You’re too good at this, I’m a war hawk now.

To add to the confusion: For 2 weeks/year I help out the local ballet studio with stage crew. We have this big white backdrop curtain, and colorful lights are pointed directly at the curtain to make dramatic and moody changes to the background during certain dances. When I heard the name of these, I assumed it was the “psyche curtain” and “psyche lights” because that’s how it is pronounced.

Turns out the box is marked “Cyc.” I have to assume that the people that sold the curtain are way less amateur than I am, so I would like to add this third potential spelling.

Apparently yes because I tried Grayjay and that didn’t work for me either.

Just today, I was at a birthday party talking to a stranger. She said her husband uses a sauna daily, but they have an apartment… So he has a pop-up sauna in the kitchen. She said he uses it, wipes it down, and folds it away.

I don’t. I make one careful, lengthwise cut, then I slice up the halves to get a bunch of semi-circlss. Mostly, I just do this so the cucumber stays planted on the board better (for safety), but not losing the round slices is a nice secondary benefit.

I hate everything he’s doing, but to be fair, if my name was a homophone for cash I might do the same. I’d probably give it up before I turned 40, but I do understand the impulse.

Nerd reich is new to me and (chefs kiss)

I’ve heard that encryption is only for criminals, and nobody here has been using encryption, therefore nobody in the Epstein files are criminals. Case closed.

👍

They’re going to be super embarrassed when they show this misuse of homophones at the trial for terroristic threats.

My brother and I both independently came across this technique before running a fun 5k in December. The 5k was straight out n back and, without talking about it beforehand, we both BARELY convinced ourselves to not try it, for the first time, in a very public setting. The running world is simply not ready for my slightly overweight, 41 year old, mediocre running self to fall ass over tincups trying to shave 0.3 seconds off of my 24 minute time.

This is how it plays out locally: I live in a low cost of living town in Northeast PA. Our area has historically not been very diverse. Over the past 20 years they’ve ben building a lot of huge warehouses and distribution centers in our area to take advantage of the low cast of living. The industrial parks in the area all competed with each other to land these “job-creating” warehouses, and they competed by offering tax-free deals for x number of years.

So they build these warehouses, and when they hire, everybody apart from the 4 managers are hired part time, and can only work up to max of 28-30 hrs per week, to prevent the company from owing them any kind of health care retirement. Mostly, the only people desperate enough to move here for those jobs are immigrants, and since there’s no attachment to one warehouse or another, as soon as there’s slightly better offer, they move right on out. Our schools are getting hammered because their tax revenue hasn’t increased, but instead of of 1-2 new students per year in a grade level, they’re dealing with 5-6 new kids per WEEK, and a good number them come in with little to no English. Frequently, the families have to separate to get here, and that just makes everything even harder.

Now, if you’re not paying too close attention, you look at the area compared to 20 years ago, and think,

1. There are more immigrants
2. The school have less money and test scores are down
3. Crime is worse
4. Wages are unliveably low …
5. Immigrants did it

The “nice” thing is if you own a warehouse, you don’t even need to spend any money “convincing” people to blame immigrants, you just make a bunch of money, pay them as little as possible, and watch the nightly news talk about all the danger and crime in the area.

If you’re stuck in a parking spot, and you can’t seem to rock your car out, turn OFF your traction control! (It should be a button with a car and wavy lines that you probably have never pressed before). The traction control takes power away from slipping wheels so if they’re both/all slipping, you get wheels that barely move as you’re stepping in the gas.

Just remember to turn it back on once you’re free

I hadn’t done a bath in years, but at one point we were fixing some of the tile in our bath/shower. To minimize how much water got into the unprotected wall, we had to take baths for about a week.

It was inefficient for time, but maaaaan was it nice. I promised myself I wouldn’t allow myself to lapse like that again. Unfortunately I don’t think I’ve done a bath since.

Ah yeah that solves it quite definitively, thanks.

Even if I couldn’t find a good reason for optimism Nationally (which I would never admit to due to the the credible threat of getting my house burned down), I know that I can make an impact on the people I love (friends family and strangers) that are directly around me.

I’m not quite familiar enough with Dilbert to be able to tell which “defining detail” was fucked up. Any hints?

We’ve considered home-schooling. I’m not concerned about the educational side of it. I know that 1 on 1, or 1 on 2, I’d (we’d) be able to teach our kids WAY more than they’d pick up in a classroom full of 30 half-paying-attention kids.

My biggest concern is the socialization. 2 families we know home-school their children, and, don’t get me wrong, between home school co-ops, activity groups, and programs with the local public school, they DO get a lot of chance to socialize with other kids. I just think there’s a lot of character building in being forced to sit in a classroom with 30 kids you may or may not share a lot in common with, and having to deal with some lessons that move too slow, and some lessons that move too quickly, etc.

I get that sometimes the school environment can be so hostile as to create real problems for some kids, but that’s a bridge we’ll have to cross if we ever get there. (Our oldest is not yet in kindergarten)

When my printer showed up on Linux my first thought was, “hmmm I guess when I reformatted the hard drive and installed the new OS it saved my printer settings…neat”. Eventually, I figured it out.

This is actually good news to me. I assumed the AI bubble was WaAY larger than the dot com bubble already.