Yeah, it’s intriguing.

I have given it some thought and they could be made even more durable by using vinyl flooring adhesive to adhere the mosaic pieces to a backing of wire mesh.

The usual method uses only asphalt crack filler, which is still necessary, but it also requires one to assemble the design backwards. Adhering to metal mesh first would allow one to assemble it front the viewer’s perspective and reduce shifting of the pieces over time for more durability.

Not to mention that a basic CNC machine could cut the vinyl very precisely and in elaborate shapes. One could really take the quality and durability of the designs up a notch or two using the old noggin and modern Maker tools.

So now I am going to have to think of a place locally to do this….

Reminds of something my dear old grandpa said to me growing up: “If a hot girl DMs you about crypto, block him!”

Has anyone heard of Toynbee Tiles? These are interesting by themselves but the relevant point is how they are made.

You make a mosaic out of vinyl flooring chunks on a backing of paper and roofing tar as mastic.

You place them paper side up on asphalt pavement in hot weather. As cars drive over them, the paper and tar wear off revealing the vinyl mosaic.

Just a thought that a group of people could quickly make a rainbow crosswalk that can’t be painted over.

Toynbee Tiles

On days when a spring cleaning or packing and organizing frenzy is needed, the Katamari Damacy sound track is perfect. Nice continuity of themes, but varying tempos and energy help make a sustainable work session.

Stop growing alfalfa in the goddamn desert, maybe? Stacys and Chads letting the tap run while they brush each other’s teeth is not the problem here.

Thank Glob. Let me be an ‘individual contributor’ while those who don’t know better yet run interference with corporate.

I really need supervision.

No, really, I am a danger to myself and others. Please keep an eye on me

The People v Larry Flynt sets a precedent for smut peddlers taking a necessary moral stance, I guess

Nah, didn’t miss it. We are just talking past each other as happens online, nbd. $1.7k is surely not enough to live on. Yet, it can make a huge difference to a low income person.

I do not know your circumstances, poverty is a unique experience that people who grew up with even just a tiny bit more security seem to not truly understand. We have sayings like ‘grinding poverty’ for a reason. IYKYK.

Yeah, that’s the way I write. It’s the other way around though. LLM are trained on a lot of academic writing.

So I guess, LLM sound like me?

That’s why I am a Wobbly. I was raised to be a white pro-labor racist by religious weirdos. Yet the best, kindest, most understanding friends I ever made on the playground were non-white.

I am grateful that I cannot tolerate cognitive dissonance and have distanced myself from racism and kept my pro-labor stances.

It’s a long multi-generational fight, but what else can a person who strives to be decent do?

The axe forgets, but the tree remembers.

Get fucked, Target.

Yes please! I volunteer to be Whitey if it’s a perfoart piece.

Every damn time I speak.

I’m sometimes exhausting…

He’s upset that Forbes did not do actual journalism. Anyone who looked into Theranos would have known that it was smelly from the beginning.

It was initially difficult to claim outright fraud, but the lack of peer reviewed research coming out of that company or that the diagnostics were even based on would have triggered anyone who was marginally competent in medical testing or even just biochemistry.

So Forbes sucks, and they printed what they were told.

If you have ever been low income, $1700 is enough to get your attention. You know where that money comes from and when you are low income, a sudden in flow of essentially an extra month and a half of salary for a rural person?

Well, you’re paying attention to that. So maybe have some perspective about what that kind of money means to a person who has a shitty truck and a barely adequate house and spends months in it through a long winter.

Exactly. ‘Capital’ is more than just money. Industrial infrastructure once built is a form of capital. And so is a happy, healthy, educated and engaged populace.

The love of money is the root of all evil. The short sighted plantation pig-fuckers squandered their own futures because they lacked the imagination needed to build a better future, even for their own descendants.

You are absolutely correct that is a major theme, especially in the Foundation books. To be fair, Asimov also buried that point in ponderous prose and scattered it across centuries of book-time.

I think Goyer did the best one could do in adapting Foundation to visual media. He had to invent and re-imagine a lot in order to give continuity and cohesion to a sprawling story. If he had stayed more true to the books, it would have flopped instantly.

I lived on Antelope Island in the Great Salt Lake for two summers doing field research. It was an amazing place, simultaneously ’dead’ and also vibrantly and abundantly alive.

If humans were wiser about managing natural resources, this paper summarizes just how small human interventions can either improve biological systems or ruin them with simple changes.

The diversity of migratory birds that pause there along the way is stunning. On some sunrise mornings, the sky in the direction of Bear River Bay would be blackened by the huge flocks that stopped there on the way elsewhere.

He’s the second coming of Joseph Smith.

JS was a charismatic grifter by nature and upbringing who sold folks on the existence of a magic gold book that had extra-special info about American Jesus. He told them he found it after G*d told him where to dig.

This was just a few years after he had been hauled into court to face charges of running a ‘treasure hunting’ scheme on local farmers.

Now that I think about it more, the parallels are many.

In conclusion, shysters gonna shyst.