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.

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.

This isn't good, y'all.

I've got the debate in the background while I'm trying to find out if I still can update the sex on my Florida birth certificate, or if they've banned that too. It's going to be easier to change it before I apply for Luxembourgish citizenship according to my contact with LACS. Euro folks, where is still safe over there? Fuck. I don't want to flee everything I've ever known *again".

FUCK YOU.

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I've heard that the brand new Nvidia 555 drivers actually work with Wayland. I was ready to switch my gaming laptop to Linux but I may wait a few weeks for the driver to release out of beta. (Arch users shut up, lol.)

With a tiny bit of work this could probably be turned into a Chuck Tingle title.

In general, I agree with you. But specifically Isaac Newton? The only thing his dick might have been in was a coconut.

Hyfetch

No, sadly, it shipped with windows 8.1. Chrome OS would have at least made sense.