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MoonMelon

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  • It would get old fast

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  • Yeah, it's impossible to develop a greenfield site without scraping everything off. You have to create and get approval on water runoff management plan for any new development. That means grading everything and often these days it also means managing and impounding water on-site without dumping it all into the (overloaded) storm drain system. When there's no grass you have to install silt fences to keep silt out of nearby streams while building. You can't get final approval, and remove the silt fence, until there is some kind of ground cover and that basically means grass since it grows fast and is easy to apply. Even if you somehow left the trees there's no way they'd survive the process.

    Fuck McMansion developers, and fuck lawns, don't get me wrong. But it's a reflection of an entire system of land-use policy and not just stupidity, or whatever.

  • MAGA = My America Gone Astray

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  • Discover Hidden Gems: Open-Source Software You Should Know About

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  • What's that book or story you vaguely remember reading but forgot the title of and can't find it anywhere anymore?

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  • The collection sounds like "The Dark Descent" but I'm not familiar with the waif story.

  • Resources

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  • The rampant mental illness in the USA really does make this a negative feedback loop. I'd say a quarter of the roommates I've had over the years had some serious mental issues. I've had a knife pulled on me, a friend of mine was murdered by his roommate.

    After you have a few bad experiences like that the goal becomes to get a small family together and isolate as soon as possible. Any commune here is basically assumed to be a religious cult because nothing else makes sense.

  • George RR Martin Praises Superman and Andor. How’s that book coming along, George?

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  • When Marc Laidlaw published that short treatment of, "this totally isn't the story of HL3..." that was when hope finally died for me.

  • Lock him up too

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  • It'd be amazing if they all shared the same cell. Gates and Clinton slap the shit out of Trump because he snores too loud and won't sleep on his stomach. Trump and Gates thump Clinton because he's afraid of the shower block and won't wash his ass. Trump yells at Gates so much about his eye-watering gas that he farts in the toilet out of fear. They deserve nothing less than each other.

  • A power utility is reporting suspected pot growers to cops. EFF says that’s illegal.

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  • Read a horrific story once about one of those falling on a lineman. Like a modern-day version of boiling oil during a medieval siege. It's pretty fucking crazy we just suspend them overhead all over the place in the right-of-way where trucks and shit can hit them.

  • Search Engine Alternative

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  • "We're totally different sides!"

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  • I think Americans can perceive how fucked up and corrupt their government is but they lack any theoretical analysis to determine the nature of it. So all they have is a general perception that the government doesn't work for them and that creates an inherent distrust of any government program, no matter what it does.

    So an American might believe that universal healthcare is a good policy, but they also believe that in practice if such a policy were enacted it would mean that money being siphoned off by the ultra rich, with nothing fundamentally changing. They would be paying the taxes of a universal healthcare state, but the actual system would continue as-is, and they would still need to pay ridiculous prices. Thus getting double-dicked for no benefit.

    The thing is this is probable. Section 8 is a massive subsidy to landlords. The ACA is a massive subsidy to insurance companies. But if you asked Americans why this keeps happening they would just spout some nonsense about R's and D's, or some particular politician, or whatever.

    This cynicism spans both "blue" and "red" America. I think it's the heart of the rot in our society. It's not really a society at all in the sense that people have lost the belief that we, collectively, can work together to achieve more than what's possible working alone. When that breaks the only motive people still believe in is the extractive motive of corporations. They believe that only the rich can make things happen, and thus are creating a self-fulfilling prophecy by electing venal politicians who believe the same.

    Obviously I'm generalizing here, but just an undercurrent I've observed. It's not coherent, but it is consistent across the "spectrum" of American politics. This ultra wealthy magnify this narrative since it suits them.

  • Jeffrey Epstein’s Friends Sent Him Bawdy Letters for a 50th Birthday Album. One Was From Donald Trump.

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  • I don't know, I have a hard time believing Trump would write, "enigmas never age." I have an easy time believing that he, and many of the ultra rich, regularly engage in activities that would make the cenobites from Hellraiser say, "Dude, that's fucked up." But it's too far fetched to imagine him writing anything even slightly poetic.

    Maybe twenty years ago his brain was less deep fried but I kind of doubt that too. Maybe he has an assistant write this sort of thing. Or maybe this is some con that Maxwell is playing. I don't know.

  • Netanyahu Warns Trump That Iran Is Days Away From Releasing the Epstein Files

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  • Wow, what a rabbit hole. This person has a website selling tape, but with massive subsections detailing their abusive childhood, struggles with alcoholism, and then page after page of highly personal info, genealogy, conspiracy, freemasonry... you name it. This is like time cube all over again. I hate to say it but it looks like they are struggling with psychosis or something.

  • The Hunt For The Perfect Laptop Continues

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  • I've been getting annoying amdgpu crashes every now an then. I've tried all the various BIOS and kernel params but so far nothing has worked. Next step is rolling back a kernel version, at least that's what I've gathered from all the threads about it. It's bothersome but not frequent enough to be a real pain.

    (This is an amd framework 13 with fedora 42 / wayland)

  • Plant Slurs

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  • I don't know if you're opposed to herbicide, but triclopyr will kill it. You can get triclopyr salt (water based) and apply it to the freshly cut stump surface (within moments of cutting), or triclopyr ester (oil based) and apply it to the outside of the plant close to the base, no cutting required. Both of these will kill the root. Otherwise just keep cutting and eventually you will exhaust the root.

    Not sure about elsewhere, but in the USA you can typically buy the water-based triclopyr salt in a small bottle with a brush attached to the cap. This is in pretty much any garden store. Even though you have to cut the plant first I think this is the best form for just a few plants.

  • In Finland, they advertise the largest container of mayonnaise as "American Size"

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  • I prefer the 300 gallon IBC tote. Then I can unload it from my pickup truck with the pallet forks on my skid-steer and put it straight into the mayo door on the side of my house.

  • In Finland, they advertise the largest container of mayonnaise as "American Size"

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  • Hell yeah, save by buying a 4-pack.

  • Shit never happens

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  • I liked his little telescopic pointer.

  • Non intentional peak performance

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  • I don't know if it's still a thing in the digital age, but having even just a few seconds of dead air back in the analogue broadcast days could mean that "silence detectors" all over the country would start going off and radio engineers everywhere would think there was some kind of problem with their station. So there had to be talking, music, something at pretty much all times.

    If you wanted intentional silence you could play comfort noise in the background.

  • What was the worst apartment you've ever lived in?

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  • A "carriage house", in the backyard of some rich couple who were the landlords. I split it with a buddy. Open holes to the outside that we patched with duct tape. The entire thing listed to one side. It smelled like mold. Zero insulation or climate control of any kind. Landlord still stole food from our fridge when we were away.