But then you have to eat Tillamook cheese… I has no idea cheese could be so bland before I moved to the NW USA. And orange, for some reason.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/by and large

I thought it was stating that something is God’s will for your own purposes. AFAIK it’s not just using terms for God as a curse.

Last time I was in Manhattan, walking to Penn station, I passed an ambulance with lights and sirens trying to get through. 6 blocks later I looked back and saw I was now 2 blocks ahead of it.

Pretty bizarre if people do this. I’ve never heard it to mean anything but linoleum.

But a lot of people in the US use the word “turf” to specify not turf (i.e. artificial turf), so there’s no reason for words to mean things.

What? One of linoleum’s benefits is not off gassing and not being made from fossil fuels. Are you thinking of vinyl?

Exactly. I don’t know that it’s just that, but it is that. It’s not like the people are fundamentally different raw materials - a generation is defined by it’s circumstances. And those were the gen x circumstance.

(Edit: except resources. There were fuck all resources compared to today)

Presumable complexity and therefore cost and reliability, but given the simplicity and mature robustness of 2 and 3 speed hubs I’m a little surprised this is truly superior and worthwhile.

Well aerosols are tiny particles, but often created and propelled using pressurized glasses.

Funniest is when a vim user says that, since emacs includes a vim.

All that is not in a text editor. A text editor is in all that. A few text editors actually.

No they are not. That’s not what it means.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proportionality_(mathematics)

should be proportional to the weight of the system

It’s that really true? Wear to the roads is proportional to the fourth power of axle weight so I would never have predicted a linear relationship.

But most of the world did not have the US education system. I’d say only some Americans have heard of Oregon City, and very few non Americans.

Must have been the 323, before they rebranded to 3 in the early 2000s. Shame for you it was broken, they were good drivers’ cars in a modest way

Avoid categories where a lot of items have fake specs (storage devices, LED bulbs, anything that claims a runtime on a Li-Ion battery)

I’d say be aware rather than avoid. E.g I bought a $10 camping lantern that claimed 2.5 times its true capacity, but it still runs for hours and is a great, well designed, if flimsy, product for the price.

The sort option by “orders” is good for this. Far from infallible but still useful.

That’s a much broader term.

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I’ve had buffalo wings, and American barbecue. Also I’ve been to American Thanksgiving meals with weird things like sweet potatoes with marshmallows on. So I’ve had some American ethnic food for one thing.