“Irreparable harm”? Holy fucking entitlement, batman.

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I have a feeling future historians will use the start of this year as the beginning of WW3…

I hear if you hold the Cownch to your ear, you can hear the ocean!

And then those same people will read subtext into whatever you say even though they’ve known you for a decade and they know you are just direct. And then you have to deal with reassuring them that no you didn’t mean anything by it other than what was written/said, and don’t they know you never use subtext without making it explicit in the next breath?

It does not work well. The dramatically reduced airflow means the fan is working hard for basically nothing.

However, if you are gunna go through the trouble of making a cube anyway, you can make one out of thin strips of wood or multi-layer laminated cardboard, and attach washable air filter material all around it, and you never have to rebuild it or replace the filters. Just wash it with a sprayer of some sort (hose, shower, sink) once every few months.

Napping is the factor in my control.

Im on prazosin for nightmares/night terrors and it works fine for my full sleep cycle (because I take it before bed, probably) but it doesn’t seem to apply to naps.

Very good call.

This sort of thing is exactly why I don’t take naps anymore. It happened a few too many times and it’s genuinely a horrible experience. Incredibly vivid. I got the sensation I could feel my actual body being unable to move. So no more naps no matter how tired I am.

3 yrs 2.1 k comments on this account and probably another thousand scattered between other accounts, and not a single one made the list :(

I’ll have to try harder for the next one, I guess.

I’ve seen this meme a lot, what’s it from?

I used to hatch oothica for my local environment. Baby mantids are useless and idk how they stay alive other than cannibalism. They dont have wings until the 5th instar (molt) and then only females get them I think. Until then they are just stationary and starve or something gets close enough. What a dumb survival strategy.

But! They are so fucking chill. They don’t mind bing handled, even fully wild ones. They will just move onto your hand and stay there. You can move them around, feed them from tweezers, etc. its honestly worth the slight effort it takes to hatch them to assure you have some around to interact with :)

You are a big moving tree to them, long as you aren’t trying to harm them. They don’t care about you. But if you feel them bugs often enough they might see you as a big friendly giving tree

Oooh so sorry, the payout is done by pre-paid card, and the minimum payout for the card is $5. So you only get paid if nobody else does!

It would be hilarious if the dev cant even see these posts because they are all made by blocked users and such. Think they use their own frontend that way?

In fairness, thats a good way to store a hair clip you’ve taken out if you don’t have a bag or something to stash it in. I have definitely done that.

She is (not specifically) why ozone generators are so cheap. Mostly for hotel and rental car use, the ozone destroys, chemically, the odor causing molecules. Ozone being a super unstable molecule and all. Rips your lungs to shit if you breathe it, but works wonders on smoke and other smells!

If you’ve ever thought your hotel room smelled too… void? Maybe slightly metallic? Thats why.

I used an ozone generator in a car that reeked of cigarette smoke and chemicals to cover the smoke smell, and its not entirely gone yet, but its only notable after a week of really hot temps. Thanks, Technology Connextras for that very useful advice that saved me a ton of money!!

Genuinely surprised car dealers haven’t caught on to that yet… you can buy one for $30…?

I never said anyone shouldn’t make a decent wage wrt:local economy. But I live in a depressed economy, and have my whole life, so I know full well just how stuck people get financially when they are from low cost areas or spend too much of their career time in one. Hardly anyone goes to a good school and then goes back to their shitty home town on purpose, because college is expensive and they can’t pay it off while making peanuts in their hometown. It ends up being an option only desperate people take, which means shitty teachers, which in turn means dumb kids who go on to lead low income lives.

I said rural and low cost areas should pay proportionally more, probably just through state budgets rather than giving them an option they will always choose to fuck up, to attract talent, because it’s good for the community across generations. A rising tide lifts all ships, and maybe people would go to a good school and then go back to their hometown, if their hometown was offering them a decent quality of life.

Its true that 60k is different in low cost areas vs high cost ones, but thats part of my point. Its not like our low income areas are a separate country with their own currency and stuff. The only way it matters that 60k spends differently is if you never plan to leave. Wanna go on vacation? That 6k trip that’s reasonably affordable at 1/20th yearly wages for someone in California who makes 120k (comparing high wages in respective markets), is 1/10 yearly wages for someone making 60, a substantial difference in impact for the same life experience for two people making similarly “good wages” in their local economy, and there aren’t any poor area discounts, either. If they want to sell their house and buy one somewhere with better opportunities, they will absolutely for sure still need a substantial mortgage they will never get approved for because everything is so much more expensive than what they are selling from, and their work income history is so much lower than what’s required. Our goods aren’t cheaper either, other than maybe food and gas. That big purchase is proportionally bigger for someone who earns less, even if everyone around them also earns less.

I’d like to see the income distribution curve sort of level out a bit where mobility (physical, in this case) was a real option for all of us rather than something you have to take a massive risk of homelessness or be from a wealthy area to do. I’d like to see wages in low income areas increase faster than those in big urban areas, simply because they have been so much more stagnant for so much longer (min wage here is still 7.25 and lots of jobs still pay that -can’t live on that here either). Mostly, I’d like to see quality of life increase in poor areas, and that means more money available to the local economy. One of the ways to do this is to get better educational outcomes, make the future workforce desirable. Better education also tends to decrease conservatism, so it’d be doubly good to do. Snowball effect and everything.

I like wxyz in french. I took french like 30 years ago but the alphabet was sticky and still gets logged in my brain sometimes due to the last bit.

(This is phonetics/pronunciation, ofc, same melody)

Doobluh-vay (double v), eeks (x, but you saw a mouse), eegrek (???), zed (zed sounds much cooler than zee, which ironically sounds more French to me)

Hands down the best part of the French alphabet.

Arguably, more rural schools or those in lower income areas should be paying proportionally better for teachers, to attract talent that would otherwise have no interest in being in that area. Those schools tend to be where students and their families have little or no say about what districts they are in, as they use regional magnet schools that cater to multiple small towns. They’d have to completely upend everything and move a substantial distance to have options urban folks take largely for granted. My town has two public and three private school systems, for example, and its only moderately urban. Where I grew up, one school district serviced 1/4 of the county.

Currently the rural districts pay nearly nothing and its lower than other places which also pay nearly nothing, so they get the worst of the worst educators who can’t find better and it keeps everyone’s wages depressed generationally.

But social mobility is a dream of that past that’s long since dead and buried anyway.

If this one was built like the one I took down, some, maybe all, of those boards on the bottom run into the structure itself for support, and those are beefy boards, especially on their side like that. Mine was supported with those and diagonal supports just to prevent sag.

Id guess they are replacing ground-tied supports, and those are just to keep the small bit of pull from causing damage to the roof and stuff while they swap them. Just long enough for the photo.

That or its completely floating and the boards are just for a laugh.