Synonym of “pilings.” Long rods of material, not heaps of it. Like what you build to support a boat dock.

That said, I’m not so sure that pilings are the right solution there. That kind of foundation is used when the ground is muddy/unstable/subject to liquefaction – when it doesn’t always have good bearing strength, so they rely on friction against the sides of the piles to support the weight instead.

But when the ground has actual voids in it (karst topography, or in this case, a bunch of old mines), you’re just driving the pilings into air and there’s no friction to be found. I think it’s more likely they do try to fill at least the nearby part of the cavity with some substance, like concrete.

From the thumbnail I got concerned that it was a grand wizard instead.

It’s still regressive AF, in the sense that only the owner class / moneyed interests can afford to do it (especially while avoiding serving their punishment in the interim). Meanwhile, the working class rots in prison waiting for years for their overworked public defender to half-ass their case.

Not entirely sure how you’d make the economics of hosting endless video files work without great big piles of money

You’re absolutely right, which is why BitTorrent never managed to take off. Totally unviable, doesn’t work at all, and definitely isn’t the technology underpinning federated video services like PeerTube.

“Tankie” isn’t a synonym for “leftist;” it’s about authoritarianism specifically. Solarpunk is the opposite of “tankie!”

Why didn’t she resign and let somebody actually capable of representing constituents fill her seat?

TBF, we don’t know that. Might’ve been a paid hitman.

“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” – Rita Mae Brown

And then the fucking neolibs wonder why Trump won.

We didn’t even try Option 1 this time.

What exactly the fuck do you think four years of Biden was?

WTF are you on about? Being killed is the ultimate form of being held accountable.

Redefine your house as the ADU and the new unit as the house!

Ah, right.

I’m an emacs user, so that’s why I didn’t remember the vi bindings accurately.

There are no time constraints… of any significance

I find the length of the day to be a huge constraint, especially when mining.

That feeling when it’s midnight and you’re still trying to get deeper in the mine.

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They should spin off an independent organization hosted somewhere overseas with different laws (or on the dark web) to archive stuff like this.

I can tell you aren’t a vi user because you would’ve remapped it to ctrl.

Ce n’est pas un cheval.

Nah, that’s a cop out. They could absolutely find somebody speculating on the motive to quote if they wanted to.