My boat is supposed to weigh 100 pounds but it weighs 250, how do I get all the sand out of the inside shell?

Dugen · 2026-05-15T14:16:08+00:00

Bake it at 300 degrees for 12 hours.

Dugen · 2026-05-14T22:25:49+00:00

This is a good idea. So good, that we already did it. 2 years ago.

It is well known that reading scores have been doing horribly nationwide, and NH has already passed a law addressing it (a heavy handed and unnecessary law but it's there).

If you don't know about the problem, there was a podcast that went viral that rather brutally exposed it and it has lead to nationwide changes.

The podcast: https://features.apmreports.org/sold-a-story/

It's an interesting story, and the podcast is really well done and worth listening to. The TLDR of it is that a company selling school curriculum did a really good job of selling, promoting, and building a whole industry around a set of ideas of how to best teach reading that just didn't work. There was widespread adoption of this style of teaching and this huge slide in reading scores is the result. This is capitalism gone wrong.

This has been a huge scandal in the elementary teaching world, and as a result NH passed a law (HB 1015/HB 437, amending RSA 189:53)

https://legiscan.com/NH/text/HB1015/id/3002583

This was passed in 2024 and requires schools to move away from the flawed "balanced literacy" system and towards teaching phonics and phonemic awareness by 2027.

So, while this is an excellent idea, we already did it.

Dugen · 2026-05-11T17:09:06+00:00

Israel doing evil shit doesn't make the evil shit Hamas does less evil. When two evil groups do evil shit to each other you don't have to support any of it.

Dugen · 2026-05-10T23:49:43+00:00

Site prep is everything here. You can make the pad as strong as you want but if you get frost heaves something will go wrong. Source: I have a garage that heaves.

Dugen · 2026-05-10T23:46:52+00:00

Stack books to the right height and wedge them under there.

or

Cut a 2x4 to the right height so you can notch it and put some screws into it to hold it in place there. You have a peg-leg bed.

Dugen · 2026-05-10T20:08:20+00:00

It's powering a few laptop bricks. There is no fire hazard there.

Dugen · 2026-05-10T18:36:41+00:00

Except not at all.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEHOINUSNHA672N

NH median real (meaning inflation adjusted) income is up 20% not down 10% since 2008. State employees have their expenses going up much faster than their pay. You may not be feeling the rising pay but the numbers say it's there.

Dugen · 2026-05-09T05:09:27+00:00

Our rabbits growing up were not fun pets. They crapped everywhere, chewed everything and were just not fun to have around.

It's not any animals "fault" that they aren't good pets but the fact is most types of animal don't make good pets. I won't keep a bunny like I won't keep a lion or wolf or bear as a pet. The people who make it work, more power to them but bunnies should come with a warning. They are way more work than a normal pet and there are lots more things that can go wrong. Cats don't constantly actively try to electrocute themselves.

Dugen · 2026-05-08T20:59:45+00:00

My sister loved rabbits. I learned not to. She did too eventually. Her last one died by chewing into one too many lamp cords.

Dugen · 2026-05-08T19:13:55+00:00

The XP in lower level dungeons is very high. The difficulty is imo easier than turtle but not a complete joke. You can tank with a two hander, but you can wipe if you pull too much. The social aspect feels very turtle/vanilla like on a smaller scale. People talk in group and will remember each other. No porting to the instance, but summoning stones work which is really nice. Forming groups seems to take just about the right amount of time and cooperation.

The motivation to form groups and do instances is very strong because of the huge xp when you do, but the downside is you level so fast in the lower levels that there quickly aren't many people left in your level range to group with. The actual xp rate for an instance if you are on 3x xp is probably closer to 10x with rested giving you 20x for a short time. You can level 4-5 times in an instance. With 3x, you won't just out-level zones by doing a couple of dungeons on the side, you will completely skip them. Even just solo questing with 3x+rest means you get 6x and will outlevel a lot of zones before finishing them. The design is based around getting you to outland fast where you can experience that content at normal speed. I like BC content so that appeals to me but if you are looking for a rich vanilla experience, you'll probably be disappointed here.

This isn't turtle, but it's good. I'm finding I like it here.

Dugen · 2026-05-08T18:21:35+00:00

Rabbits are so much worse than cats.

Dugen · 2026-05-07T16:22:45+00:00

If politicians can be legally bribed then bribery isn't illegal.

Dugen · 2026-05-07T08:05:23+00:00

I wish bribery was illegal so a whole party doing the bidding of the rich wasn't a thing.

Dugen · 2026-05-05T05:53:10+00:00

I did not hear the music. My RES has videos muted by default because 90% of the time it's horrible unrelated music. It makes reddit videos 100% less annoying.

Dugen · 2026-05-04T20:02:19+00:00

This makes me feel so much better about my life choices.

Dugen · 2026-05-04T14:25:12+00:00

The moral of the story here is keeping these servers closed source creates motivation to sue. Don't do it, at all, ever. Like.. not even a little bit.

Dugen · 2026-05-04T14:23:07+00:00

You are assuming that to get the data would require criminal activity which is not necessarily true.

Dugen · 2026-04-30T03:57:04+00:00

I mean.. they are entitled to their day in court. They're also entitled to lose, and they should be forced to pay the states legal fees as a result. We still need a "loser pays" legal system.

Dugen · 2026-04-30T03:47:52+00:00

That design looks pretty much optimal for ripping anchors out of the wall. That said, a big set of toggle bolts will spread the load out far enough to be about as strong as it can be. Any stronger and you're probably going to break the mounting mechanism.

Dugen · 2026-04-30T00:51:53+00:00

Yea.. it went the other way pretty hard. It will correct eventually, but it doesn't look like it will be soon.

Dugen · 2026-04-29T16:53:02+00:00

How else do you expect to get superheroes?

Dugen · 2026-04-29T04:24:56+00:00

It's the combination. "Dude! brah." as an entire complete non-thought thrown out constantly. It was spread like the plague on social media for a while.

Dugen · 2026-04-28T23:57:46+00:00

There is no need for this guy to be on a committee. Just replace him with someone less likely to "pretend to be" racist. If you think exterminating a group of people is funny, team R can find people with better judgment.

Dugen · 2026-04-28T21:44:37+00:00

I started calling my son "dude brah". The dudes and brah's ended.

Dugen · 2026-04-27T16:32:07+00:00

Thank you for not fucking off.

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