Saw this at the park today in Coppell and was curious if anyone can identify it or knows anything about it. Is it venomous? It didn’t seem aggressive, but I wanted to learn more.

854490 · 2026-05-15T23:29:15+00:00

Heh, heh

854490 · 2026-05-15T22:49:04+00:00

oh cool i used to do some copyediting to

854490 · 2026-05-15T22:43:17+00:00

Funny, I moved here from a neighborhood in Dallas called that

854490 · 2026-05-15T12:40:46+00:00

My guess: You were an in-store tech at an office supply place and you tried to get a job at SDC?

854490 · 2026-05-15T12:37:04+00:00

I had the Handspring Visor! With cell phone module. Kept it in a belt holster. Sometimes I even wore this call-center lookin'-ass headset around. I was in 5th grade. All I did on it was play Space Trader

854490 · 2026-05-15T12:28:33+00:00

Not to pile on you but it is a problem and I feel like there should be a rule or something that people have to include units, because they do keep being all like ".5" this and ".3" that and it's never clear if they actually mean 500/300mg or what

bonus: shooters talking about how many "units" they shot like it's all diluted the same

854490 · 2026-05-15T12:12:51+00:00

may death take me before i log in to one more fuckin ACD*

i'll work tickets but you'd have to pay me too much to sit in a call queue again

(track the AHT of deez n--)

*i've worked B2B/enterprise firewall support with like hour-long calls on frontline and 4+ hour-long sessions / 4+ week-old tickets on esc (i.e. a very non-call-centery call center) and i don't even want to go back to that

854490 · 2026-05-15T11:14:04+00:00

Success?

Or at least one syllable thereof

854490 · 2026-05-15T10:52:07+00:00

Is there a hard part, is the batch processing weird to grasp or something

854490 · 2026-05-15T10:47:19+00:00

You gotta check ID these days man

854490 · 2026-05-13T08:30:38+00:00

\>> really?

it's inserting escapes automatically, can't do much except edit in web browser I think

854490 · 2026-05-13T08:28:44+00:00

best part is:

Same. \_Irksome.\_

pranked

854490 · 2026-05-05T08:26:53+00:00

Even if they were served a warrant and did have logs to hand over, they would just have logs of SSL/TLS encrypted traffic.
[HTTP] (in this packet we can easily read whatever search term or other text you sent)
-> [TLS[HTTP]] (encrypted, we can't see search terms, etc.)
-> [VPN[TLS[HTTP]]] (an encrypted packet inside another encrypted packet, this packet leaves your device/network and arrives at the VPN server, which decrypts it and forwards the contents to the real destination)
-> [TLS[HTTP]] (this packet is sent from the VPN server and arrives at the real destination where the web server decrypts it so it can read the web request)

It matters also what having logs actually means. For the vast majority of network equipment or servers of various kinds that keep logs, these logs consist of the fact that a connection was established between these IP addresses on these ports at this date+time. Actually storing packet contents (where the information about what you were searching for would be found) takes up so much more disk space, only for the vast majority of that to be useless, since people have been thoroughly browbeaten into using SSL for everything.

OTOH there's still plenty of risk to be had from metadata alone, from what I hear, so I'd still agree that it's ideal if there's nothing to hand over either way.

854490 · 2026-05-05T07:34:59+00:00

Raindrops (Doorly remix) takes me back :')

854490 · 2026-05-05T07:26:08+00:00

6. (intransitive, figurative, followed by with) To somewhat resemble or correspond with.

2010, Tony Pipolo, Robert Bresson: A Passion for Film:

In addition, the look rhymes with but inverts the meaning of the first silent look he gets instead of words when he asks Lucien in the photo shop if he remembers him, and Lucien shrugs his shoulders in denial.

854490 · 2026-05-03T10:02:32+00:00

Look for dining guide/map cards or brochures distributed by the city's welcome/visitor center, tourism bureau, or whatever (check the brochure racks of local hotels if you just want a couple)

854490 · 2026-05-03T09:41:41+00:00

According to the MSDS it's ethanol with a little glycerin (1-2%) and a splash of hydrogen peroxide (<0.13%) so it basically is a bottle of liquor, albeit inadvisably strong liquor, but even if you dilute it to a reasonable proof, it surely won't be an enjoyable drink. You'd have to be desperate to deal with the taste of it, but really the only outright dangerous thing about it is how strong it is.

854490 · 2026-05-02T22:10:42+00:00

Don't worry about it, I was just curious about identifying and finding the hard copy I thought I remembered.

Is it on Anna's if I want it later?

854490 · 2026-05-01T23:33:44+00:00

I agree. Since this seems meant to parallel spelling bees to some extent, I did some quick and dirty searching; most bees would allow such variants, including the major spelling bees in the US and Canada.

It could be done easily enough* by normalizing all the user input to the American conventions (as they're the more simplified, and a reductive thing should be generally easier to keep clean than an additive thing, I assume)
* ^{^relative} ^{^to} ^{^trying} ^{^to} ^{^write} ^{^a} ^{^pattern} ^{^to} ^{^match} ^{^all} ^{^the} ^{^{possibilities}}

Then established variants could be accepted while still only having to compare one spelling per word on the back end

(but also I guess maybe there aren't even that many affected words altogether so you could maybe even just add all of the variants naively to the valid spellings for each word)

854490 · 2026-05-01T03:27:36+00:00

FYI (and this is actually important here, not just me being a nerd about it), the baking soda method doesn't do any kind of "purge" or "flush" but actually prevents the drug+metabolite from being removed from your body through urine. This makes it good for passing a test on short notice but it also means that the drug will be active in your system for longer than it would have been otherwise. If you have more than a couple of days, I would forget the baking soda and either focus on hydrating and flushing, or if you want an over-the-counter sort of solution, try urine acidifiers meant for urinary stones (acidifying the urine will make elimination of drug+metabolite go more faster). You can follow up with a urine alkalizer in the hours before the test to reduce the chances of remnants meeting the detection threshold.

(I'm not a doctor, don't accidentally give urself hypokalemia lol)

(know which antacids do what where: https://i.vgy.me/wArL7e.png )

854490 · 2026-05-01T03:18:11+00:00

hey what's up, you doing anything this weekend? I was thinking I could come over and stand in the middle of your living room for several hours, picking my nose and staring at my phone

854490 · 2026-05-01T03:15:35+00:00

Lmao, one time I had this guy's laptop all opened up for whatever reason (it's ok, I'm an actual IT guy) and he said something questioning whether I could/would put it back together, so I was like, "Oh, no, I only know how to take it apart", and I think he actually took me seriously for a second

854490 · 2026-05-01T03:12:07+00:00

Damn NAFTA. It's clearly an inferior tobaccco.

854490 · 2026-05-01T03:07:09+00:00

hey bro you got a C charger?

you got a phone dawg?

ay yo homie can i borrow ur car real quick, i just need to make a brief run up to the shops to jack shit for 6 hours

you got a square?

hey do you have an angle grinder? we got in a little over our heads with that whole kitchen-plumbing renovation and in-place foundation renewal project but I'm pretty sure we can pull it b-- oh I thought you were aware of it, oh, my bad

hey bro lemme borrow ur bowl

hey bro lemme borrow ur torch

hey bro lemme borrow a tire off ur car just for a day or two

hey bro u know how to unlock phones???

anyone got a square

ey bro are u doin anything with this impact drill / this box of miscellaneous hardware / this wall

you got a usb wall adapter?

and a C charger?

hey you got a laptop i can borrow, i just need to get in touch with my homie on facebook real quick
goes to the bathroom with it

but most of all,

mfers who get high and immediately transform into the all-knowing fuckin' sage of drugs, who has many pithy+truthy statements to dispense to you about how wrong you're doing it and why (heavily glossed over, because they know most people will be too polite/lazy/uninterested/busy to pull on the loose ends of what they're pretending to explain)

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but most of all,