When he was a little boy, Sam Vimes had thought that the very rich ate off gold plates and lived in marble houses.
He’d learned something new: the very very rich could afford to be poor. Sybil Ramkin lived in the kind of poverty that was only available to the very rich, a poverty approached from the other side. Women who were merely well-off saved up and bought dresses made of silk edged with lace and pearls, but Lady Ramkin was so rich she could afford to stomp around the place in rubber boots and a tweed skirt that had belonged to her mother. She was so rich she could afford to live on biscuits and cheese sandwiches. She was so rich she lived in three rooms in a thirty-four-roomed mansion; the rest of them were full of very expensive and very old furniture, covered in dust sheets.
I think one thing to keep in mind is how absolutely MASSIVE the US is – even the smallest state in the US is larger than a handful of European countries.
It’s very common for people to live a 30+ minute drive from cities and/or their workplace, and in these more rural areas, it can be unsustainable to open small shops, because of reduced traffic…and people are shopping at the “super centers” in the city.
Just had a great suggestion from @harsh3466 - how about we start a “book club” but for alternative albums! Apparently our friends over at HipHopHeads has started one. I think that sounds splendid!...
Not sure if I’m allowed to post links or not, but it looks like they’re doing a repress of this on vinyl for"National Album Day", if anyone is interested.
I’ve been watching 80s TV in realtime for the last 7 years on a 35-year delay. Started in 1982, it’s 1988 now. Here are my thoughts. Wall of text incoming…...
Depending on how strict you are on dates, the first one that jumps to mind is “Dallas”. It ran from '78-'91, so in my mind, it is a show that very much was 80s.
Honorable mention to “Doogie Howser, M.D.”; '89-93.
Looking for help setting up an isolated network within my apartment complex’s network. I have a Linksys router running OpenWrt, with the ethernet connection from my aprtment running to the uplink port on the router. When I SSH into the router, it has WAN access, but none of the LAN devices connected to it (by ethernet or...
Have you tried pinging a known external IP (e.g. 8.8.8.8) to see if it’s visible from the LAN devices? It could be something as simple as DNS not being setup correctly. Also, have you verified that the LAN devices are being assigned an address?
This isn’t fancy but it’s my comfort food. My family has been making this and calling it macaroni since before I was born. It’s a super simple recipe that I cook mostly in the winter. Across the Midwest US this is known as (American) Goulash....
Yeap, it is (lemmy.world)
Tell me what it means (lemm.ee)
🎶 Raise the roof because it's all on fire 🎵 (lemmy.world)
Fake rich? Affluent millennials are more likely to exaggerate to appear wealthy (www.cnbc.com)
Literally no one knows (lemmy.world)
wrong answers only (lemmy.world)
How Dollar Stores Quietly Consumed America - Wendover (nebula.tv)
[ANNOUNCEMENT] Weekly Alternative Album Club: REM - Automatic For The People (lemmy.world)
Just had a great suggestion from @harsh3466 - how about we start a “book club” but for alternative albums! Apparently our friends over at HipHopHeads has started one. I think that sounds splendid!...
80s TV Rewatch
I’ve been watching 80s TV in realtime for the last 7 years on a 35-year delay. Started in 1982, it’s 1988 now. Here are my thoughts. Wall of text incoming…...
Need Help Creating Isolated Network (OpenWrt)
Looking for help setting up an isolated network within my apartment complex’s network. I have a Linksys router running OpenWrt, with the ethernet connection from my aprtment running to the uplink port on the router. When I SSH into the router, it has WAN access, but none of the LAN devices connected to it (by ethernet or...
(How) do you automate setting up your local development environment?
In a lot of projects, this is usually done via README. It tells you what running dependencies to install and how to run certain commands....
X gon give it to ya (feddit.de)
Macaroni (aka (American) Goulash) - My comfort food. (lemmy.ca)
This isn’t fancy but it’s my comfort food. My family has been making this and calling it macaroni since before I was born. It’s a super simple recipe that I cook mostly in the winter. Across the Midwest US this is known as (American) Goulash....