What. The. Fuck. The. Actual. Living. Fuck. What.

No free feet pics.

Not that anyone would pay for mine. At least I don’t think so? Not that there’s anything wrong with my feet, they’re clean enough, and I have all my toes and toenails (although, I do need to cut my nails), and the skin isn’t leprotic or anything. It’s just that I’m not someone who would expect that anyone would be interested in my feet. Maybe because I’m not interested in feet? Is it just projection? Don’t get me wrong, I have no problem with people who find feet interesting, or even… erotic? They’re harmless, it’s just not my thing.

I drew a factory with the smoke stacks making a u-turn and stuck into the ground. Seemed like a good way to keep pollution from going into the air.

It’s only a problem for our species. And, only for future potential members of our species. The declining birth rate isn’t going to hurt anyone alive today. Not even billionaires, not in any way that matters.

Overall, the Earth would be much happier and peaceful without us. We’re not special, we’re just selfish.

Finally, probably, even in the worst human-caused catastrophe, at least some pockets of humanity would survive. Again, though, not that it really matters.

TLDR; Don’t worry about it. It’s no one’s problem to solve. We didn’t ask to be born, and none of us owe our species anything.

You can use it for sealing wax

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/tSEwDGS4sGU

Here’s an episode of Candle Science about using Babybel wax in a candle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6NLdujX_WE

If you didn’t know there was a Candle Science channel, you’re not alone. If you don’t care that there’s a Candle Science channel, ditto.

Most holiday celebrations stop dead the day after. Halloween decorations are taken down, we go back to normal meals after the Thanksgiving leftovers are gone, Christmas music is gone from public spaces, New Year’s is over on the second, once the hangover is gone. Easter doesn’t even last a whole day, and the majority of us don’t really celebrate Valentine’s day.

So, why can’t people stop setting off fucking fireworks on July 5th? I swear to god, these assholes… days before and weeks after. Can it just please be one day?

Fortunately, GabeN shows no interest in selling Valve to anyone.

Last but not least, the OS was changed from Windows Server to Ubuntu 24.04.2, a simple switch that resulted in better I/O performance on its own.

Oh boy, here we go.

Nobody tell him.

So, feet fingers, or “feengers”?

Here’s a circuit board with resistors installed. They’re used by hobbyists to make their own boards.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/CznnpTiCZuk

However, even for hobbyists, surface mount versions are now common:

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/xjWBOvforb8

The one UI thing I really miss from windows is the BIG file preview in the file manager. Text files, PDFs, images, spreadsheets, etc. It’s nice to have a big window where I can see the contents right there in file manager when I’m looking for a file. When it exists in Mint, for instance in some cases with images, the image is too small to be of use. If that would cost performance, HDD space, etc., then make it optional, and warn the user.

Not, mind you, that I feel I have any space to complain, Mint is great, and I’m happy to have it. I’m not ungrateful at all.

I’d be fine with the dwarf disappearing for 36 hours and forgetting I exist.

“Surface area, Jerry!”

That’s North Canary Island. It’s not on many maps because it formed recently from a submerged volcano. Maybe you remember hearing about that a few years ago?

Any chance this could install through the Linux Mint Software Manager, for auto updates?

Thank you. Works well. I’m much happier with the interface I used for over 30 years in Photoshop, it’s helpful to have that emulated somewhat in GIMP.

I also tracked down how to set the scroll wheel to zoom without the need for the Ctrl key, which was another annoyance. I’ve tried before to discover this, but failed. Maybe I was looking at the official documentation, which could use some work. Anyway, here’s how to get the scroll wheel to zoom without the Ctrl key:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQoz__idQKM

This is akin to the nature vs. nurture debate–that is, how much of one’s personality is due to nature or to the people who raised them and the environment they grew up in? As the article I linked states, it far messier than the simple title implies.

Kids are not born as identical blank slates, they come straight into the world with their own set of personality traits that are essentially “hard wired”.

So, the answer is, you do the best you can, and hope for the best. There are no guarantees that raising your kid a certain way will result in a “good” kid. And, “good” kids can come from shitty upbringings.

I have two sisters and a brother, we were all raised by the same parents in the same house, together. Our parents loved us and did their best to raise us, which was pretty damn good. However, we are all as different from each other as we could be. In the past I’ve described us as the four corners of a world map–which, when the corners come together, make a globe.

Yes, but there is no guarantee this will work.