ADKSilence

Makes me wonder what other things get lost to time or get overlooked because a larger group controlled “the narrative”.

Recently watched a documentary about technology being used to scan the Amazon, which revealed an “unknown” city that used to exist in the heart of the Amazon, as well as revealed evidence that pre-European Amazon was very similar to early-settlers’ New England - mostly farmland, rather than vast forest with evidence of large tracts being managed, and purposely shaped for agriculture. Also revealed that one native tribe, which now is just a small village and a couple hundred people, sits on top of a site that was once a major city. Swallowed up by the jungle and time.

And each of these respective pieces of peoples’ history happened at a time merely a few generations ago, yet we have barely scratched the surface of recovering what was lost.

It’s clearly bad juju if you dont then save again just to be sure.

Used to lust after the R34 Skyline as a kid. Interests have shifted a little, but still remains JDM at heart with a strong desire for a nice kei-car/van; something like an Autozam AZ-1 or something like a Suzuki Every.

Having driven a Geo Metro for a couple hundred thousand miles (350k on the odometer when I sold it for what I paid for it after having having driven it for 250k~ of those miles myself) I have a strong like for Suzuki products.

I’ve always had cats in the house, even as a kid. Our family has pretty much always followed the “They get breakfast when we get breakfast, and dinner at dinner time” so that’s when they get a portion of “wet” food, with dry/crunchy available to “free feed” on throughout the day if they get snackish as well as a few different sources of water.

While that can lead to cats being overweight, we generally let the cats outdoors or now more recently, give them free reign of the house and attached garage. The garage is basically just a building shell, so critters like rodents and birds can still come in which in turn gives the cats something to do and keeps them active which is the key. As long as they’re burning off the extra calories and maintaining a healthy weight, the “how” becomes somewhat irrelevant.

The general advice that seems to be prevalent though is to intentionally restrict their diets a bit to keep them at a healthy weight. So the “free feed” idea may not be the best advice.

Mostly weird looks from strangers and random offers of tissues/napkins.

Looked up LL Bean on OpenSecrets just because my other reply rants about them a little. So I’m eating a bit of crow and sharing that apparently according to https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/ll-bean-inc/summary?id=D000042703 LL Bean’s contributions lean vastly towards the Democrats, and none were from the company itself, but individuals within.

Still dislike the company for other valid reasons, but their political stance is different than I was originally assuming.

Saw this post, saw L.L. Bean on the list. Felt the need to comment “Yet another reason to say FUCK L. L. Bean”.

A once great company driven into the ground through corporate greed and poor policies. And that was before all of the current political nonsense. A damned shame the state of Maine holds that company on a damned pedestal.

The only good thing about Bean depends solely on whether the gentleman with the big Newfoundland hounds still frequents the area, because those dogs were/are awesome.

-edit- Quick edit to add that we should probably look at who the parent companies are. For example “Marshall’s” is owned by the same company that also run “TJ Maxx” and “HomeGoods” if I recall correctly. And companies such as “Wow Cable” and “Boost Mobile” rely on infrastructure/deals made with larger companies (Spectrum and ATT, respectively). Figured if people are going to avoid companies, it’d be more impactful to avoid the ones the money ultimately funnels to.

As much as I dislike TikTok and short-form video in general, I really don’t think this falls on TikTok. The idea of middle-schoolers discovering they can choke themselves out has been around as a “thing” since at least the late 90s.

We knew it as the “Space Monkey”. And yeah, the whole idea was to chokehold yourself until you nearly/did pass out. I suspect it has more to do with the timing of learning things like biology, and the immaturity of middle schoolers finding the idea of blacking out to be funny.

So uhh… hypothetically if one were to live next to a cornfield and acquire some seeds from said field cough somehow cough, would those purely hypothetical seeds grown in one’s garden then constitute corn piracy?

Asking for a friend of course.

I hadn’t thought about the Kofi banner thing, and this is anecdotal though my experience, but upon seeing that mentioned my mind immediately jumped to the Steam Workshop; at least with some of the games I play, it’s very common to see some form of “Donate”.

Setting that aside, the thought occurred to me of somehow tying something we’re all used to seeing and interacting with - usernames - into something that if one were so inclined, could interact with somehow to pull up something like a QR code to their “donate box” of choice.

I have no idea how it’d be actually implemented, but it doesn’t seem impossible that something like that could allow for both traditional fiat payments, crypto, or even links to “Yoder’s Rent-a-goat”. I mean, I’d work for a goat as payment, so why not.

QR codes themselves are pretty visually meaningless, and that physical step of the user having to scan it would be that “fully intentional” aspect that’d keep things from being somewhat predatory (thinking in-app payment type stuff).

<shrug> I have no skin in this game, so just thinking out loud on this, is all.

On the one hand, people should be able to make a living.

On the other, places where every Tom, Dick and Harry has their hand out expecting payment for the most inane things (i.e. tipping culture, states where billboards are allowed…) turn pretty crap pretty fast.

Something to remember is that advertising on the internet was a slow-roll at first… until all of a sudden, everyone has ads and popups.

“Because I wrote it, and they took what I wrote and they are using it without asking me.”

I’m using that, and I’m not gonna tell anyone where I got it from! MWahahahahaha!

For real… it’d make sense if it was some sort of original idea… but it’s literally a generic descriptor made up of other generic descriptions. And not even in any sort of “unique” combination. You fighting this fight would be like trying to claim that someone copying any one of the above sentences is “stealing my work”.

Are we really trying to claim that a vague, generic description is worthy of copyright? lolwut.

I’m fairly confident it’s Obsidian, and not sure if the theme’s even been changed, as the default Obsidian in dark mode looks the same. Not sure if Logseq uses the same icons like on the left, but Obsidian does for sure.

The same tool that can be used to permanently activate a Windows install can be used to permanently activate an Office install as well; including 365.

Oh, and the tool to do so is open-source.

Or you could just dump Microsoft entirely (unless you need Excel in particular). Either way, it’s free.

Yeah… despite the local Wal-Mart having quite the selection for the garage chemical enthusiast, I’d rather not publicly outline terrible ideas that could lead to others being severely hurt or killed.

Though I will throw out there that the access for the fire suppression/sprinkler system is usually fairly easy to access, and covers the entire store when it goes off, conveniently aerosolizing whatever liquids might be in the pipes…

Huh, after the 3rd time my alarm failed to go off, I was thinking I was going insane having thought I set it and merely forgot. But this is actually kind of reassuring, as at least I can rest assured it’s not just me.

On the other hand, it has me thinking I should dig out the ol’ reliable '80’s GE alarm clock. At least that one actually goes off.