SolarMonkey @ SolarMonkey @slrpnk.net

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There’s plenty of land where people already want to live. Develop the parking lots, and strengthen public transit. Build more mixed use buildings. Build more multi family buildings. Rezone and tweak regulations to allow densification. And don’t build everything as either luxury or lunch box size.

Maybe that’s what it was, idk. I’m terrible with parry mechanics but it was also a few years ago.

I’m always home and don’t care if solicitors know it. If they look in the window they walk past, they see me. I used to try to hide but now I just watch them.

I have a no soliciting sign I wrote myself and taped to the door that says simply “no soliciting, no exceptions”. If they knock or leave their shit on my door I report them to the company they came from, as that’s illegal in my area. I frame it as their canvassers needing up-training and remind the company that if it continues they are breaking the law each and every time, and if it happens again I won’t contact them about it, I’ll report it elsewhere. I submit the thing anonymously through whatever contact us portal they have and a bullshit email address, so they can’t tie it to an address.

The only people who are legally allowed to knock are canvassers for political shit (and census people but that’s rare) so during election seasons I have a separate sign that says “I refuse to talk about politics with strangers. Go away and take your junk with you.”

I don’t get bothered much. But I do see people walk up to my door, then leave, at least once a week.

I’ve never had a problem with uninvited guests tho, as I’ve never ever had an open door policy for anyone. If I don’t expect you, you don’t come in. End of.

I’m a huge fan of shows that just have a title splash screen and play the intro credits unobtrusively over the first 1/3 of the show.

I always skip intros, if I can, mostly because I binge stuff and those intros can be minutes long, serving absolutely no purpose. I especially hate when they are 10+ minutes into the episode, and I have to wake my keyboard up to skip them.

Ok but fr fr I have a chair thing like that (no tube ofc) and it’s the most ridiculously comfortable thing you could ever want to sit and be lazy on because if you fall asleep it’s still comfortable af. (It’s not a beanbag, it’s full of polyfill and foam block)

Add alcohol to it and you’ll never get up, even if you don’t like wine.

I don’t have a counter for you. I’m not sure I’ve ever come across your stuff before. At least not on this account. One of the others may have found you.

I mean I do now from this post, but before that.

Did it need to be the right moment, though? I remember going through that canyon temple with the guardians and just standing and waiting for the attack with my shield up, and needing to reposition to get it to hit them back.. but that memory might be incorrect..

That assumes this is a permanent feature of the object and not episodic or something. It could be that this only happens for a decade every 100,000,000 years, and we just happened to catch it when it reached us. Or it could be aliens.

This next bit is my understanding of things and may not be entirely accurate:

But we use quartz crystal vibrations for time increments, because that doesn’t vary much, and there’s a specific clock used as the baseline I believe (similar to the international weight standards). Quartz crystal vibration is both well understood, and rapid enough to use as sub-seconds, making it far more accurate than something going every 44 minutes.

GPS is a largely standalone thing that triangulates your position with multiple satellites, and while it does use time for determining position (based on ping time or something similar), it only needs to be relative to the other satellites, IIUC. But it’s also in such rapid increments that 44 minutes wouldn’t be terribly helpful.

So I don’t think it would be worth doing since our present system is good enough, and the signal might stop as soon as we build the new infrastructure. Much better to use something we have control over, and understand better, if it’s going to be used directly in daily life on earth.

The blue c with a boat thing indicates cold fluids, like your oil will be thicker in winter until it warms up.

I don’t know any of the other ones you weren’t sure about, though I think the wavy lines one is just telling you that traction control is being used due to the conditions. I occasionally see that light come on when it’s slick.

Winter brings out all the fun dash lights!

Yeah, but that’s not one of the “options” in the list. If you misunderstood what was going on, the closest option is 29 increments, because 0-1 is the first and 29-30 is the last.

It makes sense in a misunderstanding and making a logical guess sort of way. That’s how I took tests, too, and it works way more often than it doesn’t.

So you can be nude and play on your phone is what I’m hearing.

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The self checkout at the grocery here makes you have a worker check and enter your coupons for you. Even though they have barcodes. And cameras galore. And they mail you dozens of coupons every week.

What’s even the point of self checkout at that point? It took longer waiting for them to come check and approve my three coupons to save $1.50 than just going through regular cashier line, and I didn’t even get to avoid talking to someone. Did that twice and won’t do it again.

If they want me to work for them, I’m gunna need an employee discount. I hate everything about self-checkout. I have yet to find an implementation of it that is better than the default cashier experience.

(This is not meant as saying you are wrong for your preference ofc, I just don’t understand how people actually like them)

Lactose intolerance is rough.

Specifically the upper peninsula region, and probably more rural, they sound quite similar to that stereotypical Canadian accent. The first time I met someone from there (born and raised country boy), I legit thought he was from Canada due to that stereotype (I’m older and wiser now).

I can hear this picture.

Shift workers be like:

I’m American and I got over most of the worst of my social anxiety with propranalol.. I take it for blood pressure, but it’s a beta blocker, and basically interrupts the signals from the amygdala (fear center). It’s not a cure in and of itself, but when coupled with exposure therapy (just do the thing that makes you anxious, in my case) it can break phobias by basically neutralizing the physical symptoms and letting you deal with the mental ones more clearly.

But in all honesty, I’m still socially anxious, it’s just much more manageable these days. I think that’s the best I can hope for since I’m a big time introvert naturally, and socializing is exhausting.

https://psychcentral.com/anxiety/is-propranolol-recommended-for-anxiety-symptoms

If they wanted me to do the main story first they wouldn’t have made side quests and collectibles to pad out the play time immediately available.

This has backfired big time from time to time, for example horizon forbidden west, all that side shit is much easier if you actually do most of the main story asap..

But typically it just means the end boss is easier and that’s ok.

My partner and I went to a resort town while things were in the weird not-entirely-closed-but-weird post-lockdown phase. We figured it would be absolutely dead and we were right.

It was mid spring or so, and we walked from our hotel to a nearby private pier (owned by a condo or high-end hotel or something), with a growler of beer and some glasses, hopped the gate and sat there on their deck furniture, naked, drinking in the dark on this lake for several hours. Not a soul in sight. Just the night sky, us, and a good time.

Then a cold breeze rolled in and we hurriedly got dressed and walked back to the hotel down the center of the street.

It was super surreal, very enjoyable, and had that liminal space feeling to it.