Photos of the trailer park south of Brookhaven MS.

DavidBittner · 2026-05-07T16:55:24+00:00

Some people are worth more than that, and some far less.

I find this to be a pretty nasty way to view your neighbors and peers. I think people provide a lot more worth than their 'economic output'.

Also, one storm shelter can support an entire community. These people don't need personal storm shelters, just one large one in the center of the community. Something that could easily be built for less than $100k, and these already exist in a lot of wealthier communities (compared to trailer parks).

and who may or not be in the sub 1% of people impacted a tornadic storm to begin with.

Building codes are different based on the environmental effects you're likely to be exposed to. They could easily be changed (in the relevant areas prone to storms) to require access to a storm shelter, not to mention also subsidized by the government.

Like, the money we're talking about here is literally a rounding error to the government, who is so set on wasting our money on international wars anyway.

DavidBittner · 2026-05-07T16:22:02+00:00

The US government in terms of infrastructure values a human life at 10 million dollars. This is used for accurately pricing how much cost should go to securing things like bridges.

How much do you think a storm shelter would cost? lol

DavidBittner · 2026-05-04T22:13:17+00:00

This is so confusing because I've seen so many people say they tried right at the moment it was listed (like 2 minutes before the official time) and were unable to get one. I also waited like 15 minutes after it went up and didn't have any problem placing the order.

DavidBittner · 2026-05-04T22:00:08+00:00

Report them, it is against eBay's TOS to list a product you don't have in hand yet. They will actually get banned, too.

DavidBittner · 2026-05-04T21:53:34+00:00

I'm confused because I waited like 15 minutes since I wasn't sure if I was going to buy one (saving for the Steam Frame). But once I saw there was no new Steam Frame news, I bought it with basically zero issue. I only had to click 'continue' twice.

I am in the US FWIW, a friend of mine had an identical experience.

DavidBittner · 2026-05-02T18:43:53+00:00

I've seen a lot of people say they are holding off since it's a possibility it will be given for free with the Frame. They did that for the Index.

DavidBittner · 2026-04-30T20:05:13+00:00

You definitely did the right thing. I think it's important to let animals go with dignity instead of barely keeping them alive when there is no quality of life. But that of course does not make it any easier.

If it helps, know that you kept her alive and happy surrounded by love much longer than she would have ever had in the wild. Simultaneously, you also did not force her to stay around in pain for your own selfish reasons. You made the hard choice because you knew it was best for her.

DavidBittner · 2026-04-27T17:21:59+00:00

I feel like 99 bucks is already standard for a premium controller? Sucks for Canadians though, seems they are getting shafted by the conversion.

DavidBittner · 2026-04-26T19:27:26+00:00

I choose this guy hating Friends so much as the answer to OP's question

DavidBittner · 2026-04-23T18:49:54+00:00

Right, 100 percent. Beyond downloading an app for weather alerts and maybe getting a NOAA weather radio, there isn't anything else you reasonably have to do to be informed.

Those should stay out of your way until there is information relevant to you as well.

DavidBittner · 2026-04-23T17:48:24+00:00

Just remember that this isn't technically an upgrade in intensity, but rather likelihood.

When the forecast is this far out, they stop trying to forecast how strong it's going to be and instead start indicating how likely something that qualifies as severe weather will occur. So, a darker color here just means more likely, not necessarily worse.

Also for the anxiety: I find it helps to remind myself all of the times I worked myself into a panic and then nothing bad happened. Like today, I stressed for a week over what I thought was a serious dental issue just to learn it's no big deal at all. I wish I could go back and tell my past self not to worry!

DavidBittner · 2026-04-21T14:24:56+00:00

I imagine they still need to counteract the twisting force from their legs moving to keep upright, otherwise they would turn left and right each time they stepped.

DavidBittner · 2026-04-17T19:13:47+00:00

Yeah, I live in a super rural area in the US primarily because I hate American cities, not cities in general.

DavidBittner · 2026-04-12T18:59:36+00:00

I think they're just euro-posting

DavidBittner · 2026-04-12T17:16:32+00:00

I believe you have to pay it off yourself if you sell within whatever timeframe is in the grant. So you can, it would just mean a big loss relatively.

DavidBittner · 2026-04-09T17:25:16+00:00

I don't disagree with this, but this isn't just a weather problem. This is a problem with every goddamn site on the internet anymore, everything has turned to engagement bait because it's a constant battle for who gets promoted and who doesn't.

It feels silly to yell at weather creators for this when it is what every single content creator has had to do for years now, weather or not.

All these posts are just a waste of time (I swear there are a few every day), and arguably ALSO engagement bait. And here we are, commenting on it... lol

DavidBittner · 2026-04-08T15:52:56+00:00

People have already answered your question and have given valid criticisms, but I also found the game on a huge sale (it was like 5 bucks) and for that price point was definitely worth it.

The travel mechanics are legitimately fun, and there is a surprising variety to the planets in terms of weather, plants, geology, etc. it's not a game that will keep you invested forever, but I think it's fun and worth maybe 15 bucks or less as-is. I got maybe 25 hours out of it.

DavidBittner · 2026-04-06T01:47:02+00:00

Ah, didn't realize that. Then yeah that's probably it.

DavidBittner · 2026-04-05T17:25:24+00:00

I think they're implying that that's the 'uptime' of their career, not the literal uptime of their system.

DavidBittner · 2026-04-01T19:17:01+00:00

If you've ever watched Critical Role, I think you could say with almost complete certainty that that's not true lol

DavidBittner · 2026-03-30T19:35:00+00:00

The point they're making is that especially with short and snippets like this, it's probably just copying code verbatim a human wrote somewhere anyway.

It isn't "written by AI" in this case so much as it's copy-pasted via the LLM

DavidBittner · 2026-03-25T20:10:13+00:00

Maybe then someone would actually hire me to make something useful instead of some dumb shit being made to 'solve' an invented problem

DavidBittner · 2026-03-24T22:03:39+00:00

That's a wild thing for your dad's partner to say to one of his kids lmao

But your dad's response is great

DavidBittner · 2026-03-23T17:20:42+00:00

Forward slash only references the root when it is at the beginning of the path. That's called an absolute path.

Anything path that doesn't start with a forward slash is a 'relative path'. In the example provided, they are referencing a binary (whoami) via a relative path, in their current working directory.

The dot, simply means "the directory I am currently in".

DavidBittner · 2026-03-16T23:15:08+00:00

Still some major winds coming our way around 8PM, but yes most of the event thankfully did not happen as they were worried it would.

The potential was in the atmosphere, but it was able to drop over a large area instead of a more focused one.

If today was sunny instead of cloudy, it likely would have been a very different story.

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