I enjoy seeing the handwash lines on their arms.

If you do, which I very highly recommend because RO water genuinely tastes amazing (I don’t like tap water anymore, it’s gross and chemical-ly), especially out of stainless steel or glass drinkware, I encourage you to get one with a pump and a 6 gallon tank if you can find a place for the tank to go.

The pump reduces the wasted water to about 1:1 (non-pumped is about 4:1 wastewater to RO), and unless you really don’t use much water, 6 gallons is the way to go, especially if you have multiple people living there, or might do in the future. You might not need it often, but if you ever have company or get an aquarium or anything you’ll be so glad you have the big tank.

The 3 gallon tank I have is adequate for me alone, and would probably be ok for 2 people, but when I do drain it, which I do when making broths, soups, beer, big ice tea batches, etc. or even just filling jugs to take camping, it takes about 4 hours to refill (dont have pump driven, those might go faster, im not sure)

And if you get one, make sure you clean the tank annually. I did not know for half a decade that bleaching regularly, which is pretty easy to do, is important to prevent bacterial growth. Mmm tasty.

I’m hopeful that I’m far enough removed from anyone who uses Facebook that this won’t be a problem for me. The people I regularly talk to don’t use Facebook, and those who might use it I hardly ever talk to.

Then again I’m sure they have a profile on me anyway, depending how confident they are with my anonymized browsing… I don’t see ads (thanks pihole!), so I wouldn’t know how well targeted things are.

A squirrel once fell out of a tree a few feet away from me and went splat on the sidewalk. Sat dazed for a minute or so then ran off. Absolutely hilarious.

New headcannon is it was aiming for an owl and missed. :)

So I had to look this up because Wisconsin has similar weird demographics skewing heavily toward independent. In the case of Wisconsin, its because party registration stopped some time after 2004, when I first registered (meaning I’m permanently registered as a dem, even if I don’t want to be, because we no longer have a mechanism to change it), and we now have open primaries instead.

TN is similar in that they don’t require party registration, and they have open primaties which makes registering pointless. I wasn’t really able to find info on whether or not you still CAN register with a party if you really want to, but I’m kinda guessing no for the same reason you can’t in Wisconsin. They just don’t maintain those systems anymore because they don’t need them.

I don’t think states with closed primaries or required party registration have nearly the same level of independent population, and thus influence from independents, but I’m sure that’s on the rise too, as dems have spent decades alienating their base.

What does that mean? I’m old and/or midwestern. Take pity.

Movie any good? Worth finding?

Mine was a 2012 as well, actually :) Didnt look like that tho :) probably different markets rather than either of us being wrong :)

What model year is that? My dash looked nothing like that, but was way old, like 2012 or so.

I traded up my civic for a bolt. It felt civic-minded. Cuz man i got the lemon.

Loved that civic, but zero regrets. This ev is way better.

That tracks, it didn’t sound like burton but I havent seen those other things so I dont have a sound profile for that individual, I guess.

So none of this was levar burton? I’m faceblind in like the best of circumstances, so idk, thats why I was asking for infodump context and not videos or something specifically. 😊

Wow man I guess I need to know more about a select few people (I try to avoid knowing too much, I dont want parasocials)

Unless someone very nice wants to infodump at me about it which would be strongly preferable and something lemmy might supply if I ask very very nicely, which everyone else also probably wants to know…

Please lemmy daddy, please give me context ☺️🥰

Genuinely probably easier to manage when its just always one temp extreme versus having to keep track of major weather changes and how that plus activity impacts and all.

At least with warm you can just assume its too hot. And probably be right.

I mean, in winter, overheating is easy if you don’t plan in layers and take them off according to the outside temp and how it makes you personally feel. And if you live in a place with winter you have to keep track of so many temps through the year and whether or not a body can manage them… more temperate means less caution for extremes.

I wear shorts when its above 40, as long as that happens between December and July. When it happens in August to December, its so cold because my blood hasn’t thickened, so i don’t.

Edit to add: i sent a message directly to make sure this was passed along but one of the youtube creators I watch does diy material science stuff, and one of his recipes is a PCM (phase change material) made from salts that stays cool, not cold, for dozens of hours. Very long time. Feels like the cool side of a pillow for half of forever.

So here’s that video

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Nqxjfp4Gi0k

Identical argument to guns for hunting.

When I first joined lemmy years ago (this was my first fedi account, so however old this is) I was not aware that some instances censor certain things prior to feeding content to the rest of the fediverse, so I’d come across [redacted] quite a lot, with no context for why it was there.

So I started writing it myself for fun, I can’t be the only one out of the loop and it was frequently hilarious in context, so thought nothing of doing it myself. I bet that confused a lot of people, since I’m not on a censored server. Lets just say that was intentional ;)

My app changes the whole comment structure when comments were deleted, so thats super obvious and the chains ITT are unconvincing and obvious at best. Idk what desktop looks like, maybe that works better. But either way the censorship is inline and doesn’t have “maybe is maybe not” for legitimacy.

I always thought puffed rice and stuff was from cooking and freeze drying or deep frying or something.

Never cared enough to look into it, but TIL.

Don’t they phaser-weld? I know they use phasers to cut through bulkhead doors and stuff on occasion, but I feel like there are scenes where they use the same mechanism to weld things for repair as well… Perhaps they made a point to only build with materials that could be repaired that way? And depending how phaser-welding works, that could be a wide range of materials.

They could then arrange deals for prisoner release.

Ehhhhhh.

Or not.

They dont even have the ability to release most of the deported people, only those held domestically.

And do we really want them back on the streets when we could just, like, tear down those incarceration facilities?