Came in here to post this.

Take it back farther.

First cellular life 3,800,000,000 years ago. Then 3,300,000,000 years of just single cell organisms. Then in the last 15% of the history of life on Earth, everything else.

We can also breathe through our butts. Nothing new here. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/sep/12/ig-nobel-prize-goes-to-team-who-found-mammals-can-breathe-through-anuses

I was excited to learn that homeassistant lets me bypass the atrocious Sonos app for controlling all my speakers from various music sources.

Though at the same time, I’m little disappointed that offTikTok is broken.

WARNING

The docker-down.sh script associated with offtiktok runs a docker prune -f and will delete any unused docker containers you have without warning.

Wow, this is exactly what I was looking for!

The phrase “snitches get stitches” makes a lot of assumptions about the availability and expediency of healthcare.

Allegedly Rowling was not involved in the game at all. I’d think of it as an act of goodwill from the developers.

You’re required to meet her in the game, so it’s not like anything was snuck in. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8k8DseLCl8

Yes, and as we’ve seen time and time again, companies are totally cool when operating costs suddenly revert back to what they were years ago.

That’s great that they were able to replace people with equipment that they own and control. Oh what’s that? The price and capabilities of this AI can change at any time?

Very safe and cool investment.

Legacy literally has an explicitly trans npc in it.

Seattle actually briefly had the opposite of this for a while.

After the Great Fire, the city wanted to use the reconstruction as an opportunity to regrade Pioneer Square to make it less steep. Because the city only owned the land under the street (sidewalks belonged to the landowners), they just regraded the streets and left the rest up to the landowners.

This created an awkward period where landowners had sidewalks that met with an immediate wall that was supporting the street at the new level. This means pedestrians had to climb ladders to cross the street.

It also gave property owners double the store front as they kept the entrances at the original level and built a new entrances at the new street level creating a double-decker sidewalk. Many of those subterranean establishments turned into speakeasies during prohibition and can still be visited today as part of the Seattle Underground Tour.

Here’s an illustration:

The majority of trips for both BEV and PHEV drivers are relatively short, typically staying within 10 kilometers of home.

As a side note, I’m especially annoyed that every BEV “needs” a 300 mile range when 50 miles would be more than enough for the average American (assuming they can charge at home). Those additional batteries make the vehicles larger, heavier, and more expensive, and the batteries could be better used elsewhere.

But still, electric cars were a gateway to electric bikes and scooters.

You want electric buses? You want battery electric trains? Electric airplanes?

Cars are your path to research and development for these modes of transportation.

Rosa Parks and Harriet Tubman were alive at the same time (for about a month).

“Since 2008”

So in Seattle last week there was a man who accidentally shot himself in the leg while driving his car. He called 911 because he obviously needed help, but tried to tell cops that he was shot by a stranger while driving. They asked why there were no entry holes in his car, and I think he went to jail for being a dumbass.

Anyway, how do we know JFK didn’t accidentally shoot himself and then try to cover it up because he was so embarrassed.

The cars there were always a joke. It was always some poor sucker of a tourist who didn’t know what it was and would take half an hour to go three blocks dodging all the tourists.