…yeah…did you know the USPS gets absolutely no money to deliver
things sent from other countries, and that most of the cost of sending a
parcel happens in the “getting it to the recipient” end of things, and
all this cheap stuff we’ve been ordering from China is genuinely causing
the USPS to have budget problems (as opposed to the fake budget
problems cause by hostile government demanding that the USPS have enough
money in reserve to provide retirement funds now for employees about 70
years in the future)
I know some people hate the USPS and have no problem with the idea of a future where UPS or FedEx are the only options. I’m not one of those people, so I’m personally going to reconsider ordering cheap stuff from China in the future.
I mean, I don’t generally need that stuff, anyway, really, do I ¬.¬
XML pioneer and early blogger Tim Bray went looking through Google for
some posts he knew about from 2006 and 2008 and found that Google
couldn’t retrieve either of them, not even if he searched for lengthy
strings that were exact matches for text from the articles; he concluded
that “from a business point of view, it’s hard to make a case for
Google indexing everything, no matter how old and how obscure,” and
so we could not longer rely on “Google’s global infrastructure as
my own personal search index for my own personal publications.”
The good news is that Bing and Duckduckgo both maintain much more
complete indices of old posts and publications, and so if you’re looking
for stuff that’s more than a decade old, you can switch to one of
Google’s competitors to find it.
Actually this isn’t just for vague aesthetic purposes: as @thunderflan pointed out, this tea is flavoured with rum and raspberries in an attempt to imitate ethyl formate, the sweet odour astronauts experience when they reach the ISS. So it actually literally does taste like the smell of space.
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