This was a cool thing about living in Seattle and any further north - in the summer it’d be dusk until 10pm. And the in the winter the sun would basically never appear. I guess it was less “cool” and more “insanity producing” but locals were used to it.

That’ll teach her to talk back.

Cheese is weird because someone had to be like, well let’s go ahead and store some milk in the stomach of an animal, but also they forgot about it under a chair for 3 months and then, upon finding it, thought, “well let’s have a go anyway, despite it changing forms.” And then eventually someone realized if you stuck it in certain caves it became delicious. So much human history just in that one food product there.

That article was about Australia and even then the headline didn’t support the claims. Millennials have always been like 14 points more liberal than Gen X before them, but they haven’t moved more liberal over time.

I 3d printed one of those in wood filament and stained it, it’s very good but I am sure I’d fuck up the gold leaf so it’s unfinished.

Well yeah take enough shrooms and everything is suddenly exposed as the artificial construct that it is. But we don’t have time to wake up and reinvent language every morning ;)

It became a meme a few years ago, people would post problems like this and argue about whose was right, as if there were no objective truth. It hurt to watch.

Pico has considerably more power, more than ESP32 even.

for real, today Sex Raft would have 55 seasons and 3 spinoffs.

Parts of the US, like all the major cities in Texas, are actively sinking because we’re draining the aquifers that took millennia to fill. It’s yet another problem just festering, fascinating to watch as the reality approaches.

Nautical crackheads will strip beacons right off the waves. In broad daylight.

That’s not really true. A couple months free rent don’t fix schizophrenia, or meth/opiate addiction, or illiteracy, or any of the other serious issues keeping them on the streets. I’ve paid close attention to wet shelters, transitional housing projects. There is some success there, but only when there are TON of focused resource an people are given warm referrals (i.e. their case manager drives them to their appointments). Otherwise they just end up on the streets again.

Well adjusted, sane people who are on the streets generally take advantage of the programs, charities, and churches there to help them get back on their feet. The ones who are chronically homeless, it’s not so simple.

It is an issue of greed, but I don’t think it’s landlords refusing to let homeless folks in for a few free months. It’s that we’ve ripped away every resources meant to keep people from falling down that far to begin with, in the quest for Bigger Billionaire Bonuses.

Yeah they do that in my city and neighborhood, unfortunately they often set the homes or apartment buildings on fire, using coffee cans full of gasoline as heat/light, or straight up cooking meth.

I wish homelessness were a problem so simple as “give them a home” but it’s not. The original cause of their homelessness must be addressed for it to work. Strong safety nets must be in place, a strong welfare state, mental healthcare, training, substance abuse treatment.

Of course we could pay for that as a country but we’re instead focused on multiplying the unimaginable fortunes of the ultra rich instead.

Researchers sequenced his DNA recently from a bloodstained couch cushion, we’ve been getting glimpses into it lately.

Yep those chains are actually there for a reason in some cases, like antivaxers willingly spreading misinformation that affects public health, people who encourage others to self harm, swindle the elderly, etc.

Yes. I would have no issue with all my neighbors having local systems like I’m switching to. But putting a cloud camera out on the sidewalk, where it’s not pointing at your entrance, but just filming passersby (my new neighbor)… eek. I am thinking of leaving him a note, just politely asking why he feels the need to record me walking my dog every day. At least put up a privacy notice we can all read and sign before crossing the public easement that people are totally allowed to walk. Let me know how me and my dog’s facial structures are going to be used to train mysterious backroom Planitir AIs. Like good neighbors do.

Any melon, gourd, or even most vine-based flowers I really recommend a simple automated irrigation mechanism especially in a hot climate because they are thirsty.

Presumably whoever was in charge of .NET? Weird writing around that.

I used to be so honest about this. My lung collapsed, repeatedly and they had to carve up my insides and glue it to my ribcage with scar tissue after having a drain tube sucking out my thorax into a bloodbox for 10 days, so like, I have a threshold for “10” that is a bit higher than other folks, and I tried to explain that (this meme is about me apparently) and generally got zero drugs. Now they ask and I say “10” and they give me drugs. Lesson learned.

All of them yes. I make it a point to get back on friendship terms so there aren’t any open wounds or resentments festering. I want to wish them the best, so I do.