Really interesting question. Specifically thinking about out in the wild west I can imagine 2 scenarios.

1. is that everyone would go to church on a Sunday and perhaps get an idea on what neighbours are doing: planting, harvesting, etc.

2. It’s the weather & season that defines when crops should be planted, rather than a fixed date.

A small camping/folding bed like that can be referred to as a cot.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_bed

😂 I do this with books from the charity shop, but then I end up finding the epub to read on my ereader as it’s just more convenient for me.

Turkish apparently

"I joke with people and say it’s the Air Force’s oldest IT system. But it’s the age that provides that security,” Rossi said in an October interview. “You can’t hack something that doesn’t have an IP address. It’s a very unique system — it is old and it is very good.”

In 2016, the Government Accountability Office wrote that SACCS runs on an IBM Series/1 computer dating from the 1970s and that the Defense Department planned “to update its data storage solutions, port expansion processors, portable terminals and desktop terminals by the end of fiscal year 2017,” but it’s unclear whether those upgrades have occurred.

https://www.c4isrnet.com/air/2019/10/17/the-us-nuclear-forces-dr-strangelove-era-messaging-system-finally-got-rid-of-its-floppy-disks/

Same, and I even buy my duvets from IKEA …

Lol, capitalism & CEO rule 1: only think about the next quarter profits, fuck the future, I’ve already made my money

Lol. Full self driving, coming soon … https://motherfrunker.ca/fsd/

As a PC gamer I would never condone such a statement about my console brethren (and sisters), but lol.

The new Super Mario Galaxy Movie is out today – as expected, it is a bare-bones story supported by a cavalcade of Nintendo cameos and bright action scenes. Dubbed “a bland screensaver of a movie” by the Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw, expect smooth-brained entertainment for Nintendo enjoyers.