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.

If your string/fishing game doesn’t have the random roguelike elements of procedural generation via physics that makes every playthrough unique, you are absolutely doing it wrong.

Yeah, the firefighters were like “clearly he’s one of us and just hasn’t awakened yet”

Companies aren’t required to go public in the first place so it’s a rather moot point. They actively choose to be in the situation where they are beholden to shareholders.

If you owned a company you could just, like, not go asking rich people for money to grow or whatever (what IPO is, basically) and grow naturally on your own merits. Then you don’t even have to worry about what kind of votes people might have.

Personally I think the stock market should just be banned outright. Go back to pensions or some sort of UBI or even have companies pay into universal pensions or something, whatever, but tying retirement to gambling needs to stop, and the entire gambling on the economy thing is clearly not working well overall what with it being pretty easy to manipulate, to the destruction of all, and all…

Spiked whipped cream is definitely a thing, if thats what you mean. I can get it around here, but they have flavors other than just vodka. Chocolate, vanilla, orange cream, mint. There might be unflavored ones I’m not familiar with. :)

That trend is because a lot of them start life as “light novels” (similar to young adult novels, have a few scattered pictures and stuff), and those are intentionally titled so you have an idea of what you’ll be reading, because there are a freakin’ lot of them. It’s basically the synopsis blurb, just as part of the title, so you read it while looking for a book rather than going out of your way to know what its about.

Is the tattoo problem better or worse than stuffed animals watching? Or real ones, for that matter?

My car has physical buttons for all the important stuff, standard dash interface for the panel, and runs open source software on the relatively small central infotainment screen… And the telemetry and transmission stuff can be easily disabled by pulling a fuse or removing a module behind the screen, depending on your goals. It’s a 2023 bolt base package, no bells and whistles unless you count lane assist, which can be disabled, and the backup camera. If chevy stops supporting it, it’ll become a community project.

There are choices. Not many, but they are there.

I was like 30 when I realized how much nicer it was to live alone, rather than cleaning up after sone partner or other who couldn’t be bothered to do their share.

Not exactly what you are talking about but might as well be. Functionally equivalent.

Needless to say I refuse to ever cohabitate again, if I can avoid it. If I cant avoid it, it’ll have to be a duplex or individual apartment shared building sort of situation. Im just not interested in doing that much work for someone who doesn’t appreciate it. I don’t even like doing it for myself, and I do appreciate it.

I’m not doing a lot of gardening this year because I’m getting everything rebuilt for next year. So far rebuilt my chicken run, next is a new coop, then im going to install the 2 dozen metal raised beds I bought once I can get the weeds knocked down. Considering building a greenhouse over the space as well.

The stuff I am running this year is doing…… my potatoes seem to have died last week, 2/3 of my raspberries died, 1/4 of my grape vines died… we get a week of brutal heat followed by days of drowning wet. Is just hard on them, and insects are exploding.

I hope this shitty summer means my lawn grass dies the rest of the way this year. I’ve been overseeding with clover for years because it stays green through august when we get real hot and dry. I’d love the clover and violets to take over the rest of it. They already took over under my trees and most of the back yard, and I love never mowing those places. They are adapted for the sort of weather we get here and don’t die nearly as easily from this climate abuse.

This looks like one of those find the hidden things pictures. Like it has that vibe for whatever reason.

Yeah and those green lasers are no joke. I use one (with an absolute abundance of caution) to sight my telescope when I’m way out in the middle of nowhere, where there aren’t many flight paths, because you can see it clear as day against the sky. The whole way up. They are wildly powerful, despite being fairly cheap.

I’m constantly paranoid about bringing new people viewing with me because they inevitably want to play with the laser… I can’t blame them, that and the UV laser I’ve got are very very cool, but they demand respect for both the laser and the laws around their use.

Goes well with the jar of bees

I did some rough math and they’d eat about one cow every 4 days on average, or a herd of about 100 adult cows per year, assuming that was their only food source which seems unlikely when chicken or game birds are cheaper, easier, they eat garbage food and their production rate is almost 1:1 feed to meat. Plus far more available to say nothing of egg and mice/rats, which are also easy to raise on garbage food. I just don’t want to do the math when I already went for cows for whatever reason.

Whomever inherited responsibility for those cats (I’m guessing servants, since thats who was caring for them to begin with, lets be real) was probably incredibly thankful for the substantial wealth transfer for their loyalty. That used to happen back in the day. Rich people wanted to be remembered for giving their riches away. So many public works and private wealth transfers are a result of this post-humous restoration of their image. (It wasn’t enough to deprive their offspring, of course)