My friend asked me if I wanted a frozen banana. I said ‘No. But I want a regular banana later. So yes.’
My friend asked me if I wanted a frozen banana. I said ‘No. But I want a regular banana later. So yes.’
Bikes are popular in Seattle, but I’m not sure I’d call it a bike-friendly city. Tons of rain, tons of hills, tons of bridges, tons of crappy roads. We put bike lanes in a bunch of places, but a lot of them still have to go through confusing intersections or only cover part of your commute. Add on the new trend of no-hands driving, it’s still pretty dangerous.
“Think about how dumb the average American is. Then think that half of em are dumber than that!”
My coworkers say that I’ve got resting murder face. When I’m just zoning out not paying attention to anything, I apparently look like I’m actively searching for something rusty to stab you with.
I don’t want to have a conversation while my dick is in my hand.
https://youtu.be/3n6Ra-K7us8?si=3CSYfV-XdBYbGDMQ
Cows have excellent taste in music.
Ever listen to Meshuggah?
Not that bad, which is strange for this time of year. Usually I’d be working 'round the clock, but my industry is in a slump, so I have some free time. Hanging out with my partner, cooking, cleaning, played a hot second of video games last week. Hoping to have time to jump back into reading Stormlight Archive, but that’s one hell of an investment.
Thanks for asking, stranger. How’s life by you?
Yeah, but just based on my own prejudices, the antivax community ain’t a huge fan of the Spanish- speaking community.
I believe Terry Pratchett called it Autophrenology. If the patterns of bumps and divots in your skull determine your personality traits, then changing those bumps changes your personality. There was a whole industry of doctors with ball peen hammers.
Bottom trawling is one of the most hideously destructive things we do to this planet. Imagine if you wanted to catch rabbits, so you hooked a giant nylon net to the back of two humvees. Put them 100 yards apart and drive through a forest, knocking down trees, shredding the underbrush, catching anything and everything in its path. At the other end of the forest you carefully step over all of the dying deer, moose, mice etc and pick out the 30-40 rabbits that you want. Then you leave the net and everything else you just happily killed lying at the edge of the forest so nothing can grow under it. That’s what bottom trawling is. People would be horrified by it, except that it literally happens under the surface.
This is a huge part of the reason that we’re missing a billion crab. This is a huge part of why the king salmon are dying, which is a huge part of why the orcas are starving.
Commercial fishing in general has massive, glaring environmental problems, from bycatch to emissions to illegal overfishing to everything else under the sun. But if I had to pick one issue to focus on it would be bottom trawling.
You know the difference between chickpeas and garbanzo beans?
I’ve never paid to have a garbanzo bean on my face.
I’ll always remember a story my buddy told me in high school. His dad was a judge, and absolutely brilliant, and a major alcoholic. One time his dad sat him down and said ‘I think you’ll have a good life. Because you’re smart enough to do well in this world, but not smart enough to realize what a shithole it is.’
I really think that there is a point where if you’re smart enough, you have brain power to really pay attention to everything that goes on in the world. And paying attention to all of that can do serious harm to one’s psyche.
Scrotapodes.
Surprise, surprise. Starbucks has become the poster child for union-busting in modern America. Fuck Starbucks and fuck Howard Schultz.
And Washington State produces more potatoes than Idaho.
And Wisconsin has more lakes than Minnesota.
Same thing with the guy who named it ‘dyslexia.’
Ha. Thanks. Like I said, my Deutsch is kinda shit.
Yeah. ‘Suicide plug’ Is a misnomer. Should be ‘homicide plug.’
The danger isn’t plugging both ends into the same circuit. The danger is when there’s a downed power line, somebody plugs a generator into their outlet to power their own house. The genny backfills the line, so this line that everybody thinks is dead is suddenly live. All of a sudden the poor lineman who is trying to fix it a mile downline gets electrocuted while standing on top of a 30’ ladder.