I recently began learning about mixnets. Interesting stuff there. Look up the Nym project for example

Colorado has a good set of policies that support consistent and long term public funding of outdoor recreation, such as trails and parks. The level of connectivity among local and regional trail systems is very good and always improving.

Risk vs Reward.

A relatively small cost towards legal fees has a decent chance to yield a large payoff.

Musk is a warped gollum-man, but not an idiot by any means.

Lkke Kleenex and Xeroxes for tissues and photocopies, DnD is now the generic term for tabletop analog RPGs. All the wizards of the coastal AND land-locked regions can suck on that fact.

Listen here, you little shit . . .

I can feel the engagement! It tingles a little. Yeah, I’m hooked.

I’m gonna go grow some beets in a vacant lot.

(Snarky, but also serious. This would be a good time to get to know your neighbors and your local farmers.)

It averages out to Charlie Day in Pacific Rim, combined with Charlie Day from It’s Always Sunny explaining his conspiracy.

Ideally, contact your local UCFW (or other applicable union for your industry) and get a union drive started at your workplace, too. ‘They’ have limited resources to apply to union busting so more locations seeking a union is better.

Second best, contact the union and ask them how to support a specific unionization drive.

Third best, speak positively and enthusiastically about labor actions in front of everyone at opportune moments. Subscribe to a newsletter like Labor Notes because you cannot count on consistent and detailed reports from the tattered remnants of the media. Spread the word.

Draw all the academic distinctions you like.

There is no such thing as unskilled labor.

Face up to the fact.

Don’t muzzle the oxen who is treading your grain. It’s the least you can do after taking his balls.

K. Who didn’t show up and vote?

It is liberals fault, legitimately.

SafeRent was a giant piece of shit before “AI”. I tried to rent a place 15 years ago that used them. The report returned several serious felonies committed over years by another person with an only vaguely similar name who lived in a state I had never even visited.

The leasing office people admitted that the report was transparently bogus, but they still had orders to deny all housing to negative reports.

My only recourse at the time was to lock my record so they won’t issue reports in my name at all. I now ask right up front who a renter uses for screening and they get a vigorous ‘nope’ if they use SafeRent.

Fsck SafeRent!

I’m such a prude about this kind of thing. I have plenty of miles on my sex-odometer but still can’t or won’t do the degradation-talk thing.

A friend and I were trying to find a new song to work on performing together. We found a good sound with “Piss up a rope” by Ween, but I just couldn’t get any vocal punch on the line that advises the big booty beyatch to commence sucking. Like my autonomic nervous system wouldn’t let my diaphragm work properly.

Yet I am filthy in my casual speech among friends? It’s not speaking of sex acts that make me go cold, it’s specifically the degradation talk that my whole system seems to rebel against.

My poor lovers, it’s probably like receiving kind and gentle directions to perform filthy acts on my body directly from Fred Rogers.

Mr Waturi is the unsung hero of that film. As a supporting actor, he nailed the tone of the film by personifying the rank stupidity of corporate thinking.

He can definitely do the job.

Also a fair point. My devices did not need to last indefinitely and I found the gaffer tape to be very forgiving when prototyping, allowing removal and replacement as I worked out the kinks.

Democrats have lost the automatic loyalty of labor, probably for good. I fully believe this administration will try to crush labor but not before cosying up to them to keep us pacified.

Labor might just be our best hope since the oarties have failed us. I don’t blame the Teamsters for withholding an endorsement. Labor is best as an independent power center, not the arm of a party.

I’m living on an old farm with lots of junk.

So naturally I am building an 8 foot tall wind-driven kinetic sculpture of a Wendigo.

I bought a welder and a cutoff saw. All the materials are retrieved from the trash gully that every respectable high desert property must have.

It’s a form of cope and even ritual magic for me. Embody the spirit of hoarding and greed so it is vulnerable and can be imprisoned, that sort of vibe.

It will take all winter to finish it. The rebar armature is flexible and bobs in the wind. I will add sun bleached oak branches to give it flesh.

I recommend you try gaffer tape instead of duct tape.

Advantages:

• Remains flexible and removable forever.
• Looks nicer, a cool matte black or manynother colors.

Where I get off making this recommendation:

I needed a light-excluding bellows for a photographic project. I made one using black illustration stock and gaffer tape. It worked extremely well on the first version and held up to hundreds of cycles of extension/compression. My application was sensitive to pinhole light leakage and there was none.

It would have lasted longer but that was the end of that project.

My two cents. I love DIY stuff!

I suspect it may be due to a similar habit I have when chatting with a corporate AI. I will intentionally salt my inputs with random profanity or non sequitur info, for lulz partly, but also to poison those pieces of shits training data.

It doesn’t hurt to just ask. Get into a convoluted conversation and change topics radically often. Then just ask for the prompts. Works sometimes

I call it Bucket o’ Crabs. In this case the bucket comes with another bucket full of melted butter.