Harpy? In any case, this is a wonderful pic. I’d hand this on the wall.

We got rocks over 4 billion years old. But you’re right, very little would survive after 100-200 million years.

Earth would never get fossil fuels back as their formation was dependent on lacking fungi to break plants down. This is indeed our one shot.

Tempting to try this and diff it. My most complex PowerShell scripts aren’t testable as they were company/task specific. Plus, I killed my X account long ago. :(

Don’t some states have pretty restrictive laws about that?

My brain can’t handle more than a dozen open tabs. If I need more than 8 or so, I’ll sling some in another browser instance. I honestly don’t know if this is because I’m dumb or smart, but at my last jobs the smarter people always had about 2 dozen tabs open. LOL, no one ever rebooted.

Anything we regularly use if I can afford it. We save loads by just going to cheap shops, sales and thrifts. Wife found the Arm & Hammer toothpaste I like, typically kinda high-priced, for $.50 a box at a garage sale. At another garage sale she found a dozen bottles of hand soap for $.50ea. and got them cheaper than that buying them all. Still using those! One time I got a 8-month supply of shampoo for $3 from a garage sale.

I buy shoes at the thrift if they’re nice and a good fit, no matter how many I have ATM. OK, for awhile I quit, but I wore out several at once and I’m back to checking every time we’re in the store.

Didn’t block the whole thing, blocked shitloads of comms though. My god they are exhausting.

Speaking of pronouns, saw this complete horseshit on a job application I was working on. Thank god it’s customizable!

The Oregon charts are surprising as I understood most of them don’t have AC out there.

No, it’s far, far worse. They’re mostly normal people.

https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/two-days-talking-to-people-looking-for-jobs-at-ice/

Depends on what level you’re at. I had a friend help us install a new septic system. Holy shit was there a lot more to it than I ever guessed. Had no idea surveying gear was required.

At a higher level, same guy drafts plans for military bases and hospitals. Then he goes in the field to troubleshoot issues. Plumbing includes gas if applicable!

Most of us are familiar with, if not doing the work, the principles behind fixing a leak, replacing a sink or toilet, etc. I can do all of the above, but I don’t know the fine points in doing it right. There’s far more to residential plumbing than most see.

My dad took me in the shower when I was young and taught me to bathe properly.

Grok fucking nailed it. And everything stated is verifiable with almost no effort.

What?! You need the MAC to identify a router and MACs don’t go over the internet.

it would have been possible to track your ip and what it was accessing online

I’ll let you go ahead and explain that one.

Worthy of repost in shower thoughts!

It’s hard to overstate what these guys see. If you’ve ever experienced this magnitude of disaster, you know damned well that all the pictures and video in the world doesn’t do justice to the actual destruction and suffering on the ground.

Ex-FIL was in the Mississippi Guard. Earned 2 Bronze Stars on two (three?) tours of Iraq. Humanitarian aid, not combat, a detail relevant to the story below. He was just fine.

Came home and fought his way through Katrina on the tip of the spear. Those men chainsawed houses in half and pushed them off the road to get in. After all that he suffered PTSD, hooked up with another Guard member, left his wife of 32-years and stopped talking to his only child. He was not fine.

New Orleans got the news coverage, but the Mississippi Gulf Coast was fucking wrecked. We went to see the man in Gulfport, then headed north. The last of the damage we saw was past Hattiesburg, 80 miles of destruction. And that was going straight away, the blast radius closer to the Gulf was wide.

Some of these people are digging for corpses, some are little corpses, with their hands. Many, most?, of these people are facing serious PTSD in the near future.

Anyway, after living Ivan, I cried my eyes out over Katrina. I still tear up when I think about it, still cry thinking about what I saw the next morning. Cried when the Florida Guard rolled in to save our asses, thought I was on my own.

Taking the kids swimming in the creek now. I’m out.

I feel sorry for Europeans who aren’t geared for this. Couple of years ago a monster heat dome sat on the Pacific Northwest. Many of my coworkers lived in and around Seattle and were suffering the lack of AC. My brain can’t imagine living without.

Diminishing returns?

Life sciences are where this sort of thing will shine.

American, white, liberal, redneck gun nut here. If you’re talking about “defund the police”, that’s yet another idiot liberal slogan that misses the mark. The idea is to take police funds and pay for workers who can handle situations police should never have been sent to. Want to kill yourself? Call the cops!

The far right loves cops because cops are on their side, or are perceived to be. To put it bluntly, guns are for shooting marauding black people, not white people. See all the stories about white people being shocked when law enforcement doesn’t go their way? Yeah.

Also, I suspect people who are anti-gun have never had violence inflicted upon them, or cops who are far away, or haven’t had a bear wander in the dog door, or haven’t had an enraged redneck struggling to be polite because they’re visibly armed. In related news, my MAGA neighbor came stomping down here to kick my ass, turned right the fuck around when I went inside for my .45.

I could write all night on the subject, but let me leave it at this: Now is not the fucking time for Americans to disarm themselves. The only reason fascists haven’t run us completely over is that they know there will be a real chance we’ll fucking kill them. Look where the ICE raids are happening, in the places where guns are the most suppressed.

Yes, this all sucks, but it’s where we’re at in America.