He’s just sharing his various worm parasites with them ❤️

Cloud seeding is only a couple steps above dowsing in its efficacy. It rarely works to do anything. There is a basic principle that is true regarding cloud condensation nuclei, but the methods are so haphazard that it’s still mostly just “doing something” to make people feel better. It’s basically our equivalent of the Mayan elite rituals encouraging rains for the corn harvest.

IIRC it has it. Not if you’re behind VPN or a tunnel. Only over HTTPS.

People should be leaving Reddit. They are poor stewards of our content for innumerable reasons. Go back to forums. Go to Lemmy. The key thing is that we should not have centralized arbiters of our discussions online.

That’s also what he said he would do and the most convincing reason people flipped from Biden to vote for him

Being unthinking is one thing. But the degree that they actively avoid thinking is remarkable to me.

I saw them going for $10 yesterday in CA. People have reported them going as high as $18. Chicken is also quite expensive and in short supply due to the bird flu disruptions

I finally set up Joplin server. It is a revelation after too long using Syncthing to sync databases. I wasn’t able to use Joplin on Android anymore- the sync to file system had gotten too slow. Now everything syncs pretty much instantly!

People can follow and comment to my WordPress from the fediverse. My posts are long enough that they don’t really look right on Mastodon (and images all show up as attachments rather than inline), but nice for shorter format blogs

There was a point in time in OG Facebook, maybe the early 2010s, when they let you have really granular control of the timeline. Like they allowed any post to be clicked and you could change the amount you saw from that person or page on a sliding scale, and it actually worked! They of course got rid of it

Which is amusing, because the UX for Facebook, X and TikTok are horrendous also. So much stuff buried under layers of settings

Madam Harkonnen

I recently read The Parable of the Sower and it really affected me, both because I felt empathy for the characters and because I saw some uncomfortable parallels in the recent history of our world. I also was disturbed by The Sparrow. Though frankly I wouldn’t recommend it for a lot of reasons. Battle Royale is intensely violent, in a really personal way. For graphic novels, From Hell is a really rough read honestly, but also really interesting

The tree was not complicit in that

Apparently Block Rockin’ Beats are halal

“We cracked the case open when we discovered their chats in ‘troubleshooting_not_secret_comms.xls’. They tried to cover their tracks through regular deletion, and they would have gotten away with it if not for one neglected PC in a disused office running an unsupervised copy of Norton Backup 1990.”

It’s like a wiki from the 80s!

and it finally went out with the bang it was designed for, without hurting anyone! going out with style

still probably best not to bang it with your trowel

Sorry, Politico is a US-focused publication. So they focused on Americans, but you’re right that it has global implications