Oh dang, I haven’t heard about Earthships in aaaaages

To put on my own conspiracy hat for a moment, he’s getting set up to be the fall guy. He’s following a playbook he didn’t write, the people that did write Project 2025 know how unpopular it will be, and the final play is setting trump up as the tyrant to be deposed by a real dictator. Sure hope I’m wrong.

If there’s no on/off switch, it means it just goes to sleep and never truly turns off. Low power mode is nice for people who forget to turn things off, but it’s still draining the battery to monitor the sensors, so it doesn’t make a lot of sense for something that’s not used frequently.

The calipers remind me of my earbuds, which are always jostling in the case and disconnecting from the charging pins. I can be in the car and my music will suddenly stop playing on the radio because my earbuds came loose, connected, and took bluetooth priority. It’s irritating, and if anybody has a fix, let me know.

It was just the “goal” aesthetic I was trying to meet as a young woman. So many of my classmates developed an eating disorder or just started using drugs because the “strung out supermodel” look was what everybody wanted.

Its just a precursor carrying the same message kids are gettimg today. That you’re worthless if you don’t look the right way, and you should hurt yourself to look the right way.

It’s from a federal law passed under the Bush administration, tying funding to standardized testing scores.

But it was bipartisan, so you’re not wrong.

It’s honestly wild to me that people in my age bracket can grow up with heroin chic, and think it somehow just vanished into the ether. I don’t know why it’s so hard for them to understand that kids are just getting hit with an evolved form of the same bullshit message that you’re worthless if you don’t fit a specific aesthetic.

Gotta love how many self-identified leftists we have that are actually confused authoritarians.

I too have seen that Clint’s Reptiles video, lmao

Oh, it’s not too bad. Rounds up to $60 a year and averages out to about $15 per game.

You’re telling me the bees get the munchies when they smoke…

From what I understand, this is sorta like a hangover from pre-DNA taxonomy. We went “yeah, those all look like fish, we’ll put them in the fish group”, only to find out later that a bunch of them weren’t very closely related at all. So now we have a ‘fish’ group that’s a total mess, and we’re in the middle of getting it organized and re-labelled.

Obviously, the Greek hero Spiracles also rhymes with the bees

Not just Lemmy, unfortunately. I had a guy in my politics discord who spammed nothing but Gaza right before the election, but since the election, he’s only posted a handful of things criticizing Trump. And I know he’s not a bot, because I’ve been chatting with him for years.

I wonder how many people are just burnt out from the outrage, and I wonder how much of that was an intentional ploy to get us to stop caring.

Oh heavens, it’s been much more than a quarter decade. Why else was Obama’s campaign so effective? It was pitched as if our protests had actually worked and somebody up top was finally listening.

They’ve turned Hanlon’s Razor into a sword. Weaponized incompetence to maximize plausible deniability.

If you think nobody complained about the Patriot Act, you weren’t paying attention.

My third grade teacher told me that negative numbers didn’t exist because having less than zero is impossible. I think I’m justified in being bitter about my education.

It’s kinda weird around here, because the law doesn’t ban paper bags, but all the stores around me stopped carrying them in favor of thicker ‘reusable’ plastic bags.

At least the ‘reusable’ plastic bags fold up and fit nice in my purse, so I can actually reuse them, but I’m pretty sure most people treat them as single use plastic.

But this is the digital age, so it’s clearly e-migrating.

We had a sock basket when I was a kid!