1948-1949:
In May of 1967, Egypt's President Nasser moved 100,000 troops and nearly 1,000 tanks to Israel's southern border, expelled the UN peacekeeping force that had kept the peace since 1956, and blockaded the Straits of Tiran — Israel's only southern trade route and oil lifeline.
Nasser did all this while publicly declaring, in his own words:
"our basic objective will be the destruction of Israel."
Syria and Jordan signed military pacts and massed their own forces on Israel's other borders. Cairo Radio says on May 16, 1967:
"the sole method we shall apply against Israel is a total war which will result in the extermination of Zionist existence."
The blockade of the Straits was itself an act of war under international law, the threats were made, the intent was clear, and troops were amassed on Israel's borders - so Israel struck Egypt's air force on June 5, 1967.
The result was swift and stunning. In six days, Israel captured the entire Sinai Peninsula and Gaza Strip from Egypt, the West Bank and East Jerusalem from Jordan, and the Golan Heights from Syria - it now controlled quadruple the territory.
Here's how things looked after the Six Day War:
That humiliation set the stage for everything that followed in 1973.
What happened between 1967 and 1973?
If defeat had chastened the Arab world, it didn't show. Three months after the war, Arab League leaders met in Khartoum and issued what became known as the Three No's of Khartoum:
No peace with Israel
No recognition of Israel
No negotiations with Israel.
The door to diplomacy was slammed shut - and not by Israel.
Meanwhile the Cold War was reshaping the region.
Egypt and Syria were Soviet clients, armed with Soviet weapons and advised by Soviet generals.
The US, watching Israel's stunning 1967 performance, had come to see Israel as an essential strategic partner in the Middle East. Israel was, after all, democratic, militarily formidable, and reliably anti-Soviet.
Washington's backing of Israel deepened steadily through the late 1960s not out of ancient loyalty, but cold war calculation.**
Three years after Israel's shocking 1967 victory, the Arab world was still living inthe shadow of this defeat. The loss had been swift, total, and humiliating - Egyptians wanted the Sinai (and their pride) back.
This was the context in which Anwar Sadat became Egypt's president in 1970.
Sadat knew, though, that he had no realistic path to getting the Sinai back.
Militarily, Egypt couldn't match Israel. Diplomatically, the Three No's had slammed shut every possible door.
Sadat, though, thought Israel's sense of regional invincibility was actually the obstacle to peace. He reasoned that as long as Israel believed it could hold the Sinai forever at no cost, it would never negotiate. The only way to get to the negotiating table, he thought, was to make holding the Sinai feel expensive.
So Sadat planned a war with a limited objective. He didn't need to destroy Israel and he didn't need to retake the Sinai by force - he needed to bloody Israel badly enough in the opening days of conflict to make it hurt.
Sadat figured he didn't need to win. He needed to not lose so badly that Egypt could be ignored.
Sadat found a willing partner in Syria's Hafez al-Assad, who similarly wanted the Golan Heights back. They planned - this time in secrecy.
They attacked on October 6, 1973 - Yom Kippur.
They figured that on the holiest day in the Jewish calendar, Israeli soldiers would be fasting and communications would be minimal.
(It also fell during Ramadan, giving the attack a sacred dimension for Arab soldiers.)
At 2pm, Egyptian and Syrian forces launched simultaneous assaults across the Suez Canal and into the Golan Heights. The scale was overwhelming: Egypt crossed with 100,000 troops and 1,600 tanks.
The early days of the Yom Kippur War were the worst Israel had experienced since its founding.
Egyptian forces punched through Israeli defenses in the Sinai. Syrian tanks nearly broke through to the Israeli heartland in the north. Defense Minister Moshe Dayan, the same legendary one-eyed general who had seemed unshakeable in 1967, reportedly told Prime Minister Golda Meir that Israel faced "the destruction of the Third Temple."
Washington watched the early days of the war with alarm and began a massive airlift of military supplies to Israel.
This came with an immediate price. On October 17, with the war still raging, Arab oil-producing states announced an embargo against any nation supporting Israel, targeting the US and its allies. The message was unambiguous: back Israel and your economy suffers.
Oil prices nearly quadrupled almost overnight. Gas station lines stretched for miles across the US. Rationing was imposed. Speed limits were lowered. Daylight saving time was extended to save energy.
For the first time in the post-war era, ordinary Americans felt the Middle East in their daily lives not as a foreign policy abstraction, but at the pump.
That embargo lasted only until March 1974 and the actual reduction in US oil supply was around 7%. But the psychological impact was permanent. The West had discovered its oil-based vulnerability.
(@short-wooloo may well have asked this question with the Strait of Hormuz in mind, hm?)
Resupplied by the US and regrouped by leadership, Israel's counterattack pushed Syria back beyond the 1967 ceasefire lines and, in one of the war's most dramatic turns, an Israeli armored force under Ariel Sharon crossed the Suez Canal into Egypt itself, encircling an entire Egyptian army.
A UN ceasefire took hold on October 25.
Israel had survived, but the world had changed.
What Changed?
OPEC became a geopolitical force. Before 1973, global oil prices were largely controlled by Western oil companies. After 1973, that power shifted decisively to oil-producing states. The era of cheap, reliable Middle Eastern energy as a Western entitlement was over.*
The US got serious about the Arab-Israeli conflict as a direct national interest. Before the embargo, US support for Israel was real...but sorta' abstract. After sitting in gas lines, Americans understood that what happened between Israel and its neighbors had consequences at home. This drove Henry Kissinger's intensive diplomacy and ultimately contributed to the 1978 Camp David Accords, in which Egypt became the first Arab country to recognize Israel's right to exist and got the Sinai back. That deal was unthinkable before 1973.
The war (paradoxically) made peace possible. Sadat's gamble worked, but not quite how he planned. Egypt didn't win militarily, but it fought well enough to restore Arab dignity. That restored dignity gave Sadat the political standing at home to do what no Arab leader had done: fly to Jerusalem, address the Israeli Knesset, and make peace. He was assassinated for it in 1981 by members of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, but the Egypt-Israel peace treaty he signed in 1979 has held for over four decades.
The 1973 war established a template that still governs Middle Eastern geopolitics.
What about the people of Gaza or The West Bank?
Egypt and Syria didn't go to war in 1973 for the Palestinians. Sadat wanted the Sinai. Assad wanted the Golan Heights. The Palestinians were not at the table, not in the planning, not in the goals, and not in the outcome.
Egypt got its land back and made a separate peace. Syria got bupkis and went home. The people living in the West Bank and Gaza were, to both Egypt and Syria, irrelevant.
This matters because the story we often hear (that the Arab world's conflict with Israel is fundamentally about Palestinian liberation) doesn't survive contact with any knowledge of 1973. The leaders who came closest to destroying Israel were fighting for their own territory, their own dignity, and their own place in the Cold War chessboard. The Palestinian question wasn't sidelined by accident. It was never the point to begin with.
Palestinians noticed this, too.
Lessons learned:
Gulf states (including Iran) learned that oil is a weapon.
The West learned that energy dependence is a strategic liability.
Israel learned that military dominance doesn't guarantee security.
The Palestinians stopped waiting for Arab armies to save them. At the 1974 Arab League summit, every Arab state unanimously recognized the PLO - a Palestinian organization committed to fighting its own war - as the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people...but within five years, Egypt had its land back and the Palestinians had been excluded from the negotiations that delivered it.
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*Note how some freaked out when the UAE left OPEC in late April 2026...?
**This partnership wasn't a blank check When the 1973 attack actually commenced, the US didn't rush in to help immediately. For several critical, bloody days, Washington hesitated. Henry Kissinger (the ultimate practitioner of Realpolitik) reportedly wanted Israel to be "bloodied" just enough to humble their sense of invincibility, believing a bruised Israel would be more flexible at the negotiating table later. It was only when the Soviet Union began its own massive resupply of Egypt and Syria that Nixon famously ordered the "everything that flies" airlift (Operation Nickel Grass) to prevent a total Israeli collapse. It was a move made not out of a warm heart, but to ensure the Soviets didn't claim a total victory on the Cold War scoreboard.
This is an interesting piece about how the energy markets have dramatically diversified since the 1970s, and how Iran's holding the Strait of Hormuz will matter less and less outside the Gulf.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/energy-markets-limit-the-hormuz-shock-fb793c18
The world isn't as vulnerable to gulf supply disruptions as it was then.
I got hired to do a stand-up comedy set at the trope villain convention. It was a great gig. Really appreciative crowd. They were absolutely cackling the whole time. It was a little weird at the end though when all of them stood up and started clapping very slowly, before saying, in unison, "Well done, my friend. Well done."
One of them said he really liked how relatable my comedy was. Apparently it made him feel like we're not so different, he and I.
still so funny to me that gross has another meaning besides icky and is used seriously all the time. your gross annual income. your disgusting nasty amount of money you earn the whole year. pathetic
Become ungovernable.
I don't read as much fic as I used to but one "tell" for non Canadians writing us, besides the etransfer, is the units you use to describe us measuring something. I hate to tell you this but The Chart is real and it's completely subconscious. Please abide
ETA the chart (or at least a version of it):
ETA2: we do use inches/miles in poetic ways ("he was lost in thought/miles away" or "his lips were a bare inch away").
Also, the length of a dick is in inches for SURE.

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guy who installs an adblocker and forgets about it and lives in a beautiful world where online ads have become much less frequent
lalala world so beautiful advertisements so extinct (opens website on mobile)AAAAAH!!!!!!! OH GOD MY EYES!!!!!!!!!!!
For all its faults Tumblr has truly ruined all other social media for me because my friends all have Instagram and are all trying to get me on Instagram more but every time I open Instagram there are like fifteen things screaming for my attention and when I get over myself long enough to start scrolling it's like. Where is my chronological dash. Where is the following-only option. Who are these people. Why are there so many videos. Everyone is screaming at me. And then before I know it I'm thirty minutes into scrolling and I haven't seen a single thing that I actually care about. At least on Tumblr when I see stuff I don't care about I know someone I follow has found a new interest.
The Muppets s01e01
Fozzy getting hit on by lots of twinks
Happy Pride Month
Ten years later, this bit still slaps. They made a great pun and realized they could be nice/inclusive with it too.
Nick Hannes

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thank you SO MUCH for reminding me about [feature of patriarchy] and [problem caused by lack of kids' sex ed] random tumblr user in the notes! louder for those in the back!
The adult content warning on this post is really just the icing on the cake
How Far From London Can You Get By Train In 12 Hours
Slime mold looking for more nutrients
Slime mold escaping London in 12 hours
I love that in 12 hours you can get to Poland or almost the other end of the UK