As someone from the E coast, Olympic is like someone took a forest and turned it up to 11. I understand the technical term is temperate rain forest, but nothing prepares you for the shear density of life.

Groups of trees in a line are common, like in the 2nd pic. That’s because they grew on a fallen log that has since rotted away. If you leave anything there for a week, shit will be growing out of that too.

Did the kid in your school have access to experimental kit?

The kid in my school had a special prototype that displayed the Nintendo on the windshield for the passenger of a car. I’ve been waiting 35 years for that product to hit the shelves.

Term limits would require a Constitutional amendment. That’s a generational project.

The corruption in this court will consume it. For example, it’s only a matter of time before a POTUS realizes that the immunity granted by the court could be used to legally assassinate judges who rule against you. Why add to the court when you can subtract?

These kids are better equipped than the orks at the front.

YSK: manholes are dangerous. Never mind the nastiness and falling hazard. Many are cast-iron and because of the rust, the interior can be a low-oxygen environment. And that’s not the only way the air can be too fouled to breathe safely.

If you’ve ever seen professinals entering manholes, they’ll be using a ventilation system to ensure fresh air and safety.

EDIT: this isn’t just about breathing, sewer gasses can be fire/explosion hazards too.

I’ve used SAMBA shares for years, and it’s dead simple to map a network drive in Explorer. And mounting that drive on boot is a matter of a checkbox in a dialog.

The problem is that knowing how to do something in Windows teaches you Windows and learning it in Linux teaches you computers. For example if you know how to connect to a remote host through the command line, you already know how to connect to one in Nautilus, and vise versa. (via the command ssh://user@host)

I think this cross-pollination approach is going to be a learning curve for Windows users. It is for me. But taking the time has not only helped me understand Linux, I understand how to use Windows better, despite barely logging in for over a year.

There is a rise in so called “America first anti-Zionism”. Don’t fall for it.

The first problem, of course is that it’s anti-Semitic at it’s core. But also, the idea that Israel “tricked” the US into war with Iran is just stupid. The US has been in a on-again off-again conflict with Iran since the 70s. Every POTUS since Carter has contemplated attacking Iran, they just concluded (correctly) that it wouldn’t work. The only reason to believe America didn’t go into this eyes-open is to absolve the US for Israel’s crimes. We were tricked you see… by those crafty Hebrews.

Donald is just looking for a scapegoat. This is typical behavior when things don’t go his way. It may be true that Netanyahu had undue influence over Trump, but that could be true of anyone who Trump talks to, or sees on TV.

It doesn’t have to be high tech. Sometimes plain glass is installed and later applications, etchings, or abrasions are added for privacy.

Fight fire with fire. Spread the word that Charlie Kirk died of an overdose, the gunshot hysteria is a distraction.

If we ban space advertising, then only criminals will be able to advertise in space.

What we need to fight bad advertisers in space is good advertisers in space.

This could be solved if we only allowed astronauts to conceal-carry ad-copy.

(I like to use gun arguments out of context, because it emphasizes how dumb they are.)

This isn’t crazy. A vet would automatically be better educated than any paramedic, and the quick and dirty procedures at the front are not meant to replace a surgeon, but rather to keep you alive long enough to reach one.

It’s really interesting to describe bees as “loose”. What actually happened was a spontaneous pollination event.

Maybe that’s what makes them “loose”. Using their labor in such a way that can’t be exploited by capital.

The cure for Trump-induced-anxiety is to read history.

Woodrow Wilson had a stroke in office and was incapacitated for months. The VP never took over, instead Wilson’s wife basically became the Steward of Gondor America. So until Melania is in charge of the Executive Branch, this isn’t the craziest we’ve been in regards to Presidential heath.

Y’all gotta stop your desperate search for a savior. The 25^th isn’t a handy alternative to impeachment; it’s actually much more difficult because it would require even more Republicans to agree. Donald Trump is America’s medicine and we’re going to have to drink it all.

I can’t spell anything without a dictionary or, these days a spell check. I usually know where the vowels go, so I cycle through them until the word “looks” right, or the red squiggle goes away.

I don’t like grammerly bc I know how to write, it’s just the spelling that vexes me.

There is a known phenomena among some E Asian living in America to learn English so thoroughly that they loose the accent. The problem is that their English is too good; their diction becomes the accent that gives them away.

It’s almost impossible to pass as a native speaker without years of immersion in the culture.

Any word on Milli Vanilli or Vanilla Ice?

Yakutsk is the coldest inhabited city in the world with months of sustained sub -40C weather. Unfortunately, It’ll climb into the 30s during the summer. If you wonder why anyone lives there it’s because of diamond and other valuable resource extraction.

The terminally online debate-me-bro brand of atheism.

It’s always been curious to me that you can define yourself by something that your not. I’m also vexed why an atheist would proselytize. They’re not saving souls or capturing 10%. What’s the motivation? And please don’t say it’s because atheists are better people. Because all the famous “new” atheists were regular cast members on Epstein Island and the whole movement had deep ties to the alt-right and Gamergate.

I’m not saying they’re wrong, I’m saying they’re obnoxious, belligerent, and annoying. To be clear, I’m atheist. That’s half the problem. These MFers are making me look bad.

You can’t solve systems by focusing on individuals.

None of us a free moral agents. We’re surrounded by systems of family, culture, and law that compel and coerce us. And all of that is built in to the signifiers “employment” and “labor”. It’s incoherent to slice off a traunch of all these interconnected systems, strip it of all context, and pretend it’s a free moral choice.

Changing systems requires collective action. Individuals are weak and the Western obsession with individualism is no coincidence.