I’ve been getting rid of gasoline power tools, I have electric versions of all lawn and garden tools. I may trade a vehicle or two for an EV in the next few years.

Polio has not been eradicated the way Smallpox has. There is no smallpox anywhere. There are Polio patients, relatively rare as they are.

I like:

Technology Connections. Alec is a refrigeration cycle enthusiast from the American Midwest in a tweed jacket who talks about gadgetry. He’ll change your understanding of dishwashers.

History For Granite. Join him to explore ancient Egypt. A no bullshit no ancient aliens channel focusing on old kingdom Egyptian monuments, particularly the pyramids of Giza and Dahshur. His hot takes include “The ascending passage of the Great Pyramid is built of lower quality limestone, possibly because the higher quality Tura limestone used for most passageways wasn’t available. As the passage ascends, you can see the work getting more consistent and gaining quality, as if the masons were gaining skill working with this inferior material.” And he casts solar eclipse quantities of shade at Zahi Hawass. It’s hilarious.

Cathode Ray Dude. A computer and video hardware enthusiast from the Pacific Northwest. He’ll find some electronics artifact and explore its quirks and features, including a whole series on weird old laptops.

Paul Fellows. Bri’ish astronomer type who delivers short-ish briefings on astronomical objects. “Once Around: The Large Magellanic Cloud.” I’m getting to where I prefer his content to SEA or Astrum.

TierZoo. Animal documentaries in the style of video game commentary. Animals are player characters in a massively multiplayer game called Outside. A typical video will be titled “Are snakes OP?” and he will rank various snakes on a tier list. “Next we have the rattlesnake. Rattlesnakes have spent evolution points on the rattle ability, a mid-level intimidation and area denial attack intended to evade encounters with carnivore mains.” The fact he’s been able to keep up this shtick so long is the most entertaining part.

It’s not a stack, it’s a heap.

Used. They don’t do oral polio vaccines anymore AFAIK.

I wonder if the 2.2l from an S10 could be swapped in? Like an LS swap but more pathetic.

Yeah that’s exactly it. I’ve never seen one of those…fresh. I think they stopped using that kind of vaccine before I was born, again I never got vaccinated against smallpox, joys of being born in the 80’s. Was it an open sore? Or did it just…sink in?

My mother has one; a little spot on her arm where her skin just, kind of wrinkles inward a little. It doesn’t stand proud like a wound that scabbed over, it’s sunken in.

I’m a millennial, I’m not vaccinated against smallpox, it was certified eradicated 5 years before I was born.

A Certificate of Deposit. A kind of simple interest bank account adjacent in form factor to bonds. In simple terms, you give the bank an amount of money for a set amount of time, say a year, during which you can’t withdraw the money without paying a penalty. When the term is finished the bank returns the money plus an amount of simple interest. They often bear higher interest rates than savings or money market accounts and are FDIC insured.

(I was referencing the stalkerish lyrics of I’ll Be Watching You by The Police)

Signed,

A Pool Hall Ace

The PC I had as a teenager had teal trim.

Firewatch has certain choose your own adventure style “What is thy name, adventurer?” questions that it will refer back to later but it doesn’t effect the actual game that much. You get slightly different dialog lines from Horny Boss Chick On The Radio. What did it do that Roger Wilco couldn’t?

I will also believe “war is hell, especially when waged by retards.”

Charge during non-peak hours. Demand on the grid fluctuates over the day, use it when it’s not in use.

Yeah but this is the 2020s, malls are dead and pathetic.

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Krafton is South Korean. How’s the corporate culture in South Korea? Are they as ritual-suicide-for-going-home-before-the-boss-does as Japan?

I choose to secure all of North America.

Oh, don’t even pretend anyone cares about Afghanistan.