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RidgeRoad@midwest.socialM to Right To Repair@midwest.socialEnglish · 1 year agoHouse Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property & the Internet: "Is There a Right to Repair?"plus-squarejudiciary.house.govexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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minus-squareRidgeRoad@midwest.socialtoAsk the Midwest@midwest.social•What's the Best Fast Food Chain Based in the Midwest?linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-21 year ago My preference is usually Chicago style, but this Detroit stuff will do. linkfedilink
Recommend also the seminal TMRC dictionary for several terms absent here, plus some memorably elegant definitions:
Kludge: A crock that works.
Crock: A kludge that doesn’t work.
Same again true of Peter Samson’s original 1959 and 1960 editions.