I don’t understand what this means. Is this like reading and not absorbing it or something? I genuinely can’t relate to that either, just not how things work for me, but reading with your eyes not your brain makes no sense to me either way.

Pipelines also cause a resonance hum that some people CAN hear for miles, and it drives them batshit.

I love the interactions parents have with offspring in the animal kingdom. Like its just so affirming to see moms with that long-suffering look while having their ear tugged, and seeing something like this where the baby is so obviously outmatched in play, just being goofy.

Brings humans down several pegs, without even the need to anthropomorphize.

It’s just basic black mesh, the mesh has little designs on it, and the dark line under the breast is the under wire. Bras like that don’t have padding at all, and are pretty basic, but due to the type of fabric they don’t last long, similar to lace. Special events undergarments.

Fun story - my house has a hidden room sort of. I’ve known about it since I bought the place like 15 years ago. I plan to convert it into a root cellar/storm shelter/bug out room since its in a very secure part of the basement.

I didn’t know there was a half-size wooden door hidden behind the partly-finished basement drywall (previously a rec room/office), i just knew about the shitty door cut into the side of the stairs. Never had a reason to go inside there with a light prior to that, and its entirely hidden from the existing door. Only found it while preparing the space for my chickens to ride out a brutal cold snap this past winter.

Its jambed on both sides to prevent swing and never had hardware, but I can drill and hang it pretty easily. Then i really will make it a hidden room someone will find randomly someday

Try the Pentatonix cover. Its much better with no baggage.

Thats a solid point. I don’t have friends in the area to bring into that plan, but no reason I can’t go hang out away from home for the day all the same. I enjoyed the subway when I visited Boston, partly because I didn’t really have anywhere specific I needed to be, just exploration.

If mine are any indication, they’ll go hunting for bugs before they start scratching at stuff or eating plants. Even when I give mine pulled weeds the first thing they do is look for bugs on them. Those are the real prize.

They have an amazing eye for slight movement, and are quite good little hunters (they really like catching mice as well). If you don’t give them time to destroy everything, and keep your eyes on them.

As a bonus they poop while they eradicate, and they do some mild scratching of the surface which is good for the soil.

I just found out that I qualify to use public transit for free in my area.

It’s thus a damned shame I basically never see a bus. I hate driving, but public transit here isn’t much of an alternative.

Still, i’ll probably go ride it around for no real reason just to increase the use of it, since it runs anyway. More riders means more expansion of services, right? Riiiiiiight?

Yeah… tax the rich is the nicest thing we could be saying… they’ve definitely forgotten…

Oooooooh let it be something class action I can get money for. I have three rokus and a TCL.

Granted, none of them are on my network; the rokus were removed from it when that update came out that would brick the tv if you don’t accept them spying (fortunately roku was blocked on my pihole except occasionally when they wanted to be updated to repair the apps that stopped working every month forcing online connection to syphon data) and the TCL was never allowed on the network in the first place because i learned my lesson…

But I still want money back from them for their anti-consumer choices, because fuck them.

This would be much cooler with random layers scattered through it that were also tipped the same way.

The single fringe edge doesn’t really provide enough…. Depth? To fulfill the illusion, and while I see it also appears to follow the front layers up, the back still needs more, imo.

I actually do have reboot, and vaguely recall it being on air where I lived, which wasn’t Canada but close (2hrs drive, we got their OTA signals)

Im also familiar with asterix, i have some of the animated stuff and have played some of the games even :) good stuff, enjoyable!

I’ll take a look for the other things, thanks :D

This only applies to the solid ones though. Those are… idk how people can sleep on those little bricks. They are the absolute worst things I’ve ever slept on.

I’ve got chunked memory foam pillows, and they are about the same weight as down, but very soft and fluffy.

It would be hilarious if this backfired and got people all riled up for DC statehood. In a FAFO sort of way.

It would have to be very slight indeed, since the wax needs to be close to neutrally buoyant in order to rise and fall with the heat currents.

I got to witness first-hand exactly how much worse it’s gotten in the last few years all at once.

See, I’m stuck on an iPhone for the moment (thankfully a 14 which isn’t compatible with the extra AI bullshit, or I’d probably have just dealt with the vulnerability…), and because of liquid glass and a bunch of other reasons, I declined to update my OS from 17.whatever. Then the critical vulnerability was found, and the only fix was to update. So I snapped forward to 26 or whatever it is up to now. Literal years of backslide in one day. It’s so fucking unusable. I can’t wait until that motorola that’s compatible with graphene is available.

I went from having a sort of OK autocorrect that was only wrong like 30% of the time, to just flat out disabling it because it was so so much worse than my own typos and fixing my own mistakes. I gave it a few days, but yeah, it would correct words that I’d typed out correctly to random bullshit, sometimes several words later so you don’t notice it. It wouldn’t fix obvious typos even when they came up in red underline. It got the wrong conjugation or contraction frequently. It was aggressive about changing stuff no matter how many times I typed it in the correct way.

It’s fucking bad, man. You are not imagining it. At all. It’s just that it crept up on you as it gradually got worse.

It also helps (when combined with a tiny amount, like 1/64 tsp, of bone meal) with chronic diarrhea. I had a cat who was sick for a long time and his food needed both in order to firm up his stools enough to express his anal glands naturally.

Sucks to be in an area that never had these to begin with, cuz I’ve never seen one. I like weird “obsolete” architecture like this, but businesses typically don’t bother adapting buildings the way they used to anymore. Only new buildings get any personalization, and it tends to be minimal these days. Like a Mexican restaurant bought a building that used to be a supper club*, and they didn’t even bother to re-paint the interior, so it just looks like a lightly mexican-themed supper club now. Just no effort at all anymore.

*For those not in areas with proper supper clubs, which is the vast majority of the world since they are almost exclusively found in the Midwest US (the UK version of them is something entirely different, and I’ve no idea how common they are), they are cozy little dinner spots where you are more or less expected to sit and have a few drinks and socialize before your meal, such that they don’t really have music, take your order at the bar, and you move to the table when your meal is ready. Typically the best food around without breaking the bank, especially in small towns, most have a salad bar, decent community environment, reasonable prices sort of thing, so very very popular. In Wisconsin at least, always fish fry on Fridays, and prime rib on Saturdays and often Sundays, but can’t get those things the rest of the week. Just how they operate. Sometimes a limited fish fry is available on Wednesdays, though.

Solar water heaters definitely have the capacity to boil water, if they are made right (use a high temp transfer fluid, vacuum-insulated tubes, proper solar condensers, etc). It’d be difficult to get them to do it on a small scale without a heat pump of some sort in the mix, but even inefficient solar water heater setups need to be installed with a regular water heater after them mostly to down-regulate the temp as they get far far far too hot for practical use directly.

The greenhouse barrels are just for passive radiant heating, but if you use enough of them in the proper places, and insulate well, you can use them to make a passively-heated greenhouse that doesn’t freeze at all, even up in the frigid northern climates (Canada, midwest US, Siberia, etc.)