I think that pretty much sums up the entire ethos of Silicon Valley these days.

Been listening to The Meffs a lot lately.

Brittany Petterson is the congressional representative for Colorado’s 7th district. Not Utah. It’s literally the first full sentence you’ll read if you google her name, and it says so on the page her name links to in the article, in case you wondered what level of fact checking and editorial oversight we’re dealing with here.

Non-hurricane everyday tip: Put a 1/3 to 1/2 full water bottle in your freezer upside down. Once it’s frozen keep it in the freezer right side up so that the ice is suspended in the top of the bottle. If you ever open your freezer and see the ice back in the bottom of the bottle it means your freezer has lost power long enough to thaw, and you may need to throw some food out.

I’ve personally found this tip to be extremely handy.

A TOS from the perspective of Lursa and B’Etor would be like episodes of Scooby Doo or Inspector Gadget or something.

I have a couple of cheap no-name screw top steel water bottles I bought from a Kroger almost 20 years ago for like $3-ish a piece. I bought them solely because the bottle part was one solid piece, and they didn’t have any of the weird plastic clearcoat a lot of steel drinkware has, which meant I could boil water in them if I needed to when I was up camping or hiking. A lot of other more expensive bottles being made at the time were two or three pieces press-fit together, and wouldn’t be likely to survive much of that.

I’ve been using them daily more or less constantly since then. They’re a little banged up, but still going strong. I wish I knew where I could buy more.

I’ve heard of this happening before. Did the reporters notice if the thieves were wearing any symbols that would suggest they belonged to an ancient ninja clan called “The Foot?”

This is missing the episodes where the transporter does an oopsie-poopsie.

If you’re looking for music like this that’s actually based you might check out Pink Williams. He dropped a song called Blame the Poor on Tiktok the other day as a response to Rich Men North of Richmond that’s getting shared a bunch on the old site. It’s pretty good.

My new mattress is getting delivered tomorrow. I’ve been sleeping on a cheap crappy Ikea mattress for years, and I just couldn’t ignore how bad it is anymore. Hopefully with the new one I’ll finally be able to sleep longer than six hours without waking up feeling like I’ve been in a fight.

Good for you. Quitting nicotine is fucking hard. I quit smoking over a decade ago, but I finally got completely off nicotine products just last year.

Just some advice that helped me: keep a zero nic vape around so if you’re out drinking (or some other situation where your willpower is low) and find yourself needing to vape you have one that you can hit without backsliding with nicotine. Otherwise you’re going to find yourself hitting a buddy’s vape loaded with 50mg nic salts or something, and you’ll be back to square one.

It’s worse than that. They’re penguins on an ice floe. All the penguins want to get into the water; none of them want to get eaten by a leopard seal. They mill around until a penguin gets brave/hungry enough to jump in (or one gets pushed in), and the rest of them wait to see if he gets eaten. If it survives, all the rest of the penguins jump right in after them.

With fascists you have a bunch of folks nudging people toward (but carefully avoiding openly calling for) violence. They push right up to the line, inch by inch, as close as they possibly can without technically crossing it. They do it until someone trips over, and then they all watch to see if/how that person gets punished.

The absolute instant that law enforcement ever stops punishing these people in a meaningful way we are going to see some crazy shit. That crazy shit will suddenly become the new normal, and the fascists will start pushing a new, more extreme line.

I think there would be a lot more urgency around this if more regular people could hear how conservative gun owners talk to each other when they think no one else is around. There are a lot of real normal-seeming guys who have reached a casual acceptance that any day now it will be time to “do the things.” Which is a fun little euphemism for murdering anyone they feel isn’t conservative enough, white enough, or Christian enough. They haven’t affiliated themselves with a larger extremist group yet, but are none-the-less arming and training themselves toward the goal of joining right in when it’s finally time to “do the things.”

Also, notes taken with pen and paper never run out of battery, or need to be charged. They’re powered by basically any light source.

Yeah, I don’t know why so many people seem to forget this, but cops aren’t supposed to shoot guilty people either.

Literally dozens!

I also don’t put clothes away unfolded. The result is often a laundry basket full of clean clothes, and an ever-growing pile of dirty clothes on the floor next to it.

I’m sure this is all about reducing crime in D.C., and nothing to do with putting the Republicans in direct control of D.C. law enforcement when they have themselves a second insurrection if Biden wins another term next year.

I would say, “These products are found to have health risks,” or, “These products may negatively affect your health.”

Of all the things to get attacked by in Montana. Not a bear, not a mountain lion, or a wolf, or a moose. Nope, a fucking otter is the thing that gets you. Jesus.

The Colorado one isn’t accurate either. There’s one small pizza chain called Beau Jo’s that makes “mountain pies” like they show in the video, but they’re super litigious about anyone even slightly imitating them. They’ve actually trademarked the term “Colorado-style pizza,” thus preventing Colorado from having an actual Colorado-style pizza. Which is a shame because “mountain pies” are far from the best pizza, and it would benefit a lot from some outside innovation.

If Colorado has a Colorado-style pizza thing it’s probably putting honey on the crust. Which actually may have started at Beau Jo’s, but they pretty much have to do it because, for there being so much of it, their crust really kind of sucks and nobody would eat it otherwise.