Fuck yeah

It adds up..

I met Luke a while ago, pretty cool dude. He's got a weird little band with his twin brother!

Sometimes I miss LA..

I made the mistake of voting for her in the primaries exactly once years ago as a naive teenager, and vowed never again once her "campaigning" expounded on what she actually stood for and how.

Green party... Plastic green, indeed.

I've seen the wear and tear that goes into sync converters and actual flywheels for pulsed power applications.. good idea, let's see how these degrade.

I want to lick her cheeks.

Without good instrumentation. Almost purposely lacking..

I remember the first time I ever felt the Santa Ana winds (having lived near Irvine), that shit was sooo hot and dry, like literally nothing I've ever felt, even having been in Dubai during the summer.

Think riding a bicycle straight into a giant hair dryer in the desert at full blast. I ride a lot over long distances, but head on, the hot wind was powerful enough to make me stand out of my saddle consistently.

Wildly, wildly unpleasant.

I'm really not about this. Do better.

I'm just glad to see she can handle being near a stressful moron and keep her rhythm regardless of what vile nonsense was getting regurgitated.

I use an actual dressing aid, there's a recipe from reddit I've been meaning to try but buying a tube is easy for now:

PROPORTION RATIO 
0.653 DIMETHICONE
0.327 CYCLOMETHICONE
0.020 PHENYL TRIMETHICONE

Once the latex is on, your sweat will do the rest 😎

If you get new socks, try out chlorination. I haven't yet, but people seem to like it.

As a motorcyclist and bicyclist, I don't agree with the idea that it's the victim's sole responsibility to be visible at all times; there is a minimum expectation of sanity behind the wheel of a multi-ton vehicle when it comes to following rules, expectations and the law.

Based on this article, I don't think this person ought to be permitted to drive again, they've proven that it's too much responsibility.

Is this your first bit of rubber? Funny how wearing it for a while, you kind of forget it's on. I love the second-skin feeling.

Me too, sheesh.

If that's dodger stadium, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Chavez_Ravine

Ry Cooder has a really cool album about it too (this song is about the megalomaniac racist mayor at the time): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzhkLG6vRlw

"Cement mixer's spreading the word around: this here is my town"

LMAO I love razor potatoes.

COMSOL gang represent

A projector.

Double post

Hmm.. maybe that's why I got a "signature validation request" in the mail for my mail-in ballot in Seattle four our recent election.

No problem, I'm voting in person, cuz fuck that noise, fuck Trump and 100% fuck the Gross Old Pissants.

Hmm, I don't think that's true either. You as well, stranger.

Quite a long, pedantic response.

I didn't in fact read your other links, nice to see you're unable to imagine others having lives and limited time. At no point did I say you ate meat, but that you are using similar tactics.

Curious, how much writing you do when all I ask is whether you think animals experience curiosity, and how much of it doesn't have anything to do with that question.

Rolling back through your overly elaborate discussions here, you'll note that I never said humans and animals had the same emotions, nor to the same level we as a species do. But I do say what they have is analogous, and that the line between anthropomorphism and observation can itself be a fuzzy concept.

Do you understand that, or will you resort to ad hominem again?

Unfortunately I've got to disagree with you from the outset, they do in fact express emotions, having witnessed one of my pets feel less inclined to partake in activities he very much normally enjoyed when his compatriot of a different species eventually passed away due to age. That is one clear example I've observed on my own, several times in a couple of different species over the years (unfortunately).

It's a bit pedantic, in truth, to state that these animals don't feel human emotions. Do all of us experience ennui for that matter? Envy, to the same level as one another? Which leads to a paradox of how one defines a conscious, human mind at all, if it were indeed based only on what emotions are present when presented with a similar stimulus.

Further, I'm noticing that you're focused on dancing around "are they human", not "are they conscious", a more interesting & insightful question. Unfortunately, I've noticed this tactic among people who don't want to feel bad about eating other conscious beings. If you eat other passengers on this ship called earth, so be it, but avoid the cowardice that comes with assigning them lower value in a pseudo-intellectual manner.

Do you think animals are capable of being curious, even when there's no impetus for them to be? I certainly do.

How do you know?

My pets express themselves pretty clearly, despite having much more limited ability to communicate across species lines.

I feel reasonably confident in stating that I believe animals are conscious, just to varying depths.

We all know they do. It just makes compartmentalizing other.. activities easier for some people.

I like Boston fine as a New Yorker, but fuck Dunkin'.

I dunno what it is, but their fries (animal style with Chiles, or plain) seem to really upset my guts, consistently. I suspect it's their oil, but so far as I know, it's just regular peanut oil..

Fuckin trashbag the more you read about him.

Motherfucker purposely built the bridges for local streets going over the highways much lower than avg to prevent buses (and thus poorer folks) from being able to get to Jones beach: https://www.nycurbanism.com/blog/2020/7/28/robert-moses-low-parkway-bridges

Shhhh THEY'LL HEAR YOU

.. That's what he's implying, download it illegally ahead of time.

... None of us were confused by the saying. You obviously are confused about where you stand cognitively, in comparison.

Yep, and a good way to make acquaintances in class if you let everyone know you can be the PDF kid. 🤓

Word. Luckily never had to deal with those particular 🤡

Grid does rock, but PG&E and SCE both suck bull eggs.

No he doesn't, his brain matter was too low quality to keep even the one alive.

I love hackers too, friend. In fact I'll say I love it because they were trying so hard lol.

I think their nickname used to be "the fist of the USSR", because that's where most of their military-industrial complex was actually located.

I'm hoping the same, that's quite the story in and of itself.

I work in energy r&d, and have for several jobs over the years now.

My sadness is transmuted into passion for solving these issues from the ground up. Top brass is interested in "stock options" and blah blah blah, I'm just focused on solving technical problems to make efficient, powerful energy production that isn't hard on the earth.

The money won't matter if there's nowhere to live. My efforts may not be enough, ultimately, but I'll die knowing I tried to help solve the problems we've caused.