Unfortunately, so is basically everything else.
At least the rainbow one will continue to work, without monthly payments, until it runs out of ink.
Possibly chosen? My brother was born on the 1st of the month because my mom had a planned C-section and they gave her a window and let her pick the date. She picked something easy to remember. Although this may be less common because it's no longer mandatory to have a c-section just because your previous birth was via c-section, afaik.
There are limits in many places, sometimes in response to that time the artist Prince changed his name to a symbol, in some cases all special characters are banned too, so good luck to anyone with a non-English name. But outside of that? In most states you could probably name your kid Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho, much worse names have happened.
I think there's been a couple of times where states have tried to stop individuals who have tried to name their kid Adolph Hitler or just some racist slogan, but I don't remember how those went, it was a genuine legal question if those names could be blocked.
Name changes, however, are a different thing - often requiring a judge to approve them, they can be rejected simply due to the misfortune of being a trans person in Texas, for example. Unless it's a name change due to marriage, those are significantly easier for some reason.
I grew up in Florida and knew people who knew people that had pet raccoons. And this was consistently what I heard third hand about pet raccoons.
Sometimes taxis wouldn't pick up certain people because of how they look
Unfortunately, at least in the US, Uber is just as bad. I've got a friend who's blind and has a service dog - Uber drivers legally can't decline a ride because he's got a service dog, but very frequently they'd pull up, see the dog, and cancel the ride. Taxis are more likely to know and follow the law.
Stuff is built differently in places where hurricanes are common. Building standards are more strict, especially after Andrew, and adverse weather is a consideration when things are built (for instance, chain link fences are incredibly common rather than wood fences). Same with the landscaping - branches break, trees completely falling is rare because generally sturdier trees with deeper roots are chosen, and are planted well away from the house. A lot of power lines are buried - it's more resilient to bad weather (even the afternoon thunderstorms in Florida can occasionally be just as nasty as the thunderstorms that caused so much damage at your place) and long term it's cheaper than replacing the power lines every summer. And you kinda get used to being without power for a few hours (or even a few days to a week) after really bad hurricanes or thunderstorms. I've done homework by kerosene lamp more than once as a kid, and I'm in my 30s. My family played a lot of board games during the long power outages. Eventually my family, and a lot of others, invested in a generator, they're fairly common now. My dad had a chainsaw and mostly dealt with the fallen trees himself.
But I've never learned how to tow a car out out the ditch, but many of my friends here in Minnesota do know how - different places require different skill sets. Learning how to deal with a furnace and radiator has been interesting.
Also, in hindsight, a direct eyewall hit or worse of a category 3+ hurricane is so pants shittingly terrifying that nobody sane continues living there after experiencing one.
Gubbins is a fun word game, it's a one time purchase and apparently part of the profits go to charity due to Hank Green investing in it in a creative way.
Somewhat unrelated (mostly relevant because of the "yeah that technically counts as micromobility" thing), but my favorite genre of headline is "Man arrested for DUI on Motorized Cooler". I was thinking of Australia man, but I found out it's happened to New York man too.
I've never had the opportunity to go to Playalinda, but I do really miss Paradise Beach before the tourists found out about it.
I wasn't able to find one. Which, if anyone saw my shitpost, is the real reason I installed it on my crapbook. I found out that the installer is pretty great, it just worked out of the box (at least on that computer, my gaming machine has an Nvidia graphics card...), and that GMOME isn't really for me.
A vape shop I get my weed from (I'm in a legal state and it's locally sourced, so somewhat less sketchy than your average vape shop weed) got something similar to chocolate shroom bars and I've certainly considered it, but, again, vape shop. Don't buy weird shit from a vape shop.
Jesse "the Body" Ventura. Let's go full Senior Citizens Wrestling League with this.
LOL I just had a discussion with someone in another thread about how Walz would be great, but the person I was talking to said he didn't think Walz had the name recognition.
Is that really a bad thing, though? Generic Democrat polls really well against Trump. The people who know of Walz really like him, even the more reasonable rural Republicans here grudgingly admit that while they don't agree with him politically he clearly cares about Minnesotans. Newsom doesn't have that. The past couple of years have seen some semi-viral quotes from him poking at politicians in red states, mostly along the lines of "we fed children, what have you done?", and I've seen them posted here. The people who know him like him. For the people who don't, he's Generic Democrat. He's well spoken enough to handle the discussions around the George Floyd protests (which already came up in the first debate but Biden didn't address directly). He's well spoken, smart, kind, and down to earth - everything Trump isn't.
Also, I hadn't heard of Obama before he ran for president. For a sufficiently likable candidate, it's not a deal breaker.
COSMIC looks awesome in screenshots though.
Tim Walz. Minnesota has been kicking ass with progressive legislation these past few years, and here in Minnesota we've been wondering if he's been quietly trying to get his name out there to run for President. (And the general consensus is that we don't want to lose him as governor, but I guess we'll give him up to save US democracy, lol.) On paper he's fairly moderate too.
Walz. Added benefit is that Walz used to be a school teacher, he definitely knows how to deal with a child throwing a tantrum.
Even the brain worms guy?
I'm on my second beer of the night, does a six pack of Modelo have enough alcohol to kill me? I'm small if that helps.
Lynn Conway, who died Sunday at 85, was a leader in the development of personal computers and microprocessor technology, and a symbol for generations of transgender individuals.
I have mixed feelings on the pronoun use, but having read some of her autobiographical writing I don't think she would have taken much issue with it. This piece is more focused on her work in computer engineering, so I felt it was appropriate to post here.
Website for Minnesota's $1,500 e-bike rebate crashes on first day (Launch postponed)
The MN Department of Revenue just announced the application won't be available today, BMTN hasn't updated their article as of the time I'm posting this. I've been hitting F5 for almost three hours, I'm going to go take a nap.
Urbanist video about Rethinking I-94
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This is largely fantastic, but I definitely laughed at Ham-line.
What distro should I use on my potato?
I have an HP Stream 11 that I want to use for word processing and some light web browsing - I'm a writer and it's a lightweight laptop to bring to the library or coffee shop to write on. Right now it's got Windows and it's unusable due to lack of hard drive space for updates. Someone had luck with Xubuntu, but it's been a few years and it seems like Xubuntu is no longer trying to be a lightweight distro for use cases like this.
My experience with Linux is very limited - I played around with Peppermint Linux a bit back when it was a Lubuntu fork and I used Ubuntu on the lab computers in college. I can follow instructions to make a live boot and I can do an apt-get (so something Debian-based might be best for compatibility and familiarity) but I mostly have no idea what I'm doing, lol. I used to do DOS gaming as a kid so having to do the occasional thing via command line isn't going to scare me off but I'm not going to pretend to have knowledge I don't. I'm probably going to go with Mint on my gaming laptop next year but I suspect it's not the best choice for my blue bezeled potato (although I might try it anyway).
With the release of Red Viper, a fully stereoscopic Virtual Boy emulator for the Nintendo 3DS, the community has once again proven that Fans Do What Nintendont. The creation of GitHub user skyfloogle, Red Viper finally brings the Virtual Boy's tiny library to the system where it always belonged, per
After more than 100,000 “uncommitted” votes in this week’s Michigan primary, backers of a ceasefire in Gaza hope Minnesota Super Tuesday voters also deliver a rebuke to President Joe Biden.
online permissions 3ds LL - is there a better solution than region changing?
I have a modded 3ds LL, and I don't speak Japanese. I relied heavily on Google translate to get it modded but at this point I don't have many problems that locale emulation won't fix. But I am playing the US version of Animal Crossing New Leaf, and in order to play online with other people it's asking me to agree to a user agreement that I just can't find in my system settings, and if one does exist it might not set the correct flags for the US version of the game. I'd like to see the online stuff before they shut down the servers, and the AC community is trying to organize something on there in a week or two. I'm guessing region changing will let me just approve the user agreement, and it looks like for me there wouldn't be any downside because I have no intention of unmodding, and I have no purchases on the eShop nor a Japanese NNID (would making one help with this issue?) but I figured I'd try asking if someone else might have a different solution? Having it in Japanese is just kinda neat, despite the occasional headache requiring Google translate.
St Paul has Laser Loon library cards!
Limited Edition Library Cards We couldn't let the imaginative state flag submissions get lost in the stacks. Get your laser-eyed…
The Minneapolis City Council has overridden a mayoral veto with a 9-3 vote and approved a resolution that calls for a cease-fire in Gaza and for an end to U.S. military funding to Israel.
N3DS - how much of a problem is this crack?
I'm trying to buy a used Japanese New 3DS LL (I hate how Nintendo named that thing) with an IPS top screen, and there's one listing where the price is what I'm willing to pay, the screens are pristine with no yellowing and I'm fine with the condition of the back plates, but there's a small crack in the console just below the upper screen. I do not have the experience to replace the whole shell, is this something I could use a bit of glue or epoxy and be fine or would this become a huge problem?