It was a state fair? This is what you do at fairs?

Hmmm. I have a cat and an 8yo ADHD boy.

There’s a smell, and stuff everywhere. So yeah, you get it. I don’t live in a barn, but it sure does feel like it some days.

Fun yes.

Funding? What’s that?

I need more baskets

Independent.

Man idk

I got a date secured and it dawned on me that I am NOT ready to have a date over. Like you ever realize how many things you gotta take care of that you stopped paying attention to?

Like fine, clear your counters, sweep the floor, clean the bathroom, replace the burnt out light bulb, clean sheets on bed, on box spring, on bedframe, shampoo carpets, dust shelves, put away clean clothes, wash dirty clothes, check your fingernails, check your ear and nose hair, your regular hair, make sure they don’t have allergies, etc, etc.

Im ok with not getting laid I don’t have the energy to go to work, do all that shit, panic for a week about the date, have fun at the date, play the social awkward dance of “more, not more” and potentially end up having her see that I’m an absolute disaster?

Nah I’m good.

Speed of light in a true vacuum.

Speed of light through any non-vacuum decreases.

The speed of causality remains the same.

This is probably a hot take.

I understand the anger directed against Rowling. I won’t be buying anything remotely Harry Potter (or have for a long while).

But for people who really connected with the books enough to get tattoos, are you really doing yourself a favor by getting it removed? The books obviously meant a lot, and the characters, events, and story meant a lot.

It seems a lot like self-inflicting pain because someone else hurt you.

Is that how an anti-meme is supposed to work?

It’s too funny

It’s immature. Just say you’re taking a break from messaging right now.

Double goes for dating. If you get ghosted by someone, probably a good thing, because they aren’t relationship material yet.

But only the first one they can get in contact with.

And that’s if they need to.

So like if you’ve never been to that hospital, don’t have an ID on you, nobody recognizes you, and your can’t ID yourself, that’s a John/Jane Doe situation. Even if they CAN identify you, unless they have some sort of record of emergency contacts they don’t have anyone to contact.

I don’t want it to be like it is, but it do

Mood.

They’re about to find out just how important I actually am. Which isn’t a lot and it frightens me greatly. Or, I’m wrong, and I’m more important than I realize.

The grippy socks will be here soon and either way they’ll be necessary to survive until the next burnout.

Look man. Mycelium. It’s all connected don’t you see? I don’t mean clones. They’re not clones. Its something else. It’s one BIG connection. It’s one BIG organism.

And it’s MASSIVE. You think it’s just a little mushroom on the forest floor. But under that mushroom is a string. A string that connects to another string that may be connects to a root or another mushroom. Then strings with no mushrooms between the trees. And the strings outpace the trees.

So the direction the trees grow in? Isn’t decided by the trees, or the larger environment around it at all. It’s decided by the mycelium. They grow outward, find the nutrients, and set the conditions for seeds to grow there, and change conditions elsewhere.

The war between fungi and bacteria is an ancient and bloody one.

I don’t fear the bacteria. No. They can colonize and grow resistance to antibacterials produced by the fungi and chemists. But fungi? Fungi can communicate. Fungi can parasitize. Fungi can grow in radiation contaminated environments.

They are the dominant lifeform on this planet.

And if you still don’t believe me, wait until you inexplicably have a yeast infection despite practicing hygiene taught at a super young age. That itch. That pain. It’s a higher evolved organism consuming everything.

It’s kind of telling when Amazon services like Ring, Prime Video, and Alexa failed over pretty quickly, but everything else just didnt.

There’s no conspiracy here. It’s just highlighting that Amazon could prepare for AWS outages in a region, but since everything auth related was on us-east-1, everything else went down.

Shortcuts are costly.

The fact that you knew exactly what I was talking about enough to pull up the relevant XKCD is impressive good sir/ma’am/(actually I don’t know what the non binary term would be there. I know military it’s “Sir” regardless).

In older articles they stated he did not want to go and they never gave his age. Were they early attempts at propagandizing sympathy for the rich?

Eh. It would create a whole new set of problems.

Especially when it comes to theorists vs experimentalists. Both agree that experiment is necessary to prove the theory. Both agree that unexpected observation in experiments needs new theory.

Theorists are usually the type to mentally explore possibilities based on prior knowledge before physically testing possibilites. Some may never actually experiment they get so wrapped up in the exploration.

Experimentalists are usually the type to physically test possibilities before mentally exploring “why” the outcomes happened. Some may never actually mentally explore possibilities because they died in an experiment.

This seems to be intrinsic to these scientists. So much so the interactions would be similar to anyone actually willing to talk to missionaries.

If it were possible to convert people to theorists, we’d have a lot less proven, and if it were possible to convert people to experimentalists, we’d all be dead.

I think maybe the point about the Kid is being missed.

Yeah super rich. Yeah didn’t want to be there.

But to change things you need people with resources on your side. The young are significantly easier to do this with.

If we demonstrate that we have empathy for all of the vulnerable (as we should) those young ones can see the power of empathy.

These compression methods are getting out of hand