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It certainly didn't start that way, having been there and followed them on their podcast -- pre-launch. It became more and more hostile. It was initially positive, even when questions didn't fit the mold. Then successive waves of pedantic moderators chased out the altruism. There never seemed to be a suitable mechanism to slap down the haters, then years pass, you need to ask a question, and find out that it is causing you anxiety to just post a question..

I don't really understand why there is resistance to in-browser Anubis-style gating using crypto mining for public sites like this.

You mine crypto and my free service remains cost-neutral. Yes, that transfers some of the cost to you, but it is marginal.

You want to bang on my servers with the fury of a thousand madmen, then I'll scale up the servers and you can pay the marginal cost of your access.

Or micropayments, of course, but hard to get normal users to sign up for micropayments. Micropayments could of course be the way to bypass the crypto mining gate.

It's much worse than that.

Governments, when faced with shortfalls in the government pension, will absolutely nationalize your 401k or IRA.

YOU, while attempting to responsibly take care of yourself, will absolutely be a piggybank to be raided. This has happened in numerous countries.

You wouldn't want to be selfish, would you? Sure, you forgo the midlife crisis sports car in favor of the Toyota Corolla you've been driving for years, but that's just tough. Shoulda lived for the now.

The crazy thing is that it is also equivalent to 33,000 0.1 pound bags of sugar.

Does it run slower? I'd expect dedicated hardware to do that encryption/decryption, in which case there should be no difference.

Why not charge $1 to apply ? Would drastically filter down spam applications.

_tailwind_ was the full circle. We had individual controls. We went to semantic controls, then back to individual controls a la tailwind.

The annual membership fee is about customer selection, for me.

What it buys for me is, "not Walmart People". Totally worth the investment.

Right, because if we can trust centralized control, we can't trust anything. Bring on the social credit!

I tried to use the Teton 65L to ruck. Just put a 50 lbs bag of wheat in there.

Shoulder strap failed on insert to main pack after six 1-hour rucks . Got a replacement. Zipper failed at bottom on another one.

Wanted to increase load to 100 lbs, but gonna have to go with a different brand.

In our household, the worst offenders of phones at the dinner tables are the grandparents.

It's as gross as 2 knuckles deep in your nose.

> Elon Musk mentioned [...]

He didn't say Elon was the origin.

Zone 2 cardio is pretty doggone easy. I notice that if I hit 50 minutes of zone 2, then it is a huuuge stress reliever for me.

Right! We demand engineering perfection! No autopilot until we guarantee it will NEVER kill a soul. Don't worry that human drivers kill humans all the time. The rubric is not better than a human driver, it is an Angelic Driver. Perfection is what we demand.