Grew up in a neighborhood with twins, I didn’t really know them, just had met them a few times. Boy and girl, Violet (girl) and Azure (boy). Boy’s name might have been Azul, one or the other.

So many things would be better suited to the grocery store having large hoppers of the item that you fill your own containers with. Either the hopper counts out how much is fed through, or you sit the empty container beneath the hopper on a scale, zero it, and then fill and get the weight printed on a little sticker. We have this technology for jelly beans and coffee grounds, but apparently it’s far too advanced for anything else

For real? Well now I gotta go find some clips!

Honestly, this would be a really cool way to build Cobb houses, which are very environmentally friendly, have fantastic insulation, and are some of our oldest still standing structures, iirc. Good hat and boots (roof with overhang and foundation), 3d printed Cobb walls, and a lime coating, and I could see this really making housing costs a lot lower in certain communities.

Biggest downside to Cobb from my research is just that electrical and plumbing typically needs to be running conduit on top of the wall, instead of inside the wall, if you want the option to upgrade or change it later.

I am so frequently reminded that not everyone got an amazing parent like I had, and even my less amazing, drug using parent, was never the type I hear about so often. I’m so sorry the world is an unkind as it is, especially to kids. Y’all deserve and deserved better <3

I’m the same way. Anything down to about 4c and I’m just in bed, naked, covered with only a thin sheet, fan pointed at me.

Sadly, I live in a place where 26-27 is a common temperature in autumn and spring, and it only gets down to 15c in the winter for the most part :(

Fucking loved foamy the squirrel

It’s not removing the means of survival. I said “removing the means of survive from meaningless work.” In other words, to decouple the two concepts so that one may survive without having to rely on meaningless work.

Oh, to be a Twink on fire island in the 70s… If I ever get shape shifting and a time machine, it’s not going to be my first stop, but it’s definitely going to be on the list lmao

I’ll die on that hill. Lol. Best android to date, if it were updated for the modern age, I’d never consider any other form factor. That as a Linux phone would be absolutely a dream

As a leftist, UBI is a concept that both excites and scares me. It is a last ditch effort to save a consumer economy, and further removes people from labor organizing. With price hikes and unethical corporations and governments, a UBI could simply become a way to increase the price of every object and service, while also preventing the one method through which average people have ever genuinely impacted change: the union and strike. How do we unionize around ourself when we are removed from work? It’s a scary concept.

I love the idea of removing the means of survival from meaningless work, and I truly believe that is the direction we need to go if we wish to continue basing our economy off of consumerism and money (which, frankly, I don’t think we need to do), but in order for it work and be anything other than an actual nightmarescape, UBI has to be coupled (in some concrete, irreversible way) with things like price controls, rent controls, and some way for people to functionally unionize as citizens outside of their respective employment.

But all that said, we can’t even get single payer healthcare in the US, so this is more of a “what they should do in Europe” situation, as here in the US the answer to “will we get a UBI” is “go fucking die in a hole, you disgusting poor. But not that hole. That’s my hole.”

So many lol

The T-Mobile G1 was incredible. I wish they would remake it for today. A slide out keyboard, and a little mouse ball. It was fucking fantastic.

Blackberry 7230, I think. I looked up the timeline, and that looks like the right one, but the article says it was color. Mine was black and white. My mom got it for me because I loved to read, and could use it to read books outside.

Blackberry 7100t was peak. First time I watched Internet porn was on that phone lol

And at one point between the blackberry and my first android, my mom got me this phone with a built in MP3 player. It was so friggin thick, but it could hold so much music, and had an awesome camera. Around the same time, my buddy had a phone with a camera with a telescopic lense that looked more like a traditional camera than a phone.

It’s fire island, I’m a little surprised the ice breaker wasn’t sticking his face in OP’s ass crack as he said it, from the stories I’ve been told.

My uncle’s best friend used to go way back in the day, and from the stories he told me, it was basically just one nonstop public orgy. Of course, this was before AIDS was big, iirc.

Help me out? Google foxworthy conundrum, only seeing the modern comedian. I’m assuming this isn’t that lol

Yeah, at no point do I recall ever actually believing in the tooth fairy or Santa clause or whatnot, but I do remember playing along with it, not as like a “I like money/gifts” way, but more of a “this is a fun ritual” type of way

I’m leaning more and more towards otter lmao

I’ve thought about this, and I really don’t know. I think I’m too self conscious to actually pick one, because I’d only be able to focus on negative aspects haha

ETA: Asked a friend of a friend who’s a furry to ask me questions and help determine what I’d be.

He says otter or beaver lol

Does the fursona need to represent you physically? Because if so, I feel like I’d be misrepresenting myself a bit, both those animals are small, and I’m a very large person (6’3/191cm, broad shouldered, and 270lbs/122kg), and they’re both quite furry, whereas I have basically no hair at all on my head or body lol

So, like, what do I do to get started into the new community I’ve just recently discovered I have a deep passion for?

Why does no one ever offer me cocaine? :(

right, I’m fairly metric-fluent. Advocate for the switch and whatnot. I just had not personally seen centiliter used on a commercial product like that. I’m guessing each country (or perhaps it’s more language specific?) chooses different common units. In my experience, I have only seen milliliter and liter used for beverages, and gram and milligram used for foods. I know the others exist, and I’m sure someone somewhere measures distance or size in decimeters, it’s just not something I’ve seen someone doing.