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  • That's... a big gap. I think I'd just be confused all the time if I had to switch between them.

  • I'm lucky. I live in a place where stonecrop is native, and it grows like a weed. Except it doesn't spread (quickly), and I love the look.

    We had some landscaping done and they moved some stonecrop and forgot to move one back. it wasn't even planted; it just grew right there where they'd left it!

    Great plants.

  • Also, biological monsters would overheat very fast.

    That's why they tend to breath fire n stuff.

    Old Godzilla movies got it right. He did look like he was walking on the moon. Not bouncing, but he probably had atrophied muscles from being in the water all the time.

    Poor guy. Overheated and tired, no wonder he was grumpy!

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  • That's brilliant. The thumbnail spoils it.. at least, it shows me the punchline.

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  • I don't know why; it just popped into my head. Maybe because the float would just make snacking easier for the sharks?

    Edit: because my home server insists on rewriting all image URLs to proxy requests through that server, and it often breaks things. I gotta re-home.

    https://files.catbox.moe/6awpqm.gif

  • LOL. Op walks around town, leaking Razrs and building their own mesh network.

  • Ok, so preface: this isn't about you. Your comment just coalesced something I've been ruminating about recently.

    I wish we, as humans, didn't have this knee-jerk tenancy to make everything a zero-sum competition. Vi vs EMACS. x86 vs ARM. Windows vs Mac vs Linux vs FreeBSD. C vs Go vs Rust vs Clojure vs JavaScript. Arch vs the world.

    It really is a zero-sum game, with real consequences. If your favorite distro becomes unpopular enough, it might die, and then you have to give up something you love. Windows winning the OS market for decades meant countless people had to suffer using Windows because the company they worked for mandated it. If I crusade for V(lang) enough, it might become popular enough for jobs to open for it.

    The downside is that we're constantly fighting against diversity, and that's bad.

    I suffer from this as much as anyone, and I hate that my first impulse is to either tear down "the opposition", which at some point is nearly everyone, or schadenfreude.

    "It is not enough that I succeed, but that others should fail." It can't be healthy.

  • I miss the days when every package came with a man page.

    Every respectable package; don't come at me, pendants.

  • What almost impresses me most is the architecture of the Parthenon in Athens. Nothing in it is perpendicular. There's a rise in the middle of the floor of about 6.5cm over a span of 30 meters that makes the floor bowed and prevents it from looking like it's sagging in the middle. All of the columns are just slightly tilted inwards. They're not straight-sided, either, they're bowed. The whole danged thing is an optical illusion to make it appear perpendicular, because it's so big that if they didn't, it wouldn't.

    https://www.thearchaeologist.org/blog/6e7osxbhye9libjdlmb8std5b77rs9

  • Enshittification is probably a large part. However, I can see it.

    Our's are plastic, 25 years old, and look like crap. Wash them all you want, they just look dirty all the time. I'd replace them except for the absurd cost for a piece of molded ABS.

    I take them off to wash them. I can imagine someone having an accident with one, like washing them in dishwasher and having one fall down onto a heating element. Those are big, but our's are small enough to get knocked down onto the garbage disposal - it would't be easy, and would require an unusual sequence is events, but I've fucked up even more unlikely sequences of events in my life.

    I really wish I could get decent aluminum replacements for our's; it wouldn't make the range any newer, but it'd make it look nicer than the black plastic shit that it came with.

  • This is exactly what establishment Democrats and AIPAC were afraid of. Not Mamdani himself, as mayor of NYC, but a normalization of more progressive candidates.

    I love it. Be prepared for the massive media campaign though. If we thought the smear against Mamdani was bad, if he wins the general it's going to be a frenzy.

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