Depends on your goal. If you want maximum sound attenuation, you can’t really beat cheap foamies, which are rated up to about 40 dB. If only about 20 dB is good enough for your needs and you want the comfort, custom molded ear plugs are great.

For directories, it’s permission to cd into it. Read is whether you can list files, and write is remove, rename, or create new files. Don’t ask questions about the secret sticky bit

A little ways back in the line, for privately owning a general-purpose computing device

Sonars are not just a little “ping” noise underwater. They can carry enough energy to kill. It’s not subtle.

God, so good to see some good news

My issue is how they are both saying the same words, as if the stances are equivalent. They are not.

The apocalyptic shitstain author that the most bigoted in a crew of council bigots admires has this idea:

…in summary: the Stonewall riots of 1969 which launched the modern gay-rights movement opened the floodgates to another realm, from which ancient pagan deities returned to Earth, including the Mesopotamian goddess Ishtar, who is resentful at being marginalized for thousands of years and hungry to return the favour against Christianity.

Once again making the LGBTQIA+ world really badass and appealing

So curing chargeback fraud by helping businesses get in on fraud more easily. Got it.

Notice me, void-senpai!

Also, rim brakes make the wheel into a consumable.

Fascist pigs being fascist pigs. Civil forfeiture must be eliminated.

non-paywalled article

Wow. What an incredible dick move. Thanks for the heads up!

While nice-looking, this bike is much more expensive than a Brompton, which is already not cheap. And there are quite a few other folding bike companies out there already; this one isn’t going to be some special “Brompton killer”.

Now it may be meeting an unmet need, for people who don’t need the most compact bike, and I wish them success. Just weird to frame the story this way.

Good they are being sued, but slavers should be executed.

How does anyone have the impression that the UAE is anything other than incredibly corrupt and fucking medieval?

A Serbian Film

Helpful to have a line on the movers and shakers to watch for in future fraud prosecution targets all in one place.

Audible meme

I see good trigger discipline, I upvote.