Worth pointing out too, that the air isn’t “flat” either, you can have headwinds, tailwinds, and turbulence that will affect the shortest and most economical path.

Lotta non-pracricing and renounced Jews were killed by Nazis. Turns out, people don’t prejudge you based on how you identify or align yourself…

The problem is the effects of their actions are absolutely known, and quite predictable, as long as you can think more than 1 layer deep.

Too much fire? Easy, release all the water now!.. Except we were clearly holding that water for a reason, otherwise the fucking dam wouldn’t be there in the first place…

I’ve got some bad news for you…

If it is locked, the key is usually nearby, and it’s usually the cheapest, least secure, possible lock to buy.

Up until recently, I’d take the annuity, but right now, the stability of the underlying currency and the organization that pays out is in serious doubt.

On the flip side… It makes Trudeau eligible to become president. I see this backfiring badly.

The Tuskegee airmen thing pisses me off so much. Like brick-throwing shit-burning degree of angry.

Unfortunately, the dumbest ~70 million Americans got together and ruined it for everyone.

Trump is just one guy, but he’s the fart filled turd floating on top of a long stream of raw sewage.

I wish I could let mine go, but there are city ordnances I have to follow. My “yard theory” is to break up the the whole lot with trees, bushes, flower beds, and garden plots, to the point that I can “mow” with just a weedwaker.

Great Smoky Mountains National Park has a “Lightning Bug Lottery” every year, a certain number of passes are randomly given out to applicants to see the park at night during peak breeding season for fireflies. Supposedly they will all sync up their lights and converge in a huge group on one tree.

I’ve seen a smaller event once in my hometown. Just a whole tree was sparkling for a few minutes. I think the most amazing thing about it is the light doesn’t really show up well on a camera, so you kinda have to just put your phone down and enjoy it with your eyes. The only place you can keep that moment is in your mind.

I feel a little bad for the pest control guy that showed up at my house last spring. I majored in Biology, but did not graduate, my partner has their Masters in Biology and wrote their thesis on ecological damage from heavy metals.

Yeah, my yard looks a little unmanaged, sure, you can see bugs all over the milkweed, that’s intentional. My yard was visited by thousands of bees (and sadly) a dozen or so butterflies daily. Because we had the insects and native plants, we had lots of small birds, and becuase we had lots of small birds, we were lucky enough to have a local Cooper’s Hawk as a regular visitor nearly every day.

The guy offered to do indoor services for spiders and termites. I told him I don’t have any of those because I have a bunch of basement centipedes. He said he could spray for those, and I was like “Why? They’re harmless and they’re the reason I don’t have dangerous spiders and termites in the house”.

Raking leaves, expanding suburban sprawl (and therefore lawns), and the over-use of poisons, pesticides and fertilizers.

First one of the year is always a treat. Then I remember how many there were as a kid and it makes me sad.

Please, switch to red outdoor lights if possible, and if you can’t do that, shade your outdoor lights so that it only illuminates specific areas. Fireflies are affected by light pollution.

Also, don’t rake your leaves, or if you do have to take, try to sequester them in an area on your property, (I’m currently using my leaves as “sunkill” for garden and flower beds.) fireflies lay eggs on leaf litter, if you dispose of the leaves, you dispose of the eggs.

Applied for the job. Showed up for the interview. Showed up for the second interview, hired.

Helps that I have over 10 years of experience in that field, plus certifications.

Transgender, transgenic, they both start with trans, so they are the same thing.

Hydrate, Hydrazine…

I think it has to do with how our brain interperts the data. Normally you judge the directions of a force by comparing it against gravity, which most of the time is the strongest constant acceleration on your body. When you get near or above that constant force, your brain has to guess which which force is “down”.

Consider this too, your’re being accelerated forward, a significant part of your spatial orientation is visual, everything is rushing towards you, so it’s probably an additional input that causes your brain to determine that you are falling forward instead of down or backwards.

Yeah, I’ll come back…

For triple pay and a 4 day work week. Also if anyone fires me again I get a full year’s pay as severance.

I eat pieces of shit like you for breakfast!

Apparently a big part of Tesla’s business is selling carbon credits to other automakers… Which relies on them having a certain number of EV sales. If they drop below a threshold, then they can’t sell those credits anymore.

My brother has a model 3. It’s a nifty car. The advanced cruise control (not their FSD) is better than the Blue-Cruise in my Ford, and works on more roads. Build quality seems about the same TBH, although my brother may just have a good example. The Tesla charging network is expansive, and would be a major point to the Model 3, but other cars can charge there now, even older models can do it with an adapter.

Ergonomics-wise, I think the Ford is much better. Better controls on the steering wheel, has a “gauge cluster” instead of putting important info on the center display away from the driver’s line of sight, and it’s easier to open the doors, both from the outside, inside, and in the case of emergencies.