For all of us Aeropress junkies, here's a deep rabbit hole: https://aeroprecipe.com/. I hope y'all have as much fun as I did playing around with the recipes and results options.

I miss lawn darts, but the ban made sense. Holy hell, people were stupid with those things.

Trusted reviewers + dynamic review weighting. For example, so many times, some super crappy tourist trap or restaurant is rated very highly. Upon entering the restaurant, that Sysco smell is blatantly obvious: this place sucks. Being able to follow certain reviewers and have ratings recalculated according to my preferences would help people with less travel dollars get to experience more.

Decriminalization and legalization are wonderful steps in the right direction. My inner alarm bells are ringing though; I can't help but feel that this is another push to squeeze more productivity out of an already burned-out working base. Microdose to improve productivity at work; weed at night to make it all feel okay until I wake up.

Punch card stock makes amazing paper airplanes, both individually and laminated into larger stock.

I'm actually kicking my past self for not trying it sooner it's so good.

This right here. For most of my cooking life, I thought this salad sounded disgusting, or at best, a waste of ingredients. Oh, so many summers I missed out on this tastiness because I was stubborn. If you enjoy any of these flavors individually, do yourself a favor and give this a try. There is a lot of leeway and flexibility with the ingredients, so you can swap in different components to use what you have in the fridge.

Here, let me save y'all the click and provide a translation:

I was a total idiot with my savings, despite obviously being able to use the most incredible depository of information that ever existed. So, because I was stupid, Imma write an article on how I plan to apply ongoing stupidity with my life savings.

This rocket scientist is continuing to sow her ignorance. Sure, CDs are/can be a facet of an investment strategy. But she mentions nothing about laddering her CDs (maintain both advantages of yield + liquidity). She mentions nothing about picking CDs or their terms. She also fails to go into any detail about what she learned other than "consult your financial advisor." Wow, thanks for that! /eyeroll

Money is that for which we are stuck trading at least ⅓ of our lives. That waste of human capacity and potential is, in and of itself, a tragedy of Capitalism. But disseminating that ignorance as some influencer is next-level financial aggression.

It's sofa king exhausting. Craft a cover letter and tweak the resume for each application. And still get crickets.

For the entirety of my engineering career (25+ years), I've been accustomed to getting an offer for every position to which I applied. This time around, something is way off. I'm at 78 applications, despite being a perfect fit for almost all of those applications. There have been only two responses, and those were for interviews, still in progress. The fake listings makes a lot sense, but I can't help but feel that the problem is way larger than this article indicates.

First attempt... <snort> Admit it, you're actually a pro. 😁

But seriously, looks perfectly executed. Beautifully done!

Monterey sea lemon, Hood Canal WA USA

Ask and ye shall receive! Giant nudibranch, Sinclair Inlet, Bremerton WA USA

These nudis are very common on the docks where I moor my boat. This picture has the saturation punched up, but still fails to convey just how trippy they, and most other nudibranchs, look in person. The iridescence in the rhinophores and cerata is something that can be tricky to capture with imaging. Here is a different angle of the same species.

This looks like a great starting point! Thank you for the tips!

to be honest they might not be enough for you if you weren't at least lukewarm on the base game already Given that more people seem to enjoy the game than not, I'm willing to concede that I'm just missing something. Please excuse me while I go fiddle with a bunch of mods.

So it sounds like I need to dive into the DLC and mods. What suggestions do you have for improving the experience? Thanks in advance!

You and me both! 😆 We continued to live together and were besties for another four years, and she would never talk about anything relationship-related, even as her next three relationships imploded.

Oh, right! I forgot about all of the LIDAR-equipped planes in maritime communities! Those are way more economical to fly than any sUAS. /s in case that wasn't obvious.

In case you, or anyone else, were vaguely interested in learning:

-kelp extent mapping needs to be done in repeatable fashion, specifically at low tide; we can put up an sUAS any time

-the communities most in need of monitoring absolutely cannot afford to send planes up monthly

-many of the kelp beds in the PacNW are in restricted airspace; it is much easier to get an FAA clearance to perform low-altitude surveys using sUAS

-that restricted airspace I mentioned? Some of these kelp beds are on approach paths for the airspace. Even if a plane were the preferred choice for surveying, the planes are unable to fly in the pattern we need

-(drifting a touch off your point of LIDAR-equipped planes) satellite imagery with the required resolution is prohibitively expensive

-most construction projects wouldn't use a plane for tasks such as volumetric or area analysis

Consumer drones are quickly becoming the preferred, economical means for kelp health analysis, especially for communities that can't afford planes or purchasing satellite imagery.

This "lonely adult" uses drones for aerial mapping and survey. This Summer's huge project is a workflow I developed to map the extent of PacNW bull kelp forests in order to provide year-over-year health metrics. Using sUAS for this is way more automated, economical, repeatable, and granular than using airplanes and satellites, therefore within reach of those communities monitoring kelp health.

DJI hits the sweet spot of capabilities, compatibility, and cost. Skydio (go USA!) has abandoned the consumer/enthusiast market that built their business. And even before they turned their back on the consumer market, Skydio couldn't come close to DJI's hardware. Additionally, Skydio, in true capitalist fashion, locked capabilities away behind software licenses, capabilities that are already built into the drone.

It's important for countries to have domestic drone manufacturing in the current conditions. But the USA's actions here smack of protecting companies that just can't hang.

I had a partner for eight years. We met when we were both 31. She was my first monogamous relationship theretofore because I decided to give monogamy a try. She was utterly, screamingly boring in bed. There was nothing else notably wrong with the relationship, except for her unwillingness to communicate on anything beyond household, workaday topics. No oral (give or receive), no anal, not into foreplay, and she would just lay there. But no conflicts either. There was the advantage of she was always willing and ready to go without any foreplay or lube. She got off and claimed she was absolutely sexually satisfied. Sex wasn't even fun in the context of Free Use, which is a kink I enjoy. I tried to engage her in all kinds of Gottman Method relationship work, but she bluntly and explicitly refused.

At one point early in our relationship, she moved and clamped her vagina in a way that was quite enjoyable. "Honey, that was great! Please do that more." And for the rest of our relationship, any such complement was a sure-fire way to make sure it would never happen again. After eight years of nearly daily, invariably terrible sex, I stopped approaching her sex for three weeks. She never said a thing. On day 22, I broke up with her, and she was absolutely gobsmacked, claimed that I was throwing away eight years of great history. She hadn't even noticed that there had been no sex for three weeks.

I hate them because the last four times I ate there, I had diarrhea for days, all different locations. The last time I ate there, it all came out 12 minutes later. So yeah, four for four is enough to establish that their "food" is just toxic.

Any other country with that free access to high quality guns would have their politicians afraid of just fucking die. Republicans act as they were invulnerable demigods.

Total anecdote, so take the following with the Internet grain of salt that it is.

I was at a dinner party in the 90s. A Columbia University law professor, by way of long, meandering conversation, asked me (paraphrasing) "Why do you think we, the general populace, are allowed to own firearms?" Uh, I'm just a rural New York bumpkin. I just want to protect my livestock and keep the deer from destroying my small plot of crops. "Sure, JayleneSlide, that's a great general reason. But in the US, it's for killing cops and politicians." 0_0

So, yeah, clearly not enough politicians in proper fear of the constituency here, despite their willingness to sell us out for the tiniest pittance.