If you don't need binaries, eternal-september.org isn't too shabby.

archive.org has usenet archives (in gzipped mbox format). Not exactly an "easy way" if you want threads, of course.

if nothing else, it's much more usable than the google news archives.

Seems to have patchy coverage in the places I was looking, and date range search wasn't working for me. OTOH, I think I found some posts not archived by Google...

Have you tried shotgunning a couple beers?

Nice try, Mr. Secretary.

I don't know how it worked for anyone else, but I remember the selective service PSA ads when I was growing up -- (that's a manual emdash) If you don't sign up for selective service when you turn 18, you'll be celebrating your birthday at pound-me-in-the-ass federal prison. Or maybe you couldn't get a welfare check, college loan, or federal job. The details are a bit fuzzy.

Then a month or two before my 18th birthday, I got a postcard saying I had been auto-registered. It was a rather disappointing denouement.

Most states default to registering you when you get a driver's license, but you can opt-out. Some are opt-in.

Bourbon popularity exploded a few years ago but the market is over saturated -- too much inventory and people have moved on to other things. Also anti-American sentiment due to Tariff Man is reducing exports. At my local liquor store, a year or two back if you wanted a bottle of buffalo trace, you had to show up on delivery day (Friday afternoon) and I think they imposed a 2-bottle limit. Now, they've got boxes stacked on boxes filling up the aisles and it's all on sale.

If "years" means decades, it would have been classic MacOS which played by a very different set of rules.

Some BBS vendors maintained a list of public sites running their BBS software. For the price of a self-addressed stamped envelope, they would send it to you. You would know to do this because you read it in a magazine.

Another good place for BBS phone numbers was on a warez crack screen.

Unless you find a fast station that sells ethanol free gasoline (and you'll know because it costs more), gasoline is cut with up to 10% ethanol. 1 gallon of ethanol is equivalent to 2/3 a gallon of good old gasoline. So to keep things simple, if you buy 10 gallons of gasoline @ 20 mpg is 200 miles. But 10 gallons of gasoline with 10% ethanol filler is really 9.6 gallons, that's only going to get you 193 miles. That's a 3.3% loss. Probably not enough to account for your "much less" observation.

Now is right about the time that refineries and gas stations switch from winter blend to summer blend, so maybe there's something to that.

Up to 15% in winter. But as xvxvx pointed out, they're going to extend it into this summer.

makes sense

8 years ago, when Microsoft bought GitHub, there was much digital ink spilled and some people/projects did leave for GitLab or elsewhere.

So one explanation would be that anybody cares already has left.

I'd like to leave, but is a lot to lift for what amounts to a reliable/durable git remote storage.

Reliable?

to data loss, which why I included "durable"