If this one was built like the one I took down, some, maybe all, of those boards on the bottom run into the structure itself for support, and those are beefy boards, especially on their side like that. Mine was supported with those and diagonal supports just to prevent sag.

Id guess they are replacing ground-tied supports, and those are just to keep the small bit of pull from causing damage to the roof and stuff while they swap them. Just long enough for the photo.

That or its completely floating and the boards are just for a laugh.

Companies aren’t required to go public in the first place so it’s a rather moot point. They actively choose to be in the situation where they are beholden to shareholders.

If you owned a company you could just, like, not go asking rich people for money to grow or whatever (what IPO is, basically) and grow naturally on your own merits. Then you don’t even have to worry about what kind of votes people might have.

Personally I think the stock market should just be banned outright. Go back to pensions or some sort of UBI or even have companies pay into universal pensions or something, whatever, but tying retirement to gambling needs to stop, and the entire gambling on the economy thing is clearly not working well overall what with it being pretty easy to manipulate, to the destruction of all, and all…

That trend is because a lot of them start life as “light novels” (similar to young adult novels, have a few scattered pictures and stuff), and those are intentionally titled so you have an idea of what you’ll be reading, because there are a freakin’ lot of them. It’s basically the synopsis blurb, just as part of the title, so you read it while looking for a book rather than going out of your way to know what its about.

Is the tattoo problem better or worse than stuffed animals watching? Or real ones, for that matter?

Goes well with the jar of bees

Probably the evolutionary arms race between rapey males and females. Males have long corkscrew penises that inflate rapidly during copulation to fill the tract of the female. Females, what with their desire to choose mates and all, have evolved corkscrew vaginal tracts with dead ends and stuff that spirals in the opposite direction. Forced mating frequently ends without insemination, as a result.

I am genuinely unsure of the mechanism by which successful mating actually happens, considering the anatomical arms race and all (maybe it’s like dolphins, which have a similar problem. Female dolphins have a false vagina and can choose where the male’s sperm goes by changing her tail position), but they seem to be able to reproduce, so it is what it is, and I’m not super keen to look it up at the moment.

Keeping them held snug against the body over a lifetime, reduces sagging near the end.

Interestingly, this was thought to be the case for breasts, as well, but up to a certain size (at which point support becomes necessary) its best to leave them be other than specific activities like exercise, because it forces muscles and skin to tighten to support them which keeps them from sagging longer. It’ll still happen, of course, either way.

Thanks for the reminder that I need to order trichogramma wasps to fix my moth problem again. Downside of keeping my quail inside; moths infest very easily. Upside, i learned years ago that trichogramma wasps (stingless egg parasites) are cheap and work like a dream on pantry moths, plus they are so small you’ll never see them (like moving sand)

Technically you always taste the contents of your bowels, you just aren’t conscious of it.

Your digestive system has tastebuds all up and down it, just like your tongue. Unlike your tongue, they very thankfully aren’t hooked into sensory processing parts of the brain. Instead, they are used to help determine everything’s good. If they detect something is off, bacteria byproducts, spoilage, etc, they cause the purges to happen (vomiting or diarrhea depending where in the digestive process it is, sometimes both!!)

But thats basically why you can sometimes feel very spicy food move through and burn along the way.

How was it? Delicious?

This reminds me of the dude who built a computer that technically runs doom inside satisfactory or factorio (I think satisfactory).

I’m struggling to find the video now, but he wrote a ton of optimization code to make it run faster, because it’s painfully slow. I think the video was sped up 1,000x or so just to show it was, in fact, playing.

The book Cat Sense by John Bradshaw is a good read (you can probably find a free pdf thats complete, and years ago I uploaded the audiobook to audiobookbay, but this preview will do for not linking to amazon or potentially breaking rules).

He got around the problem of cats not doing cat things in a lab by just, you know, having cats at home and observing their behavior. Sure, its only a look at domestic cats for the most part, but its a great read anyway.

If you dig down about 2 foot (or several inches lower than the lowest root you find) and install a rubber barrier that goes from the bottom of the trench to up above the soil, it wont be able to spread to you anymore :)

You could use brick, stone, or cement, but if any cracks exist or form it’ll eventually find the way through, where that’s significantly less likely with a solid sheet of rubber.

Should add sunchokes/Jerusalem artichoke in there somewhere, as they are food. I don’t think kudzu is? Lets replace that one.

Sunchokes spread like crazy as long as they have full sun, and are super difficult to eradicate, but are thwarted by being planted in sunny clearings in densely wooded areas. They can’t spread into the shade.

Make the land difficult for development, but useful for the community!

The urge never went away for me, I vaped 0% for several years. It’s the habit that’s addictive for some people.

I have a 2023 chevy bolt and I just pulled the fuse for all that stuff. It doesn’t really disable anything important. If you still want navigation or location-based charging, you can remove the onstar module behind the screen without issue, and the video tutorial made it look pretty damned easy to DIY. That disables all the spyware/internet stuff but leaves everything else working. I’ll probably do it eventually, for location-based charging and nothing else, but its very low priority at the moment, cuz I hardly ever go anywhere that can use the full level 1 12amp pull (my friends and family aren’t confident their wiring can handle it, which is totally fair, I don’t use 12amp at home for the same reason, and I’m getting a new outlet installed that will make it a level 2 charger anyway)

It also has physical buttons for all the important stuff. That and being able to disable the spyware were my two main criteria, with cargo space as a close third (used to have a civic coupe, loved the size, but useless for moving stuff)

Honestly just having the bed be dinged and/or dirty is plenty to me.

It’s absurd the number of trucks I’ve seen where the bed liner looks brand new, never used, on a 5-10 YO vehicle. No body damage, not even a scuff on the tailgate.

Sure it IS possible to regularly use a truck as a truck and be so careful as to not cause any damage, but it’s incredibly unlikely.

The halo effect is a real problem, Disney notwithstanding.

Society needs to move on from the belief that beauty is a blessing from the gods. But its been a problem since forever.

I want to do a new job every 6 month or so. Thats long enough to get really really good at it, but not long enough to get bored or develop anxiety about doing it.

That’s technically what temp agency contracts are, but I don’t like when someone takes part of my paycheck for doing absolutely fuck-all and the jobs on offer fucking suck. But finding your own contracts is honestly a full-time job by itself. I know because I’ve done that for years.

Life is unfair, just give me a job and I’ll at least temporarily be the best employee you’ve ever had!

I bought a 4-times-daily 31-day pill case. Thats 124 compartments, plus theres an extra stick because they come in a grid, which I use for travel, for a total of 128.

I fill it whenever I get my new bottles, and sure, its kinda big, and I never use all 31 sticks because I only take meds once a day, but it does mean I only have to fill it once per refill (90 days).

Thats a level of remembering I can do. Plus if I ever have to swap to twice daily, I have plenty of spares, just working from the other end.

Only real downside is you need to re-label them, and if you take meds daily, you need to use two sticks a week, with an empty compartment.

Or if 1-month intervals are fine for you, especially if you take meds twice a day anyway, you can just use it as-is :)